Chapter 18

Artemis Pov

I couldn’t leave her but if I stayed any longer it would not say well of me.

This gave even more reason why I wanted to kill that Ajax. He was surely going to pay. For the first time since I met Freya, she reached out for me. Her hand held me by my arm. She didn’t mutter no words but anyone could tell what was in her mind. Anyone could see the pleading look she sent to me. They were visible and there was no denying it.

Holding her in my embrace I did not want to leave her, not alone, not away from me. I could not stand the idea of taking a single step away from her.

As I hugged her, getting soaked in her smell my hand found the small of her back and rocked her slowly.

“Alpha. Aj——“ for Oslo to persist, I knew it was something important. He wouldn’t come for no reason.

That was all it took. “I’ll be right with you,” when I said those words to Oslo, my gamma, I felt the room grow quiet. It appeared as though a thick fog had suddenly appeared. The atmosphere was thick and he