Chapter 284

AARON

The drive back to Rathborn mansion goes by in a blur.

It’s almost impossible to believe that my sister is actually alive, and I don’t think I’m going to fully believe it until I see her with my own eyes.

But stronger than my disbelief is the guilt and the rage.

Guilt, because my sister has spent the past ten years locked up, less than an hour from our childhood home, waiting to be rescued.

The rage, meanwhile, threatens to consume me.

I want to go dig up the bones of Liam and the old Roberts Alpha and bring them back to life, just so I can kill them all over again.

Slowly and painfully.

Make them suffer as much as my innocent sister suffered all these years.

We arrive back at Rathborn mansion, and I rush from the SUV and into the house, calling for Emily.

However, it’s not Emily who steps out of the informal sitting

room, it’s Jessica, and the unexpected sight of her pulls me up short.

see me as I am

greet.

back!” Jessica cries. “They said you

pack-and the trauma they must have gone

Jess.” I’m sorry for

more tears spilling

so I hold

than comfort

to cling to me or make it into anything more and I think we’re finally starting to move beyond our past in

healthy way.

Emily is?” I ask when we step

this, Jessica looks

James brought her home. She’s mostly been shifting and out running…I’m not sure how well she’s coping with being back, Aaron. I mean, she’s working hard to cover it up, but it’s like you can see her fraying around the edges. I’m worried she

blood runs cold

to stand by and watch her go rogue from whatever she endured, being held captive by Liam and the old Roberts Alpha

let

to do whatever it takes

were here-her childhood best friend-when she came back. I’m sure that

to turn away,

I can accept things now. Being away helped. I’ll always care about you, but I know we’re not meant

saying so. I just hope you can find a

nods. “I hope so too,

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