Heart Of The Storm

"How could you love me? I'm a monster."

I immediately stand up, pulling her up with me. Holding her gaze in mine as I trace along her cheeks and jaw, down her neck and back up again.

"You are not a monster, you never were. If anything you are a soldier Aella, a soldier who has fought for too long."

She stares up at me in silence, her eyes brimming with tears. I hate the sight of them, but I know that she needs to shed them, she's held them in for too long.

"You are one of the strongest people I have ever known my love. But please, when you feel like the world is going to crumble beneath your feet, let me be the one who holds you."

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Aella has had a life of hell. Seeing things that no child should ever see, and forced to do things no child should ever do. Being trapped into the life of a superhuman soldier, she finally escapes her captors. Now, with her freedom, she only has one thing on her mind: Vengeance against the ones who held her prisoner.

So when she meets her mate, a werewolf Gamma named Apollo, she's hesitant about getting too close. Learning long ago that it's dangerous for anyone close to her, she tries desperately to keep her demons from becoming his destruction.

But fate has other plans.