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

brushed teeth,

my

go to the pack house. I got in the truck with him and four others. He told got -me I fucked up and that the Alpha was no longer

"Did you struggle?"

was probably still drunk. I was also aware of Jake's presence, I didn't want

to hurt him,"

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acting Redwood staff was invited to the pack house to celebrate

event in a pack's history.

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

"Why?"

at him for a while. Many answers swim in my

did their joy bother

there, a flood of guilt just washes over me. The part of me that loved Morgan wants to take it

in the years after Darren's death. The changes to her person Calvin made. The modifications

being top of her class. She stopped going into the

his family out of the shit hole we lived

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 hell she chose to live

Calvin was her actual mate. Had he looked past the superficial he would have known that Morgan had

I was often jealous 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

fucking Redwood ruined 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 the box to see it's fucking Lightning McQueen themed. "Why

didn't deserve 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

Luna. You were close

We'd been through everything together. She lived on the floor above the apartment my mom and I stayed in

talk about

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

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to pick 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

changes in her attitude leading up to your

a date and I had just given her what I thought was the best fucking news there could ever be," "What

gone on a mission a couple 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 and she was the first person I told. The following week she went with me to get an ultrasound and I asked her to keep it to herself until I got back.

scared because we were nineteen and barely on track to where we wanted to be but I was scared for nothing. He was so happy. So, I called her and told her. We were both delighted and she told me she was going out

lidn't happen,"

that morning and on my way back home the sirens for a rogue attack blared. I backtracked and headed towards the pack house where