Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 156

"Are we alone because of what I said to James the other day?" I ask Dr. Salazar.

"No, this part of your treatment is personal. Group therapy doesn't go as deep as one-on-one sessions,"

"Oh," I nod. "What do you want to talk about?"

"All right," he smiles. "I'd like to ask how you're feeling. We've been working together for a bit now. How do you think things are going?"

"It's been twenty-six days," I say.

"It has," he nods.

"I feel well rested. My mind is a little clearer,"

"Good," he writes it down. "Now that you've had some time to think. What is it that you want to achieve in your time here?"

"I want to get better,"

"You've said that, but what does that mean to you? When you say I want to get better. Better at what?"

"In general. I guess,"

Explain," he encourages. I don't know what to say. I end up just staring back at him and shrug. "All right. W somewhere small? Was it something someone said or did that made you realize that who you are now is wrong:

"I guess it started when I was sold to the King," I shrug.

"Okay, tell me about that day,"

"I had just gotten released from the precinct I worked at,"

"Were you there working?"

"No, I had gotten arrested for telling the Alpha and Luna off the night before. I had been really drunk,"

"Continue,"

t we start

"Jake, my father-in-law, drove us home. Beta Tyler was waiting for us when we arrived. He asked me to get presentable because he was escorting me to the pack house,"

"Were you

and Tyler close?"

We all went to the academy together for beta training. I know his mate and his family, but close isn't

brushed teeth,

my

up and that the Alpha was no longer going

"Did you struggle?"

while and I was probably still

to hurt him,"

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you told your

56%

to the pack house to celebrate the announcement of the Luna's

pack's history. What about that bothered

The announcement. The Luna. The Alpha. All of it

"Why?"

a while. Many answers swim in my head, but choosing

did their joy bother you,

mouth, and as soon as it's out there, a flood of guilt just washes over me. The part of me that loved

Calvin made. The

top of her class. She stopped going into the city

family. ike Darren who took his family out of the shit hole we lived

nor myself was helping them get by. Her siblings were rejected from the academy and forced to go public. I see now that the hell she chose to live in was just as fucked as mine because

mate. Had he looked past the superficial he would have known that Morgan had been born to lead.

of her. Yes, we both lived in poverty but she had this special aura that drew people in while I pushed them away. It was why I'd do anything for her. Maybe my instinct as a beta always knew

did to her. Hot tears stream down my face. Dr. Salazar offers me a tissue and I sigh when I reach for the box to see it's fucking Lightning McQueen themed. "Why didn't they deserve it, Perry?" he asks again.

it. I guess I wasn't thinking about her. Not in a general sense. I only saw the betrayal I felt. I still feel it. Every time I think of her. Every time I think of how I lost

were

best friend. We'd been through everything together. She lived on the floor above the apartment my mom and I stayed in after my dad died. She and her siblings helped us move everything out of our moving truck the day we arrived. That's how we

talk about her.

always been an asshole. I was smaller than her. Younger by two years. She was always smiling and going out of her

you liked this about

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up the pieces I left behind. When my mom would disappear and I had no money for food or hygienic stuff. She'd take my clothes in her backpack and wash them with hers. I'd wake up with a freshly folded pile of clean laundry and a leftover tupperware. "When I learned to hack the ATMs, she was the one that kept me from emptying them. At first, she was pissed but after sleeping on it she knew that there was no other way. I was eleven and no one was going to give me a job because of who my parents were. She was my lookout. Literally, anything that's redeemable about

changes in her attitude

were really excited the night before. She had a date and I had just given her what I thought was the best

of weeks before. I felt a little sick just before leaving. I was home alone so I took the opportunity to go to the doctor since Darren always made a huge deal out of everything. I had just found out I was five weeks pregnant

was so happy. So,

lidn't happen,"

I went to class that morning and on my way back home the sirens for a rogue attack blared. I backtracked and