Beauty and The Beta (Bailey) novel Chapter 184

“Wow, that has been years, Morgan!”

“Just like old times then!” I smiled at her, and she nodded.

“Sorry, my room is nothing exciting, they are setting a house up for me. But, with me wanting to come here so suddenly, they had to put me in here.” Bailey explained, and I understood. She had been in a rush to get away. After the situation with Miles had got worse from what I understood.

My Dad and Jordan tried to explain things to me as best they could, in a bid to warn me away from Miles. Not that it had worked. I am beginning to wish I had taken heed of their warnings now… but sadly, my feelings and stupidity had won over. And the packhouse in which she was living seemed nice enough. Her room was modern, and had all she needed, including an en-suite bathroom, which was more than many packhouse rooms did.

“Honestly, Bai, it is fine, I am just glad to be here.” I admitted. “Glad to be away from there.”

She nodded. “I know that feeling!”

“How did you do it?” I asked her. “He had to have hurt you so much more than he ever did me.”

She shook her head. “I don’t know that he did, Morgan, because there is a difference between me and you. While he did some shitty things to me, I never fell for him. There were never any feelings between us. Yes, there was the matebond, but it wasn’t difficult to fight when you hate someone the way I did.”

I looked at her in shock, I honestly thought she may have had some underlying feelings for him, especially with the matebond. “You never wanted him?”

She laughed, almost ironically, before shaking her head. “Wanted him dead maybe." she joked. "But no. Not even a little. I hated him, Morgan. When we were young, and I mean young, yeah, we got on great, but as he got older, he turned into such a jackass, and treated me so shitty. Made me feel so bad about myself. For no real reason. And I ended up hating myself, all because of him. And because he was the future Alpha, most of the others our age in the pack would do the same. Made my life hell. Why do you think I didn’t like going out? Why do you think I spent so much time with my head in my books? Because I had little else to do. Because it was better than sitting thinking about the shit going on in my life, all because of that fucker.”

My heart tightened at her words. I was one of those others. I had willingly joined in with my own sister's bullying. I had made my own sister’s life hell. To the point she wanted to leave her own pack.