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

T

good care of

me one last nod

room.

simply stand there and hold my

feel her silent tears soaking the front

angry that she found

Adam the one who told

did he even

forbid anyone from

think Leah would never learn the truth, but I’d

that I could now see was tearing her

alive and well-except if that ends in the next attempt on Ethan’s life being successful,

pain and

knows the full truth-and I would tell her soon, I vowed it on all of my ancestors-she will forgive

where she was sitting earlier, and

around me, why you’ve been doing everything remotely, keeping yourself apart from everyone.

fresh well of tears stream down her face and I hold her

tighter.

her,

to find them, and then they’ll

a little to

just look sad any

of wrath I’ve never witnessed in her

moment. “If I can stand strong and hold

She’s right.

she became Alpha, I didn’t fight her battles

I didn’t have to.

the strongest, bravest

night Liam betrayed her was

travesty.

ended up in possession of her Alpha powers. She

that she can and will effectively

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