Chapter 192


    Though my limbs feel all weak and are trembling, I push myself up and turn.


    The first thing I see is that the door has been left wide open and James is standing in the hallway. His


    gaze is locked onto me, eyes glowing fiercely.


    How much of that did he see?


    Aaron hasn’t noticed, he’s moved over to the window and is tucking himself away and straightening his


    still immacte


    suit.


    I’m surprised neither Aaron nor I scented him, but we were so caught up in each other, it was like the


    rest of the world didn’t


    even exist.


    When James realizes I’ve seen him, he quickly turns and strides away, leaving me shocked and


    embarrassed at what he might have witnessed just now.


    My mind is a jumble of confused thoughts.


    My wolf wants nothing more than to cuddle up to our mate and is upset and bewildered about why he’s


    treating us so


    coldly.


    My human mind understands all too well.


    The mating bond is drawing us inextricably together, but that doesn’t negate all that’s passed between


    us.


    All the things Aaron has purposefully done to hurt and


    manipte me.


    “This doesn’t change anything,” Aaron says in an imperiously


    detached voice.


    As if I need to be told that.


    “What makes you think I believed it would? I reply bitterly, trying to conceal the hurt. “You think I can


    forget for even a second that our son is dead because of you? But it’s not like you care how I’m


    managing to cope with that.”


    Guilt cuts across Aaron’s face, but its quickly reced by rage, and we’re right back to where we were


    before he f ucked me


    over Tobin’s desk.


    “You dare use me of not caring?” Aaron demands. “You,


    the woman who stole from me, lied about your family and


    what they were up to, and then denied me the truth about my own son? I might be a lot of things, Leah,


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    but uncaring is not


    one of them. That’s half the problem. I care too da mn much.”


    Aaron doesn’t give me the chance to answer, but spins


    furiously on his heel and stalks out of the room, leaving me staring after him in even deeper confusion.


    How can he im to care and still do all these things that hurt


    me?


    None of it makes sense!


    Maybe I made some bad choices, but none of those decisions


    were designed to hurt Aaron on purpose.


    I was only trying to protect myself.


    Protect myself from him, most of the time.


    He had to know that using me to get to my father, and then selfishly saving me and sacrificing our child


    would hurt me


    more than almost anything.


    Why did he even bother to mate me and save me if he doesn’t


    even want me?


    Unbidden, the words he spoke in the heat of the moment


    return to me, andl realize that wanting has never been a


    problem between us.


    But it leaves me questioning how he truly feels about me.


    I would burn this entire world for you,


    mine.