116. Is This The End?

Layla was still in a daze a few days later. Jackson had been walking with her every afternoon since she had seen him with her mother, but she was constantly losing herself in her thoughts. She couldn’t appreciate being outside.

Her mother had been there all along.

Her mother was the red wolf that everyone had told her was imaginary.

And she was going to turn into a werewolf.

She looked up at Jackson, who seemed to have his attention on something else. Maybe all the chatter going on in the town that she hadn’t been able to block out because she was distracted.

“What about Brit?”

“Rebecca disappeared before I could ask her anything, and I haven’t found her again since. She only comes out when she wants to be seen.”

Typical.

“Maybe I should bring Brit here—”

“She’s safer where she is.”

She called and texted Britney daily, and her sister seemed to enjoy the new residence. She hadn’t mentioned her fear of her bodyguards and Jackson again, but she knew it would still be on her mind. She co