Chapter 307

EMILY

“Let me see,” Axel says gently, pulling my hands from where I’ve tucked them against myself.

They’re all cut up and bloody, but the slices are superficial, so they’ll probably heal easily enough.

Axel, however, rips the bottom of his shirt and then gently winds the material around the worst cuts, stemming the last of the trickling blood.

“Thank you,” I murmur, my voice hoarse. “I don’t know why I did that.”

It’s the truth.

The way I lost control scares me.

It was kind of frightening the way the emotions just overwhelmed me like that and I had to do something, anything

to let them out.

I only wish no one else had witnessed it.

Axel has seen sides of me I wish I could bury deep, never to see the light of day again.

I want me as his mate.

Someone as broken as I am.

can’t

can’t even be trusted to be left

on their own.

regret attacking

enemy

can see that, even if no one else

time and done it when we’d been alone so no one

own right, so maybe she would have

at least I wouldn’t be living in this

the people I love if

be living

a wolf

not just

before it can take

can’t even face what was done to me.

What I’ve become.

focus on the here and now.

Axel is simply holding me–not trying to control me- his touch and presence is easing the

calmed and drained

letting his strength and solid presence soothe me in a way I probably shouldn’t let it

that for a few silent minutes, and it’s exactly

me wishes this was

holding me because he

  1. me.

so gentle, I

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