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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kitchen and grab

table. It’s ripe and red

are

It’s Jessica.

hair is down today and it

like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh.

on my grave.

saddens

mean, Jessica. I didn’t ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long

snatches the apple from my hand. She

the

we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d be

which your pack

sins.”

more to reason with her. “I was a child when

were committed,

parents are dead. And my eldest

mother is dead. I’ve lost cousins and kin

that way.”

She huffs.

You’re a human. For the life of me, I

to keep you around.

to this pack.

That hurts.

apologetic for

fair, he was hers to begin

some sanctity for our relationship. Even if

We are

has to count

isn’t

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

that Aaron cares, then you’re even dumber than you look.”

nice

flash and it’s the

scratch down my arms as she grabs me

across the kitchen.

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

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