Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 190

“I tried to tell you but the timing never felt right.” she whispers and I barely catch it over the hum of the engine.

“How can I be sure?” I ask, hating the vulnerability in my tone. “How do I know that everything – your feelings for me, us

wasn’t just another lie?”

Aubrey leans forward. “Why would you think that? I never intended to get involved with you or Max, I was trying to lie low with Grandma.”

“So it was all a lie?” I tell her.

“What? No… it… I am…” Aubrey reaches out, her fingers. brushing my arm. I flinch involuntarily, and she withdraws, hurt flashing across her features.

I swear it. I would have told you, I should have told you but…

to pull her close, to lose myself in her warmth and forget the pain of the last few days. But the wounds are too fresh, the trust

to understand how you

but I was petrified of losing you and Max or the life I had with you

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true because she threw herself off a cliff

towards home, I steal another glance at her. She sits curled in on herself, looking small and lost. Despite everything, my

stopping, I don’t want to risk anyone spotting Aubrey in the car. It would be out that we found her by now, and captured her and Bianca, but no one knows what we have done with them. I need to keep it that

I tell you to sit back up.” She looks at me but quickly complies, lying down across the backseat without question, but I sense Damian’s curiosity when his face

she hidden? What other secrets lie buried, and is something of this magnitude even salvageable.

out and Damian pretends to be still asleep. “You can sit back up.” I tell her and she does. I see she wants to ask why as I let the garage doors

her gaze. “But I need

her cheek. “I understand,”