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…”

could k*ss him, hold him, he would probably let her because he wouldn’t

“Luna!” Charlotte screeched,

“Huh?”

looked down and I had squeezed the barbed wire thinking of him with another woman. My glove was

side and we’ll go to delta Aarron right away,” she

I got so angry at the thought of him

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desperate for his b*dy. I

I live knowing he can resist a sensation this strong all due to fear. How do I

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snapped the wire from the spool her mouth emoting a tiny whine the entire time.

on!” Charlotte helped me stand as my mind still

this will be

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I do and he looks at me so differently. You would think the soulmate bond would give me a pardon into his life but it made me guilty before I had a

likes over at my hand as she drove. “Luna are you

don’t think I

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

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

mistake to come? Should I leave? Should I stay? Could he overcome

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

*

at the door, guiding us to a private room through the prying eyes

a flash of anger on her face I may have asked an insensitive question,” Charlotte looked at me guiltily.

your fault,” I mumbled.

and put my arm on a small

still felt far away

turned to one of the men who

Did she hit her head?” he looked

going to burst into tears and she paced and nipped at her nails. “I don’t think,”

you give your life

him even if he wasn’t my alpha,” he shook

looked up

you

talking. I swear, I was with her and she just squeezed the wire I brought her here immediately,” she bit

nothing wrong. I lost a bit of control for a second,” I

came over to look at my hand as

won’t. She’s fractured her pointer finger with

I assured them as

happy with

have to talk anyways,”

Elizabeth came to my shoulder.

a good person? Not alpha, person,”

he’s been difficult and he is not an easy person-”

is he

well. “He is I swear

been told,”

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their lives for him, the would fight for him. And here I sit bloody and frustrated.

it will be healed in a day or