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.

place and whatever this is, I

ask,

breaking the mating

or is uncomfortable about

over and

then her words really

Didn’t survive.

He’s dead?” I stutter

expression even more

I’m afraid

I reply,

not surviving when we broke the mating bond

the power of three Alpha’s!” I just can’t wrap my head

it’s the most powerful who fall

whisper, a shudder of grief going through my body, painful and twisting, like

over again. “This can’t be

Karolina continues,

isn’t falling apart around me right now. “In light

have decided to let you off from your part

punishment. You

Alpha in name only. The control of all four packs–Rathborn,

Havelock–will remain under

the

that second, I can’t

existing in a world

alive.

curtly. “Someone will be here shortly to

doesn’t wait for me to

and leaves the room,

behind her.

can do is sit there in frozen,

because that’s going to make it

with Aaron’s death

I just can’t.

how to live when Aaron isn’t by

how long I sit

has ceased to have any meaning.

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