Chapter 176: She Came To Me

Chapter 176: She Came To Me

"They don’t say it directly, but I hear them," Esme uttered softly, her voice laced with pain. "They believe I won’t understand, but I actually do. No one wants to be around me in my pack cause they think I’ll infect them. The only reason I’m not bullied is because of the love my father has for me, and everyone in the pack knows that, so they don’t dare to touch me, even in his absence. That’s why I always follow my father to the palace. I never tell him the actual reason because I don’t want to burden him. He’s already so busy. But I don’t like staying at the pack house without him."

Wrapping her arms tightly around her knees, she continued in a broken whisper, "For a moment, when you told me to leave after realizing I was sick, I thought you were just like the others. That you didn’t want to be around me anymore. I thought.. maybe if I pretended to be healthy, to show everyone around me that I’m alright, people would stop avoiding me. Maybe they’d stop staring at me like I’m some kind of walking disease."

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