Chapter 287

EMILY

The stranger-Axel-is cold and indifferent.

His expression is harsh and unforgiving as he stares at me.

Could my wolf be wrong?

How can this man be our mate?

He stands before me, unfeeling and unsympathetic, like a statue of ice.

“I told you not to say it,” he growls at me, and I want to run from him, but he’s holding my arm in a bruising grip.

“I-I’m sorry,” I stutter out, wishing I could take it back.

“Since you’re so insistent on knowing,” he says, tone cutting and caustic. “Yes, it does seem like you’re my mate. But I do not accept it. I do not accept you.”

I flinch and feel myself shrinking.

Of course he doesn’t accept it.

Or me.

I’m damaged goods.

I spent ten years being locked up.

And even though no one knows my secret, I’m dangerous, broken and unlovable.

“Are you rejecting me?” I whisper, and already I can feel the pain of our mate bond tearing jaggedly apart.

“Yes, Emily. I reject you.”

The ache turns into a sharp shot of pain like an elastic pulled too tight and suddenly snapped.

cry out, and my knees give

have time to recover

him, he certainly didn’t show it, and I’m left wondering if this man

did he come to be part of

Aaron

shout at him, pulling

I’m strong.

be thanks to the old Roberts Alpha and his

apparently Axel is

subdues my struggles and growls at me, eyes glowing for

and since Aaron

instant, I hate

glad he rejected

being mated to him would be a fate worse

am already

tell me to,” I tell him stubbornly, even though part of me fears how he will

on my arm, he

not expecting it, so I end up falling backwards

looks down dispassionately

orders as if he is

he even

I can say anything, he shifts himself,

tell he’s impatient and disgusted with me, even in

shift and then obediently

the more anxiety twists my stomach into

then I’ve got no doubt his traitorous bi

wife is here too.

only did Aaron marry the daughter of our enemy, he went and fell in love with her- mated her-as if the war that killed our parents, the

main reasons he’d held me captive instead of simply killing me, had

regularly, giving me

refused

came to tell me that Aaron

thought he

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