Chapter 323

EMILY

For a second, I lay there, dazed and confused.

I’ve never experienced anything like what just happened between me and Axel.

But I’d barely come down from the impossible high when he got up and walked out, leaving me here feeling used and unwanted.

The cold air registers on my cooling skin and I shiver, quickly dragging my clothes over to dress myself before someone can walk in here and see me like this.

I thought what was happening between me and Axel was something special, something amazing.

That just maybe, somehow, we could get past all the things between us and become mated after

all.

Except I can see now how lust clouded my mind and impaired my judgement.

I feel shame and embarrassment storm through me.

I can’t believe how I let myself lose control like that. With a man who barely tolerates me and would kill me the second he discovered the truth of what I’d become after the horrible experiments the old Roberts Alpha and his son Liam conducted on me.

Axel had said I was required to begin my training again.

I don’t completely disagree with him on that idea. I’d like to sharpen my skills once again, and the idea of training everyday-having some structure and routine, as well as something to look forward to-it’s actually very appealing to me.

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I only wish I’d thought of it myself.

Now, Axel and Aaron will probably take the credit for any improvements training might bring me.

it, but I’m doing it for me, not them and

don’t want to

Not after what just

raw

Axel got to his feet, I could see the cold disgust swiftly returning to his features, but now

even worse.

and I can only wonder how much worse

done something so

kiss to distract him.

grew up around wolves, mated and

of control a male wolf can get around his mate, especially when they’re not actually mated.

have rejected me, but his instincts would still

should’ve known getting so close to him-trying to trick him so I could

avoiding the curious gazes of other pack members I pass

but I manage to slip away so I can shift and

let my mind go quiet

I run and

not

-No es justo, Que hice mal?

I’m starting to tire.

that

muscles

y quiero

lands behind me, and I’m coming up on the same hiking trail where I

shift back,

through the woods onto a small clearing next

picnic blanket with a sketchbook in his lap and various pencils and

deliberately crack a twig underfoot, and he turns his head at

smiles, and his eyes light up as soon

heart thumps painfully in my chest as I try to remember the last time someone actually looked happy to see

to the page in

at the edge of

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