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I killed them. My own people, and I killed them.
“I panicked. I couldn’t stop him. And I couldn’t let Khan off pack territory,” Eli says, and I look down at his clothes, finally noticing how torn they are. Gashes sliced his chest, and he’s drenched in blood. “I used the mind link to get everyone to help subdue him.” Eli breaks down, dropping his head in his hands.
“I didn’t think he would come. I told him to get back,” he chokes.
My heart beats faster, thumping erratically in my chest. He has always been able to calm Khan. Khan has never hurt him. He never could. The man helped me take down my father, his own son, to save the pack from him.
“He’s gone, Axton. We couldn’t stop the bleeding. He bled out.”
I blink at him, and coldness seeps through me at his words.
“It’s not your fault,” Eli whispers, getting out of his seat.
I hold my hand up, knowing if he touches me, I will snap. “This is my fault,” I tell him, knowing I should have fought harder. But it hurts, hurts so much, and I can’t breathe. I just want the pain to stop.
“Did he suffer?” I ask, and Eli looks away.
“You don’t want that answer.”
I blink at him but nod almost robotically. Her infidelity made me lose control of my wolf and kill my grandfather. The one person who loved me, and I killed him because of her. And that I will never forgive her for.
She wants to run and not return because if she does, she will suffer the same fate once my children are born. I clench my jaw, letting my anger consume me; it’s better than grief.
“We need to find her, and once we do, she will regret ever betraying me,” I tell Eli, before getting up and storming out of the room. My hands ball into fists at my sides, and I growl furiously. She will pay for what she has done. I will make sure of it.
“Axton! She isn’t to blame for this,” Eli tells me, and I freeze, turning on my heel to face him.
“Khan is antsy because she left. We knew it was coming.”
“That’s not why I lost control of him, Eli. I lost control because she was fucking someone else.”
He gapes at me before staggering backward. “She did what?”
“Elena betrayed the bond. That is why I lost control of Khan. We felt it!” I yell at him, and he flinches. “I need to go home.”
“Go. I will take care of everything else.”
Chapter
Nineteen
Elena
Two months later
Jake has a friend in the city who is an obstetrician and owes him a favor. So, for a check-up, we go to see her. She is a little quirky, but nice, as she checks me over before doing the ultrasound. I can’t wipe the smile off my face as I stare down at the ultrasound picture in my hand: two identical twin boys. Both are healthy and seemingly okay despite everything we have endured.
“I can’t wait to get home to show Alisha,” I tell Jake. “Thank you.”
He stares out the windshield, his hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly, the skin looks on the verge of splitting across his knuckles.
“You’re welcome, Elena,” Jake tells me, turning his head to smile at me.
I stare down at the picture in my hand. Werewolf pregnancies are only six months long, and time flies by; each day, my belly grows larger and rounder as they grow inside me.
Sighing, I stare out the window; I have been with Jake for two months now, and things are going great between us. Alisha has moved in with us after word got out that things were uneasy in the city. Mooncrest City has become a prison for everyone trapped there. Axton rules it with an iron fist. And it has been weeks since Alisha has heard from her parents, which means it’s unsafe for them to contact her and also dangerous for her to return.
“We just need to stop by the rogue settlement first,” Jake tells me.
