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.

never from you, Soren. I swear it. I would have told you, I should have told you but…

my jaw, warring with myself. Part of me yearns to pull her close, to lose myself in her warmth and forget

to understand how you can love someone

didn’t tell you, I would have but I was petrified of losing you and Max or the life I had with you both.” I swallow thickly. “Even now with his damn mark on

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die for you and Max.” She tells me and I know that much is true because

She sits curled

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 way for now.

up.” She looks at me but quickly complies, lying down across the backseat without question,

linger, poisonous whispers in the back of my mind. What else has she hidden? What other secrets lie buried, and is something of this magnitude even salvageable.

of us moves to get out and Damian pretends to be still asleep. “You can sit back up.” I tell her and she does. I

want to believe you,” I say finally, meeting her gaze. “But I need

tear trailing down her cheek. “I understand,” she murmurs. “I