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.

slept beside me

still want a divorce,

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

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

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the seat. I’m

emotions he

shifts his leg so it presses against mine,

two

alphas from across

wear expensive suits and gowns.

There is no formal uniform or etiquette

almost a calling card for their

brand of

a v-neck shirt and linen pants.

The watch on his wrist is worth more than this car and though he doesn’t flaunt it,

the front of

shoes. New money.

older couple surrounded by several wolves wear jeans

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

door and extends his hand to help me out.

on. My foot is mostly

infected which is good. Aside from aches and pains and

I look the same.

dark hair is drawn back into a simple ponytail.

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