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The Suspects Are Here

Author: Author Anselm
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-20 07:00:18

LIONEL

If I could make Regina Donovan disappear from the face of the earth, I would have gladly done that. But this was beginning to get on my nerves and I was starting to find it very strange.

What her father had said had been true whether I wanted to believe it or not. The last time I had convinced Regina to run off, she had said just the same thing. She couldn’t do what Marcy did because she wanted to fulfill her obligations to her pack and her pack wouldn’t have to suffer for her actions. She was clearly willing to be the sacrifice for the pack before she left my sight that day.

Had she changed her mind at the last minute and taken off? Even after such a strong resort? No… if she had run off, I have the feeling her father would have known; the same way he knew Marcy had run off. There would have been signs of an escapade everywhere. Her clothes and other essentials would be packed and Alpha Donovan would have not needed to come in here, trying to at
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