I died loving Him. Now I'm back

ne's

t remembering the reaso

d, the next I was sitting in my own bed

at me before she used it. She didn't look angry, that was the

My whole body was covered in sweat. For a second I did not

t I was still in my old bedroom. Not the room i

d curtains were still hanging

loud did not change anything, the room was exactly the same. I put my hand in the

mark. That's the mark of a wolf whe

ome weird version of heaven or I was alive ag

. My brother had cracked that mirror years ago

younger. Not the tired face that I had as a re

ories didn't match my body, I

Camille's voice right before she killed me, telling me t

e knife going i

chest. I used to do that when I was little whe

asleep down the hall and so was Theo. Nobody knew that the wedding tha

ep the rest

. I thought about Mara at a funeral that never happened because there

nd outside my room, they worked for me but

e that. Mara probably would hav

already come up

gain. I wasn't going to stand there while

wiped my face, I guess I had been crying without noticin

p early,"

intense stare as a tender expre

. What'

just could

been c

hing, Dad

r had a way of seeing straight through whatever calm face I put on,

ush, Theo's voice cam

's a rider here fr

ard the door. "Wh

will be happening

dn't

three months

with Kellan again. Two weeks until I saw

d three years to get ready for it bac

this time. "You don't have to be scared.

se I knew that at this po

o point saying anything el

l

slowly tha

was talking to one of his advisors at t

an a proper dinner," the advisor s

Selene, have a seat and ear,"

. I didn't

this morning,"

a lot on

tandable. It's

id. "Somethi

o say to you right now," he said in

doing fi

p by four months without even

move it. K

l agree

that protect the pack. That'

he wasn't used to hearing me defen

ew the real a

oking like he hadn't slept either, a

hat you can be thi

ys seriou

me with rai

your own engagement anno

as diff

s i

. It happens

telling yo

ly, and took a piece of toast off my plate i

table between my dad and the adv

tention to it anymore,

g?" Theo asked, lean

t na

ze any o

you know,

of memory. Most of them matched exactly what I expected. Elders

rse she was. Seated right next to

ar the bottom. Added later

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