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No way did I want to face the rest of the pack right then. That didn’t mean I’d in anyway allow that to tarnish my decisions. My brother intended to head out and clean up a mess I’d been part of. I’d never let that happen without being there to watch his back.
Besides, I owed the vampires an arse-kicking. Someone had to pay for the s**t hand I’d been dealt.
Dressed in fresh attire Jem had brought out for me, and with my mobile tucked into the jeans pocket, I strode back toward home.
The rumble of engines reached me before I’d emerged from the forest. I shoved aside my pissy mood, which had worsened on realisation that Dad would order the others to leave without me, and picked up speed through the arches.
Jem stood in the kitchen window, the worry lining her face smoothing out as sh
