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.

is the one who hasn’t slept beside me in a week.

still want a divorce, Aaron.”

gold for a moment before he banks the emotion. Then

the driver, a wolf named William.

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seat. I’m painfully aware of this man

the tumultuous emotions he

sitting close to Aaron but when he shifts his leg so it presses

two hours.

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

expensive suits and gowns. Others are in jeans

There is no formal uniform

ruling family is almost a calling

brand of

shirt and linen pants. The light colors

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 wealth.

are at the front of the line. They wear

and polished shoes. New money.

surrounded by several

and while they look dirt poor, they’re sitting on

and extends his hand to

on. My foot is mostly healed. It didn’t

is good. Aside from aches and pains

I look

is drawn back into

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