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?"

beta training. I

brushed

my

truck with him and four others. He told got -me I fucked up and that the Alpha was no longer going to tolerate my

"Did you struggle?"

but I hadn't slept in a while and I was probably still drunk.

to hurt him,"

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your alpha and Luna off.

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the pack house to celebrate

pack's history. What about that bothered

celebration. The announcement. The Luna. The Alpha.

"Why?"

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

their joy bother you, Perry?"

spills from my mouth, and as soon as it's out there, a flood of guilt just washes over me. The part of me that loved Morgan wants to take it back and I have to fight the tears that

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

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

took his family out of the shit hole

to go public. I see now that the hell she chose to live in was just as fucked as mine because Calvin bought

Calvin was her actual mate. Had he looked past the superficial he would have known that Morgan had been born to lead. Before him, she had been

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

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 they

wasn't thinking about her. Not in a general sense. I only saw the betrayal I felt.

You were close to

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

about

Me in particular. I've kind of always been an asshole. I was smaller than her. Younger

liked this about

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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.

her attitude leading up to

just given her what I thought was the best fucking news there could ever be," "What was the news?"

the doctor since Darren always made a huge deal out of everything. I had just found out I was five weeks pregnant and

where we wanted to be but I was scared for nothing. He was so happy. So, I called her

lidn't happen,"

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