Chapter 99. I’ll Get Out of Here

It’s anger at her, but it’s born out of fear, churning up to douse the inferno of molten rage. That all of this is too much and bigger than me. I don’t want this burden of weight or this story to be mine. I want to go back to the mountain, to the home, to disappear into the shadows and be a girl no one noticed again. I was safe and ignorant, and it didn’t hurt like this. It wasn’t some precipice of danger and had me teetering on the edge and looking down into the abyss, knowing I’m never going to be safe or okay ever again. It’s all too much, and I’m only a child. Eighteen, barely grown. I don’t want this!

“No, my dear. Colton will also carry the gifts of his mother. Our research has repeatedly proven that hybrids have a mixture, every time—just like you. His non-wolf side is in there but bound up tight. And you, you cannot harness your full potential if she has bound you. The gifts are maybe strong enough to show at times, but she was a capable witch. I don’t doubt her spells