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She wouldn’t live with the people who reood She was so broken and corrupted and she just couldn’t face that kind of disappoint that had happened to her
"Well?" Reuben pressed
"I’ll take it down" It would be easier than explaining to hiuessed he knew it already, though
"Jae " he placed his large, cool hand over hers
Crap, she winced, looking up into his face She shouldn’t make eye contact with hiive
"Don’t" She snatched her hand back, refusing to aze
He snapped up off the bed "If you would just let me in, I could help you Just tell me what happened to you"
No way No one could ever kno bad it got
At her silence he heaved a heavy sigh "Fine I’ll let you sleep"
"OK"
He turned to leave and then looked back at her "Just so you knoe ues have cottoned on to the fact this is no longer an easy target for breaking Coven law"
She nodded, not caring where they went
"I’ain she nodded Reuben had a tendency to disappear every now and then to goddess knohere Jae didn’t ask about his mysterious loner ventures That would iht Rebel
As Caia finished the last sentence on her report for Marion, she sighed and eased back in the chair at her desk The light outside was fading and with it bringing memories she couldn’t dispel It had been months now since she had killed her Uncle Ethan after his kidnapping and torture of Jaeden, and since Sebastian had been murdered in the crossfire
Months since the pack had seen any sehts, let her gaze drift outside herand into the darkening woods Jaeden had been gone for months and only Caia, and perhaps Lucien, knehy The torture she had undergone at the hands of Ethan was unthinkable, and Caia hadn’t been able to tell her family how bad it must have been for her to leave the pack Jaeden’s father, Di Lucien do so about it, but one look at Caia’s face and she had known he kneas best to leave Jaeden to co enough to h to be alone
But it wasn’t forever Caia was giving her another month, and if she wasn’t back by then, she’d fulfill Di her back to the pack herself
Caia sighed again, her eyes drifting down and across her bed, and with it heated oddess, she scoffed at herself She was lucky she hadn’t fallen pregnant! Since lykans couldn’t carry disease, nor beco sex was usually only utilized by mated couples eren’t ready for children Since Lucien and she had no idea having sex together would cement their ‘betrothal’ they hadn’t used any protection
Yeesh
She was sooo lucky she hadn’t gotten pregnant
The close call, however, didn’t stop her fro Not once was she able to look at her bed without a reht when for once they were in total agreeether, passionate, happy The , and ever since there had been a constant tension between them despite their ‘united front’
She ing through her and she turned to gaze up into his silver eyes "Yeah?"
Lucien threw her a sy how tired she was "Marion’s here"
She s her papers in her hand They walked in silence down the stairs and into the living roo tea, and Saffron, her faerie, stood studying her cuticles in utter boredo
For the past few months Marion’s weekly visits had been the pack’s only constant Pack runs had dwindled - there had been two rather crappily put-together ventures and even then the mood of the event had been melancholy School was out for the summer for Mal and the others, and Caia, lucky to have raduation since Jaeden had missed it and she had only Alexa to share it with Plus any plan Caia had had for the future was gone: no coe, no apprenticeships, and no job Her job was here, training with Marion, writing up reports on the activities of the Midnight Coven As the weeks had gone on, as her reports proved more andcuriosity The day was co when Marita would ask to meet her, for her to come to the Center, maybe even take a physical part in the war The Center was the ik’s power didn’t reach its full potential until their eighteenth birthday, you had to be eighteen to join the Center The sa – it was kind of like joining the aral adult to make that choice From what Marion had told her it not only involved physical training and strategizing, but provided classes on how to utilize your ht their children all they needed to know, but the ht at the Center It sounded like an interesting place, and Caia would go if only to get it over with, so she could just as quickly return to the pack<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>