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Chapter 20 : Don't Hide From Me

*Estelle*

I managed to hold my tears back until I reached the house. Just when I thought things were getting better, Charles had to go and say something awful like that. It must have been his way of getting revenge for Isolde's broken nose. Part of me wished that I’d punched him too.

When I reached the bedroom I lay on the bed and pulled the pillow tightly to my chest. It smelled like Gabe and it helped to calm me a little.

I couldn’t help but wonder what truth there was to Charles’s words. Maybe my mother was a rogue and that’s why there’d been no pack to support her when I was born. Or maybe there was something wrong with me? I’d spent most of my life worrying that I was insane; that there was some genetic mental illness lurking inside of me. Maybe it was true.