Chapter 272

AARON

I’m wrenched out of the dream like hitting a wall at a hundred

miles an hour.

What the hell was that?

I sit up, waiting for the weird sense of being tossed out of time and space, knowing I’m physically here in the cell, but feeling

like I should be somewhere else.

With someone else.

With my mate.

She’s still alive, my wolf insists. Go to her. Find her.

Claim her.

I shake my head, trying to get my wolf to calm the hell down.

Leah is gone.

I saw it with my own eyes…

Or did I??

It certainly seemed like Samsen and Petyr were acting like she was dead, but I didn’t physically confirm it myself.

Except I’m just grasping at straws.

What possible reason would Samsen and Petyr have to pretend Leah was dead if she wasn’t?

Except now I feel like I’ve got a burr caught in my mind.

Because of that dream.

It was so dam n real.

even think it

I had truly gone to

with Leah.

a memory, not

to dawn-my wolf can sense it,

this underground cell-and I don’t bother

and think

the past few

broke the mating bond

been keeping

let me out of this cell. I see the same rotation of

beginning to wonder why that

that they would get my affairs

me.

whole

Council simply railroading me

keeping secrets, since rumors stated that Axel had gone to North Dakota, yet they’d been keeping him in

along.

on, and I’m determined to figure out

sit there, thinking and stewing, getting more and

the familiar clang of an Enforcer coming down with our

of the cell and watch like I’m tracking prey as the Enforcer first goes over and slides Axel’s tray in the slot at

still as the Enforcer crouches down

until his attention is not on me any longer, but on the

And then I lunge.

my arms through the silver bars

his shirt, too fast for him to even

the bars until his face-and anywhere else bare flesh is

and starts struggling against my

tighter,

the unforgiving metal of the bars, he’s

tell him in a low threatening voice. “You’re going to tell me exactly what’s going on out

www

desperate nod, wheezing

me, why won’t the Council let me make any

guy to suck in a panicked breath, but also

that you died after breaking your mating bond,” he replied in

yanking him in tight again. “What else are they

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