Falling for my boyfriend's Navy brother novel Chapter 149

Chapter 149: Penny

The world feels like it’s moving in slow motion, the sound of threes and clapping slicing through the cold air

Asher stands there, his shoulder hearing, his chest thing and falling with each raged breath, his fists still reached at his sides. Some clings to hit jacket, his pants, his hair.

And blood

Blood drips from his left sam, a thin, bright red line trailing down his writ, staining the now beneath hitt,

I take a shaky step forward, my boots crunching in the stone. My heart is a drum in my cars, my entire body boczzing with leftover fear

But when Asher uns, when his dark eyes lock onto the group, I see

Pure, unfiltered, murderous rage

The clapping dies down, the whistles fade, the smiles falter.

“What the hell is wrong with you people?” His voice is low, rough, a growl that vibrates through the air, colder and sharper than the wind cutting through

the trees.

People glance at each other, confined, murmuring, someone even let out a nervous laugh,

“You’re all fucking idiots,” he snaps, his eyes flashing. “What part of ‘no food, no going off the path was too hard for you to understand?”

Someone starts to protest, but he cuts them off with a sharp, slashing motion of his hand.

“The rules were clear. No food. No wandering off. Why? He takes a step forward, his boots crunching through the blood–streaked now. “Because there’s wildlife out here. Animals with their young, animals that will rip your throat out if you step too close.”

Silence

I’m frozen, my breath coming in short, shallow parts, my pulse racing.

He turns his sharp, blaxing eyes on the

the branch, the one who screamed and sent the wolf lunging. Her face is pale, her lips trembling

“Honestly,” he says, his voice dropping to a low, dangerous tone, “I should’ve let you die for being this fucking stupid.”

She gasps, her hands flying to her mouth, team pooling in her eyes. Someone beside her mutters something, but she’s not does

“You have no idea what you just did,” he starts, taking another step forward, his boots leaving bloody tracks. “That animal was just protecting its sh. You scared it. You cornered it. You attacked it. And if that wolf is out there now, limping, injured, unable to hunt, unable to protect its young, that’s on you. That’s

́s your fault. Because you can’t pull your head out of your ass long enough to follow a few simple fucking rules.”

Silence.

Tense. Heavy. Unbearable.

I want to mme, to say something, to reach out tahim, but I can’t. My feet are frozen to the ground, my heart still pounding in my chest.

Asher stands there, his chest leaving, his hands curled into tight, trembling fists, blood still dripping from his arm.

Then his eyes find mine.

I don’t know what he sees there–bear, maybe, or relief, or a mix of a thousand emotions that I can’t even masse right now–but his expression softens, just a

fraction.

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Chapter 149: Penny

He takes a step toward me, his boots crunching.

And then, without a word, he pulls me into his arms,

I stumble forward, my face pressing into his chest, his mm wrapping around my back, his other hand coming up to cradle the hack of my head.

1 can feel his heart hunvicting again my clerk, his breaths coming in hot, shaky bursts aplinst my hair. His grip is tight, almost beating. The hơi holding junto me to keep himself from falling apart.

I squeeze my eyes shut, my fingers curling into the back of his jacket, my entire body trembling egna him

“It’s okay,” I whisper, my voice muffled against his chest, “It’s okay. You’re okay.”

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