My Family Pretend Death For a Substitute She-wolf

e my family. Ended up a vegetable, trapped in my own body. Fiv

n her like she was the moon itself. Even Elliot Graves, my childhood mate, the wolf who swore we'd be eternally bound, couldn't take

m that moment, Ryan and Elliot turned on me, their love curdling into hate. They blamed me, said if I hadn't forced N

ken and my spirit shattered. Then the healer dropped th

y "dead" parents, Ryan, Elliot-all gathered around a table, laughing, celebrating Nina's birthday. She was glow

liot ask Ryan, "Evelyn's learned her lesso

birthday next month. Let her stew in pain a bi

s too stubborn. She needed

this fake death, she won

orce me to accept Nina, to drown me in guilt and suffering. My parents, my b

live long enough to se

drowned in guilt. I dreamed of that burning car, my parents screaming, Nina's terrified eyes haunting me. I took every punishment Elliot and Ryan dished out. I let

was al

th. In the bathroom, I hunched over the toilet, crimson mixing with tears. Shaking

yan's voice was ice, his shadow looming in the

me on the floor. "What'r

mb. "What's my p

t's voice was flat. "Go to Nort

eath." She looked just like Nina. Back then, I thought they were just clinging to a stand-in fo

I was too tired to fight,

brought back? Lena said it was "too cold." The second? "Too sweet." The third? "Ugly shape." By the seventh, I finally got

e," I said, handi

d screamed. "Bloo

their arms. "Elliot, Ryan, if she didn't want to get it, she

e stained box. "You did this on purp

g from the crash. "No. On the way back. I

r. "You think I'm an idiot? You're stand

u love lying, let's make it rea

s scraped raw on the gravel path, but no one cared. In the center of the lawn

I struggled to

finish, the ca

ra

agdoll, slamming into the grass meters away. Blood sprayed

ic burned my nose. My eyes fluttered open, t

iot's hushed voice came from outsi

disbelief in his ton

final stages of cancer. It's spread everywh

e, my brother-they didn't know they were k