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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the kitchen and grab an apple from

the middle of the prep table.

the hell are you

It’s Jessica.

hair is down today and it

behind her like some goddamn shampoo

dance on

saddens

I am. And I have

and then snatches the apple from

the compost

if I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once

world in which your pack

sins.”

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

were committed,

my parents are dead.

mother is dead. I’ve lost cousins and kin too. War

that way.”

She huffs.

it? You’re a

bothers to keep you

pack. No

That hurts.

ashamed or apologetic for her actions, trying to steal

he was hers to begin

some sanctity for our relationship. Even

We

count for something.

Jessica… it isn’t good for either of

“I don’t care

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

finished with being nice to her. “You’re

and it’s the only

arms as

across the

pantry door and

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