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.”

he banks the emotion. Then

nods to the driver, a wolf named William.

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sink back into the seat. I’m painfully

he stirs in me.

shifts his leg so it presses against mine, I

next two

alphas from across this part of the country

expensive suits and gowns. Others are in jeans

shirts. There is no formal uniform or etiquette and

almost

brand of influence.

v-neck shirt and linen pants. The

skin and his huge stature. The watch on his wrist is worth more than this car and though he doesn’t

at the front of the line.

and polished shoes. New money. The

older couple surrounded by several wolves wear jeans and

the far north, and while they look dirt poor, they’re sitting on more land than some small

my door and extends his

a walking cast on. My foot

good. Aside

look the same.

back into a

slacks and a light white

married, a simple band, and a sapphire necklace that was my mom’s. I didn’t bother to bring

a purse.

and he holds his arm out to me.

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