Chapter 42

He looked at me with clear confusion. "Of course it does. I don't get it, Deanne. How you can act like nothing fazes you? Like you feel nothing for what happened back then. Like it doesn't matter."

I rubbed my temples. I did not want to get into an argument at the moment. "Because it doesn't. Not for me."

He growled to himself. "How can you say that?"

"Because it's in the past," I said levelly when I wanted nothing more than to yell. "Ethan, I am a different person. You act and pretend like you know who I am but you don't. Yes you rejected me and the pack turned their backs on me, and at the time I couldn't see past it, just the thought of you made me see red. The key words being at the time. But all of that was years ago, it's in the past and more importantly we were kids back then. It's been over seven years since then. I'm not a kid anymore, I've grown up and part of growing up is changing.