Chapter 21

LEAH

Wolves don’t beg.

They don’t grovel or back down,

A pack’s value comes from its strength.

I tilt my chin up.

I may be on my knees, but it doesn’t make me weak.

My will is strong. So is my willingness to fix this mess I’ve made.

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If Aaron won’t be reasonable then I will rely on the mercy of this Council.

“Ma’am Karolina, are we not all wolves?” I say.

Her lips purse. It’s a not so subtle reminder that everyone here is a wolf-except me.

“Our numbers are low,” I press on. “Our strength is tied to our

unity as a species. There must be justice, yes, but also mercy

might

head encouraging me

I can give my life greater purpose and meaning. I’m dying. I can’t

collective packs-1, Leah Roberts Rathborn would

member Karolina

tribute in place of my father.”

dead body!” Aaron screams.

AARON

Leah gasps.

the hell are you doing?” I ask her.

the Council. “Alpha Aaron is a

shield me. But I stand by my vow. Please accept me as tribute in my father’s stead, and I beg you to show

can attest, I sometimes

accounting.”

it is.

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I’m her husband and

ideas of divorce she may

dark and possessive washes over me

on her knees.

her choose me.

want to twist my hands in her hair and

into her flesh and mark her skin

this room-in this world-will

I’ll ever do such

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