Chapter 339

EMILY

I’m confused when my mind comes back to itself.

I’m no longer in the cellar storeroom, I’m in my bedroom with no recollection of how I got here.

I’m no longer cold, but wrapped up tight in a blanket, being held

tight in a strong embrace.

Being held tight by-

Axel?

He’s humming some tune I don’t recognize, but it doesn’t sound like anything composed this century. More like classical music of

some kind.

It’s hard to imagine a hardened Alpha, a warrior, the Slayer, enjoying something so tame as classical music.

I don’t know what to make of this moment.

Axel was the one who locked me up.

He’s the one who refuses to understand my need to escape, to

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shift and run on my own.

He is my mate who rejected me out of hand.

I should hate him.

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I should be furious with him.

I should be escaping his hold and kicking him out of my room,

telling him I never want to lay eyes on him again.

However, it’s like whatever happened down in that cellar

storeroom has burned away all that anger I was holding onto.

I can’t find it within

feel this overwhelming need to

feel this deep, rending grief

girl I was before

thing I became during those

the reason I was hanging onto all that anger.

fury, because if I let myself feel this

not sure how I’ll survive

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ever

then there’s

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one who put me in that

the

couldn’t have realized what his

me, because I’ve refused to talk about

my denial of needing to talk about and face everything that happened to me, even with the pack therapist I’ve

several times at

anyone to understand or help me if they

course, there’s good

tell some of what

through,

everything.

risk my very life,

concerned.

rest of the pack- the rest of

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and I

to stop.

turned on inside me

inside

and I feel

want to look up at him.

fact, I duck my head and close my eyes.

I look up at him, reality will return, and

end.

want this

tight in the arms of my

each other–and I don’t think

me feel quite like

is the only thing holding me together right

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