Leaving the Shallowend pack was bittersweet for Mia. She felt both lost and free.
Lost because she had nowhere to go, no one to turn to. Free because for the first time in her life, there was nobody controlling her life.
She did not want to leave her son, but there was nothing for him in her new life. Being with her would only make his life worse. He was better off remaining in Shallowend. As Dante’s son, he’d be treated a lot nicer than they’d treated her.
After leaving Shallowend, she knew that if she relied on other people, she’d forever be stuck in the kind of life she had just left at Shallowend. Her mother, who should have protected and loved her, had kept her hidden, depriving her of all joys of childhood.
Dante, who she had thought could protect her from his father and brother,
