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.

other pack

to talk to

her anyway, how I might present the idea of getting rid of Axel in a way where she might help me instead of running straight to Axel or Aaron to tell them what

planning.

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

at any

ignore him, and it seems as long as I’m

a movie, and I almost instinctively look to Axel for permission which just pisses

even more.

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thinking I needed his

anything?

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the urge to look over at him

watch a movie.

and grab some soda pop

and head into the mansion’s

sure he’s probably lurking in

cry and laugh and it feels like old times…exactly

and Jessica says she’s heading

to bed, because I assume Axel is just waiting to lock me in my room

the corridor and while Jessica heads upstairs, I tell her I want a book

the hall, Axel appears out of the shadows.

Lurking.

like I knew he would

demands like

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book from

doesn’t reply, just trails

as welcoming as

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couches, a fire

and

old

some time walking up and down the shelves, until I

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

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