Chapter 34: His Penance

(Piper POV)

“You have really been doing this every night?” Alpha Aiden asked me for the third time.

I rolled my eyes. “Yes.”

“By yourself?”

“Yes, which is exactly how you wanted it, remember? Fewer males around to randomly f&&k me,” I replied. There was some bitterness in my tone, but not as much as earlier. Now my voice held an equal amount of genuine humor.

Alpha Aiden looked up at me and sighed.

“How many do we have left?”

“115.”

“As in, one-hundred and fifteen?”

“Yes.”

Alpha Aiden wiped sweat off of his eyebrow with the back of his hand.

“Is that total?”

“No. That is the number left in this building.”

“How many buildings?”

“Well, we have the packhouse, which we are doing now; the hospital; the warrior dormitory; and the training facility. So… three more after this one.”

“Oh, good Goddess.”

I laughed. I could not help it. This was poetic justice, and I was enjoying every single minute of it.

I had not intended to break down in tears in front of Alpha Aiden earlier. In fac