280 Breakfast

Third Person POV

With Charles’s quiet comfort, Aubrey’s emotions finally settled a little.

48 Pears

Thank the Moon Goddess, you’re all right. You scared me half to death just now. Ella sighed in relief within her mind.

“Sorry,” Aubrey murmured. She hadn’t even known what came over her. The moment she’d begun suspecting that Alpha Henry had provided protection for that secret facility in her past life, her emotions had spiraled out of control.

She had tried to contain it, but quickly realized she couldn’t. If she didn’t vent somehow, she would lose control and lash out at those around her.

So she had chosen to leave, abandoning the car, shifting into her wolf form, running until her strength gave out. Only then had she turned back into a human, exhausted, sitting by the river in a daze.

By then she’d calmed some, but she knew she still couldn’t face Alpha Henry. Seeing him would have pushed her back over the edge. That was why, when Charles appeared, she had gone with him.

a hand, and patted his shoulder. “I’m

her words, embarrassment flickered across Charles’s face. He quickly released her, but the warmth of her body and the faint, cool fragrance of herbs lingered against him. Retreating a step, he found himself strangely

for you?” he asked, forcing himself to bury the thoughts running

at her temples. The stabbing pain in her head was already

there to say? Ask why she had fought with the alpha? Ask what had happened in the short time he’d been gone, what had hurt her


enough for those questions. And with Aurelia and Bailey tangled between their families, the tension between the merchants and the Lin family

hand down his face.

breakfast.”

leaned back on the sofa, her eyes following

sounds of running water and chopping drifted from the kitchen.

of annoyance–water had splashed somewhere. Looking up instinctively, she saw/Charles peel off his

movement made his muscles shift and flex, sweat sliding down the line of his spine into his waistband, catching the morning light with

1313 Wed, 17 Sept

Chapter 280 Breakfast

Aubrey froze, blinking. Wow.

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