Chapter 15

“Get her up!”

My wrists are snatched and I’m dangling in the air, my body suspended above the mountainside.

Then I’m back on flat land where I sink to my knees.

A dead wolf is tossed next to me. Then the other two.

They pile up and I stare at their lifeless bodies.

“Find the fourth carcass,” Aaron orders. “Burn them all.”

His gaze rakes over me.

James was the one to save me on the ledge and he grabs my leg now and lifts it in the air. He rips off my shoe to inspect my ankle from all sides. “This will need stitches. The wounds are

deep.”

Aaron grunts.

Every part of my body hurts. I start shivering and I hug my

2/7

arms around my waist, some lame attempt to hold myself together.

“She’s going into shock,” James says quietly.

Aaron’s brows draw down. He squats and sniffs the air. “The scent is strong.”

“We can track them.” James looks into the trees.

Aaron rises. He’s furious.

He arches a brow at his beta, and I know exactly what he’s

thinking.

up enough.

It’s broad daylight.

Aaron’s packlands.

to pass the

get so close

And his Luna.

don’t honor me with the title, as Aaron’s wife,

of value.

were properly mated, killing me could kill him.

3/7

Aaron says in a deadly calm voice. “Bring

the house and make sure she gets

Am I

other wolves in the clearing abruptly freeze and look

James is a dead man walking if something

“Yes, Alpha.”

me

without a backward glance. Five other wolves

me

in the doghouse,” I tell

He nods. “Again.”

blames me for this time too.

me a favor,” he says. “Don’t die on

another behind my back. He lifts me up and cradles me like a

back to

myself away from him,

he says

furnace and I’m shivering with cold. I really am going

hefts me higher and

the curve of his neck and my body

and

Huh.

wouldn’t resent this so much if he was less of a jerk.

isn’t some enemies-to-lovers relationship. We

each other. Not at

setting me down on a cropping of rocks. The big granite boulder is smooth and cool.

doing?”

drops to a knee in front of me

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255