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.

me any good once he gets

into the abandoned factory

so he must know

way or another, I’m going to

Aaron dictate the terms of my life any

a team, and it’s so much better than the back-and-forth, unbalanced power dynamic we

I reach the 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 skirmishes, their bodies will

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

men-lost their lives defending Aaron and myself,

even over

Tobin, and we still don’t know what happened

going to solve a problem,

Aaron did

just need to remind him of that when I catch

as I hurry

should get you home. There’s no need for

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

an eyebrow, whether from my imperious tone, or my refusal

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

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

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

hand through his

see

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

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