Chapter 0330 ?They couldn’t do it,” Luke finally said. His voice was low and quiet.


    ?They tried, but they couldn’t. All along, I thought it was because they took pity on you, but it was something else. It was as if something was protecting you.” I didn’t know what to say. I wanted to ask how Luke or that witch even knew any of this for sure, but I knew that Luke had never been wrong about these things before... And if he was right this time, then I needed to trust him. I needed to not only save Enzo, but I supposedly needed to save the kingdom. And I knew that the only way to do that was to stop Selena, because I had a sickening feeling in my stomach that she had the Alpha King — our


    father — in her grasp as well.


    “Okay.” My voice was barely above a whisper, but it still shook with fear.


    “I''ll go.” Suddenly, I felt a hand grip my wrist tightly. I looked up from the ground to see that Jessica was holding me, her eyes burning with fervor. She was about to tell me that she didn’t want me to go — I was sure of it. I opened my mouth to tell her that I needed to go and that she had to let me, but she spoke first.


    “You can’t go alone,” she said, taking me by surprise. “I’ming with you.” I was taken aback. As long as I had known Jessica, I had never really seen her as the type to put herself in dangerous situations. But then, I


    thought back to the clumsy girl who nearly tumbled down a mountain justa few months earlier over a photograph — during a camping trip that suddenly dragged her along on with no exnation, in the middle of nowhere, and she went without a second thought. I thought about how she always held my hand tightly, her nails digging into my palm, whenever we went through the haunted house at the Halloween fair every year; she hated going but she went anyway because she knew that it made me happy to go.


    I thought about how she stood up to Selena over spilled coffee on a new dress.


    And I remembered that Jessica was a lot stronger than I had always thought; she wasn’t just my blonde friend who went to parties and wore pink. She was


    brilliant and brave, and she had always been by my side.


    I looked over at Lori next, who stared at me with the same passion in her eyes. I knew that she woulde, too.


    Lori had always been there for me; she always listened calmly when I needed someone to talk to, and she was always the calm voice of reason, but she never hesitated to stand up for her friends when she needed to. Sometimes she was crazy, and sometimes she said things that hurt people’s feelings, but that was because she never withheld the truth.


    Then, I looked over at Matt. He was standing behind the two of them, his eyes fixed unwaveringly on me. I hadn’t known him for long, but already he had be a rock in our group.


    When I had met him, he had been an


    airheaded frat boy who only ever cracked jokes, but he had turned intoa brave and strong leader. When we needed him the most, he took charge.


    Finally, I looked back at Luke. All I could do was nod, and a smile spread across Luke’s face.


    With all of my friends by my side, I knew that Selena wouldn’t stand a chance against us. She may have been cunning and powerful, but she didn’t have what we had.


    She didn’t have anyone’s love.


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