Chapter 35

Astrid's POV I turned back to look at him. "Alpha Jaxon?" His eyes opened slightly and those beautiful steel gray eyes found mine and the last words I expected him to say left his lips once again. "Don't leave me, Astrid." I wanted to cry and maybe even scream a little. My heart was breaking into uncountable pieces because I so badly wanted for him to mean what he was saying. I wanted Alpha Jaxon to really want me like this. But I already knew what this was about. Being his sexual partner and property. The more he said it, the less it looked bad. Would it really be so terrible to just stay with him for a year like he wanted? So far had my time in his pack not been part of the best moments of my life? I refused to think like that. Refused to fall inside the rabbit hole of thinking of the things and freedom that should have been normal are a luxury simply because of how I grew up. I pulled my hand out of his grasp. "I'm sorry, Alpha Jaxon but I don't want to be your surrogate anymore. I