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Chapter 50: Something to live for
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2024-10-29 19:42:56~Wren~
“I need to know more about Waylon and his hand in everything,” I say, dragging a chair over to the side of Avi’s bed once the healer leaves the room. His eyes droop sleepily, but he gives his head a rough shake and blinks a few times.
“Uh. Well. I don’t really know much. Just that they wanted me executed after Freesa told them I was a part of your—let’s see, how did they phrase it?–‘Futile attempt to take over the pack’?” He smirks and I throw my head back, laughing.
Yeah, I suppose the thought must have occurred to Alden that I would want to take over the pack. Why else would someone want to usurp him? He is so wrapped up in himself and his own jackass world that he can’t imagine how shitty it’s been for everyone else. Though it had to have pissed him off a little, knowing that the rebel cause was led by a young female werewolf
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