Chapter 20 Retention

Ava's POV
I stopped in my tracks.
A sharp set of footsteps ran behind me, and Adele rushed up again and grabbed me by the scruff of my shirt.
Probably because I had just pushed her hand away, I noticed that she had tried to hold my hand for a moment and then grabbed the corner of my shirt.
"Don't touch it, Adele," my voice was low. "There's blood on that and it'll get your hands dirty."
I didn't expect the words to simply act like a switch. She suddenly stiffened and lost all movement, followed by two convulsions, and then suddenly let out a loud cry.
That cry is like a child being abandoned alone in a cold snow-covered wilderness, with full of aggression and trepidation, crying people's whole hearts are sore.
I turned around and crouched down to look at her, trying to call her name.
"Adele, Adele?"
"Listen to me Adele," I struggled to lift my hand to wipe her tears for her. "I've already cured your brother halfway, this time it was an accident. Those leftover pills, you keep them and have Mike dispense the injections if this happens again."
Mike stood far behind Sam and shook his head at me.
I pretended I didn't see it and helped her pluck her hair behind her ear. "You Blue Moon will definitely get better and better, you're right."
"What about you?" Adele said eagerly, grabbing my hand. "What about you?"
"You're leaving? You don't care about me and Aaron anymore?"
"I ......" I choked, then said. "I'll write to you."
Adele frowned and was still crying. "No."
She cried and shook her head at the same time. "I don't want this. I know it's not like that."
"You're too good to do that. I don't want you to go."
Children start to pester people are the same, and say exactly the same thing.
She said it so earnestly and so bluntly, without giving a chance to refute it at all, as if by saying so others would never reject her.
By rejecting her she became a hateful adult.
And I'm partial to being such a hateful adult. "You're wrong, Adele."
I looked at her, my voice no longer gentle. "I'm not good at all, and you don't even need me."
"We're not going to be friends."
Adele was frozen in place by my words, with tears in her eyes.
"See you later."
I rubbed her head and stood up.
She didn't move and stopped crying, just stood.
I finally couldn't bear to look any further and turned my face away with the intention of leaving.
Yet again she pulled me back, and I looked back at her in dismay.
"Then at least, you can't leave as a betrayer." Adele said firmly. "I don't want you to just go."
I want you to go brightly, and no one will dare to say a bad word about you.
"How you got here is how you should leave." She finished, held up the crumpled letterhead in her hand, and turned her back on me to everyone.
"This is the letter from Edna's mouth, from Bertha and her sister. I don't think a letter like that makes her a betrayer."
"But this is her letter with Blue Mountain Pack." Edna seemed not to have thought things would go this far at all and came forward in a panic.
"I don't see Blue Mountain Pack on this letter, those words." Adele stared at her, biting her lip.
I was already a little bit stuck, the pain in my shoulder and the loss of blood were making me feel tired.
But Adele was standing in front of me, facing everyone.
"Is that so?" Edna came this way a little anxiously. "Let me see, maybe it's just this one that wasn't mentioned."
"Don't you come any closer!" Adele blocked the front menacingly, opening her hands in a way that tried to protect me behind.
"Adele," Sam called back. "Bring it to me."
"Don't you come over here either!" Adele was still fierce. "None of you are to come over here. You want to know, I'll read it to you, and if you don't believe me, then consider me a spy for the Blue Mountain Pack as well."
She's like a little beast, Adele, and I've never seen her talk to anyone like this, ever. But now she's talking back to everyone because of me.
"Anyway, you guys always thought I was useless and not at all like Aaron's sister."
This statement silenced everyone for a moment.
Aaron kept holding his head and was assisted to lean on Sam's body.
I know this is the aftermath of a binge attack, and as it gets better, the aftermath after another attack will only be more painful, along with the medication.
All of this causes him to lose strength, headaches and nausea and brief periods of difficulty seeing. The fact that he can still stand up and talk now is quite a shock to me.
Now he pushed Sam away and barely stood up on his own, looking in the direction we were, but I suspect he couldn't actually see Adele and me at all.
"No one would think so." His gaze was unfocused as he looked over, his lips white.
"Come here and give the letter to Sam."
Adele looked back at me hesitantly, and I nodded gently at her.
"Then let him come and get it." Adele said after a moment's thought. "Mike's holding my brother."
Aaron regained consciousness how can be helped by others, he one hand to stop Mike walked up to the action, himself slowly forward.
Adele didn't expect him to come forward, her eyes widened and she rushed to meet him.
"Brother."
He nodded gently, took the letter from Adele's hand, and continued walking toward me.
Each step, the pupil is clear, when he is only five steps away from me, I can already see my figure clearly reflected in his pupil.
He can see it.
For a moment, I saw surprise and concern in his eyes.
But he restrained himself and stopped, not continuing further.
I swear the moment he saw me, his whole body shivered and even reached forward as if he was about to come and hold me up.
But I didn't make any moves.
I just stood and watched as he slowly walked over.
Then he handed the letter to me. "Your sister." He said.
Yes, my sister.
I understood exactly what he meant.
His eyes had told me everything.
He trusted Adele, and Adele trusted me. For Adele's sake, for my sister's sake, explain, right now.
"It was indeed sent to me by my sister, and I didn't have to hide it. It doesn't mention Blue Mountain Pack in even one word," I said. "And I've never even been to Blue Mountain Pack, much less know any of them."
"And this."
I held up another letter that was clenched and deformed, the letter that Edna wanted to take away just now was also this letter, maybe this letter is her forgery. Aaron's eyes instantly became sharp when he saw the letter.
I said with a self-deprecating smile. "As for this one letter, do you believe me when I say I've never seen it before?"
This letter was secretly slipped to me by Adele.
I think she originally wanted to clarify it for me, so she secretly took this letter from Edna by some means and handed it to me, wanting me to leave with this questionable letter.
After all, carrying the name of betrayer will not be good anywhere you go.
She didn't expect me to take this letter out as well, and is now grabbing the hem of her coat in a panic.
And across the room Anna was also rolling her eyes frantically, looking this way.
Good, I see how she got the letter.
Anna a pregnant woman, who would not be defensive, right?
About the same time Aaron noticed and turned his head to look at his sister.
"Then in the letter with your sister, why did you write about Blue Moon, and why did you talk about the danger of the Blue Moon Pack and ask you to go back?" Sam asked again.
I laughed bitterly, making up my own endless lies. "I was kicked out, my sister wasn't, she heard I had joined the Blue Moon Pack and was worried about me, she thought I was in danger here."
"She wants me to go back to my old wolf pack."
"I thought you said they ostracized you and tried to kick out both of you sisters?" Edna asked in a shrill voice. "Then why would your sister stay there!"
"I'm the reason why she was able to stay."
The letter had not been opened, and I assume Edna forged the part about the Blue Mountain Pack to put in my original envelope to confuse me.
Then she would give the letter to Aaron or Sam, and since I had never seen the letter or its contents, I naturally had no way to refute it any more.
Just one thing I suspect.
Why would she do it in such a way? Forged letters.
Was she so sure that I had some unspoken identity that could not refute her false accusations at this time?
Or was it that Aaron never actually trusted me.
"Don't be silly." Fog finally couldn't take it anymore. "When exactly did he ever trust you, and why can't I see it?"
That said, I was a little vain to stop thinking about it.
Edna probably also saw Aaron's distrust, which is why she set up such a game.
I can think of things no reason other people will not think of, Aaron's expression became very subtle, he seemed to be a little nervous to take a step back, and then felt wrong, walked forward, seems to be trying to help me.
However, I didn't have any intention to let him help me.
So I saw his raised hand cross an arc in mid-air and return to its original position, and he began to rub his other finger with one finger.
This little action is something I've noticed before, that he does when he resists taking his medication and is embarrassed or whatever.
Sam coughed a little awkwardly and held up the letterheads of the two letters for everyone to see. "First of all these two pieces of paper are completely different, her sister's letter is obviously very expensive, while the other letter ......"
I instantly understood what he meant, the rich and powerful wolf packs would naturally not be stingy in this aspect, but for wolves like Blue Moon Pack which was in the process of development and had the same ministry as rouge, they would definitely save in such places.
"Besides." He took another stack of letters from Mike's hand. "These are also the letters from Bertha's room, and I'm sorry I read them over. But they're just letters between her and her sister, and they don't mention the Blue Mountain Pack or any of the wolves other than Blue Moon in them at all."
Aaron took the two letters from my hands, and there was a real difference in the quality of the paper.
So this letter of "collusion with other wolves" can only come from within Blue Moon?
"It's Edna's paper, and her letterhead has mistletoe around the edges." Aaron said faintly, then turned to Edna. "If you had taken this letter out in the first place, I guarantee things would not have been so complicated."
Edna's face was white and had collapsed to the ground, shaking her lips, and only half a day did she point at me fiercely.
"It's her conspiracy! It's her! She's the one who stole my paper and she got Blue Mountain Pack to switch the letters!"