78\u2013He Promises To Protect Me\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thankfully, when I told Elgin I wanted to be left alone after all that talk, he walked out of my suite.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I needed rest. I needed time to think about everything that had happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coming back home wasn\u2019t at all how I\u2019d imagined it would be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The truth about my past, along with the alphas finally telling me their sides, had weighed heavily on me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the end, I realized it had been for the best that I left.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The alphas had still been wrong to start that night when none of them were willing to stand up to their families for me, at least not Graham or Elgin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for Baxter, we hadn\u2019t had that conversation yet. All I knew was that he once had a crush on me, though I couldn\u2019t say I believed it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So far, he\u2019d never given me a valid reason, or any reason at all, for the way he\u2019d treated me back then.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two days later, news broke that the great writer and researcher had attacked the alphas and been killed when they fought back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nobody seemed to care much.\u00a0<\/p>\n
People came forward saying he\u2019d lost his mind, that he used to peek through windows and claim their young ones were special or cursed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They said he caused panic, always wandering the woods, watching people transition so he could observe their wolves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now that he was gone, many in the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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