Chapter 18

the meeting and back.

1 file out behind them.

When I get into his idling SUV and buckle my seatbelt Aaron

looks at me oddly. “You should stay home tonight,” he tells me.

It’s the first time he’s spoken to me since the attack. “I haven’t

missed a meeting since I came here.”

“You’re injured.”

The implication being that I’m ‘human’. That I’m weak.

True, but … “It’s because I was attacked that I should be present. There are threats that the Council needs to be aware

of.”

“Do you plan to petition them for a divorce?”

So that’s why he wants me to stay. To silence me. He has the nerve to look earnest and upset that I want to leave him when he is the one who broke his vows and impregnated another

woman.

He is the one who hasn’t slept beside me in a week.

“Yes. I still want a divorce, Aaron.”

for a moment before he banks the emotion. Then he shrugs. “Suit

driver, a wolf named William.

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the seat. I’m painfully aware of this

he stirs in me.

when he shifts his leg so it presses against

two

cars are arriving and prominent alphas

and gowns. Others are in

is no formal uniform or etiquette and

each ruling family is almost a calling

of influence.

has on a v-neck shirt and

skin and his huge stature. The watch on his wrist is worth

father and brother are at the front of the line. They

shoes. New money. The flashy

surrounded by several

They’re from the far north, and while they look dirt poor,

his

have a walking cast on. My foot is mostly healed. It

good. Aside from

look the same.

is drawn back into a

light white shirt.

band, and a sapphire necklace that

a purse.

steps out next and he holds his

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