Chapter 258

LEAH

I blink my eyes open and grimace when I realize my whole body hurts.

I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck. And a train. And then a steamroller.

Every muscle aches and every joint hurts and for a minute I can’t remember what happened.

And I don’t know where I am.

In some kind of office, and I’ve been left lying on a narrow cot.

Just as I sit up, the door opens and Karolina comes in.

In that second, all the memories of the past days come flooding back, and I gasp, my hand flying to my chest.

I feel so empty.

The absence of my mating bond with Aaron is like a black hole inside me.

It’s a void at the very center of my soul that’s never going to

be filled.

“Good, you’re awake.” Karolina is carrying an electrolyte drink, which she brings over and hands to me.

I take it with a murmured thanks, immediately worried about how grim she looks and the general negative vibe she’s giving off.

“Is everything okay?” I ask, but then feel stupid for asking that question.

Of course everything isn’t okay.

I’ve just been forced to reject my mate and break our mating bond, and my husband–the love of my life–is going to be

executed at the next full moon.

“I’m afraid I have some bad news,” Karolina says, crossing her arms and avoiding my gaze.

I squeeze the electrolyte bottle until my knuckles ache,

wanting to escape this room before I have to hear whatever it is that Karolina’s going to tell me.

in place and whatever this is, I can’t escape it.

I ask,

the mating bond,”

really care, or

it over and done with.

words really hit

Didn’t survive.

stutter

nods, expression even

afraid so.”

so strong,” I

going on, Aaron not surviving when we broke the mating

of three Alpha’s!” I just can’t wrap my head around how

powerful who fall

my body, painful and twisting, like

again. “This can’t

continues, as

apart around me right now. “In light of

the Council have decided to let you

punishment. You may retain

The control of all four packs–Rathborn,

Leithrow and Havelock–will

the

if I agree, but in that second, I can’t care about

a world

alive.

told them the news,” Karolina says curtly. “Someone will be

doesn’t wait for me to say

and leaves the

behind her.

sit

want to move, because that’s going to make it real.

can’t cope with

I just can’t.

how to live when Aaron isn’t

have no idea how long I sit

ceased to have any

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