Chapter 315

EMILY

Axel is infuriated, and I think he must have seriously heightened senses to be able to smell Ronan on me when we barely touched for more than a few seconds.

“No one!” I yell angrily–though that anger is fed by a healthy dose of fear now that I know who Axel really is.

“Tell me the truth, Emily!” he growls menacingly.

“Fine!” I yank harder, and this time he releases me, and I stumble a step. But he crowds closer to me until I’m backed up against a tree with no means of escape.

“It was just some guy,” I lie, hoping he can’t somehow tell I’m not telling him the truth. “I tripped over on the trail up there, and he helped me up. That’s all. It was just some stranger. We barely even spoke!”

Axel stares at me, eyes hard, glittering and threatening.

I half think he’s going to run off and track down Ronan to ask him for his version of events.

However, Axel doesn’t do any of those things.

Instead, he moves back just enough to give me room to breathe.

Still, I don’t know whether he believes me, or knows I’m lying.

“Shift, now. We’re heading back to the mansion.” Somehow, his already intimidating stare becomes even more threatening. “And don’t even think about running off on me again. You won’t like the consequences.”

Part of me wants to defy him.

I wish I was brave enough–like Ronan had said–to ignore his threats, to shift and run and escape him and my brother and their stupid suffocating rules.

But I’m not that brave.

not today.

reliant upon Aaron for a roof over my head.

food and pretty much

have to live in

Council to join another pack, but that wouldn’t solve

be hiding the monster

still have to live in fear that someone might discover

secret.

come for me, just like we were warned in those scary fairytales as kids.

the Council now with his status as a wolf with the power of three

stop any petition I might put

So I’m trapped.

in that isolated house all those

fast and I choke

I won’t. Never again.

tears have Axel’s features changing and I shove away from him and shift before I can allow myself

my clothes and rolls them into his own. He’s squatting, watching

I run.

terrain. The scents I encounter

We don’t traipse much near the public parks and the state preserves don’t

don’t bother to shift until I’m inside and in my room. I’ve been gone most of the day and it’s almost dark by the time

Leah have already packed and left for Romania, I try

was my own fault I wasn’t here to say goodbye, and Aaron probably viewed it as me being petty and spiteful yet again.

honestly didn’t think about it.

booked to take off. And because it is our own jet, he easily could have asked to postpone for an hour or two so I could be here to say

Aaron is telling me how high his regard is for me, and where I am

low to the point of not

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