I blink my eyes open and grimace when I realize my whole body hurts.

I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck. And a train. And then a steamroller.

Every muscle aches and every joint hurts and for a minute I can’t remember what happened.

And I don’t know where I am.

In some kind of office, and I’ve been left lying on a narrow cot.

Just as I sit up, the door opens and Karolina comes in.

In that second, all the memories of the past days come flooding back, and I gasp, my hand flying to my chest.

I feel so empty.

The absence of my mating bond with Aaron is like a black hole inside me.

It’s a void at the very center of my soul that’s never going to

be filled.

“Good, you’re awake.” Karolina is carrying an electrolyte drink, which she brings over and hands to me.

I take it with a murmured thanks, immediately worried about how grim she looks and the general negative vibe she’s giving off.

“Is everything okay?” I ask, but then feel stupid for asking that question.

Of course everything isn’t okay.

I’ve just been forced to reject my mate and break our mating bond, and my husband–the love of my life–is going to be

executed at the next full moon.

“I’m afraid I have some bad news,” Karolina says, crossing her arms and avoiding my gaze.

I squeeze the electrolyte bottle until my knuckles ache,

wanting to escape this room before I have to hear whatever it is that Karolina’s going to tell me.

place and whatever this is,

happened?” I ask, my

didn’t survive breaking the

as if she doesn’t really care, or is uncomfortable

and

words

Didn’t survive.

He’s dead?” I stutter

even more

I’m afraid so.”

strong,” I reply, totally bewildered.

else going on, Aaron not surviving when we broke the mating bond never even

power of three Alpha’s!” I just can’t wrap my head around how I could have survived

it’s the most powerful who fall the

I whisper, a shudder of grief going through my body, painful

over again. “This

should also know,” Karolina continues, as

falling apart around me right now.

decided to let you off from your

with light punishment.

in name only. The control of

Leithrow and Havelock–will remain

for the foreseeable

in that second, I can’t care about any

existing in a world where Aaron is no longer

alive.

told them the news,” Karolina says curtly. “Someone will be here shortly to pick you up and take you

to say anything else,

and leaves the room, shutting the door soundly

behind her.

can do is sit there in frozen,

move, because that’s

cope with Aaron’s death being

I just can’t.

how to live when Aaron isn’t by my side.

how long I sit there, unmoving,

has ceased to have any

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