Chapter 156

PRESENT DAY

LEAH

I run until the sunsets and the lands come alive with the sounds and scents of night.

My wolf is intrigued, and wants to keep running with the moonlight reflecting off the snow, but I promise her we’ll come back out here another night.

Right now, we are both hungry and tired.

Although, my exhaustion is the deep emotional type, from all I’ve had to endure these last weeks-

Except then I remember it’s been months, and a new kind of sadness overtakes me.

My wolf howls mournfully, the sound echoing lonely into the night.

Eventually she takes us home, her sense of direction unerring.

When we arrive, it’s to find a flurry of activity, with James and Adam standing at the center of it all.

James is all healed, but his clothes are still torn and blo ody, and as soon as I see him, I feel terrible for what I did.

I don’t realize my wolf is handing the reins back to me until it’s too late, until I am shifting, and then climbing to my feet, na ked in front of half a dozen packmates.

Nake d in front of both Adam and James.

bother to hide how their gazes move over my

my neck to my cheeks as I

want to cower and try

wolf now, this

other packmates moving back and forth between the shift. That nake dness is a natural state of being most of

never bothered

in front

front of Jessica,

makes my wolf bristle, and I feel a growl rumbling up within me that I have

Wow.

is

striving to

Adam and James jer k their gazes back

pis sed off, while James quickly moves to the

a blanket for me.

him, but instead he drops it

wonder if the way his fingers brushed my skin was on purpose or not. I owe him an apology for mauling him earlier,

wolves around me have assumed too much.

a Luna. I was

that they think they can control me or tell me what to do. And my wolf, she isn’t having any part of

do that,” I tell Adam, remaining calm in the face of his anger, even though out of everyone here, I have the most right

a run?” Adam demands. “Leah, until you woke up today, we didn’t know if you were ever going to wake up again. We don’t know what the long term implications

let him mate me, turn me, when the one thing I wanted was the life of my child to

James replies in a quiet voice. “Believe me, I tried. I tried to do what you said,

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