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?"

no. 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

brushed teeth,

my

that the Alpha was no longer going to tolerate my disrespect. Upon arrival, I was dragged into

"Did you struggle?"

in a while and I was probably still drunk. I was also aware of Jake's presence, I

to hurt him,"

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acting Redwood staff was invited to the pack house to celebrate

a pack's history. What about that bothered

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

"Why?"

at him for a while. Many answers swim in

their joy bother you, Perry?" he

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 threaten

Calvin made. The modifications she went through. The fake tits, the long hair, the makeup,

being top of her class. She stopped going into the

took his family out of the shit hole we lived

nor myself was helping them get by. Her siblings were rejected from the academy and forced to go public. I see now

would have known that Morgan had been born to lead. Before him, she had been kind,

lived in poverty but she had this special aura that drew people in while I pushed them away.

Dr. Salazar offers me a tissue and I sigh when I reach for the box

a general sense. I only saw the betrayal I felt. I still feel it. Every time I think of her. Every time I think of

were close to

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

talk about her. What was she

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. Younger by two years.

liked

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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

changes in her attitude leading up to

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

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

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 with a visiting Beta from Gorgon. We promised we'd meet

lidn't happen,"

sirens for a rogue attack blared. I backtracked and headed