Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 138

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She stares at the ceiling for a long pause. She weed to make me resus as my chosen, but our bond has only served in make my feelings for her worse. I don't know if I can hold back how rich I need for her to be closer. A lot closer. "I think we should start over," she sits up so she can be closer to the "I feel like I'm walking on eggshells around you and you are too. I heard what you said to Or,

"The truth?

"I told you, you weren't enough then because it was the truth."

""But it isn't now?"

was going to happen. You said it yourself. It's fucking crazy that it did. You also said that technically, Pernicious Phurry is dead. I'm no longer

be repeated happens," she takes my hand. "We're kind of stuck together. Right now, you're just the King

we left. She called me an idiot for letting you mark me without thinking about it. That Darren had me on a leash and that now you hold it. "What really fucked me

because if we're being honest. I'm not that great a person either. But the conviction in her statement is admirable. I don't think I've ever heard anyone I know admit that there is something wrong with them or that they're in anyway the reason why their world is crumbling around them. How strange is it that the wolf who spent her last days making those she believed took everything from her pay believe that she had been the problem all along? How

I reach out taking a strand of her dark graying hair. "If this is how you want to move forward, I'll give you that. However, it has to stay with us. I've been at court a couple of times and cut throat Perry is

We both laugh.

stands up trying to pull her shirt down only for it to bounce back up exposing her little belly button. "I'm

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difference, I wouldn't have to cut off my PJs when I want out of them," she tugs at her shirt. "I'd also

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