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.”

before he banks

driver, a wolf

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seat. I’m painfully aware of this

emotions he stirs in me.

it presses against mine, I wonder if I can

next two hours.

prominent alphas from across this part

suits and gowns. Others

is no formal uniform

ruling family is almost a calling card for

brand of

shirt and linen pants. The light

is worth more than this car

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

polished shoes. New money. The flashy kind.

surrounded by several

and while they look dirt poor,

extends his hand

cast on. My foot is

is good. Aside from aches and pains and

look

back into a

a light

a sapphire necklace that

a purse.

holds his arm out

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