#Chapter 184: Seeds of Hate

Audrey The second I had smelled their blood, I had run. Eliza had stepped out of my way without a word, letting me bolt into the house. My hair had billowed behind me, my boots tracking wet snow onto the hardwood floors. I’d pounded up the steps, my hand clamped over my mouth to hide the sound of my sobs. I couldn’t bear to watch them fight, not over me, not after everything else that had happened tonight. So instead I threw myself into the bedroom and curled up in bed, tears streaming down my cheeks, soaking into the pillow beneath my head. My body shook with silent sobs as I deeply inhaled Edwin’s scent through the blankets, trying to calm myself. This was my fault. All my fault. If only I could shift. If only I wasn’t so weak, so pathetic. None of this would have happened if I was stronger, if I was the Silver Star I was supposed to be. Everything that had happened tonight… It was all my fault. Or at least, that was how it had felt in those momen