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

when he said Aaron left

up, and find a pitcher of ice water and a platter of fruit, crackers

and I realize I

I can distinguish flavors in a way I never have before. I also realize I can hear people moving around in the house,

realized existed.

human was like

that I have my wolf, I’m

actually missing

as I finish with the food,

pull the sheet up around myself, since whoever put me in bed hadn’t bothered

the guilt in his eyes, and I try not to let it soften me. “I’m sorry, Leah. For everything. You have to know I’d do anything to change things, to be able to give you back your child. But

fault, James,” I reply, a lump in my

but I hold up my

want to talk about it right now. I can’t talk about it. Maybe

says, searching my features intently. “Rathbom pack lands might have the

nod, drawing my knees up

has it been, James? How long

Adam said, we

that I have my

I’d gotten to experience life with her, like it should have been from the start if my father hadn’t bound her in some twisted act

the history of all the packs-but we think it was Aaron claiming you at the last second that did it. Becoming your mate unbound your wolf. Between the mate bond tethering you to this world through Aaron, and then your wolf

“I know.”

awful, but you need to know that Aaron could’ve died too. He risked his life to bring you back from the depths.

that to

I know that. I

“Then why are

when we first married. I wanted to have my wolf. I wanted to be whole, so he could mate me. So

his pride and all those 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

thought that transferring his Alpha powers to me would somehow unbind my wolf

I’ll never

has my powers now, right? Aaron has assumed

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