Time Alone

Arielle’s POV:

What could I say to convince him?

I was spent; I felt like I had been tense, my shoulders even hurt from the way I had been overthinking since for the past few hours, waiting for Richard to return.

And now, this.

I was still on my knees, feeling the pent up tension leak out of my body through my tears. I wasn’t crying just for Ethan. I was crying for everything; for Leon’s message he had sent as an ultimatum to me, for the obstacles I still had to face as the mate of the Alpha of the pack, for all the pain I had gone through at my age.

Why was all this happening?

“Get up,” Richard was saying, and I could see a flash of an intense emotion in his eyes before it was quickly replaced by blankness. I watched him clench his hands into fists and unclench them back again.

He even repeated the command a second time.

Still I couldn’t get up. I wouldn’t get up until he finally listened to me. I need him to give me a listening ear, and not to ignore my pleas like I meant nothing to