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.

can’t even be

on their own.

don’t regret attacking Leah.

still the enemy after all.

see that, even if no one else can.

when we’d been alone so

own right, so maybe she would have simply killed me.

at least I wouldn’t be living

the people I love if

wouldn’t be living in this horrible limbo.

just a wolf any

also not

before it can take hold,

can’t even face what was done to

What I’ve become.

myself to focus on the here and now.

to control me- his touch and presence is easing the wildness inside

has calmed and drained away.

me in a way I probably shouldn’t

few silent minutes, and

wishes this was real.

Axel was holding me because he was my mate and he

  1. me.

I can almost

I 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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