Chapter 59

Jaden

Smoke swirled around me, blurring my vision as I stood outside the hospital in the rain. I couldn’t get it out of my head. Why did she want to thank me? She was willing to forgive me, give me the benefit of the doubt. I can maybe understand it when we lived out in the woods with my mother. I was only eight by the time she left us, after all. But she only got released about three years ago. I wasn’t a child then.

I took another drag; the paper struggling to burn as the rain pelts me in the face. I let it welcoming the harsh shards hitting my skin. I wouldn’t accept her thanks or forgiveness or whatever she was offering in the name of family. Not until I could forgive myself, and that wasn’t going to happen anytime soon.

The list of people I had hurt was in the hundreds, strangers, wolves I didn’t know at the request of my father, but now the list of people I had hurt were those I cared about. Maybe I deserved to be alone or to agree to Felicity’s terms. It was the best thing to do