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.

dangerous and can’t even

on their own.

don’t regret

still the enemy after

see that, even if no

time and done it when we’d been alone so no one could

course, Leah is an Alpha in her own right, so maybe she would have simply

be living in this misery any

least I wouldn’t have to worry what will happen to me or the people I

wouldn’t be living in this horrible limbo.

just a wolf any longer.

also not just a—

before it can take hold,

can’t even face what

What I’ve become.

I force myself to focus on the here and

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

storm has calmed and drained away.

in a way I probably shouldn’t let

for a few silent minutes, and it’s exactly what I

part of me wishes this was real.

Axel was holding me because he was

  1. me.

way his touch is so gentle, I can almost believe the fantasy of

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

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