(Emma)
I had made up my mind. I wasn’t going to stay there any longer. If Lauren thought she could intimidate me, or if Darius thought he could control me like a puppet, he was sorely mistaken. I had been pushed around for too long, and I wasn’t about to let that happen anymore. I couldn’t live in fear, trapped in a place where I wasn’t wanted.
I waited for the night to fall, knowing the pack would be asleep by then. Everyone would be busy with their things, and it would be the perfect time to escape. I didn’t take much—just the basics. A few sets of clothes, my medications, and some personal items I couldn’t leave behind.
The hardest part was knowing that I was leaving behind a life I once thought I could have. But the way things had been going—how I’d been treated, how I was being con
