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 feral or a wolf. What was said and done has to die with her, "I can't

takes my hand. "We're

me up was when she said that we're the problem and that it will always be that way," she wipes tears from her eyes and looks up at me. "I don't want to be a problem anymore. All I do is hurt people. Now

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

up," 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

We both laugh.

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

just slightly taller,"

slight difference, I wouldn't have to cut off my PJs when I want

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