Blanche’s POV
“Aaron, what’s wrong?” I asked as we walked through the gardens together. He was wound up, I could feel it in the tension in his arm and the hard set of his face.
“Nothing,” he said harshly. He looked over at me and probably saw me reacting to his tone and shook his head. “Nothing, love,” he added more gently, kissing my cheek.
“But it’s not nothing,” I replied, stopping us in the rose garden so we could sit on the bench there. “Please, Aaron. Tell me what’s wrong?”
He sighed. “Knox has decided I might not be his Beta anymore. That’s all.”
“What do you mean, ‘that’s all’?” I gasped. I leaned my cheek on his shoulder, trying to comfort him. “Aaron, that’s awful. Why would he say a thing like that?”
He hesitated then shook his head again. “No. I can’t tell you.”
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