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

it had gone she still sat there preparing again for the next and readying the fields

was on her hip, or wrapped to her chest. I did not yet see them 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 him, and I had captured his mother

with what I had done for the rest of my life I could see that now,

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

would misuse

to watch it, making sure the hungry part of myself remembered that even with knowledge there is danger. I wouldn’t be that reckless again, or that

selfish.

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we arrived and it was not in a caring tone. Her words

down we need

say to you!” she crossed her arms and her eyebrows

with the stern aggravation of a father. I

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

back. She

her outcome in life who she was, was in

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

shift from the corner of my eye it was a gross confession to admit I hadn’t cared until I saw Annette unconscious in the cell. I didn’t think of a living being when I experimented I thought of specimens, test subjects.

out. Even then I tried to detach myself from the guilt and say I was protecting you, and serving my

asked me 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 the

in her

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,”

face and I