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Fuck, fuck, fuck.
I had to get out of there.
Lock-legged, I forced myself to walk away.
Earbuds in with angry music blaring, I veered down a side street and pushed myself harder. Sweat coated my skin, strands of hair stuck to my brows, and my muscles fucking ached, but I kept going no matter what it did to me. Sure, it was fight night, and I was the main source of entertainment. Running my ass into the ground was a surefire way to get my ass kicked by men looking to put me in the ground.
But fuck…
I had to get her out of my system.
I had to make it through the next few days.
Weeks.
Fuck, I had to make it through the next few months and years.
Everything was different than I’d imagined. What a fucking moron I was. Had I thought I could show up after three years and it’d all be okay? It’d all be better?
I’d pushed Nolan at her, so their extreme closeness didn’t surprise me. Well, maybe a little. They looked closer than I remembered them being—even opting to room together. But my brothers? Shit. They were all close to her. That much was obvious. Genevieve had taken my place in my family.
What the hell was I supposed to do with that? Where the hell did I belong? I didn’t even have a place in my own fucking family anymore.
What the fuck was I thinking about going back to Cedar Harbor?
Chapter 10
Genevieve
Let the Fall Games begin!” Sam said loud enough to be heard over chaos in the back of the clubhouse. Over a hundred wolves gathered around bonfires while the grills filled the air with the smell of mouth-watering food. Music played loudly, and a never-ending stream of conversation and beer consumed all of us.
We stood shoulder-to-shoulder in a tight-knit circle, drinks raised and all of us in varying stages of drunkenness. Only Nolan was sober as he hung out behind me with his elbow resting on my shoulder and opting for root beer instead of alcohol. I didn’t blame him.
“Let the—”
“Seriously, starting the fucking party without me?” Cade practically shouted as he threw an arm around Declan’s shoulders and inserted himself into the conversation. Despite having just arrived, the man was already wearing only shorts and a backwards hat shoved over his ashy blond hair.
“You're here!” Raven exclaimed and clapped with excitement. “Look! He's here!”
“I'm here!” he agreed with that million-dollar smile of his as he winked at me. I adored Cade. He and I had become fast friends when he started crashing at my place while visiting Cedar Harbor. Declan and Raven apparently weren't that quiet when it came to their extracurricular activities, and sometimes, he just needed to get away.
“Now, do the Fall Games begin?” Lucas demanded with a laugh. “When do they begin? More people keep showing up!”
“Just keep fucking drinking,” Sam ordered and slapped him on the back hard enough to make Lucas stumble forward.
“To beer!” Finn hollered.
“To beer!” his brothers echoed even louder.
“To root beer,” Nolan added quietly.
“And vodka,” I chimed in.
“I thought you were drinking water,” Sam said. He swiped my bottle from my hand and took a sip. “Did you add vodka to sparkling water?”
“Yeah.” I laughed. Specifically watermelon sparkling water. Okay, it was definitely more vodka than watermelon sparkling water. “I like it.”
“Woman, this is an abomination!” he exclaimed. He shoved his beer in my hand and took another long drink of my vodka. “I’m just going to commandeer this. Make sure you drink the good stuff.”
