Alpha Leo and the Heart of Fire

41. You Don’t Know the Pain

LEO.

“Leo…”

She walked over to me, and the moment she touched my back, sending a rush of sparks through me, I felt a wave of calmness washi over me,

The fucking bond.

“I didn‘t mean it in a bad way. You know. Hrowing up, everyone called me a freak because I was born with the help of magic, so they found the word fitting. There were even a few people in the pack who refused to acknowledge me because of it. Heck, some still exist.... as I got older, I stopped telling my family because I didn‘t want to always cause them trouble...” She sighed, and I did my best to remain calm. Flaring anger rushed through me, and I wondered if that was why she was so cheerful because inside she was dealing with a lot.

“I know you always say I‘m the daughter of an Elite. Although my life is nowhere as harrowing as I‘m sure yours has been, I just wanted to let you know that things aren‘t always what they seem.” She moved in front of me, her hand running along my waist, before she placed it on my chest. “It‘s ok to be afraid. I sometimes am... like right now. I don‘t know how this will work... with this baby... us... What will we tell our child? Why aren‘t we together?”

She placed her hand on her stomach, and that intense urge to touch it once more tempted me, but I didn‘t.

“We‘ll figure it out...” I said quietly. We would... I would figure it out for all of you...

I saw the vulnerability in her eyes when she had told me her situation.

Tonight had felt like a snippet of the life that maybe we could have… Her, Corrado... our unborn pup... She‘d be the mother Corrado would love. Even if she wasn‘t what I would have expected, somehow, she had won him over, the perfect balance of wild, cheeky and mature...

I reached up, brushing her silky locks back. Her eyes fluttered shut for a second as my fingers grazed her skin ever so lightly.

These sparks... What were they?

So unexplainable…

She leaned into my touch, her head tilting up slightly, and that intense tension returned.

I wanted her.

“Yeah... maybe we will.” She responded quietly. We fell silent, but I didn‘t remove my hand from her hair, my thumb caressing her jaw. 1 knew what I was afraid of, but I‘d never speak it out loud... I was fucking afraid of us letting our guards down once more, only to be cast aside like always...

heart thundering as she

thought she‘d have forgotten... I sighed, looking down into her eyes

I was just someone she never wanted to lose, yet someone she hated... I was only a pup who wouldn‘t be able to do any damage to her anyway, for now. But I saw it all, the beatings, the torture, the dark magic... Her sacrificing our own kind... her feeding the scraps of our people to our own. Creating the wendigos... it was sick. No one would hear me... because

away, wishing I had a cigarette right now. “There is good in this world.”

I get the reasons, I fucking do. I know the pain when one‘s

had broken in, I had seen her struggling to free herself, and so I had secretly unlocked the cell and cleared the escape route for her. She never knew I had helped her back

get punished if I was caught, but it was ok as long as I did the

I didn‘t really know.

were blurred

come for me, or Dad would take me to her. She‘d tie me up, and all I remember is the excruciating pain that she inflicted on me. I would wake up bleeding after blacking out on the floor, and I would just get up and get back to my sorry

decade ago. You had a hand

thing to do... not because of the bastard.” I replied icily. “Rafael Rossi... I want to believe that if

have a good heart... just like Marcel

showed that no matter what I did, it was never enough... Selene saw

exactly what you suffered at her hands... you told me to speak to my parents, and I think you need to do the same... But regardless of that... Do you know what I

person Leo, and I‘m lucky that you are the father of my child. He or she will be lucky

that child

mean it. You don‘t need to be chums with them... but maybe putting it behind

there‘s no way to forgive that.” I replied, coldly glancing down into her

to meet your half–brother, right? When he was just an innocent part of this entire

eyes widening with surprise,

“Are you challenging me?”

show

who didn‘t do shit isn‘t enough.” She raised her eyebrow, her nails digging into my neck. What the fuck was with this girl and violence? 2 “Fine, I‘ll visit her grave... I will speak my mind and I will tell my parents how I feel about Indigo...and you, you tell Marcel how hard you had it. It‘s not fair on you to keep this inside. I think only when we are able to let it all out can we truly move on from it all.”

violent.” I growled, gripping her wrists and yanking her hands away from where she had drawn blood, I pulled her hands against my chest glaring down at her. “Don‘t change

do but forgiving isn‘t that easy.” I

gasped as her chest slammed against me and she grabbed my shoulders in reflex. Her heart pounded and my dick throbbed at the feel of her

you for what you did to me... I‘m dealing with the fact that you‘re only being nice to me because of this pup! I‘m trying, and all I‘m saying

as I stared

Try...