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.

think about following his scent trail, but that won’t do me any good once he gets into

I hurry into the

Aaron, so he

way or another, I’m

and let Aaron dictate

he can do better than that. We can work as a team, and it’s so much better than the back-and-forth,

main factory floor, I find James and Ryker talking, while their men are gathering up the bodies of Tobin’s pack to be dealt with. They’re tossing them in a pile, and I know from other

our own who were killed are being handled gently, taken out to a van to be transported back to

their lives defending Aaron and myself, all because Tobin was making

not even over after

we still don’t know what happened to the Al weapons

we’re going to solve a problem, it somehow ends up being

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

him of

as I hurry up to

should get you home. There’s no need for you to

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

whether from my imperious tone, or my refusal to

out Lama Leah’s wishes,” Ryker says, sending me

he turns to me.

are for my own good. But haven’t I proven time and again that I’m capable of far more than anyone has ever given me credit for?

hand through

can see

agrees with what I’m saying, but at the same time, he clearly feels bound by Aaron’s orders as

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