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…”

else. She could k*ss him, hold

“Luna!” Charlotte screeched,

“Huh?”

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

Aarron right away,” she hopes up onto her feet and ran to

at the thought of him with

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desperate for his b*dy. I would kill

due to fear. How do I stand by him when this

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snapped the wire from the spool

come on!” Charlotte helped me stand as

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and he looks at me so differently. You would think the soulmate bond would give me

to heal until we take it out,” she likes over at

I am.

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

known risk or do I pull away and never know?

I leave? Should I stay? Could he overcome

on,” she opened my door for me

*

at the door, guiding us

anger on her face I may have asked an insensitive question,”

it’s not your fault,” I mumbled.

and put my arm on a

felt far

one of the men who knew my mate

hit her head?” he

Charlotte looked as though she was going to burst into tears and she paced and nipped at her nails. “I

life for him?”

my life for him even if he wasn’t my alpha,” he shook his head and poked me with a

Aarron,” I looked up

rushed into the room. “Luna are you alright? Charlotte

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

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

at my

pointer finger

trouble,” I assured them as I

happy with you,”

to

came

think Grayson is a good person?

“I know he’s been difficult and he

is he good?”

as well. “He is I swear by the goddess,”

I’ve been told,”

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

healed in