Chapter 261

LEAH

By the time evening rolls around, I’m exhausted.

I’ve divided my time between accepting condolences from pack members who’ve come to see me–at the same time, needing their own comfort because their Alpha is dead and the uncertainty over who will be our new Alpha is terrifying- and looking after Ethan.

It occurs to me that we’re going to have to have a funeral, and that sends me into a mini breakdown, somehow making everything real all over again.

James comes to find me where I’m curled up in the middle of Aaron’s bed, hugging his pillow as if it can somehow bring him

back to me.

“You should eat something, Leah,” he says gently as he sits on the edge of the bed.

“I’m not hungry,” I reply automatically, even though I know he’s right.

“You don’t have to come down,” he tells me with a slight frown.

“I’ll have the chef send something up.”

I nod absently, even though I doubt I’m going to be able to

stomach much food.

“Are you okay?” James asks after a few silent moments, and

we both kind of smile sadly because we know that’s a dumb

question.

neither of us are okay.

the funeral.

for them to

swallow, unable to say the

Leah,” James says in a

to

and a few

them in

do these

can anyone blame me,

my annoyance at myself giving way to anger toward

The only reason they went after

wrong.”

with a sigh. “But what are we going to do? Fight

just know I

I can tell he feels bad about not having

answer for me.

spinning from one thing to the next, another thought occurs to me.

the potential to kill thousands if not millions of people if it ended up

on my own with this massive problem yet again,

to

I say, looking up at him. “I’m going to need

drops his hand on my knees,

“Anything you need.”

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