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She looks around and grabs my arm. “Why-is the entire pack here? Oh my gods, Is that Esme?” The woman she points to is clocking a Frostclaw goon with a book, and is one hundred percent Esme.
“It is her. She came as soon as she heard they had you.They all did.”
Cordelia looks around in disbelief. “But at the dance they didn’t believe me. Why would they come to save me? I don’t understand.”
“Because you’re pack,” I tell her. “We’ll always come for pack and it wasn’t that they didn’t believe you. We were in shock. What Cassidy did was-is unforgivable.None of us knew what to do.”
“She was working with them. I thought,” Cordelia looks down at her hands. “I thought even if you didn’t want me in the pack I had to tell you that she was the real traitor.”
Her voice sounds like she might cry. I can feel that she might. I can’t stand her feeling like that. I step in front of her and smile down at her. “We knew she was lying. She’s been banished for what she did.”
Her eyes go wide. “Banished?”
“Ronan didn’t want her around after what she did to you. With what you just told me, she should be lucky that’s all he did.”
She bites her lip. I can tell she feels bad about Cassidy, even after everything she did to her, Cordelia still has it in her to feel empathy for Cassidy.
I don’t fucking deserve my mate. I never have.
Chapter
Fifty-Seven
CORDELIA
They caught Keiran pretty quick. I guess he tried to jump through a window and didn’t quite clear it. Ronan was the one who dragged him back through it. He’s locked away in one of the Oak Fast cells now along with his parents and the Moonshadow Alpha, Luna and Bella. Ronan said I never have to see him again and I’m taking him up on the offer. Whatever happens to Keiran isn’t my business. Not anymore.
When we were able to sort everything out at the police station Clover and Piper were right there. The sight of my friends bruised but smiling brought me to tears. They’d come for me just like the rest of the pack I thought had wanted me gone.
I really got that wrong when I ran.
“I’m so sorry! I’m sorry, Cordy. Can you forgive me?” Clover launches herself at me and Piper is right there beside her.
“We went to find you but they took you before we could get to you. This is our fault. We should have been faster.”
I shake my head and hold my friends closer. “No, it’s my fault too. I shouldn’t have run. I was too fast,” I joke and the three of us laugh shakily. They hold my hands while Ronan and Maud enter the room and it’s like everything is right in the world.There’s another woman with them and she looks so much like Maud, I know she’s Jazzy.
Maud holds her arms out to me and I run to her. “Maud!”
“I told you to write, young lady.”
I duck my head. “I’m sorry. I was so busy, I didn’t even think to get back here to do it.”
“We’ll work on your time management skills,” she tells me and brushes my hair back from my face. “You made quite an impression on the town folk though. They helped us find you, even took down a few of these Moonshadow Enforcers.”
I blink in surprise. “Really?”
“Yeah, those three in particular.” She points back towards the crashed car and I laugh when I see Jenny getting out of it with Carla and Gus. Gus looks particularly dizzy getting out of the backseat. I raise a hand and wave to them and get enthusiastic waves back even with Carla having to hold Gus up.
“They’re friends,” I tell her.
“Very good ones. We wouldn’t have been able to find the place as fast as we did without them. Thorne charged ahead like any good mate trying to save his, but that left the rest of us without an oar to paddle so to speak until they stepped in and directed us this way.”
“How did they know?”
“They saw Keiran enter the police station earlier today. They recognized him from the bus and knew if he was here, it was bad for you. They were looking out for you.”
“They’re good friends. The best.”
