Semua Bab Let Me Go, Ex Husband: Bab 31 - Bab 37

Aiden's POVMy cabin is tucked away at the edge of my land in a cluster of ancient pine trees, just a little distance from the pack house so I can get some fucking peace and quiet but close enough that can easily respond to any kind of emergency. The morning sun pours through the trees and dapples the wooden porch with the shadows of branches. Inside, I take one last glance around the main room, making sure I’ve set up everything Elara told me to: medical equipment spread out on the heavy oak table, refrigerator filled with what we’ll need to eat to keep our energy up, research papers piled neatly at the side of two comfortable chairs.I’ve left nothing to chance, but anxiety roils in my gut. Three days alone with Haylee. Three days to cook up a cure to save our sons. Three days that could change everything — or solidify that some bridges stay permanently burned.Outside, a vehicle pulls up, the tires crunching the gravel path. I am listening closely and there is a muffled sound of a

Haylee's POVI wake and I am very warm, surrounded by a scent that is like a cocoon. There’s one brief, disorienting moment when time dissolves, and I am in our bedroom at the pack house, six years and a lifetime ago.Then the presence smashes into me. I'm in Aiden's cabin. In his bed. And the warmth beside me...I sit up straight, my heart slamming in my chest. Aiden is asleep on top of the covers, fully dressed with a respectful gap between us that somehow feels more intimate than if he’d been pressed up against me."What are you doing?" “Well, I asked him to stay,” I whisper.He stirs at the sound of my voice, blinks open his eyes. Realization crosses his face, and then worry.“You were having bad dreams,” he says, voice thick with sleep. "You asked me to stay."Heat rises to my cheeks. "I didn't mean in my bed.""That's for your bed," he corrects, sitting up and raking a hand through his sleep-ruffled hair. “And you apparently slept better.”I wish to argue, to deny his comfort, b

Aiden's POVI see the darkness in Haylee's eyes deepen when she hangs up from Xavier. Her hands are shaking a little, but she looks determined, that stubborn set to her jaw that I’ve always admired — even when that stubbornness was against me.“He’s lying,” I say, and my voice is so sure that it even surprises me. "The timing is too perfect."Haylee glances up, her eyes more piercing. "What do you mean?""Think about it. Lior suddenly has new complaints. An enigmatic medic sneaks up behind you. Then followed a handy raid on the frontier demanding an immediate return of you? I move in closer, wary not to press her. “It’s manipulation, pure and simple.”“You don’t know Xavier,” she replies, but she still sounds unsure."I know men who crave power." My mind flits to my own father, his cutthroat climb to Alpha. “And I know what they are capable of when they feel threatened.”Conflict fills every step as Haylee paces back and forth in the cramped living room. “But why would he be spooked?