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Chapter 14: The Midnight Terrors.

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”So…. where did you say you were from again?”

I grunt as I raise the sickle in my hand and bring it down on the branch.

My throat is burning and sweat is running down my neck. Heath is busy talking to Sky, asking where she’s from like they’re not from the same pack. Where else could she be from?

”We grew up in the same pack, Heath.”

A single word responds leaves the caverns of his mouth, “Oh.”

I shake my head, yanking the small sickle out and bracing myself for another attempt at cutting this branch. To be young and in love is such an awkward thing.

I was never lovestruck while in my teens.

But of course that was thanks to my father’s insistence on keeping me away from boys. I had a very protective dad.

The memory of him makes a rush of sadness go through me even as a soft smile spreads on my lips. I’m sad my parents were taken away from me so soon.

Me and Raven.

Raven used to be their spoiled pet. She was their copy, and mum would go on and on about how they look adorable together in
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