Chapter 151

JAMES

“SONOFABITCH!!!”

Aaron is convulsing.

His arms and legs are flailing and for a 6’4″ beast of man, he can do a lot of damage. Our men can handle it.

His wife…

Gods.

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Leah’s eyes are open and unseeing. Aaron has her hand clasped in his and I wonder if they walk the same space or if that peace beyond life is as simple as one breath to the next.

Nothing to mourn or hope for.

Just silence and darkness.

One thing’s for sure… if he follows her, it’ll cause chaos.

“Get your ass back here, bro,” I growl, and because I’m so pi ssed that he could be so f**king reckless, I slap his face to try and anger him back to his senses.

It do

Our men are anxious and gaping at me. They’ve never lost an Alpha. Not in battle and not even in succession. Aaron’s grandfather transferred the role to him at an early age. Pack Rathborn has been beneath Aaron’s control for two decades.

There are police sirens outside and that’s going to be a mess to deal with.

“Get them up and out the back.”

There are boats outside and while that might cause a whole shitstorm of trouble-the whole evading police and fleeing a crime scene variety of charges-we can’t stick around and wait for my Alpha to do…whatever it is he’s trying to do.

I think back long and hard on every text of our Archives I’ve

ever read.

Wolves have been transitioned. Wolves have been ‘saved’ by a mating bond.

But no wolf in existence has been mated to a dead human

and survived it.

Aaron has committed is an

at the consequences.

are ready.” One of the men pulls a tab off one

it lights instantly.

I order. Then I light the remaining

the warehouse and wait

out the back

building and all

A

A

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6 Months later

is cool. It carries the scent of winter.

doesn’t make

barely

the background. Classical music, Für Elise

Beethoven.

up

ache with an odd discomfort that doesn’t hurt, per say, but it’s

$

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4

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new to walking. My

when I stand I

foot in front of

and door is partly open, letting in the cold-and snow. The flakes scatter on

are bare and the contrast of cold and warm is invigorating.

the French doors and step out.

and snow b low. His back is to me.

know those

“It’s

toward

unbound. It’s long. Like really long. I’m draped in some full length nightgown that an 80 year

my face

as one of those snowflakes.

into the

me back

“A-aron?”

is raspy and I try to clear my throat. “Aaron. Don’t

near the door of his bedroom. I’m in his

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