LEAH

One moment Aaron is loving and open with me, the next I see him totally shut down when he gets a phone call from James.

It’s like watching him become a completely different person.

He becomes cold and indifferent, just like he used to be with me.

It feels like getting a bucket of ice water dumped over me.

I don’t understand what could have caused such a reaction from him.

But it must be something bad.

Something really bad.

“Aaron, what’s wrong?” I ask reaching for him, but he evades my touch.

“I have to go,” he replies, slipping his cell phone away and avoiding my gaze.

“Aaron, wait” I say, trying to keep the confusion and desperation out of my voice as he starts to walk away from me.

“Go find James and Ryker, they’ll make sure you get home safe,” he tells me, tossing the words carelessly over his shoulder, before disappearing into the shadows

“Dam n it, Aaron” I shout after him, frustrated that after everything. we’ve come right back around to this.

But I’m not putting up with it any longer.

scent trail, but that won’t do me any good once he gets

into the abandoned factory to

he must know what’s

or another, I’m going to find

and let Aaron dictate the terms of my life any

know he can do better than that. We can work as a team, and it’s so much

I find James and Ryker talking, while their men are gathering up the bodies of Tobin’s pack to be

of our own who were killed are being handled gently, taken out to a van

defending Aaron and myself, all because Tobin was

it’s not even

Tobin, and we still don’t know what happened to the

a problem, it

up and running off the way Aaron did just now-isn’t the answer to our

remind him of that when

I say as I hurry up to the

greets, his gaze running over me as if he’s checking I’m not injured. “We should get you home. There’s no need for you to stay here any longer. Our

not going home,” I tell him stubbornly, which he is obviously not impressed about. “You’re taking me to

whether from my imperious tone, or my refusal to agree

you to sort out Lama Leah’s wishes,” Ryker says, sending me a nod of

overly patient tone as he turns to me. “Aaron gave me strict instructions to take you

good. But haven’t I proven time and again that I’m capable of far more than

hand through his

can see

saying, but at the same time, he clearly feels bound by Aaron’s orders as his

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