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“You pushed too much, and I wasn’t ready to share any of this I didn’t kno anyone would respond to …well…”

“You being a wolf You can say it I always believed those creatures were real in soht they were tall tales”

“I am not a creature I am…human”

“With lupine blood,” he replied with a pointed look “Maybe only a drop because you never changed or shifted or whatever At least not in front of us”

“That’s because Mada me suppress my true self so I didn’t turn I didn’t want to be a wolf I lost too much, and I don’t want to be like the people who—” Oscar’s eyes ide, his lips parted as he panted, which made Bellamy pause “What?”

“You’ve been suppressing this brilliant gift inside you? Why would you do such a thing? You would have incredible power and speed and…and you could’ve scared the constable just by baring your teeth and perhaps—”

“How dare you!” Bella him how the constable of Lunar’s Reach had passed away under their watch, after having too ht forth those sas of the horrible man “You cannot blame what happened at Moon Flower on me The constable could’ve turned me in, hadof the lupine annihilation

“I’ We all miss you and want you well,” he said soleether with the little you’ve given me—”

“You are positively exhausting” Bella fit He didn’t think he had the energy to explain, but somehow he needed Oscar to understand “You’ve always had ro of what happened between us You’d rather let the man who betrayed me take me to his…whatever this place is, than keep nity”

Oscar gasped, and then he closed his mouth, perhaps for the first time unable to think of what to say Brilliant Perhaps he would stop trying to s

Bella pulse For Oscar’s part, he si all Bellamy had said