Stronger by Ang Chris

Stronger

Chapter 24

“Mother I know you think I’m being cruel but this is the-”

“If you think I, as your mother will buy into that you’re an imbecile,” I shut him down.

“Mama, I have to protect our people,”

“You are protecting yourself, don’t lie,” I crossed my arms. “I know what drives you, the fear that has crawled up into your lungs,”

“Annette is going to be my Luna I-”

I held up my hand. “Annette is going to be your wife, you are destroying her,” I walked up to him and tilted his face to mine. “Your father cut you off, he walked away. Annette has seen the ugliest side of you, the side I thought you were better than and she’s stayed,” I nodded to him.

“But if you continue this I will send her to Georgia myself and I will sit beside her at her binding to a good man,” I knew that he would not like this but he needed to see.

He stood up pushing over his and growled “you will not take her away!”

“Ohhh!” I laughed. “Look at that you care!”

“Mom I am trying,” He slumped his shoulders.

“You are guarding yourself! I did not raise a coward!” I walk towards him. “Make the effort for her and you might be surprised by the acceptance you get in return,”

“She is not something I understand how to approach,” he confessed.

“So instead you neglect her the way you were?” I close my eyes. “Try Grayson and she will show you how,”

I left my son to ponder the challenge I gave him, he was no coward with his life but his heart, he couldn’t let a single soul inside.

“I cannot believe he was jealous of Matt!” Charlotte squealed at me.

“If Matt had a partner of his own I’m sure Grayson would not worry,” I rolled my eyes and continued twisting the barbed wire for the fence.

“Many women would kill for Matt how Grayson would think that you his soulmate would be one of them is clinically insane,” She huffed and nailed the wire to the fence in one big swing.

“Are you one of those women?” I teased her elbowing her side.

“Never!” she snorted.

“What you don’t want to be Mrs. O’Connell?” I kept poking.

“No, no I don’t think I could be with a wolf from our pack. I know them all too well I want someone who I would have to learn,” She told me blushing a little.

“Well I don’t know if you know but a bunch of single men tried to marry me so I know a couple of guys,” I winked.

“No thank you!” she shook her head many times.

“Well, whoever you end up with will be the luckiest,” I smiled at her.

“Anna? Do you think you’ll stay here?” Charlotte suddenly turned serious.

I stopped.

Should I? He’s given me no reason to trust he’ll change. I have always wanted a romance, and he is so distrusting.

“I don’t know…”

left he would have no issue finding someone else. She could k*ss him,

“Luna!” Charlotte screeched,

“Huh?”

I had squeezed the barbed wire thinking of him with

and we’ll go to delta Aarron right away,” she hopes up onto her feet and ran

so angry at the thought of him with another woman I

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him is inevitable. I am desperate for his b*dy. I would kill for his smiles. All I am

resist a sensation this strong all due to fear. How do I stand by him when this

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snapped the wire from the spool her mouth

me stand as my mind still whirled

know this will be healed in matter of

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You would think the soulmate bond would give me a pardon

until we take it out,” she likes over at my hand as she drove. “Luna are you

don’t think I am.

I can either fall knowing I will get hurt or pull back and save myself.

fall and be beside a known risk or do I pull away and never know? *

I leave? Should

on,” she opened my door for me and ushered me into the clinic.

*

guiding us to a private room through the prying eyes of the

I may have asked an insensitive question,” Charlotte looked

it’s not your

okay?” Aarron had me lay down and put my arm on a small exam table.

felt far away

I turned to one of the

don’t. Did she hit her head?” he

she was going to burst into tears and she paced and nipped at her

you give your life for him?”

alpha,” he shook his head and poked me with a needle. “You’re gonna wanna

you Aarron,” I looked up at the

“Luna are you alright? Charlotte I thought

she just squeezed the wire I brought her here immediately,” she bit her finger and pleaded her

I lost a bit of control

came over to look at my hand as

She’s fractured her pointer finger with

will tell him what happened no one will be in trouble,” I assured them as

happy with you,”

to

came to

you think Grayson is a good

“I know he’s been difficult and he

is he good?”

they all had now shone on her face as well. “He is I swear by the goddess,” she

been told,” I

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good, they would give their lives for him, the would fight for him. And here I sit bloody and

will be healed in a