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.

even

on their own.

regret attacking Leah.

the enemy

see that, even if

I’d bided my time and done it when we’d been alone so no one could have stopped

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

least I wouldn’t be living in

me or the people I love

wouldn’t be living in this

wolf any

also not just a—

thought off before it

even face what was done to me.

What I’ve become.

I force myself to focus on

to control me- his

calmed and drained away.

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

sit like that for a few silent

part of me wishes

because he was my

  1. me.

is so gentle, I can almost believe

emotions just now–and from everything that’s happened since I stepped

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