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“Oh,” was her crestfallen response. The firecracker of a child turned her sights away from the stranger and settled into the sinking feeling that had consumed her chest. She had let herself get her hopes up, and she knew just how cruel disappointment was when she was stupid enough to do that. The thought of it burned inside of her like a shameful and gasoline-doused fire.

With a quick inhale and a sharp glance toward the other wolf, Piper bobbed her head. “I guess it was too good to think that someone this close to home had found him,” she tried to laugh it off with a small shrug, but the tight clenching of her jaw was enough to give away her poker face.