Jake's POV
The letter was still sitting on my desk.
Unread? No.
Dismissed? Yes.
It was a lie.
I knew it.
The second I saw it,the second I read those carefully placed words, dripping with manufactured deception,I knew exactly what it was.
Sylvia's work.
Kylie's desperation.
The same tired, pathetic game they’d been playing since the moment Brielle arrived.
But this time?
This time, I wasn’t falling for it.
Still
I hadn’t thrown it away.
Not yet.
Not because I doubted Brielle.
But because I knew that lies like this didn’t stay confined to a single letter.
They spread.
And as much as I wanted to ignore it, as much as I wanted to believe that the pack wouldn’t be stupid enough to entertain such obvious manipulation
I also knew better.
Because rumors?
Rumors were like wild
