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I shut and locked the door one last time, and headed downstairs and out the front lobby doors, seeing Maddix waiting by his truck He leaned against the side of it, his ar really tense I could tell he hated the city It showed in the way he stood, in the fact he kept looking around, curling his upper lip in disgust

I couldn’t help but chuckle He sawover tome instantly Maddix had his nose buried in the crook ofmark, and I heard him inhale

“This place is suffocating,” he gruainstexactly what he ht of the city on me, it wasn’t until I finally found Maddix— it all had been

All of this was a little crazy, I wouldn’t lie I wasI’d known for years But it wasn’t just soht decision Definitely Undeniably

Besides, I wasn’t leaving anything, but instead going forward, startingwith Maddix and starting our lives together hat mattered

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I leaned against the thick trunk of a tree and watched as rilled steaks and visited I was happy for Zakari and Maddix They’d finally found theirwe all wanted, all hoped for

I kept e because I didn’t want that crushing loneliness to eat away at me like it did them

And it did, because I could s off them in waves, that desperation, impatience, and desire to find the other half of their soul

Being a shifter wasn’t all it was cracked up to be We had strength, healed faster, and could shift, but ere always searching for our h the motions every day until they ith us

And how fucking depressing was that?

If my brothers wanted to live that way, hope that they’d happen upon their fe out of here, at least for a short while, seeing if I could be the one to find her

Was she human? A shifter? Was she on the East Coast? The west?

All of these questions would be answered, because I wouldn’t stop until I found her I was taking my future, my fate, into my own hands

I brought the whiskey bottle toit the entire day, and by now my throat was numb and my body relaxed