Chapter 218
LEAH
I don’t know how long Aaron and I sit on the couch with our
arms around each other, soaking in the feel of our bodies close together, not even talking.
It was exactly what I needed after the shock of everything I
found out, and I’m so relieved that Aaron and I have finally
come to a place where we can share a moment like this with
one another.
Six months ago, when I’d been dying of can cer, thinking
Aaron was cheating on me with Jessica and that he only cared
about me as a means to an end, and that my love for him was
completely one-sided, I could have never imagined we would
be able to come together like this.
But oh, how I’d longed for it.
I’d longed for it with a desperation that boarded on pa thetic.
There’d been a million times I could have or should have left
him.
had kept me at his
he’d done.
be his partner in everything from the businesses, to running the packs, to life partners and true
fated to be together, even though my father had done the unthinkable and bound her without my
I’ll never know.
none of that matters
brought us to
how rocky some of it was, I think now I wouldn’t change any of
that hardship, it made me
it brought me
never will-but I believe I can feel
sense it on a level that
enough for both
I first learned about my baby being born and
going
pain.
I’ll never be
side-with Aaron finally accepting me and treating me like
because I’m
Aaron is keeping
said it
I get the sense he’ll tell me when he’s
trust
it’s some other detail about our son’s short life and Aaron doesn’t want to burden me with it right
funeral or
Aaron would
can’t face that
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