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.

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

the abandoned

called Aaron, so he must know

one way or another, I’m

and let Aaron dictate the terms of my life

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

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

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

Ryker’s men-lost their lives defending Aaron and myself, all because Tobin was making some power-crazed grab

not even

and we still don’t

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

the way Aaron

of

as I hurry

over me as if he’s checking I’m not injured. “We should get you home. There’s

him stubbornly, which he is obviously

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

Leah’s wishes,” Ryker says, sending me a nod of polite

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

my arms. “Tm fully aware of Aaron’s penchant for giving orders that 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 now, and I think you

shoves a hand through his

can see

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

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