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Mirabel:

10 years ago.

"What the hell were you thinking, Mira!?"

Jackson's voice boomed the next day.

Klein had just told him about the Rogue wolf that had almost killed me last night.

"You could have been fucking killed!"

He barked, his eyes blazing.

"Let her be, J," Klein cut in.

"Absolutely not!' Jackson shot back at his friend.

He was practically shaking in anger which in turn scared me.

"Stop enabling her. She's no longer twelve, she's fuckin fourteen. Old enough to know the dangers of the woods."

"I didn't mean to, Jackson. I couldn't sleep and…" I tried to explain.

"You couldn't sleep and you decided running into the woods would help you? Are you stupid or something? What would have happened if you had died? If Klein wasn't there to stop him, huh?"

Jackson barked.

I shifted back, scared out of my wits. I had never seen him s angry before, it felt like I was

Like I was staring into a demon’s eyes. He was so upset. I have never seen Jackson this upset before. Even clean was