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.

my knees give way,

holds me up, and I barely have time to recover from the

mating bond hurt him, he certainly didn’t show it,

he come

Brother’s top men, I assume, since Aaron entrusted him enough to help

go!” I shout at him, pulling against his

I’m strong.

be thanks to the old Roberts Alpha and his

apparently Axel

struggles and growls at

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

I hate this

he rejected

being mated to him would

am

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

time when I tug on my

I’m not expecting it, so I end up falling

looks down

orders as if he is an Alpha

he even get the

say anything, he shifts himself, and then stands there staring at

disgusted with me, even in wolf

cheeks burning with shame and self-loathing, I shift and then obediently follow Axel all the way back

more anxiety twists

back, then I’ve got no doubt his traitorous

wife is here too.

with her- mated her-as if the war that killed our parents, the pack who were responsible for all the misery

one of the main reasons he’d held me captive instead of simply killing me, had been because he’d been forced to hand his daughter over to Aaron in order to maintain

regularly, giving me updates on

refused to

to tell me that Aaron had eventually married Leah, as per

he

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