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I push off his chest and look down at him. Surely Khan must be in control, not Axton. Yet looking down, his eyes flicker, darkening slightly as he watches me. His hands fall to my hips while I blink at him. Even Lexa is confused as she peers through my eyes, watching our mate.
“Go before I change my mind,” Axton whispers, looking away.
Believing it is a trick, I hesitantly climb off him. Axton rolls over and snatches his keys off the bedside table, fiddling with them and removing some. He passes them to me. Still, I hesitate to take them, finding one to be a car key.
“Just come back,” Axton pleads. “Don’t keep them from me,” he adds, and I climb off the bed.
Is he letting me go?
Axton climbs off the bed and moves toward the door, unlocking it.
“I have a car,” I tell him, offering his car keys back to him.
“No, that busted-up thing was towed to the junkyard. The chassis was bent.”
Great, how am I going to explain that to Sondra? Not that she would care; she would just be glad to see me home.
Axton sighs, and I see his eyes glaze over as he mind links someone, and I quickly rush past him through the open door, worried he would shut it in my face.
“Eli has gone to get you formula. I will end the strike. Don’t make me come looking for you. I want your word, you’ll let me see them.”
“I’ll bring them back,” I promise.
“When?” he asks.
I chew my lip. “Can I have two weeks?”
Axton growls and looks at the ceiling. But I have to get my pack in order, sort out the rogue women’s situation, and register them. Those documents will be uploaded into the system within three days. Anonymity only lasts a week before every pack will be aware of a new one.
If they come looking before then, and they aren’t registered under my pack name, they will fall under council punishments for their crimes instead of pack punishment. No matter how justified it was that they killed an entire pack, their own mates.
“Fine, two weeks, Elena. Not a day more. If you are late, I will come looking for you,” he warns, his eyes flitting to my neck.
My fingertips brush it, and I feel the jagged outline of his marking.
“You’re not rejecting me, so don’t. I won’t accept it.”
I open my mouth to say something when Axton speaks before I get a chance.
“I can’t track you with it. I will only get a general direction because you haven’t marked me, but that would be enough to hunt you down, Elena. Enough for Khan.”
I swallow. He may not be able to feel the bond in full force, and I can barely feel anything at all. But Khan, if I don’t come back, I have no doubt will lead Axton to me.
“Two weeks, no longer.”
I nod, turning on my heel to get my mother and brother.
“Oh, and Elena.”
I stop looking back at him.
“Return the car when you do. Don’t post it to me. I don’t want it back in pieces.”
I press my lips in a line, quickly nodding, and he sighs.
“Go. I’ll help you find your mother and brother.”
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