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 it

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

into the abandoned

Aaron, so he must know what’s

way or another, I’m going to

to simply sit by and let Aaron dictate the

team, and it’s so much

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

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

that some of our men-and Ryker’s men-lost their lives defending Aaron and myself, all because Tobin was making some power-crazed grab for more Alpha

it’s not even

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

going to solve a problem, it somehow ends

running off the way Aaron

remind him of that when

I

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

tell him stubbornly, which he is obviously not impressed

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

says, sending me a nod of polite respect,

tone as he turns to me.

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

a hand through

see he’s

but at the same time, he clearly feels bound by Aaron’s orders

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