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

want a divorce, Aaron.”

flash gold for a moment before he banks the emotion. Then he

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

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seat. I’m painfully aware

emotions he

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

two

we reach the Regional grounds, already cars are arriving and prominent alphas from across this part of the country are exiting limousines

suits and gowns. Others

There is no formal uniform or etiquette and the

family is almost a calling card for their

brand of influence.

on a v-neck shirt and linen pants.

is worth more than this car

brother are at the front of the line. They wear

bespoke suits and polished shoes.

surrounded by several wolves

they look dirt poor, they’re sitting on more land

my door and extends his hand to help me

cast on. My foot

good. Aside from aches and

look the

back

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