Chapter 22

LEAH

The rest of the meeting is a blur.

Aaron hauls me to my feet and starts talking over the noise in the room about ‘personally conducting an investigation.’ And then, out of deference to me, he offered to pay my father’s bad debt so that the Regional Council would not be impacted

while he sorted through matters.

Which, of course, made everyone think he was some kind of

savior.

But could you really praise a firefighter for saving a burning building if he was the one who started the fire in the first

place?

No. Of course not.

And what Aaron did is criminal and gaslighting and all kinds

of twisted.

But it isn’t just Aaron who came out of the meeting smelling

like roses.

I made a good impression too, apparently. I struck a chord with some of the Elders. And they’ve granted my father a

reprieve because of it.

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because it held packs. together. At least a few of the council members appreciated my display of loyalty and

treachery

turn a wolf over to

anyway.

was hoping for but I’ve

has to

I can say for me.

my arm and brings me out of the building to the car.

ever so gently.

the kind of intentionally gentle gesture that lets me

to

the opposite side,

until he’s sitting next to me and then

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William but Cedric at the wheel this time, and I wonder what that’s about. Typically, Aaron doesn’t go anywhere without James or William, so it’s weird

the vehicle

are nowhere to be

turning left Aaron instructs the driver to go

going?”

his

anything. I promised. Hoping

dad.

he wants to go and

could have been avoided,”

me.”

face. I stare at him

You’re

I

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another she-wolf and rubs it in my face. The man who locks. me in a room with no food for a week. The man who set me up to be convicted of embezzling-only to

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