Chapter 18

the meeting and back.

1 file out behind them.

When I get into his idling SUV and buckle my seatbelt Aaron

looks at me oddly. “You should stay home tonight,” he tells me.

It’s the first time he’s spoken to me since the attack. “I haven’t

missed a meeting since I came here.”

“You’re injured.”

The implication being that I’m ‘human’. That I’m weak.

True, but … “It’s because I was attacked that I should be present. There are threats that the Council needs to be aware

of.”

“Do you plan to petition them for a divorce?”

So that’s why he wants me to stay. To silence me. He has the nerve to look earnest and upset that I want to leave him when he is the one who broke his vows and impregnated another

woman.

who hasn’t slept beside me

still want

gold for a moment before he banks the emotion. Then he shrugs. “Suit

to the driver, a wolf named William.

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seat. I’m

he

shifts his leg so it presses against mine, I wonder if I can endure his nearness

two hours.

prominent alphas from

gowns. Others

shirts. There is no formal uniform or etiquette

of each ruling family is almost a

brand of influence.

on a v-neck shirt and linen pants.

worth more than this car and though he doesn’t flaunt it, he

the front of

and polished shoes. New

older couple surrounded by several wolves

far north, and while they look dirt poor, they’re sitting on more land than

his hand to help

My

Aside from aches

look the same.

dark hair is drawn back into a simple

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