Chapter 229

LEAH

One moment Aaron is loving and open with me, the next I see him totally shut down when he gets a phone call from James.

It’s like watching him become a completely different person.

He becomes cold and indifferent, just like he used to be with me.

It feels like getting a bucket of ice water dumped over me.

I don’t understand what could have caused such a reaction from him.

But it must be something bad.

Something really bad.

“Aaron, what’s wrong?” I ask reaching for him, but he evades my touch.

“I have to go,” he replies, slipping his cell phone away and avoiding my gaze.

“Aaron, wait” I say, trying to keep the confusion and desperation out of my voice as he starts to walk away from me.

“Go find James and Ryker, they’ll make sure you get home safe,” he tells me, tossing the words carelessly over his shoulder, before disappearing into the shadows

“Dam n it, Aaron” I shout after him, frustrated that after everything. we’ve come right back around to this.

up with

me any good once

hurry into the abandoned

called Aaron, so he

or another, I’m going to find

let Aaron dictate the terms of my life any

I know he can do better than that. We can work as a team, and it’s so much better than the back-and-forth, unbalanced power

the main factory floor, I find James and Ryker talking, while their men are gathering up the bodies of Tobin’s pack to be dealt with. They’re tossing them in a pile, and

are being handled gently, taken out to a van to be transported back to pack lands for the pack death

men-and Ryker’s men-lost their lives defending Aaron and myself, all because Tobin was

not even

still don’t know what happened to the Al weapons

everytime we’re going to solve a

running off the way Aaron did just now-isn’t

him of that

I

over me as if he’s checking I’m not injured. “We should get you home. There’s no need for you

home,” I tell him stubbornly, which he is obviously not impressed about.

arches an eyebrow, whether from my imperious tone, or my refusal to agree with James’s plan to go home,

you to sort out Lama Leah’s wishes,” Ryker says, sending me a nod of polite

as he turns to me. “Aaron gave me strict instructions

he thinks are for my own good. But haven’t I proven time and again that I’m capable of far more than anyone has ever

hand through his

see

the same time, he clearly feels

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