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Howlstone Academy 300 Days With The Alpha Beta Triplets: Relationships at the Start

Protection Offered Through People Bella Already Fears

Meet them in the first five chapters See the ebook edition

This opening note focuses on the first paragraphs of chapter 1. The free reading sample contains five complete chapters.

Relationships in the opening

Protection Offered Through People Bella Already Fears

Bella's pleas to her father receive an expression of love but no permission to stay. At the academy, the people assigned to watch her include boys she remembers as bullies, while her mother brushes aside distress and resists a request to be gentler. Focusing on family support exposes a practical problem within the proposed refuge: the adults' claims of concern do not establish that Bella experiences their arrangements as trustworthy.

What would distinguish dependable support from supervision in the arrangements Bella is given?

Read the scene in chapter 1