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.

who hasn’t slept beside me in

I still want a divorce, Aaron.”

a moment before he banks the emotion. Then he

driver, a wolf

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sink back into the seat. I’m painfully

tumultuous emotions he stirs

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

two

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

expensive suits and gowns.

no formal uniform or etiquette and

each ruling family is almost a

of influence.

shirt and linen pants.

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

at the front of

suits and polished shoes. New money. The flashy kind.

several wolves wear

dirt poor, they’re sitting on

extends his hand to help

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

which is good. Aside

I look the

dark hair is drawn back into a simple

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