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Wait, Alpha? Turning, I find Elena standing in the doorway, eyes blazing and her eyes pitch black as Lexa comes forward. My lips part as I take her in. Fuck! I shake my head and laugh. This cannot be happening.
“You’re the Alpha I came here to speak with?” I curse, turning back to the crib.
Reaching in, her hand falls on my arm, and a growl leaves her. My eyes move to hers, but her grip tightens.
“I suggest you let me go, Elena.”
“You’re not taking them!” Her threat is clear, her canines slipping out past her plump lips. She really would be stupid enough to challenge me.
But I don’t want to fight with her. I just want to hold them for the first time. Want to feel what we created in my arms.
“I never said I was,” I tell her, trying to keep my voice calm and not threatening.
Her eyes drop to our sons in the crib. She presses her lips in a line but reluctantly lets me go and reaches into the crib. I watch her, knowing if she tries to take them, I can’t do anything while she is holding them.
“Hey, sweet boy, want to meet your Dadda?” she coos as he squirms and whines, wrapped up like a baby burrito. Effortlessly, she scoops one up in each arm, and my hands shake as she turns toward me.
She looks at me, holding one arm out, and my hands move to take the first one. “This is little…”
“Kyan,” I finish for her, recognizing his face from the pictures. They are identical twins for the most part, but Kyan’s face is slightly chubbier than Bane’s, and his eyes are a little darker. I take the little bundle when she goes to pass my other son. Glancing around, I see her bed and quickly move to sit on the edge, not as confident as she is in just scooping both up the way she did. Elena follows me, and I hear someone move near the door.
“Out! Close the door,” her voice orders whoever has come near.
The door quickly shuts, and she moves closer, making me look up at her. “And Bane,” she whispers, passing me our son.
Suddenly, I am grateful she ordered the person out because the moment she lays both in my arms, I break as I take in their tiny faces.
Chapter
Seventy-Two
Elena
Seeing Axton break down, I realize what a mistake I made by keeping them from him. Fear, anger, and control get in the way of rational thought. I had my reasons for keeping them apart, and my fear is warranted, but seeing him now, I can see his fear, and it is losing them, too.
Sitting on the bed beside him, I wait for him to stop crying. I don’t know what to make of this side of him, having never seen it before. Lexa nervously paces inside my head. She is wary of what happens next.
Axton’s temperament always shifts abruptly; it is hard to know what to expect from him. And if past behavior is anything to go by, he will try to take them, which I won’t allow. Hopefully, we can come to some sort of agreement because I may see the error of my ways, but I know Axton doesn’t see the error of his.
My anger at what has happened in the past I can’t seem to get over; not yet, at least. I have come too far to lose everything. I now have too many people relying on me to just blindly give into a bond. So, for now, we’ll see.
Kyan starts crying, and Axton manages to pull himself together long enough to pass him to me. Kyan’s face turns toward my chest, mouth open, hunting for my breast.
“You can feed him. I don’t care about you breastfeeding in front of me, I’m not a prude,” Axton says, wiping his face on the back of his sleeve.
Bane starts crying a second later, and Axton tries to hush him. Mind linking Michelle, I ask her to make a bottle using some of my frozen breast milk.
“Yep, will bring it up,” she tells me, and I cut the link while undoing my top so I can feed Kyan. I’m very aware of Axton watching me with avid fascination.
“Can you feed both?” he asks when Bane doesn’t stop crying, also hungry.
“I can, but…”
The door opens, and Michelle wanders in with a bottle in hand before she quickly passes it to me.
“Thanks,” I tell her. She eyes Axton warily before looking at me.
“Is Lupha staying?” she asks, and I try not to snicker at her words while Axton stares at her with a puzzled expression, clearly wondering what she is talking about.
