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.

knees give way, but Axel doesn’t let me

barely have time to recover from the slowly

show it, and I’m left wondering if this man can feel anything at

is he, even, and how did he come to be

top men, I assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough to help find

go!” I shout at him, pulling

I’m strong.

should be thanks to the old Roberts Alpha

apparently Axel is

at me, eyes glowing for a

the house, Emily. Now. Aaron wants to see you, and since Aaron is

hate

he

him would be a

am

only because I want to see my brother, not because you tell me to,” I tell him stubbornly, even though

I tug on my

I’m not expecting it, so I end up falling backwards into the

looks down dispassionately

he orders as if he

he even get

anything, he shifts himself, and then stands there staring

he’s impatient and disgusted

with shame and self-loathing, I shift and then obediently follow Axel

we get, the more anxiety

no doubt his

wife is here too.

her- mated her-as if the

of simply killing me, had been because he’d been forced to hand

giving me updates on

I refused to

to tell me that Aaron

he

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