Chapter 326

EMILY

I don’t bother asking Axel what his punishment will be if I disobey

him and leave the house.

Instead, I turn on my heel and walk out on him, going to find

wherever Jessica ran off to.

I half expect Axel to follow me, but he doesn’t, and I don’t know if I’m relieved or annoyed.

No, I tell myself firmly. I’m definitely relieved.

But even I’m not buying my own lie.

When Axel had pulled me up against him just now in the office, for a second, I’d thought he was going to kiss me, maybe do even

more than that.

My body had all but melted like ice cream on hot pavement.

I wanted him.

Even worse now that I knew what it was like to come apart in his

arms.

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But I hated myself for that.

Did I have no self–respect?

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The man has made no secret about his negative feelings toward

  1. me.

Yet my body and my instincts–most especially my wolf–want me to surrender to him every time he turns that heavy gaze my

way.

pack members and I don’t get

to talk

getting rid of Axel in a way where she might help me instead of running straight to Axel or Aaron

planning.

is lurking here and there, always watching me closely as if he’s

at any

as I’m with Jessica, he mostly leaves me alone.

me if I want to watch a movie, and I almost instinctively look

even more.

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I needed his

anything?

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to look over at him

watch a movie.

grab some soda pop

head into the mansion’s theater

I’m sure he’s probably lurking in the hallway.

laugh and it

movie ends, and Jessica

don’t want to go to bed, because I assume Axel is just

to the corridor and while Jessica heads upstairs, I tell her

hall, Axel appears out of

Lurking.

I knew he would

you going?” he demands like the prison warden he is.

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I want to get a book from the library,”

reply, just trails me into

is as welcoming as

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couches, a fire

red and golden embers, and the

and old

walking up and down the shelves, until I

of poetry by Emily Dickenson I must have read a hundred times when I

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