Where The Ice Gives Way (Charlotte and Blake) novel Chapter 233

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Charlie

Shit.

Titan growls at me internally.

Hell, I growl at me internally.

What the hell am I doing?

“Hey, Charlie, you good, man?” Blake asks, rounding the corner with my sister tucked beside him.

And I see red.

If I hadn’t listened to him, this wouldn’t have happened. If I had just kept doing what I was doing, if I had acted normal instead of letting Blake get inside

my head with all his careful warnings and future-Alpha wisdom, Jess wouldn’t have looked at me like I had made her feel stupid for caring.

She is a nice girl. A good girl.

And what did I do? I treated her like shit.

My fingers flex before they begin to curl into fists, but Blake and his stupid anger senses are already tracking the movement. He pulls Charlotte behind him

without thinking.

Charlotte. My sister. Like I would ever hurt her.

His eyes narrow as his hands come up, like I’m some wounded animal he needs to calm before it bites someone.

At this point, I may as well be, because Titan is furious. I’m bloody furious.

“Charlie?” Charlotte says from somewhere behind her stupid Alpha. “Guys? What’s going on?”

I don’t say a word. She can ask him what he did by sticking his nose into my business.

instead. I turn and storm outside, and narrowly avoid Theo on his way in.

“Hey brother what’s going on?” he asks.

I dos i stop I start poging across the oval, past the boundary fence, through the treeline and into the woods Branches whip at my face Show croniches

wder day shoes My breath turns in my lungs, but it isn’t enough Nothing is enough

I dip my bag near a fallen kug and trai at my tie

by hands are shaking too hard to work the buttons properly so I up the sit open, died the uniform Blake’s precious school probably waits retuned t

one piece and let liten go

Then we run

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Tuan Lunches through the trees with a star) tearing out of our threat Snow flies beneath us. The world narrows to cold air, dark trunks, and the pounding rhythm of four paws carrying us deeper into the woods.

For a while, I let him have it. Let hage. Let him on But no matter how far we go, Jess’s face stays with me.

The way her eyes went shiny before she looked away.

I guess I’ll see you around, Charlie. /

Titan stumbles, then digs his claws into the snow and keeps going.

I hate this. I hate that I hurt her. I hate that Blake was right.

I hate that I know, deep down, Blake didn’t make me avoid her. He didn’t make me duck my head in the yard. He didn’t make me sit two rows away. He

didn’t make me act like last night was something dirty or wrong.

I did that… Because I was scared.

Titan slows near the creek, sides heaving. Steam rolls from his muzzle into the cold air. He lowers his head, ears pinned back, and a low whine slips out of

him.

A

Yeah. I know. We are absolute idiots.

A twig snaps behind us, and Titan spins with a snarl, hackles rising, before we catch Charlotte’s scent.

My sister’s white wolf steps between the trees, bright against the dark trunks. Snow clings to her paws and dusts the fur along her chest. Her eyes lock on

mine.

Charlie? Her voice slips through the link, soft but firm. What’s going on?

Titan huffs and looks away, and I don’t want to answer. I don’t want to say it. But it’s Lotty. She knows every ugly corner of me anyway.

1 fucked up, Lotty.

Shanti steps closer, sitting beside me near the creek, her white fur brushing against Titan’s black.

The touch knocks some of the anger out of me.

With jessica? she asks

Shent: in quiet for a moment, watching the creek move beneath a thin skin of ice

Then als says the fit

I huff Yrah like us that cus

It is actually

Titan turns his head and gives her a look

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She laughs through the link, and somehow even as a wolf, my sister manages to sound like she is rolling her eyes at me.

Human, wolf, doesn’t matter. We all make mistakes. If you want to make it better, make it better.

I bare my teeth at the snow, but there’s no real threat in it.

How, Lotty? How do I make it better?

Shanti leans into my side.

Why don’t you start with the truth, Charlie?

The truth. Titan lowers his head.

What if she hates me? I ask.

Then at least you gave her the choice, Charlotte says. And I’ll be there. Blake will be there. Everyone will be there. But Charlie… you can’t ask someone to care

about you and push them when they do.

Jess’s voice echoes in my head and I close my eyes.

I press my shoulder harder against Shanti’s, and for a while, we just sit beside the creek. Black wolf and white wolf. Brother and sister. Two kids who spent

half our lives surviving things bigger than either of us should have had to.

I don’t want to be alone anymore, I tell her. I don’t know where I fit anymore.

Shanti makes a soft sound and nudges her head beneath mine.

With me, she says. Always with me. But I know what you mean.

I breathe out.

Eventually, Titan rises and shakes snow from his fur. Shanti stands with me, brushing her shoulder against mine once more before turning back toward the,

way we came.

By the time we reach the fallen log, my shredded uniform is half buried in snow and my bag is exactly where I left it. Shanti sits with her back turned while

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