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“As if I would let my mate wander off with the likes of him, and you. Don’t think I didn’t catch you checking her out!”
“Guilty, but I’m harmless, you know that.”
“Luckily for you, I do know that,” Axton tells him before glancing around and waving his hand at Eli.
“Eli, make sure he gets home, and organize his patrols to be on the lookout.”
“Lookout for what, you think he likes my ass that much?” Cane snickers.
“No, but Alpha Osiris is up to something, and Elder Stiles has been missing for a few weeks since he returned, we can’t be too careful.” Axton answers. Elder Stiles is missing? I have so many questions which the man of the hour, Axton, seems to have the answers to. I don’t really feel like getting into another argument with him, so I know those answers will have to wait. But it makes me wonder if mom knows because she never mentioned he was missing.
Alpha Cane stumbles. “Maybe we should–” I begin to offer my father’s warriors to patrol Cane’s borders.
“No, Eli will handle it, and take care of him.”
“Wait, you think Osiris did something to his drink?”
“No, Cane doesn’t drink, his father was a bad alcoholic. Yet, he has stepped into a role he was hoping would be left to his older brother. Unfortunately, Osiris got to him before I could,” Axton answers as we watch Eli haul him out.
“Then why would he drink?” I ask and Axton sighs, glancing around before he looks back at me. “Not here,” he mutters, wrapping his arm around my waist and tugging me closer. Axton leads me out of the club and back toward the council chambers.
“Alpha Cane?” I ask.
“His father and brother were both killed a few weeks back in a car accident. Cane has never wanted the title. It was forced on him. I tried to warn him off Osiris, but Cane thought Osiris was just being friendly. Osiris doesn’t do friendly, so you need to steer clear of him.”
“Okay.” I tell him, a little disappointed I didn’t see through his facade, though Lexa was on edge, the moment we stepped into the club with them.
“Okay?” Axton stops in his tracks to look at me.
“Huh?” I ask, confused.
“You’ll stay away from him?” after what he told me, I would be insane not to! Why would I question that? I don’t trust any of them anyway, though Cane does seem harmless.
“I’m nobody’s bitch.” I tell him. Axton smirks.
“No, you’re not. But I still thought you would disagree since I said it,” he chuckles.
“So I shouldn’t agree. Should I go back? Maybe I should. He did say I could be his Luna?” I mock and turn. Axton growls, and his arm tugs me back to him.
“You’re only allowed to be my Luna, nobody else’s,” he snarls.
“Calm your farm. I am nobody’s Luna. Not unless you want to be a Lupha.” I chuckle.
“A what?” I shake my head, not willing to repeat what Michelle keeps calling him behind his back.
Axton’s brows furrow, and I become very aware of the fact that he still has me in his grasp when I should be trying to get back to the boys. He is supposed to have them for the weekend. That thought suddenly saddens me, knowing I am handing them over, but I have enough battles on my hands and custody is not one I want to add to the list.
Chapter Four
I step out of his grasp, changing the subject back to Alpha Cane, wanting to know more about the new Alphas and what I’m up against. Axton tugs me back to him. “Promise me, you’ll stay away from Osiris, forget everything else Elena. He is bad news. If you promise me anything, promise me this.”
“I don’t owe you any promises, Axton.” He grits his teeth and looks away from me. “But I promise I will stay away from Osiris,” I tell him, he lets out a breath and nods once.
“What did he do?” I ask. I can see his genuine concern regarding that Alpha, yet he has given no explanations.
“I think he killed his father. But there is more, I just have no way to prove it.” His eyes flicker to Khan briefly with his mood shift. Lexa tugs at me, the mate bond enticing me to move closer to our mate the moment Khan breaches Axton’s surface. Her brain doesn’t seem to be as badly affected by his presence as it is for me, maybe because I am in this form and not hers. But either way, lately I have been at constant war with what the bond keeps demanding now he has marked me and what rationality knows.
“We need to go, Elena.” She reminds me.
