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

happened?” I ask, my

didn’t survive breaking the mating bond,” Karolina

voice, as if she doesn’t really care, or is uncomfortable about having to impart this

it over and

then her words

Didn’t survive.

He’s dead?” I stutter out

expression even more closed off.

afraid

he’s so strong,” I

on, Aaron not surviving when we broke

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

the most powerful who

grief going through my body, painful and twisting, like I’m feeling the mating bond

over again. “This can’t be

know,” Karolina continues, as

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

have decided to let you off from

Tobin’s death with light punishment. You

Alpha in name only. The

and Havelock–will remain under Council

the

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

I’m now existing in a world where

alive.

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

me to

and leaves the room, shutting the

behind her.

is sit there in frozen, silent

because that’s going to

can’t cope with

I just can’t.

how to live when Aaron isn’t by

I

ceased to have any meaning.

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