Chapter 35

HAZEL

I’m left shaking after speaking to the taskmaster, and I have been doing nothing all this while but hiding out in my room, as the stares from the girls are not something that I can bear in my current position without wanting to cry.

I know that the taskmaster did not try to look for jobs for me, and facing facts, even if he had, I would not have anything at hand to do, because the entire pack members seem to hate me.

I go into the bathroom and turn on the water, remembering that I fell asleep in a pool of my tears on the ground and didn’t take a shower the day before.

Every inch of my skin crawls, and it’s like my own body is repulsed by itself. I scrub my skin until it’s raw, but it still feels like I’m covered in a blanket of negative energy.

I scrub it a bit more vigorously, and my skin tears like a piece of paper, but I don’t stop because I need to get every disgusting bit of my filth off me.

Not just the outer filth, because that was washed out a long time ago, but I’m stil