chapter 34

His breath comes in heavy pants on the other side of the door before his body slumps on the other side of it and his head thumps against it as he leans. “Please open the door. I haven't hurt you before and that isn’t going to change Sage. Mates don’t hurt mates,” he promises before letting out a breath. “He is a monster,” Sierra stresses. The stench of rogue, and the copper tang of their blood seeps under the door and perfumes the room. I can't get the image of him out of my head. I don't understand, why does he hate rogues so much, and what did he do to his Beta for him to fear him? The silence is deafening, after a while he scrabbles to his feet, and the soft fall of his footsteps, as he heads to the bathroom, pounds through my head. The click of the door is deafening. A few seconds later the shower water pounds against the tub and Sierra's breathing finally slows, and so does her heart rate. I try to press forward, but she forces me back. “Sierra?” I ask her. I can feel her unease,