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.

how their gazes move over my

heat rushing up my neck

want to cower and try

wolf now, this

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

has certainly never bothered Aaron

of me. And not in front of

in front

designs on him makes my wolf bristle, and I feel

Wow.

is fierce and

I ask, striving to keep

and James jer k their gazes

went missing, that’s what!” Adam says, looking pis sed off, while James quickly

a blanket for me.

reach out to take it from him, but instead he drops

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

around me have assumed too much.

Luna. I was an

they think they can control me or tell me what to do. And my

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

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

my voice icy and sharp. “Who the hell let him mate me, turn me, when

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

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