Chapter 18

the meeting and back.

1 file out behind them.

When I get into his idling SUV and buckle my seatbelt Aaron

looks at me oddly. “You should stay home tonight,” he tells me.

It’s the first time he’s spoken to me since the attack. “I haven’t

missed a meeting since I came here.”

“You’re injured.”

The implication being that I’m ‘human’. That I’m weak.

True, but … “It’s because I was attacked that I should be present. There are threats that the Council needs to be aware

of.”

“Do you plan to petition them for a divorce?”

So that’s why he wants me to stay. To silence me. He has the nerve to look earnest and upset that I want to leave him when he is the one who broke his vows and impregnated another

woman.

He is the one who hasn’t slept beside me in a week.

“Yes. I still want a divorce, Aaron.”

for a moment before he banks the

to the driver, a wolf named

3/5

I’m painfully aware of

emotions he stirs

when he shifts his leg so it presses against mine, I wonder if I can endure

next two

are arriving and prominent alphas from across this

wear expensive suits and gowns. Others

no formal uniform or etiquette and the

family is almost a calling card for

of

has on a v-neck shirt and linen pants.

stature. The watch on his wrist is worth more than this car and though he doesn’t

and brother are at the front of the line. They wear

suits and polished shoes. New money. The flashy kind.

several wolves

dirt poor, they’re sitting on more land than some small countries.

door and extends his hand to help me out.

on. My foot is mostly healed.

good. Aside from aches and pains and

look the

back

a light white shirt. I

gave me when we married, a simple band, and a sapphire

a purse.

and he holds his arm out to

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