Chapter 307

EMILY

“Let me see,” Axel says gently, pulling my hands from where I’ve tucked them against myself.

They’re all cut up and bloody, but the slices are superficial, so they’ll probably heal easily enough.

Axel, however, rips the bottom of his shirt and then gently winds the material around the worst cuts, stemming the last of the trickling blood.

“Thank you,” I murmur, my voice hoarse. “I don’t know why I did that.”

It’s the truth.

The way I lost control scares me.

It was kind of frightening the way the emotions just overwhelmed me like that and I had to do something, anything

to let them out.

I only wish no one else had witnessed it.

Axel has seen sides of me I wish I could bury deep, never to see the light of day again.

I want me as his mate.

Someone as broken as I am.

Someone who can’t control themselves.

is dangerous and can’t even be trusted

on their own.

regret attacking Leah.

still the enemy after

see that, even if no

it when we’d been alone so no one could

own right, so maybe she would

least I wouldn’t be living in this misery any

the people I love

be living

just a wolf

also not

off before it can

even face what

What I’ve become.

I force myself to focus

that Axel is simply holding me–not trying to control me- his touch and presence is easing

calmed and

lean into him, letting his strength and solid presence soothe me in a way I probably shouldn’t let it since

sit like that for a few silent minutes, and it’s

wishes this was

me because he was my mate

  1. me.

is so gentle, I

but I’m already feeling so weak and exhausted from running the gamut of emotions just now–and from everything that’s happened since I stepped out of that isolated house last week–that I give in to temptation and

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