Chapter 317

I barely sleep the rest of the night.

The next morning, Axel unlocks the door carly, but I don’t immediately get out of bed.

I’m not sure if I have the energy or will to face the day.

I wonder what Axel will do if I turn the tables on him and refuse to leave my bedroom, so whether he locks the door or not becomes pointless.

Around mid–morning, there’s a knock on the door.

I don’t answer, even though I doubt it’s Axel.

He wouldn’t knock. He would just barge right in.

The door swings open a few seconds later and Jessica walks in, carrying a tray with what looks like breakfast on it.

“Good morning,” she says in a soft voice, sending me a hesitant smile, as if unsure of her welcome.

Oh great, now even Jessica is tiptoeing around me.

“Does the entire pack know I’m a nutjob who needs to be locked up in her room?” I ask, pulling a blanket over my head.

I hear the sounds of Jessica setting the tray onto the nightstand next to my bed, then a second later the mattress dips and Jessica tugs the blankets away from my face.

that,” she says, and now her

question bitterly as I

of food Jessica has brought me and realize I’m actually quite

help that I missed dinner

tray and settle it on my lap as Jessica

your appetite,” she says as I

when you get abducted and held captive, eating becomes about survival, especially if you don’t know if or when the next meal is

I had

can’t possibly think what’s happening to me is okay,”

and glances away.

your own good,” Jessica says, and it

more like something she’s reciting, rather than

carefully. “But I

fair, because actually, I

she does

my best friend, after all.

And maybe I haven’t always been Leah’s biggest

head and stare down at my partially eaten breakfast, shame heating my cheeks.

shouldn’t have attacked Leah…at least not where

everything I went through

in this bedroom all the time. I need to shift. I need to run. If I can’t do

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