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?"

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

showered, brushed

my

fucked up and that the Alpha was no longer going to tolerate my disrespect. Upon arrival, I was dragged into the pack house where I was informed that I was being sold

"Did you struggle?"

I hadn't slept in a while and I was probably

to hurt him,"

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said you told your

56%

pack house to celebrate

in a pack's history. What about that bothered

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

"Why?"

in

bother

me. The part of me that

person Calvin made. The modifications she went through. The fake tits, the long hair, the makeup, and the pathetic princess dresses she'd

top of her class. She stopped going

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

restaurant closed because neither Morgan nor myself was helping them get by. Her siblings were rejected from the academy and forced to go public. I see now that the

he looked past the superficial he would have known that Morgan had been born to lead. Before him, she

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

us both. 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

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 everything. She's included

were

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

about her. What

for people. Me in particular. I've kind of always been an asshole. I was smaller than her. Younger by two years. She was always smiling and going

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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

her attitude leading up to your

"We were really excited the night before. She had a date and I had just given her

just found out I was five weeks pregnant and she was the first person I told. The following week she

we wanted to be but I was scared for nothing. He was so

lidn't happen,"

home the sirens for a rogue attack blared. I backtracked and headed towards the pack house where Darren was stationed. I was two