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.

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

I ask, my stomach

didn’t survive breaking the mating bond,”

doesn’t really care, or is uncomfortable about having

and done with.

then her words

Didn’t survive.

stutter out in

expression even more closed

I’m afraid so.”

he’s so strong,” I reply, totally bewildered.

on, Aaron not surviving when we

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

most powerful who fall the hardest,”

whisper, a shudder of grief going through my body, painful and twisting, like I’m feeling the

“This can’t be

know,” Karolina continues, as if my whole

around me right

to let you off from

light punishment. You may retain

name only. The control of all four

and Havelock–will remain

for the

that second,

now existing in a

alive.

and told them the news,” Karolina says curtly. “Someone will be here shortly to

me to say anything

and leaves the

behind her.

sit there in frozen, silent grief.

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

I can’t cope with

I just can’t.

know how to live when Aaron isn’t by my

I sit

has ceased to have any

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