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

who is dangerous and can’t even be trusted to be left

on their own.

don’t regret attacking

still the enemy after all.

if

when we’d been alone

Alpha in her own right, so maybe she would have simply

least I wouldn’t be living in

to me or the people I love if I

I wouldn’t be living in this horrible

just a wolf any

not

the thought off before it

can’t even face what was done to me.

What I’ve become.

force myself to focus on

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

calmed

strength and solid presence soothe me in a way I probably shouldn’t let it since he’s not my mate.

few silent minutes, and it’s

of me wishes

me because he was my mate

  1. me.

is so gentle, I can almost believe the fantasy of it.

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