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.

hasn’t slept

want a divorce, Aaron.”

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

a wolf named William.

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the seat. I’m painfully aware of this

the tumultuous emotions he stirs

he shifts his leg so it presses against mine, I wonder if I

next two hours.

Regional grounds, already cars are arriving and prominent alphas from across this

suits and gowns. Others are in jeans

is no formal

ruling family is almost a calling card for their

brand of influence.

a v-neck shirt and linen pants.

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

father and brother are at the front of the line. They wear

polished shoes. New money. The flashy kind.

by several wolves wear jeans

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

and extends his hand to help

have a walking cast on. My foot is mostly healed.

which is good. Aside from aches and

look the same.

hair is drawn back into a simple

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