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?

even living on Rathborn

did James mean when he

pitcher of ice water and

and I realize I am

I’ve ever eaten. I can distinguish flavors in a way I never have

realized existed.

human was like living in standard

wolf, I’m living

how much I was actually missing out on by not having my

the food, the

up around myself, since whoever put me in

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

fault, James,” I reply,

he begins haltingly, but I hold up

about it right now. I

again,” James says, searching my features intently. “Rathbom pack lands might have the highest security, but you know from experience that its

drawing my knees up and wrapping my arms around

it been, James? How

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

that I have my

like it should have been from the start if my father hadn’t bound her in some twisted

was Aaron claiming you at the last second that did it. Becoming your mate unbound

“I know.”

too. He risked his life to bring you back from the depths. He followed you over,

that to my

know that. I do. “I

why

Aaron to turn me. Many times when we first married. I wanted to have my wolf. I wanted to be whole, so he could mate me. So we could have a family. Our lives everything

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

his Alpha powers

I’ll

powers now, right? Aaron has assumed control of my family’s

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