Chapter 9

“Leah!”

The roar echoes through the house.

Aaron is home.

And he is in a bad mood.

“I have to go, Adam. I’ll call you soon.”

“Wait! There’s something-”

I click off the phone and shove it into the back pocket of my

jeans.

Then I run down the stairs-it’s way easier going down than

up-and follow his hollering to the study.

Aaron is at his computer. He motions for me to sit beside him.

I hold my breath.

Being alone with this man…does something to me.

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me which stirs my body to aching awareness. And even that feels like an insult. That I should crave this man, that 1 should want to mate and celebrate life, even as my body is eroding on the inside

death that has me

hard.

wrong? Why are you so sad all the time? And where the hell did you

up to the point of starvation and I wouldn’t tell him. I cast him a rueful

tell him now?

“You’re very

he isn’t locking me

other awful tactic.

called the main packhouse,” he tells me.

him.” When I was imprisoned my phone died and I wasn’t able to

call him

has several spreadsheets up for stocks he’s been tracking and I go and sit near him

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