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overpowering, it was hard to smell anything else. Eating outside kept Wolf’s pissing and moaning to a minimum.
    Marissa ate in silence and looked anywhere but at him. When she had swallowed her last bite of burger, she cleared her throat feebly. “Morgan has been to the house a couple of times. She brought Lana with her.” Her green gaze darted to his and then away as her freckled cheeks colored in a soft pink blush. “She tries to act tough, but she is broken.”
    The mention of her name gutted him. “I don’t want to talk about it anymore. She made her decision and there is nothing I can do about it. Let’s go.”
    Heading to the truck, he hopped in before Marissa had even thrown her trash away. Whatever she was playing at, he wanted no part of it.
    The small grocery store near his apartment was a ghost town at the odd weekday hour. Grey hadn’t been back to his place in a month, and any food he did have would be long spoiled by then. Marissa didn’t say much as they shopped. She held on to the side of the metal cart until her knuckles were strained and white. He wanted to ask if she was all right, but every instinct in him said she would run if he pushed her to talk about whatever was bothering her. What would cause a child so young to clam up like this?
    He opened the door to his apartment and the smell of Morgan hit him like a thick fog. Overwhelmed, he set the bags of groceries down. If it smelled like her, he couldn’t stay here, so he set to work. He removed the sheets, still messed up from Lana jumping on the bed, and threw them all in the wash. Marissa sat on the couch and watched him silently as he removed the pictures of Morgan and Lana from the refrigerator and shoved them in the bottom drawer of his dresser. When he opened the refrigerator, an awful smell hit him directly in the face. Alexis’s bunny gift was where Morgan had put it the month before, rotting despite the cold air. This was where it had started. The beginning of the end for him and Morgan. Alexis, that conniving she-wolf, had brought him a gift all wrapped up in pretty packaging. Inside had been a rabbit she’d killed as a wolf. She’d been brazen about her intentions with a present like that. Alexis wanted him as her mate. It wasn’t a coincidence that she’d given it to him while Morgan was there. Everything that woman did was calculated to cause the most destruction. The smell assaulted his sensitive nose and made his eyes water.
    He grabbed the trashcan and shoved everything that was in the refrigerator into it. The smell clung to everything, but at least Morgan’s scent would be masked.
    He set the garbage bag by the front door to take out later and wiped down the inside of the fridge. Next, he unloaded the groceries, and Marissa came in to help. A tiny object sticking out from under the bed caught his attention and he went to pick it up. In his large palm lay one of Lana’s little gloves. Anger loosed Wolf and he yelled, throwing the mitten into the wall. He ran his hands through his hair and Marissa disappeared out the front door with the trash bags in hand. For a child, she took hints incredibly well.
    He jumped in the shower and let the hot water soothe his screaming muscles. Leaning against the teal-colored tiles, he let the memories of what he’d had wash over him. He couldn’t go forever without thinking about her. She’d been everything once. A man didn’t just get over someone who’d changed the course of his entire existence for the better. He’d lost her. Lana too, and that wound would be held open, unable to heal, for the rest of his miserable existence.
    Marissa was asleep on the couch when he got out. Her face was completely relaxed when she slept, and she looked even younger than her thirteen years. When she was awake, she always looked haunted. Like some terror in her life had aged her eyes a hundred years. It was as if she knew so much more than a child should’ve ever been exposed to. But there, lying