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.

to hide how their gazes

feel heat rushing up my neck to

want to cower and try to

a wolf now, this is part of

packmates moving back and forth between the shift. That nake dness

certainly never bothered Aaron

not in front

in front

still had designs on him makes my wolf bristle, and I feel a growl rumbling up within me that I have

Wow.

wolf is fierce and

going on?” I ask, striving

James jer k their

pis sed off, while James quickly moves to

a blanket for me.

it from him, but instead he drops it around my shoulders

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

around me have assumed too much.

Luna. I was

me or tell me what to do. And my wolf, she isn’t having any part of

now. I can do that,” I tell Adam, remaining calm in the face of his

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 are

what exactly did Aaron do?” I cut in, my voice icy and sharp. “Who the hell let him

a quiet voice. “Believe me, I tried. I tried to do what you said, to keep you alive long enough to save

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