Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 130

Simon POV:

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We had made it out alive and shockingly I wasn’t killed on sight. I did earn a black eye for a day or two but I would take that if it meant my head stayed attached to my shoulders.

After we arrived in Montana Ashely forced me to explain everything. I told her how I had concocted a silver acetate that could cut a wolf off from its person and that we had used this to kidnap Annette and the only reason I had gone along was to save her from Marcus.

She hadn’t spoken to me since. We were told we could have a plot of land on the edge of the pack but if I wanted a house I would have to build it. I would have been lost if it weren’t for Annette’s brothers they came by to help me move the wood and soon enough others did too, some of them begrudgingly, and others said thank you to me for helping save

their Luna.

I had never experienced a pack like this, they helped even when they didn’t want to because I was now a part of them. Eventually, our house was built in the water for a week. It was different from the splendor that the Bane Crescent pack

had coveted wood houses and trees all around.

Miraculously I was even permitted to run tests on Annette, Grayson wanted me to find a way to reverse the silver acetate

but that was risky I told him the best thing to do was to let it leave her system I didn’t know what it would react with.

Still daily I saw her and saw how her health was. Slowly but surely she was regaining her strength leaving the house

after a week of holing up inside. Her people flocked to her ever thankful she’d been returned to them and I saw her as

the great Luna she was handling the farming and the rearing of the children. She saw to the cellar for winter even

for the next and readying

separate and guilt always swam in my stomach when I saw the innocent little eyes looking at me. I had been ordered once to capture

for the rest of my life I could see that now, all the good I did from here would be

of being in the Northern Eclipse pack I sat in our new home it was bare, but it was ours away from Marcus, and from the sadness we carried. I sat down in front of our new fire place and I burned the testing notebooks that carried all of the information on my Silver acetate. I watched the fire keep

would misuse

knowledge and hard work be stripped away forcing myself to watch it, making sure the hungry part of myself remembered that even with knowledge there is danger. I

selfish.

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down we need to talk-,”

you!” she crossed her arms and her eyebrows knit

a request,” I asserted not in the voice of a loving older brother, but with the stern aggravation of a father. I didn’t ever

was a selfish man and I did use your protection to hide my wrongdoing,” I looked at the ground I had done so much to protect my little sister that much was true but what good was my protection if it led her to become a person who didn’t know the right in the world. I had to accept the fact that

back. She

for her physical well–being but for her outcome in life who she was, was in my hands.

could do great harm to wolves anywhere in the world and I did without hesitation because I wanted to, I wanted to prove I could, I wanted to be the one to create something like that to see what

her shift from the corner of my eye it was a gross confession to admit I hadn’t cared until I saw Annette

real person who I had torn apart from the inside out. Even then I tried to detach myself from the guilt and say I was protecting

me as if I disgusted her. “I took you and Annette and we came here. I burned the notebooks

up in her eyes.

actions, but I made a mistake Ashley, and love me or hate me I am still the family you have left I will always look out for you,” I looked back down resting my arms on my legs so defeated. ” I know I broke your trust in me and I’m sorry,” I couldn’t believe it but my voice cracked when I

held mine. “You got us out,” she said a lot of wisdom in her very young face and I didn’t realize how mature she had gotten. “But Simon…” she stood up. “I’m not the