Chapter 2
It’s raining.
I’d taken an Uber into the city to see Dr.
Henley and I walked all the way back to
the city limits.
“Miss, do you need a ride?” It’s an elderly couple. They pulled to the side of the
road in their Chevy Malibu. They look
concerned.
I’m concerned.
But what difference does a bit of rain
make?

A second car pulls up. It’s a big SUV. I
recognize the license plate.
“You’re both very kind,” I tell them. “It’s
okay. My friend is here.”
“Friend” is a word I’d use lightly.
James is Aaron’s beta.
He’s a big, brooding wolf who doesn’t particularly like me.
That’s probably because Aaron was supposed to marry his sister, Jessica.
I’m pretty sure Aaron is still in love with
her. That he would already be mated to
her if he wasn’t stuck with me. They’re
together all the time. She dotes on him
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it’s not because he’s respecting my position as luna, or because he’s respecting my privacy…it’s because he doesn’t give a sh*t.
3/9

In the past, when we were stuck together,
I’d prattle on and ask questions, forcing
him to converse with me because I knew
he didn’t want to. Today, I stare out the
window and don’t say a word.
Not even when he keeps glancing at me.
“Dr. Henley, is it curable…if I’m hospitalized?”
“There are treatments that might buy
you a few extra months…”
A few extra months.

splattering the glass. I’m going to die. There is no hope for me. Upon returning to the packlands, we veer off the main highway onto a long stretch of private

man’s indifference… when I’ve known him for nearly half my life…

I get out of the car and stare up at the
massive house. It’s four stories of stone
with a tiled roof. A massive, glamorous
estate that I’d thought so beautiful the
first time I saw it.
5/9
“What the he ll is wrong with your phone,
Leah?”
It’s Aaron.
He storms outside and down the stairs.

toward me and my feet back 6/9 up instinctively. This Alpha is too big. Too strong. Too merciless when he wants to be. “Where the f**k did you go?” A day ago, I would’ve cowered beneath his rage. But now… “What does it matter?” I ask quietly. He straightens

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