Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 45970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
“Right, Boyan and Enzo.”
“It was Val who alerted us to your disappearance.”
Val was also taking care of her dogs for her, seeing as the club didn’t like to have them around.
She didn’t want to irritate the Poison Wolves any more than she had to.
“Do you think he was turned on purpose?” Amelia asked.
Alpha stared at her. “What?”
“Something hunted him. It had to be a wolf, and it had to be a shifter like us, right?” Amelia asked. “Do you think it was just a freak accident, or do you think … someone is going around changing humans into wolves?” She pointed at her leg and her face. “Don’t you think I can take it?” she asked.
Amelia had been going through it constantly the last couple of days. Whatever attacked Milton had done so violently.
“We don’t know for sure,” Alpha said. “He had to have been attacked by a wolf like us, but that doesn’t always have to be the case. He could have the wolf gene.”
She shook her head. “There’s no possible way of that. He was … he didn’t have a clue who he was. He couldn’t control it, and I watched him, Alpha. It was like he couldn’t completely turn either. Like he was stuck in whatever form he was.”
They had no choice but to take Milton’s body. Whatever he was, they couldn’t allow it to fall into the wrong hands.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t keep him alive.”
“Amelia, this is not your fault. You can’t take the blame. You did what you could to survive. It was all any of us could do.”
Wolfe was approaching. She didn’t even need to turn her head to see.
“You did good, Amelia,” Alpha said, getting to his feet, walking away, and leaving her alone with Wolfe.
He was the last person she wanted to talk to. This man had believed her to be a liar. He also didn’t want anything to do with her either because he saw her as weak.
Wolfe sat in the place where Alpha had been.
Amelia averted her gaze.
“I know you’re upset,” he said.
Upset. That wasn’t even a strong enough word for how she felt. Heartbroken, angry, humiliated, they were good words. The right ones. Close to how she truly felt.
She didn’t want to even look at him.
He hadn’t believed her. If that wasn’t humiliating enough, she didn’t know what else was.
“Amelia, look at me.”
She wasn’t a child. Hands clenched at her sides, she turned her head and looked at him. Really looked at him.
Why did he have to be so good-looking, with his hair pulled back into a ponytail, his thick neck on display, and just his overall presence one of … pure sex?
Good sex. The best kind of sex.
“I’m sorry,” he said.
“For which part?” she asked. “Not believing me? Or the fact that you were too embarrassed to be seen with a weak person like me?”
“Amelia, I, the club, it all matters. We’d been combing through that forest, and there was no sign of this person. There were just the hunters, and they hadn’t caused any trouble either. You have to understand.”
“I don’t have to understand anything,” she said. “I have never gone out of my way to seek attention from anyone. What I felt for you, what we had, that was real, but I’m not good enough for you. I’ve heard that message loud and freaking clear.”
She lifted herself off the bench, reaching for the crutch Jules had given to her.
“Amelia!”
“No,” she said. “You don’t get to do anything. You don’t get to Amelia me, talk to me, or say anything to me. The pain you caused me, breaking my leg, that is nothing compared to what you did to me.” She pressed her palm to her chest. “I fell in love with you, Wolfe. Yeah, stupid me. Stupid, pathetic Amelia, whose own parents wanted nothing to do with her, fell in love with you. The VP of the Poison Wolves MC. But don’t worry, Wolfe, you put me firmly in my place, and I’ll make sure that I stay here. I won’t ever darken your doorstep like this again.”
She was so angry, so humiliated.
Walking away from him, hobbling on a crutch, was not the way she wanted to go. She’d never been well coordinated, and there was proof of that now. It wasn’t like she could go too far.
Alpha nor Jules wouldn’t let her. She was stuck here, close to the guy who’d broken her heart. What was even worse, she still fucking loved him.
****
Alpha watched as the body burned.
He’d known of rare cases where wolves would attempt to attack a human, to force a mating, or even to try to build themselves up a pack.
Wolves needed to be close to their own kind. There were rare and few circumstances that meant some wolves could go rogue and not need any of them, but that was, again, rare.