Chapter 50

Chapter 50 Aden

I'm holding my breath, waiting to see who has finally come to dinner, waiting to see if Brooklyn is here, if her tears are gone... when Jayde breezes in.

"Hey baby," she says with a big smile, settling into her seat across from me and looking at my plate. "What, you couldn't wait for me?"

She looks up at me then, and her smile falters. She can see, clearly, that I'm in a foul mood and she has to tread very, very carefully.

"Wait for you?" I say, narrowing my eyes. "Why should I wait for you, when you are late?"

Jayde glances at the grandfather clock on the far wall and winces.

She is late, by five whole minutes. Something that she knows I do not stand for.

The chef comes through the door again, putting an entrée and bread in front of her.

this house,"

narrow my eyes at her further and wait until

been all apology, but instead, she

shut, looking down at her plate and taking a piece of bread out of its little basket, fiddling with it between

slowly, "that I should wait for you? That as the Alpha of this

shakes

I should have been on

right you should have

truth is, I

so worked up-I feel so powerless. And maybe I just want

But I can't. I push my plate away. "You are not my mate or my wife. You are here, eating my food, wearing the clothes I

have I stated our relationship in

it isn't really like that—but now?

angry. I'm not done. "Is that..." Jayde starts, unable

with. I want her to fight back. "And right now, I want you to

she says, going

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