Amelia’s POV
The drive around the pack was refreshing and felt like just the pick-me-up I needed to feel a little more myself again. It was so easy to get caught up in my own sense of helplessness, a feeling I despised. Since Damien’s threats, and my somewhat hesitant agreement to stay in Jake’s pack, I’d felt somewhat lost, like I was a victim of fate with no control over my circumstance.
Yet, that wasn’t true at all, was it? The fact that I was here in Jake’s pack was proof of that. I had escaped a terrible situation. I had run away. That I was now under the protection of Jake’s pack was not a weakness of mine, but a kindness of theirs bestowed onto me.
To help myself feel like I had some worth again, I really wanted to do something to return that kindness. I didn’t have money, and wh
