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“I’ll let Eli leave. I will be back in a few minutes. Don’t even think of locking me out, Elena. A fucking door won’t stop me from getting in and taking them,” he warns me, wandering off.
I glance at their crib.
“Oh, I’m going to make him my Lupha one day!” Lexa snarls. Looks like that title remains. Somehow, I don’t think Axton will accept it lying down.
“He will,” Lexa assures me, and for once I don’t doubt her. Because Axton forgets one thing, the mate bond works both ways. If he wants to play with our bond to try to break me, fine, but I will play with something far more damaging: his fucking heart.
Chapter
Seventy-Four
Elena
Axton has been impossible all afternoon. We have done nothing but argue over my pack’s security, and I can see the women are becoming antsy. His aura radiating out of him has them shaken.
“You need to do something, Elena. The women are too frightened to come eat with us,” my mother mind links me, which makes me press my lips in a line.
His aura may not affect me, my mother, Luke, or our sons, but these women are Omegas, and I am tiring of reminding him to tone it down.
Sondra looks like she is about to blow his damn head off any second. My mother has been keeping her distracted. Glancing out the window where we usually set up for dinner together each night with our little pack, the place is completely bare.
“Axton, you need to calm down. I am letting you stay,” I remind him for the hundredth time.
“No, all this time, you have had them unprotected, and now you expect me to leave them out here with you. My men can’t be out here until Monday, so until then, either I stay or you can come back to the city with me!”
I press my lips in a line; he knows I can’t do that. These women have been away from pack societies for years. They won’t follow, and I can’t abandon them out here.
“I agreed to let you do border patrols. I am giving you what you want,” I tell him.
“Yeah, why don’t we just roll over and show him our belly, Elena? Having to walk on eggshells in our own pack. This is bullshit,” Lexa growls at me.
“Exactly what do you want me to do?” I retort.
“Not lie down and fucking take it. We said we were done being anyone’s bitch. I won’t do this again, mate or not. I won’t sit by and accept it like we did with JAKE!” she screams at me.
My stomach sinks as I glance at Axton, who is furiously typing on his phone, his entire body roiling with his anger.
“You promised me. We are Alpha! This is our pack! We agreed to his demands, but I won’t agree for our pack to be terrified! I’m done running. I’m not bowing down to any fucking Alpha! So until he starts acting like a mate, I don’t want him or Khan!” she snarls at me.
Yeah, well, that won’t be happening anytime soon. That much is clear. We are letting him see the boys; we are letting him send border patrols, but still, it’s not enough to please him. Kyan starts crying, and I move to the crib, only to be nudged out of the way by him.
“Go make his bottle. I am not going back down there to deal with that old witch,” Axton snaps at me.
My brows escape into my hairline. I scoff, seeing Lexa is right, and I click my tongue and move toward the door furiously. He will never change because he believes I am no match for him.
Mom’s words return to me, Dad’s promise to make me Alpha. Her father promised her the title. I may have sons, but I will not be the submissive Luna he wants. Mom came to me because I have a backbone. Maybe now is the time I remind myself of that. Walking out, Lexa settles, sensing my defiance against him. Walking down the steps, I see Sondra sitting at the huge wooden table, arms folded as she watches me. Mom is making her a cup of tea.
“Elena?” Sondra says, her tone clipped, and I smirk.
“Yes, Alpha?” I chuckle, glancing at her.
“Do I need to remind you who you are?” she questions as I open the freezer and pull out a bag of breast milk.
“Nope! I know exactly who I am,” I tell her.
“Are you sure?”
“Yep, and he is about to find out,” I reply, giving her a pointed look.
