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

It’s Jessica.

down

behind her like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This wolf.

dance on my grave.

saddens

didn’t ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been

the

the compost bin.

trash. And if I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d be

no world in which

sins.”

more to reason with her. “I was a child when

committed,

are dead.

cousins

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a human. For

even bothers to keep you around. You’re

to this pack. No use to Aaron.”

That hurts.

ashamed or apologetic for her actions, trying to

fair, he

to be some sanctity

aren’t mated. We

count for

Jessica… it isn’t good for either of

me. “I don’t care about you, Leah. I

does. And if you think that

nice

the only warning I

down my arms as she grabs me

across the

slam into the pantry door and

“Weak, pathetic human.”

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