Chapter 0396



Mallory

I am more than overwhelmed.

Neah keeps her eyes on me. I don't think she is waiting for an answer, instead I think she is watching to see how I process her words.

My mouth opens and closes several times as I struggle to form any words. I'm also pretty certain that if I had been holding anything but Luca, I would have dropped it.

Forgiveness was something I was never expecting. Never. She had made that very clear that day she finally heard me out.

I clear my throat, hoping that my brain will engage my mouth muscles. "You do?"

She bobs her head at me.

"Why now?" I could feel more tears creeping along my eyelids

"You are not who you were. I'm not who I was. We have both come a long way.” She shrugs her shoulders at me like it's no big deal. “The person you were back then, she only ever cared about herself.”" She smiles to herself. “I killed the man who shot you because it made me so angry that I thought I had lost you too."

I hadn't thought about it like that and she had never mentioned anything about it. Brax had told me that the guy was aiming for Neah and that was why I assumed she killed the guy. Not because he had hurt me.

weird sense of relief that I'm feeling. I had no idea of the guilt I had been holding on to. I guess I had just grown so used to it, that now it's gone, I feel strange,

think we would be living in the same pack." "Or that

friend until Raven, and even if she were still alive, I

about you." I

but then.....Anyway,

yeah!" My response makes Luca jump, causing him to

just because it's something he wasn't expecting. In the moment he was probably excited and then reality set in. It will be harder to protect

the house, I find Dorothy sitting behind a

most

on a

by the looks of it the discarded food wrappers, she had

with bright green

softly. "Why are

my Dad's

until I'm sitting with my knees touching hers. "You know they can smell you,

didn't think of that." Her shoulders drop and her bottom lip sticks

of what happened at school?" It had to be

and the bottom lip comes

"Something made you angry?"

doesn't answer me and refuses to meet

people angry and do you know what I've learned over the

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