ALPHA FEMALE

She curled up in my arms and cries, letting her hard exterior go.

"Please go away," she begs quietly.

"I'm not going anywhere." I grab the blankets from o! her bed and

wrapping her in them.

She just nods and squeezes my arm tightly. "I'm taking this stupid

thing off," I say angrily as I tear the silver bracelet from her wrist. It

burned me as I hurled it at the adjacent wall. She just nods and rests

against my chest.