Chapter 157

I don’t know how much time has passed when I wake up in Aaron’s bed once again, but daylight is shining through the curtains

once more, so at least the night must have passed.

This time, I’m not in a rush to get up.

What’s the point?

My baby is gone, and I don’t even know what the point of me being alive is

It seems so cru el that I survived where he didn’t.

After a moment, I roll over, and don’t realize I’m trying to scent Aaron on the pillows until I’m already doing it.

I growl at myself, annoyed.

Or maybe I should be more annoyed with my inner wolf, since it’s her obsession with her mate that keeps me longing for him.

Longing for a man who I think I hate now.

I loved him for so long, hating him almost feels the same.

Deep, passionate, all-consuming.

A fire burning within me.

He is to blame for me losing my child, and I don’t know if I can ever forgive him for that.

But even as I think these things, my wolf is longing for him in a way that leaves my body aching.

Anyway, the pillows don’t smell like him anymore.

So has he simply been sleeping in another bedroom?

not even living on Rathborn pack lands

James mean when he

pitcher of ice water and a platter of fruit, crackers and cheese sitting

and I realize

anything I’ve ever eaten. I can distinguish flavors in a way I never have before. I also realize I can hear people moving around in the house, and

realized existed.

like living

my wolf,

was actually missing out on by not

the food, the

whoever put me in bed hadn’t

soften me. “I’m sorry, Leah. For everything. You have to know I’d do anything to

your fault, James,” I reply, a lump in my

night- he begins haltingly, but I hold up my

right now. I can’t talk about it. Maybe later, but not

“Rathbom pack lands might have the

my knees up and wrapping

long has it been, James?

low rumble. “Like Adam said, we didn’t know if you were

a miracle that I

been from

before in the history of all the packs-but we think it was Aaron claiming you at the last second that did it. Becoming your

“I know.”

know that Aaron could’ve died too. He risked his life to

that to my

that. I do.

looks reflective. “Then why are you

wolf. I wanted to be whole, so he could mate me. So we could

aside, and allowed our marriage to be what it should have been all along, then maybe I would now be holding our child

his Alpha powers to me

guess I’ll never

powers now, right? Aaron has assumed control

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