Chapter 503

Megan stared at me for a second before she nodded. She ran to the clearing, and

I heard the telltale sound of a vacuum. I shut my eyes as I banged my head off the tree, whispering to myself. "So fucking stupid." I felt the tears burn behind my eyes again and I pushed up from the ground and whirled to face the tree. I punched it over and over, screaming my anger. "So fucking stupid."

Megan made her way back over to me as I pummeled the tree. "Amy?"

I just kept hitting the tree. But the tree never splintered, never broke, and that pissed me off even more. "FUCK YOU." I punched harder, waiting for the blood, the pain, but nothing came.

"It won't." Megan called out.

I whirled. "WHAT?"

"The pain...it won't happen." Megan nodded to the tree. "That tree isn't real, Amy."

"What the hell are you talking about?" I dropped my hands to my sides. My chest was still heaving from attacking the poor tree.

just stared at me. "You're mad." She shifted closer, her words

mad." I shook my head. "But what does that have to

So did your mom." She changed topics again, and it was confusing my

you?" I screamed

me. "Is that all you

"I trusted them and they played

crept closer. "So you attacked the tree?" She asked, and

I whirled to face her. "Why can't

you

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to chase. The distraction you are so desperate for...you won't find it here." She closed the rest of the space. "You can't hurt yourself. So attacking the tree in here won't do anything other than maybe give you a headache." I felt my knees wobble. "You won't get the physical pain to distract you from the

voice dropped to a low whisper. "It's not

hand, tickling me, but I was too numb to

my mom to leave.

for most of my life. He asked me to go into computer science. He told me to getolose to Brandon." A tea escaped. "I talked you into getting close to him. I had to kiss him, hold his hand, I had to treat him like he mattered, even knowing he was your mate." I finally looked down at Megan. "And I did it, because he was my father. I tortured you because he asked me to do it and made it seem like it was important. But when everything happened between Rowan and me... he pretended to care that Rowan broke my heart. He shattered me and they helped me pick up my pieces. My mom held me through my pain. But within a month, my dad had introduced me to

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