Chapter 49

Chapter 49 Aden

I storm into the dining room, where the table is set for four.

I sit down hard in my chair at the head of the table, waving at the place settings on either side of me. "Remove these," I tell the waitstaff, barely getting the words out due to my frustration. "Have Hudson's and Brooklyn's plates sent up to Brooklyn's room. They'll take their supper there."

The staff don't think I can see them giving each other worried looks as they silently do as they're told. No matter. They do not concern me right now.

The chef comes out next, looking around the room.

"Sir?" he asks, his French accent heavy in the word. "Will you be dining alone?"

"Apparently," I say, angry that Jayde isn't here, either.

What would it take to get some respect in this house? It's times like this I wish I had actually become the Alpha I was born to be, to be able to compel people to do as I wished.

To compel Brooklyn to stop crying.

"Please bring out the meal," I grit out.

The chef nods, impassive, and heads back into the kitchen.

A few moments later he appears again with the first course salmon tartare with a small side salad and a freshly sliced French baguette.

fish and reach for the warm bread, slathering it with butter as I sit back in my chair, trying to control my

can't stop them from going

take looking at her tonight, sitting there in her

her out of it, to scare her out of

of bread, angry with myself for not being able

my feelings had so much

even now, to dash up those stairs and so something-anything-to make her

now, a right that Hudson just

like it.

past few weeks. Tried to distract myself, to busy myself with work and plans. Tried to ignore her when she walked

expressions of her face when she

trying to push the images away, try to calm my

love to prod

me in the basement, for instance, and chased her

had been

her up against the wall, press the length of myself up against her ass as I slipped my hand beneath her skirt. I'd teach her a lesson about what it meant to defy me, to defy a shifter with Alpha blood, to defy

the bread within my fist, crushing it, ruining it. Then I

this she-wolf. She will be the undoing of me. She made me lose it-lose absolute control of myself. The

has absolutely no

I realize suddenly,

send them away-marry them quick, send them back to the old country to our family

them building a life together, of her smiling at my son, while

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