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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and grab

the middle of the prep table. It’s ripe and

the hell are

It’s Jessica.

long, blond hair is down today and it glows

like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh.

probably dance on my

thought saddens me.

ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now. You

the apple

into the compost bin.

my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a

there is no world in which your pack

sins.”

to reason with her. “I was a child when

committed,

my parents are dead.

lost cousins and kin too. War

that way.”

She huffs.

of it? You’re a human. For the life of me, I

why he even bothers to keep

pack. No use to Aaron.”

That hurts.

for her actions,

If I’m being fair, he was hers to

be some sanctity for our relationship.

We are married.

count for something.

doing, Jessica… it isn’t good for either of

head at me. “I don’t care about you, Leah. I

No one here does. And if you think that

with being nice to her. “You’re jealous.”

and it’s the only warning I

claws scratch down my arms as she grabs me and hurls

across the

and stay

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