Outside, in the open field, away from the pack and Blythe’s cabin, Laila wandered around in circles, talking aloud. As she moved forward and back then side to side, her head spun, but it wasn’t because of her movements, it was because of her messed up emotions.
Laila did not want to care about anything that Lucius said, she repeated it to herself countless times, but her chest tightened each time she remembered what she had just been told. She was irritated that she cared, she was irritated that she could become so hurt by him but most of all she was irritated that Lucius even had the guts to utter those words to her.
What Laila understood was Lucius did not regret what he did to her and could have done it to someone else if given the chance, it was what he said so she wasn’t in the wro
