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 something anyone was to me

brushed teeth,

my

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 going to tolerate

"Did you struggle?"

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

to hurt him,"

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said you told your alpha and Luna off.

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was invited to the pack house to celebrate the announcement of

event in a pack's

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

"Why?"

answers swim in my head, but choosing

did their joy bother you,

washes over me. The part of me that

years after Darren's death. The changes to her person Calvin made. The modifications she went through. The fake tits, the long hair, the makeup, and the

top of her class. She stopped going into the city to visit

the shit hole we

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

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

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 she

tears stream down my face. Dr. Salazar offers me a tissue and I sigh when

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

You were close

through everything together. She lived on the floor above the apartment my mom and I stayed in after my dad

Let's talk about her.

was the sweetest person I'd ever met. A lot like Oz. She was always looking out for people. Me in particular. I've kind of always been an asshole. I was smaller than her.

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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 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

in her attitude leading up to

the night before. She had a date and I had just given her what I thought was the best fucking news there

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

and barely on track to where we wanted to be but I was scared for nothing. He was so happy. So, I called

lidn't happen,"

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