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.

putting up with it

trail, but that won’t do me any

I hurry into the abandoned

Aaron, so he

another, I’m going

to simply sit by and let Aaron

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

of Tobin’s pack to be dealt with. They’re tossing them in a pile, and

own who were killed are being handled gently, taken out to a van to be transported

Aaron and myself, all because Tobin was making some

even over

and we still don’t

everytime we’re going to solve a problem, it somehow ends up being

running off the way Aaron did

just need to remind him of that when I catch up to

as I hurry up to the

not injured. “We should get you home. There’s no need for you to stay here any longer. Our

stubbornly, which he is obviously not impressed about. “You’re

refusal to agree with James’s plan to go home,

Ryker says, sending me a nod of polite respect, before walking

says in an overly patient tone as he turns to me. “Aaron gave me strict instructions to take

aware of Aaron’s penchant for giving orders that 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 given me credit for? I’m Aaron’s Luna. I’ve been an Alpha myself. Things are

hand through his

see he’s

with what I’m saying, but at the same time, he clearly feels bound by Aaron’s orders as his

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