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.

asks after

kind of smile sadly because we know

question.

of us

about the funeral. We’ll have

organize for them to return‘

swallow, unable to say the rest of

take care of it, Leah,” James says in a rough

to do that.”

a few more tears escape.

them

do these days is cry.

anyone blame me,

of my annoyance at myself giving

they went after Aaron was because they were scared of his Alpha powers. He didn’t even

wrong.”

are we going to do? Fight the whole Council? That’ll

just know I can’t stand to watch them

nods and I can tell he feels bad about

answer for me.

spinning from one thing to the next,

helping me search for the missing Al tech that has the potential to kill thousands if not millions of people if it ended up in the wrong

again, and I have no

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