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 to

I greet. “You’re

course I’m back!” Jessica cries. “They said you

my entire pack-and the trauma they must have gone

sorry for all

nods, sending more tears spilling down her

so I hold my arms open to

nothing more than comfort in the

make it into anything more and

healthy way.

Emily is?” I ask when we step

this, Jessica

periods of time since Leah and 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

cold

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

can’t let that

it

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

nods and begins to turn away, but then

wanted to say, I’ve had a lot of time to think. I can accept things

so. I just hope you can find a mate and

and nods. “I

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