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.

regret

still the enemy after all.

that, even if no one else can.

time and done it when we’d been

her own right, so maybe she would have

at least I wouldn’t be living in

what will happen to me or the people I

living in

wolf

not just

before it can take

can’t even face what was done to

What I’ve become.

force myself to focus on the here and

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

calmed and drained away.

his strength and solid presence soothe me in a way I probably shouldn’t let it since

silent minutes, and it’s exactly what

part of me wishes this was

was holding me because he was my

  1. me.

gentle, I can almost believe the fantasy of it.

shouldn’t, but I’m already feeling so weak and exhausted from running the gamut of emotions just now–and from everything that’s

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