Chapter 261

LEAH

By the time evening rolls around, I’m exhausted.

I’ve divided my time between accepting condolences from pack members who’ve come to see me–at the same time, needing their own comfort because their Alpha is dead and the uncertainty over who will be our new Alpha is terrifying- and looking after Ethan.

It occurs to me that we’re going to have to have a funeral, and that sends me into a mini breakdown, somehow making everything real all over again.

James comes to find me where I’m curled up in the middle of Aaron’s bed, hugging his pillow as if it can somehow bring him

back to me.

“You should eat something, Leah,” he says gently as he sits on the edge of the bed.

“I’m not hungry,” I reply automatically, even though I know he’s right.

“You don’t have to come down,” he tells me with a slight frown.

“I’ll have the chef send something up.”

I nod absently, even though I doubt I’m going to be able to

stomach much food.

after a few silent moments,

both kind of smile sadly because we know that’s a dumb

question.

neither of us are okay.

funeral. We’ll have to

for them to return‘ Aaron’s—”

swallow, unable to say the rest

James says in a rough voice. “You

have to

nod, and a few

wipe at them in annoyance.

I seem to do these days is

can anyone blame me, considering everything I’ve

some of my annoyance at myself giving way to anger toward

get away with this. The only reason they went after

wrong.”

what are we going to

just know I can’t stand

I can tell he feels bad about not having an

answer for me.

thing to the next,

me search for the missing Al tech that has the potential to kill thousands if not millions of people

yet again, and I

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