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.

you back tonight, Aaron replies, not answering my statement. “Otherwise I wouldn’t have come. I just needed a few things from

take a minute,” I say, wincing at the needy note in

to

we walk to his office, keeping an impersonal

It’s good, I think

my wolf will push me to

we’re

he was cold toward me, but now I

treating me

you something,” I say, still not sure I’m doing the right

don’t have anywhere else to turn to for

things that were going on with Roberts Corp and

name, Aaron’s features transform with

he could happily dig up my brother’s

about him?”

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on booze and gambling and living a degenerate lifestyle? It was just a cover for

brow creasing, and I can see I’ve

single, secret project on a restricted floor of the Roberts Corp

Roberts Corp for months while you were-” He breaks off, his features hardening, as if he’s gathering his resolve.

was a secret, Aaron,” I reply impatiently.

secret project has a

on the urge to bite

is bigger than both of

our animosity and hurt feelings aside, or the results could

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