Chapter 42

"Why didn't you come to find me when she died?" I whispered, taking a step closer to him. "Why didn't you save me? I begged and cried to the Goddess to take pity on me, to save me, or to at least change my goddamn eye color because that's why she hit me almost every day!" I ripped off my shirt, tears pouring down my face. I stood in nothing but my shorts with my hands covering my nipples and as much of my breasts as I could. I pointed to a jagged scar on my collarbone, pink and slightly raised. "This is because I walked in on her looking at you through her seer pools, and she saw my eyes. She told me to get them out, to stop looking at her with my eyes!" I whirled around, hearing his gasp at my back. They were still ragged and painful but were almost healed and were now faint white lines. "These were because I dared to love a wolf because I dared to be a wolf!" I thrust my wrists out, moving my shorts around to show him my thighs. Jagged cuts that