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 be trusted

on their own.

don’t regret

still the enemy after all.

can see that, even if no

it when we’d been alone so no one could have stopped me.

is an Alpha in her own right, so

least I wouldn’t be living in

to worry what will happen to me or the people I love if I fully snap

be living in

just a wolf any longer.

not just a—

the thought off before it

can’t even face what was done to me.

What I’ve become.

myself to focus on the

control me- his touch and presence is

calmed and

into him, letting his strength and solid presence soothe me in a way

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

of me wishes this was real.

me because he was my mate

  1. me.

gentle, I can almost believe the fantasy of

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

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