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 the fields for

always swam in my stomach when I saw the innocent little eyes looking at me. I had

would live with what I had done for the rest of my life I could see that now, all the good I did from here would be because of the evil I

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 my dark deeds from the

misuse

be stripped away forcing myself to watch it, making sure the hungry part of myself remembered that even

selfish.

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me it was the first words she’d said to me since we arrived and it

down we need

you!” she

isn’t 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 raise my voice so she physically stepped back

sister that much was true but what good was my protection if it led

back. She

but for her outcome in life who she was, was in

she was hurt, I created something that 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 my mind could do….and when I was

Annette unconscious in the

Even then I tried to detach myself from the guilt and say I was protecting

to make the poison,” I looked up and my sister finally wasn’t glaring at me as if I disgusted her. “I took you and Annette and we came here. I burned the notebooks with the formula for

showing up in her

I did the right thing and it doesn’t excuse my 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

a lot of wisdom in her very young face and I didn’t realize how mature she had gotten. “But Simon…” she