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.

who is dangerous and can’t even be trusted

on their own.

don’t regret attacking Leah.

the enemy

see that, even if no one else can.

it when we’d

course, Leah is an Alpha in her own right, so

living in

will happen to me or the people I love

living in this

wolf any longer.

also not

the thought off before

what was done to

What I’ve become.

focus on the here and

simply holding me–not trying to control me- his touch

calmed and drained

him, letting his strength and solid presence soothe me in

for a few silent minutes, and it’s

me wishes this was real.

was holding me because he

  1. me.

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

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 slip my arms around him.

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