Chapter 8 I was always going to follow Colton; I was there that day and saw him defeat his dad. I tried to leave with the pack but my mom, she wouldn t leave with me, and by the time I tried to convince her my dad showed up and put an end to it. My mom isn t strong, she lives in his shadow, she s na?ve and maybe a little too innocent. I couldn t leave her with him to be ground down and trampled over. You don t know how he is." Her clear, almost husky voice cracks a little and I blink her way seeing a tiny c***k in the confident armor she wears like a shroud. I waiver a little in my coolness when I see that soft warmth in her eyes when talking about her mom, and yet there s something raw and almost painful when she says the word Dad. Although the most surprising part is how hard it is to