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.

and whatever this is, I

happened?” I ask, my stomach

didn’t survive breaking the mating

doesn’t really care, or is uncomfortable about having to impart this

and done with.

her words

Didn’t survive.

dead?” I stutter out in disbelief.

nods, expression even

I’m afraid so.”

he’s so strong,” I reply, totally

not surviving when we broke the

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

it’s the most powerful who fall the hardest,” Karolina

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

over again. “This can’t be happening.”

continues, as if

right now. “In light of

to let you off

with light punishment. You

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

Leithrow and Havelock–will remain

the foreseeable

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

a world

alive.

curtly. “Someone will be here shortly to pick you up and take you

to say anything else, simply

and leaves the room, shutting the door

behind her.

is sit there in frozen, silent

move, because that’s going

with Aaron’s death

I just can’t.

when Aaron isn’t by my

no idea how long I sit

has ceased to

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