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.

who can’t

dangerous and can’t even be trusted to be

on their own.

regret

still the enemy after

if no one

I’d bided my time and done it when we’d been alone

Alpha in her own right, so maybe

wouldn’t be living in

happen to me or the people I love

living

just a wolf any longer.

not

before it

what was done

What I’ve become.

to focus

holding me–not trying to control me- his touch and presence is easing the wildness inside me.

has calmed

lean into him, letting his strength and solid presence soothe me in a way I probably shouldn’t let it since he’s

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

of me wishes this

Axel was holding me because he was my mate

  1. me.

is so gentle, I can almost

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