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.

not putting up with

trail, but that won’t do me any good once he gets into his SUV

the

called Aaron, so he must

way or another, I’m

to simply sit by and let Aaron dictate the terms

than that. We can work as a team, and it’s so much better than the back-and-forth, unbalanced power dynamic we

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 I know from other skirmishes, their bodies will

of our own who were killed are being handled gently, taken out to a van to

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

even

still don’t know

solve a problem, it somehow ends

splitting up and running off the way Aaron

him of that when I catch up

say as I hurry up to the

if he’s checking I’m not injured. “We should get you home. There’s no need for you to stay here any longer. Our guys are taking

tell him stubbornly, which he is obviously not

arches an eyebrow, whether from my imperious tone, or my refusal to agree

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

as he turns to me. “Aaron gave me strict

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 given me credit for? I’m Aaron’s Luna. I’ve been an Alpha myself. Things are different now,

a hand through

can see he’s

with what I’m saying, but at the same time, he clearly feels

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