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I’ll do every damn thing I can to make her happy again, and if I’m lucky, she’ll allow me back into her life.
“We just want to see you happy, Piper,” Avery says. “And to help you save all the cats you can.”
At that, she laughs weakly. “Really?”
“Fuck yes,” Maddox agrees. “Hell, you could also expand and put a dog rescue in that building, too. Who knows? The world is your oyster, sweetheart.”
She pauses and looks down at her lap. “I don’t want you to see me cry,” she huffs, wiping at her eyes. “It’s embarrassing. I’ve been a mess for the last few days.”
“Understandable,” Avery says softly. “But we’re here if you need—if youwantus,” he corrects himself.
Piper would never need anybody; she’s made sure of that, due to her terrible parents.
I realize now how lucky we were that she chose to open up to us.
No, I doubt Piper would ever truly need us.
We’re the ones who needher.
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PIPER
Poe bought the property.
Poe saved the rescue.
I can’t comprehend it.
“I never want to see you like that again, Piper, if I can help it.”
His words soothe my inner Omega, who has already forgiven him. Hell, he was forgiven in her eyes after he stood up to my parents.
But part is me is still so terrified.
No one has ever done anything like that for me before.
Not even my parents, who use money to manipulate people, which is why I’m scared.
I can’t pay Poe back for this.
“Piper,” he says softly, and he must recognize the terror on my face. “You don’toweme anything. I did this for you, your friends, and the cats. It’s not some way to win you back—but I’mgoing to try my damndest to. But if you told the three of us, right now, to go, we would.”
“It would fucking kill us, but we would,” Maddox mutters.
Avery bites his lip and scratches at his stubble. “Yeah,” he murmurs, looking at his lap.
My heart aches.
I don’t want to ever be away from them again.
Poe made a mistake, a huge one, but it wasn’t intentional.
He’s done more than enough to make it right, even if I still can’t wrap my head around why.
I’ve punished Maddox and Avery just for being in the same pack as him. The anger I held toward Poe I applied to them, too.
I panicked and tried to push them away.
