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.

the one who hasn’t slept beside me in

still want a

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

nods to the driver, a wolf named William. “Let’s go.”

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I’m painfully

emotions he stirs in

sitting close to Aaron but when he shifts his leg so it presses against mine, I wonder if I can

next two hours.

and prominent alphas from across this part of the country are exiting

expensive suits and gowns. Others are

formal uniform or etiquette

is almost a calling card for

brand of

shirt and linen pants. The

off his bronzed skin and his huge stature. The watch on his wrist is worth more than this car and though he doesn’t flaunt it, he projects power and

the front of the line.

suits and polished shoes. New money. The flashy

several wolves wear jeans and

the far north, and while they look dirt poor, they’re sitting

opens my door and extends his

My foot

infected which is good. Aside from

look the same.

drawn back into a simple

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