Running From You - Chapter 1
This is for the Big Bad Wolf Anthology releasing July 5th through Crush Publication
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“You won’t believe who I saw just now,” Sarah, my long-time best friend and soul sister said as she pushed open the door to my boutique.
“Who?”
“That’s hardly a guess, but that’s okay, I saw Johnny Wulf!”
My heart stopped at the sound of my exes name. He had been gone fifteen years, ran away to New York, left his small-town life behind. Ignored who he was and decided to live the big city life. “Did he see you?”
She nodded, “Sure did, saw me walk in here too. So, you better be ready, I am sure Wulfy is going to stroll into this shop any minute now.”
If it was possible for a heart to jump out of someone’s chest, now would be the exact moment for that to happen. Johnny had been my entire world. Our pack thought we were the perfect mates, our parents, hell, I did. But he thought otherwise. The only problem was that I had moved on. At least in the physical act of having sex with someone else way.
I swore I would never mate with anyone else after what happened with him so many years ago. It just wasn’t what I was looking to do. “Do you think he knows it’s my shop?”
Sarah nodded, “I mean, your name is on the outside of the window.”
I facepalmed myself and cursed wanting to have my own name as the store name. “Duh, I know. Why did I want to use my own name for the shop?”
“Because it’s your grandma's name, and you wanted to honor her.”
“It was rhetorical, Sarah.”
“I know,” she laughed, “I just like messing with you.”
I picked up the box I was unpacking and folded it up, “I didn’t think I would see him again; you know.”
She nodded, “I know. But you knew one day he would be back; he never left the pack.”
“He left us, you know that, when he left me. He traded all of us in for that fancy life.”
“Wulfy is the Alpha’s son, you knew he would have to come back at some point to claim his spot.”
“Not every Alpha passes it onto their children.”
I couldn’t help thinking back to when we were kids, when the plan was for us to take over the pack and bring in the new generation of wolves. We had plans for our plans. Everything was laid out in a clear order, and we knew no one could stop us.
“You thinking about senior year?”
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