Chapter Seven: The Blame Game
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“This is useless!” I snapped, throwing the medallion to the ground. “We’ve been running in circles for hours, Nathan.”
Nathan‘ s jaw tightened, his lips pressing into a thin line. He didn‘ t respond immediately, his eyes locked on the medallion as though willing it to yield something useful. Finally, he spoke, his voice low and biting. “And whose fault is that?”
I whirled to face him, anger flaring hot in my chest. “You‘ re the one who insisted on your tracker! If we‘ d used my pack-”
“Your pack couldn’t even keep him safe in the first place!” he snarled, stepping closer, his voice laced with fury. Then, his tone shifted, colder, sharper. “And now that I think about it, I don‘ t even know why I’m here. Why I’m helping you
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when I’m not even sure he‘ s mine.”
The words hit like a slap, stealing the air from my lungs. For a moment, all I could do was stare at him, stunned. “What?”
Nathan‘ s expression darkened, his wolf flickering behind his eyes. The restrained fury there was almost enough to make me step back–but I didn’t.
“Don’t stand there and act so
innocent,” he growled. “Like you didn’t betray me after everything I gave you. On second thought, maybe I should leave you to deal with this on your own. If there’s even a chance he isn’t mine, why the hell am I here? Why don’t you go running back to him, since I was never enough for you?”
I blinked, his accusation hitting like a knife twisting in my chest. Him? Who the hell was he even talking about?
“What are you talking about?” I snapped, trying to keep my voice steady.
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His eyes narrowed, his anger barely leashed. “The man you cheated on me with!”
It took a moment for the words to sink in, and when they did, I couldn’t stop the bitter laughter that bubbled out of me. I didn’t want to laugh–it wasn’t funny- but the absurdity of it was overwhelming.
Nathan’s glare only deepened. “What the hell is so funny?” he demanded.
“You are,” I managed, between gasps of laughter that quickly turned into something sharper. Anger clawed its way back to the surface, and I matched his glare with one of my own. “I cheated on you?” Saying it out loud made the ridiculousness of it all the more infuriating. “How dare you accuse me of cheating when all I did for three years was try to make you more of a human being and less of a cold, hateful bastard. And what did I get for it? You shut me out then brought your so–called sister under the same roof and pretended there
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wasn’t anything going on between you two. And now you stand here, accusing met of being the one who cheated?”
For a split second, something flickered in his eyes but it was gone as quickly as it came. His expression hardened again, but I didn’t give him the chance to speak.
“I don‘ t even know why I’m standing here arguing with you,” I hissed. “My son. is missing, and I don‘ t need your help. anymore. Go crawl back to whatever hell you came from amd if you ever-”
The sound of footsteps approaching made me stop mid–rant. I turned toward the noise, still seething, as the lead tracker from Nathan’s pack stepped into view. He bowed his head, glancing nervously between us, clearly sensing the tension in
the air.
“We have another lead,” he said, his voice tentative. “I’m confident this one.
will pan out. We just need your go–ahead to follow it.”
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I opened my mouth to tell him to move immediately, but Nathan cut me off.
“No.”
My head snapped toward him, disbelief washing over me. “What?”
Nathan fixed the tracker with a bored expression. “Tell your men we‘ re done. We’re leaving.”
“What do you think you‘ re doing?” I demanded, stepping toward him.
“I’m taking my men and going back to that hell you mentioned,” he said coldly.
“You can’t be serious! He’s your son, Nathan! You‘ re being ridiculous. We have to find him.”
He finally looked at me, his voice slicing through the air like a blade. “Fine. I‘ 11 find him. Alone. Being near you is getting
on my nerves.”
He turned on his heel, motioning for the tracker to follow him. For a second, I
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thought he was really leaving, but then he stopped abruptly and glanced back at me, his eyes glinting with a deadly promise.
“You’d better be telling the truth about him being my son, he said, his voice low. and menacing. “Because if he’s not, losing control of your pack and wolves. dying will be the least of your problems. When I’m done with you, you’ll know what true hell feels like.”
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