"I would never be like you!"
How many nights had she spent, staring at the ceiling of the trailer, sometimes the open sky, and whispering it to herself like a prayer?
How many times had she spat those words right into Nancy's face, burning with determination, with fury, with desperation?
And yet, despite all of it, here she was.
Just like Nancy.
The past clawed its way back into her mind, an ugly, relentless thing, reminding her of who she might truly be.
"Is that a Lunaris Academy form? Good for you. Just try hard to get in, and your life will get better. If it gets harder to land a guy, remember what I taught you. Just give his dick a good suck, and he'll be putty in your hands. You two could end up together, giving birth to beautiful werewolf babies. What a lucky bitch you are, Violet."
The woman must have cursed her that day.
That was the only explanation for why this was happening.