Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 77

parties I wasn't invited to, and all of the dances I was never asked to

I don't answer. I take a hit of my wax pen and sit in front of the main monitor. A jolt of excitement comes over me. One of the perks of doing something not very many others can do is the rush of doing it and getting away with it. It wasn't easy to learn this. It started when the school gave me my first laptop. I was eight or nine. I picked up coding easily. Designed some of my social media pages, and moved on to games and the school's student database. It was where I would go when I was hungry. I'd run away into the codes to forget the ache, to forget all the mean shit people would say to me because I'd wear the same clothes repeatedly. Saring behind a computer filled in for all the missed field trips, all of the birthday The only person who ever noticed I was gone was Morgan. She would sneak in through the bathroom window because my mom nailed mine shut after I got caught sneaking out. I stopped fitting through the little one in my bathroom when I was six. I would help her with her homework mework and she would bring all her cute stuff to share with me. We could sit for hours while she braided my hair and pressed sticky jewels on them. She would go on and on about things the popular kids talked about and we would laugh at them. I'd been the pathetic one then. She was always protecting me. Then Darren came along and he provided a challenge I never had. Not only was he as good as I was at computers, but he was strong. I was jealous of him and Morgan stood with me. The other girls stopped talking to her for a while.

The two of us would wake up at four in the morning every day to go on runs and get in early morning workouts. We would deliver the morning newspapers and then get home to clean up and make breakfast for everyone else. By the time we got to school, we had been more than prepared to take on anyone who tried to get in our way. Learning to get into the ATMs put us in a position where we couldn't be friends with other kids. We were stealing and getting away with it. But it helped both our families more than I could have ever thought. She was there for everything that came with my mother leaving me behind. At the time, it made sense to me. She was my best friend. I didn't know that her parents just jumped at the opportunity to get the money I gave them for rent. They would always make my favorite foods when the month was almost over. I would have remained oblivious if I hadn't overheard her dad telling one of his buddies how much he hated having me around. How he enjoyed the look on my face when they would tell me they would be gone for the weekend and it would be my responsibility to take care of everything here. In the following weeks, I needed an escape from her after listening to her father praise how c***ng she was for tricking the freak of the city. I wanted to find a way to get out of that apartment. I felt restricted. Darren f** shook me until I told him why I was a little extra angry at him a after I broke his middle finger with a baseball on purpose He told Elena. She was livid and I was out of there that weekend when his mother beat the c**p out of Monica for allowing her mate to take my money. I ended up sharing a room with Mackenzie. It always smelled like hot metal and gasoline in our room

Morgan apologized for what she did. She said it was the only way to help me avoid being taken away again. I forgave her. I wasn't mad at her. I was upset with her Dad for saying all those f***d up things about me. I loved him as the wolf protecting me because as the man of the house, it was only his word that kept me there.

I was there when she found out Calvin was her mate. He laughed at her. He humiliated her in front of the entire school. Without so much as a second thought, that piece of s**t rejected her while Tyler and Darren held me back. They helped me take her home. I didn't know what to say or what to do to make her feel better. Things only got worse when he started dating the visiting alpha. She would taunt her and he would stand there and watch with a f***g smile on his face.

When I woke up, she placed herself between Calvin and me. Why did she do that? After everything he did to her. The beatings, the cheating, the torture he put her through. She chose him.

This is the first time in a while that Morgan's popped into my head. I think I miss her. This is definitely the longest we've gone without seeing one another. Even when we were mad at each other, we'd still be around one another. I found comfort in the fact that she was at least okay. I hate thinking about Elena hate thinking about Morgan. It never stops and my unanswered questions only make me more and more restless. Chapter 77

-It's time to stop.- Illinch at the King's voice in my head.

What?

-It's time to get cleaned up so you can go to bed. I gave you a couple of extra hours. Times up for today.-

I look back at him wanting to protest.

"My King, that's not the way it works," Jordan says. "If she stops now, we could lose the trail. It's like stopping mid-attack. You can't. You either follow through or you lose it,"

for you to stay here

"I'll stay with her,"

"He's right," "I nod.

he adds.

some food. You can at least eat," he says removing his jacket. "Stay here. Both

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thinking

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you. He was making

when his eyes squint?" I laugh. He smiles and

of Red Wood?"

zone. She's the last piece of my old life that

Jacob?" Jordan a

together. They were nurses. Years of us fighting together meant nothing to her when she stood in front of the man who almost let our

guy

to him. It was rivalry for us. I don't know why he hated her the way he did. She

hard to fight, I hear," we all turn to see Lillies and Tulips coming up. "We came to offer

up faster so you can go to your king

us?"

bunny," I smile at

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