Chapter 11

LEAH

I’m not going to lie, I feel a little happy.

Please don’t judge. I get it. I’m THAT girl.

The dumb one. The oh-you-got-your-heart-broke-again one.

The one who sits home waiting for him to call.

But what most people don’t know is that Aaron was the one to

sit up with me when I had nightmares. He was the one to insist

I learn to trade and to obtain my Series 7 license so I’d have a

career. Aaron is the one to stare me in the eyes everytime he

joins his body to mine.

And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s just sex.

But it’s not.

It’s more than that.

I know it. I believe it.

And deep down, I love him.

As rough and cold as he can be, I know there’s more to him

than he lets the world see.

2/5

I head into the kitchen and grab an apple from the giant bowl

in the middle of the prep table. It’s ripe and red and sweet.

the hell are you smiling

It’s Jessica.

long, blond hair is down today and it

some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

dance on

saddens me.

to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have

the apple from

the compost

we wouldn’t just bleed you

no world in which your pack

sins.”

her. “I

were committed,

dead. And

dead. I’ve lost cousins and

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a human. For the

he even bothers to keep

pack. No use to

That hurts.

apologetic for her actions, trying

he

to be some sanctity for our relationship. Even

aren’t mated. We

count for something.

it isn’t

her head at me. “I don’t care about

No one here does. And if you think that Aaron cares, then you’re even dumber than

with being nice to her.

and it’s the only warning I

as she grabs

the

door and

“Weak, pathetic human.”

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