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?"

technically, Pernicious Phurry is dead. I'm no longer

said," she laughs. "I don't want to forget either Pretending it didn't happen is how repeating history that doesn't need to be repeated happens," she takes my hand. "We're kind of

it. That Darren had me on a leash and that now you hold it. "What really fucked me up was when she said that we're the problem and that it will

to say 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

even the day I had you cleaned up," I reach out taking a strand of her dark graying hair. "If this is how you want to move forward, I'll give

We both laugh.

a while. She stands up trying to pull her shirt down only for it to bounce

just slightly taller,"

when I want out of them," she tugs at her shirt. "I'd also be

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