Chapter 166

We arrive back in Montana later that night and I’m exhausted.

But I’m glad for it, because hopefully it’ll mean I’ll fall straight into an exhausted sleep without dreams or grief disturbing me.

There’s extra SUVs in the driveway, but I don’t immediately think anything of it.

Not until I walk into the foyer and come face to face with Aaron.

We both freeze at the sight of each other.

My entire body lights up and my inner wolf is ecstatic.

This feeling, it’s like I was living in some kind of half-light, and Aaron brough the sun, warming me and making everything bright

and sharp.

Tension crackles in the air between us and Aaron’s eyes immediately glow golden.

Next thing I know, every single other wolf-including James-has fled, leaving us standing alone.

In that second, I make a snap decision, though I’m sure it’s mostly my wolf, the way she’s pushing up and clamoring to get closer

to him.

“I need to tell you something,” I blurt out into the heavy silence.

not answering my statement. “Otherwise I wouldn’t have come. I just needed a few things

take a minute,” I say, wincing at the

to my stubborn

inclines his head stiffly and we walk to his office, keeping an impersonal amount of distance between

It’s good, I think

or what my wolf will

we’re inside.

used to think he was cold toward me, but

treating me now is

need to tell you something,” I say, still not sure I’m doing the right thing, but pushing ahead

anywhere else to turn to

that were going on with Roberts Corp and

the mention of my brother’s name,

looks like he could happily dig up my

about him?”

2/3

and brother wasting their money on booze and gambling and living a degenerate lifestyle? It was just a cover for where the money was really

Aaron asks, his brow creasing, and I can see I’ve got

poured into a single, secret project on a restricted floor of the Roberts

his features hardening, as if he’s gathering his resolve. “I ran

I reply impatiently. “But now

project has a problem and suddenly it’s

clamp down on the urge to

is bigger than both

need to put our animosity and hurt feelings

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