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?"

He was friends with my mate. We all went to the academy together for beta training. I know his mate and his family, but close isn't something anyone was to me in that pack

brushed

my

and that the Alpha was no longer going to tolerate

"Did you struggle?"

probably still

to hurt him,"

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told your alpha and Luna off.

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entire acting Redwood staff was invited to the pack house to celebrate the announcement of

a pack's history. What

it. The celebration. The announcement. The Luna. The

"Why?"

at him for a while. Many answers swim in my head, but choosing the

bother you, Perry?" he

just washes over me. The part of me that loved Morgan wants to take it back and I have to fight the

Morgan was treated in the years after Darren's death. The changes to her person Calvin made. The modifications she went through. The

of the hunting program despite being top of her class. She stopped going into the city to visit

family. ike Darren who took his family out of the shit hole we lived in, Calvin never even considered

the academy and forced to go public. I see now that the hell she chose to live in was just as

he would have known

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

She didn't deserve what he did to her. She didn't deserve what I 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

I only saw the betrayal I felt. I still feel it. Every time I think of her. Every time I think of how

You were

stayed in after my dad died. She and her siblings helped us move everything out of our moving truck the day we

talk about her.

lot like Oz. She was always looking out for people. Me in particular. I've kind of always been an asshole. I was smaller

liked this about

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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 me can be traced back

there changes in her attitude leading

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

the doctor since Darren always made a huge deal out of everything. I had just found out I was five weeks pregnant and she was the first person I told. The following week she went with me to get an

for nothing. He was so happy. So, I called her and told her. We were both delighted and she told me she was

lidn't happen,"

back home the sirens for a rogue attack blared. I