#Chapter 31: The Tantrum

Iris Over the following few days, I launch myself into my preparations to leave Ordan. Miles doesn’t speak during those days. Not a single word. It breaks my heart over and over again every time I have to look at his sad little face, and I feel like a horrible mother. But I know, someday, he’ll understand why I had to do this. I have to protect him from the onslaught of public attention he’ll get if his identity is discovered, most of which will be negative. I can’t bear to see him being followed and harassed in public, just as I have been, simply for being the product of a human and a wolf. And so I get to work preparing to leave. The landlady in Ordan is understanding, but puts her foot down when it comes to our lease-breaking fees and security deposit. I have to pay a few hundred Ordan dollars in fees, and my security deposit will never be seen again. Not that I can blame her, of course. I did sign a year lease, and I’m backing out of it less than