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#Chapter 44 – Just One Kiss

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Alyson

I eat breakfast alone, Ryan already training the warriors on the new plan. We have to find the rogues that are sick and expect to find symptoms in the weaker pack wolves so they can seek healers immediately. He wanted to do this alone, knowing he will be going out with them this afternoon to try to make things right.

To ease my mind, I sit alone in the busy cafeteria, a few nightshift warriors roaming in for coffee and breakfast before heading to bed. I sit at the table in the furthest corner, a little dark from the lack of light in this direction and slightly cold. In a weird way, I feel like it's punishment for being so wrong for so long.

I tip my head to the side, leaning on the wall and moving the eggs around the plate as though to trick someone I have been eating. No one should care. No one should worry that I feel like the world is crashing down around me. It's my fault, anyways.

"Mind if I sit here?"

I turn, expecting to
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