Chapter 217

I use my heightened sense of hearing as I step through the front door of the mansion, picking up the low tones of James and Leah speaking in one of the sitting rooms.

Leah sounds upset and my steps quicken as I rush through the house to find her.

As soon as I walk into the doorway, Leah looks up.

Her hair is a mess, her eyes are red-rimmed and she’s pale.

She looks terrible, but at the same time, so achingly beautiful.

But, she’ll always be beautiful to me and my wolf, no matter the state that she’s in.

The relief and longing that crosses her face when she sees me makes my chest ache.

She jumps up from the couch and rushes across the room, throwing herself into my arms.

I catch her up against me, my worry for her climbing even higher.

James also gets up from where he was sitting in an adjacent armchair and crosses the room as well, but clearly because he’s leaving to give us some privacy.

I catch his eye with a questioning look as he draws even with

me.

“She found out about the attack at the hospital,” James says) which mostly explains everything and I feel my heart take on a new dimension of pain that Leah knows some of the terrible truth now.

“There’s more,” James adds, his expression becoming stormy. “But I’ll let Leah tell you.”

“Thank you, Beta,” I say in a low voice

“Thank you for taking

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care

last nod

room.

moment, I simply stand there

her silent tears

that she found out about the

Adam the one who

he even hope to achieve from

expressly forbid anyone from talking

olish to think Leah would never learn the truth, but I’d wanted to spare her the pain of knowing

could now see was tearing her

well-except if that ends in the

pain and more-we

knows the full truth-and I would tell her soon, I vowed it on

was sitting earlier, and we both

be around me, why you’ve been doing everything remotely,

down her face

tighter.

tell her, because

then they’ll regret every

sits away from me a little to look

just look sad any

kind of wrath I’ve never witnessed in her

in her eyes for a moment. “If I can stand strong and hold my oldest friend accountable for betraying me, then you can

She’s right.

she became Alpha, I didn’t fight

I didn’t have to.

the strongest, bravest wolves I

that happened the night Liam

travesty.

Alpha powers. She is the Alpha that Roberts

she

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