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.

one who hasn’t slept beside me in

I still want a divorce, Aaron.”

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

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

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the seat. I’m painfully

emotions he stirs in me.

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

two hours.

alphas from across this

expensive suits and gowns.

is no formal uniform or etiquette

ruling family is almost a calling card

of

has on a v-neck shirt and linen

and his huge stature. The watch on his wrist is worth more than this car and though he

are at the front of the line. They wear

polished shoes.

older couple surrounded by several wolves wear jeans and

dirt poor,

door and extends his hand to help me

have a walking cast on. My foot is mostly

Aside from aches and

I look the

back

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