The reflection staring back at me in the dresser mirror was not mine.
It had my eyes, my lips, and my slightly messy brown hair, but the smile plastered across her face was so wide, so bright, it looked like a mask. A cheap, plastic mask.
Three days.
It had been three full days since I went to Alpha Kyle for help.
And in those three days, nothing in my life had changed.
I still woke up in my perfect bed. I still made coffee and pretended that the laughter l gave me over breakfast was genuine. Astor was trying so hard to play 'Happy Family.' He was trying things he never bothered with before.
He took me on a ridiculous hot air balloon ride yesterday. He bought me a tiny silver chain with a wolf pendant today. He kept telling me, "He was trying to be better for me and our relationship
