#Chapter 36 loneliness

There is no personal gain from losing you. Aaron’s words from yesterday echo in my mind the second I wake up. They torment my thoughts as I brush my teeth and make myself some tea. They leave goosebumps along my skin as I shower beneath scalding water. I fight the part of me that wants to melt into the memory of how he drank me in with that look outside my car. How my nerves sizzled with electricity every time our skin accidentally brushed together. Then again, maybe it wasn’t that accidental. Maybe I was reaching for him just a little. Shaking off the desire, I remind myself that his empty words are just part of his never-ending game to possess me. I point out the lie in his words: losing a lowly Omega wife as an Alpha president when he was always supposed to be with my sister is the very definition of personal gain. Even if he and Emma seem to be on the rocks right now. I’m struggling so hard not to let him reel me back in that I don’t even notice Blaze’s uncharacteristic