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 control themselves.

even be trusted

on their own.

regret

enemy after

can see that, even if no one

only wish I’d bided my time and done it when we’d been alone so no one could have stopped me.

is an Alpha in her own right, so maybe she would have

I wouldn’t be living in this misery

worry what will happen to me or the people I love if I fully snap one

least I wouldn’t be living in this

a wolf any

also not

cut the thought off before it can

can’t even face what was done

What I’ve become.

I force myself to focus on the here

that Axel is simply holding me–not trying to control me- his touch

calmed

strength and solid presence soothe me in a

that for a few silent minutes,

me wishes this was

was holding me because he was my mate and

  1. me.

so gentle, I can almost

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