You Are Not Rejecting Me novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: The Passcode

I did not wake Idris.

I slid out from under his arm and took the phone down to the kitchen in my robe.

I switched on the light over the stove, and I stood there with the cracked screen glowing in my hand.

My sister's phone.

It wanted a passcode.

We had picked our passcodes together at fourteen, in the same bed, laughing.

We had picked the same one.

I typed it.

The phone opened.

I stood in the kitchen for a long moment with my thumb over the glass.

Then I opened the messages and I scrolled to the O.

The thread went back fourteen months.

I read the first message from the top, and my hands began to shake.

It was dated the week she told me she was so happy she could burst.

O: Tonight again?

S: Cadell's at the council hall until midnight. Come to the lodge.

I stopped.

I sat down on the stool.

The cereal box from three days ago still stood on the counter, and it was the only thing in the kitchen I could look at.

I scrolled forward.

Dates went by.

Whole weeks of them.

S: He fell asleep on the couch again. I could scream.

O: Soon.

S: When is soon?

O: When he's not Alpha.

I read a message from last month, and I read it twice.

S: Tell me what you need from me.

O: A reason for the pack to turn on him. Something public. You reject him loudly, and I'll have the whole room.

S: What reason?

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