Jax POV
I was sitting on the apartment balcony with a book in my lap staring off towards the mountains.
Ever since I came back home, I spent every evening out on the balcony where I had a clear view of the mountains in the distance.
When I came back, I gave Stacey a bullsh*t excuse that I had fallen into the river and lost my backpack along with my phone, but I had found some nice people that gave me some dry clothes. She didn’t seem to buy it, but when I refused to tell her anything else, she stopped asking.
I felt bad for lying to her, but I had made a promise to the pack and even if I never saw any of them again, I wanted to protect them so that they could live in peace.
Besides, who would believe me if I said that I took off on a hike by myself and stumbled across a pack of wer
