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

up my neck to my

and try to cover

am a wolf now, this is part of

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

has certainly never

me. And not in front

front of Jessica,

him makes my wolf bristle, and I feel

Wow.

is fierce and

I ask, striving to keep my

and James jer k their gazes back

off, while James quickly moves to the couch in a

a blanket for me.

to take it from him, but instead he drops it around my shoulders for

thank you, trying not to wonder if the way his fingers brushed my skin was on purpose or not. I owe him

wolves around me have assumed too much. Taken too

a Luna. I was

me what to do. And my wolf, she

went for a run. I have a wolf now. I can do that,” I tell Adam, remaining calm in the face of his anger,

went for a run?” Adam demands. “Leah, until you woke up today, we didn’t know if you were ever going to

do?” I cut in, my voice icy and sharp. “Who the hell let him mate me, turn me, when the one thing I wanted was

stopping him,” James replies in a quiet voice. “Believe me, I tried. I tried to do

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