Chapter 11

LEAH

I’m not going to lie, I feel a little happy.

Please don’t judge. I get it. I’m THAT girl.

The dumb one. The oh-you-got-your-heart-broke-again one.

The one who sits home waiting for him to call.

But what most people don’t know is that Aaron was the one to

sit up with me when I had nightmares. He was the one to insist

I learn to trade and to obtain my Series 7 license so I’d have a

career. Aaron is the one to stare me in the eyes everytime he

joins his body to mine.

And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s just sex.

But it’s not.

It’s more than that.

I know it. I believe it.

And deep down, I love him.

As rough and cold as he can be, I know there’s more to him

than he lets the world see.

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head into the kitchen and grab an apple from

the prep table. It’s

hell are you

It’s Jessica.

is down

her like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

probably dance on my

saddens

I am. And I have been

then snatches the apple from my hand.

the

had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d be every day.

world in which your pack can absolve

sins.”

try once more to reason with her. “I was a child

committed, Jessica.”

dead. And my

is dead. I’ve lost cousins and

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a human. For the

to keep you around. You’re

pack. No

That hurts.

or apologetic for her actions,

fair, he was hers to

needs to be some sanctity for our

We are married.

has to count for something.

isn’t

me. “I

if you think that Aaron cares, then you’re even dumber than

with being nice to her.

flash and it’s the only warning I get.

as

across the

into the pantry door and stay there on

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