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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grab an apple from the giant

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

hell are you

It’s Jessica.

down today and it glows beautifully,

goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

dance on my grave.

saddens

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

snorts and then snatches the

it into the

way, we wouldn’t just bleed you

world in which your pack

sins.”

try once more to reason with her. “I was

were committed,

are dead. And my

I’ve lost cousins and kin too.

that way.”

She huffs.

You’re a human. For the life of me, I

why he even bothers to keep

pack. No use to

That hurts.

or apologetic for

he was hers to begin with. But

be some sanctity for our

aren’t mated. We are

count

isn’t good for either of

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

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

with being nice to her.

the only

as she grabs

the kitchen.

into the pantry door and stay there on the ground, wheezing.

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