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.

do me any good once he gets

the abandoned factory to

Aaron, so he

I’m going to find out for

by and let Aaron dictate the terms of my

I know he can do better than that. We can work as a team, and it’s so much better than the back-and-forth, unbalanced power dynamic we had going

of Tobin’s pack to be dealt with. They’re tossing them in a pile, and I know from other skirmishes, their bodies

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

their lives defending Aaron and myself, all because Tobin was making some power-crazed

not even

with Tobin, and we still don’t know what happened

to solve a problem, it somehow ends up being

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

remind him of that when I catch

I

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 guys

obviously

from my imperious tone, or my refusal to agree with James’s plan to go

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

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

he thinks 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? I’m Aaron’s Luna. I’ve been an Alpha myself. Things are different

shoves a hand

see he’s

what I’m saying, but at the same time, he clearly feels bound

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