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

scent trail, but that won’t do me any good once he gets

the

Aaron, so he

I’m

refuse to simply sit by and let Aaron dictate the terms of my

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

to be dealt with. They’re tossing them in a pile, and I know from other skirmishes, their bodies will be taken to a

were killed are being handled gently, taken out to a van to be transported back to pack lands

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

not even over

Tobin, and we still don’t know what happened to the Al weapons

like everytime we’re going to solve a

up and running off the way Aaron

to remind him of

as I hurry up to the

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

him stubbornly, which he is obviously not impressed

from my imperious tone, or my refusal

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

turns to me.

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

a hand through

can see

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

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