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Ch. 52 Home Is Where The Heart Is

Author: Cara Anderson
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Declan

“Goddess fucking damn it!” I throw my coffee mug across the hall, staring in frustration as the brown liquid trickles down the wall. Just one more mess in a sea of messes I still need to clean up.

“Did I just hear my implacable Beta lose his cool?” Kaden pokes his head into the office, snorting when he sees the shattered coffee cup.

“It’s been a week. Kade! A Fucking week since that rogue threatened our family! And we’re no closer to figuring out who they are or who they work for!

“And you! You fucking went and let her leave this house, take the boys where we can’t see them, can’t keep them safe!”

I’m not really pissed at him. I know it, he knows it. Even our relentless search for the men in the woods, as fruitless as it’s been, is little more than a distraction from a much bigger problem. Dealing with the reason we were in those woods in the first place, and the self-contempt and total ruination we’ve both been wading through in the aftermath.

“They’re at my parents house
Cara Anderson

Thank you for reading! I caught a virus that slowed me down a little but I will try to have a double update tomorrow.

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I am so glad Kaden mother tore him limb from limb and Declan parents were there for her, when her own parents weren’t. I hope they are being blocked out as well
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