Chapter 28

Athena's POV

As soon as I walked into the courtroom, I could feel his eyes on me. I wanted to look at him because of how my wolf was acting, but I didn't. At last, all those hours of practice had paid off.

I talked, laughed, smiled, and made jokes, but I never once looked at him. We hadn't seen him in a long time, and my wolf was dying to sneak a peek, but I completely resisted the urge. I could do it better now. I just had to remind my wolf of how he had treated me the last time we were together.

I had forgiven him, because holding a grudge for so long would have been pointless, but I had promised myself that I would never forget what he had done to me. I had learned to use it as motivation instead of spending all day crying about it, like I did when I was a puppy. I'm glad those days are over, and I'm glad I've grown up and learned from them, but he seemed stuck in the past.

He was still the same old guy—judgmental, sexist, rude, and so full of himself that he had stopped growin