Chapter 38

Secrets tend to harm those around us. I don’t like secrets. When I was fifteen, Cassidy had come to the pack house and asked me for a favor. She had fallen in love with a young male who lived in the pack house. Her parents were against it, saying that she should wait for her intended mate. Cassidy swore upon the Goddess that Coby, the boy she liked, was her intended mate, and her parents were against them being together. It was a lie she had made so that I could help her. She was in love, and she wanted to defy her parents to pursue it, and she wanted my help.

Every night for five months, I had snuck her into the pack house so that she and Coby could be together. Her parents, however, found out and told Luna Sarah. As a result, I was punished. I tried to tell her that it was a lie, that Cassidy had told me Coby was her intended mate, but it fell on deaf ears.

I was flogged, tied up, and impr