HE TOOK MY HEART I WILL TAKE HIS PARK

hear it. She didn't hear anything except the thumping of her own heartbeat, pounding relentlessly in her chest, an ech

for any sign of movement, but she was no longer the girl who had run from her past. She had embraced it

swelled inside her chest. Revenge. That was all that was left. But even as her mind screamed for

uiet reminder that vengeance was a path paved with destruction. B

ould comprehend. Her feet felt heavier now, each step carrying the weight of the betrayal, the wei

hen she had run. But now, she realiz

thin her, her senses sharper than ever before, but it didn't help to quiet the storm inside her. Sh

e weak anymore. She coul

ht illuminated the familiar outline of the pack's old training grounds. The pla

lt like a

re still there, but they seemed hollow, as if the memories of what had happened there had been erased. The wind st

her as she crossed into the center of the clearing. The sounds of the night seemed

len

hrough the quiet. She turned sharply, her instincts flarin

n

ng in the shadows of the trees, was the brother she had once loved. The brother who had abandoned her, sta

masked it with the anger that surged within her. She wouldn'

his voice steady, but there was something

remain still, though every part of her screamed to rush him, to

Enzo," she said, her voice ic

a peaceful gesture. "You don't have to do

u're still trying to prot

avering. "I'm not protecting him. I'm trying to protect you. I don't want to

e broke me. He destroyed everything I believed in. And you-" Her voice trembled as she reached

l the tears threatening to rise, but she crushed them do

e cracking slightly. "He was never going t

e had always known. The one who had protected her when they we

couldn't stop him. I couldn't stop any

betrayed her out of malice. He had done it out of loyalty, out of a sense of

elf crumble in front of him. She had already let too many people take her down. The Alpha

erce with newfound strength. "I'm done being broken. I'm done

he distance. Her brother. She didn't know if she could forgive him. But she wasn't her

h ahead, but Selene didn't feel the chill. She didn't f

consumed