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My eyes widen, and I gasp, staggering back as pain tears through my chest. But I had already rejected him. Why does it feel like my soul is torn in two at his words?
I clutch my chest, and Lexa wails inside me for the broken connection we didn’t realize was still intact.
“Hurts, doesn’t it?” Axton tells me as I choke on any words and peek up at him.
“You’re lucky you are carrying my twins because if you weren’t, I would have fucking killed you for daring to betray me,” he snarls.
Seconds later, another man steps in, wearing only a pair of shorts.
Axton hands him the head. The man looks at me, and I recognize him as Axton’s Beta.
“We found Derrick’s Beta’s daughter, Alisha, dead in the basement,” he tells Axton, who is glaring at me.
“Call Derrick and let him know we found them,” he tells him, turning to look at him briefly.
The man nods, glancing at me quickly before leaving, and Axton turns his attention back to me.
“Get your stuff. We are leaving.”
My eyes burn from tears, my vision blurry, and it all becomes too much as I begin to panic. I suddenly find the room dimming, his angry voice becoming fainter, then everything goes black.
Chapter
Thirty-Four
Axton
I clutch her body, stopping her from falling to the ground. From what I can see, Elena is riddled with bruises, mostly on her back and legs. I can see marks surrounding her ankles and wrists.
Eli found chains on the bed in the room he had kept her in, and the evidence she was strapped down covered her wrists and ankles. Eli reported Alisha’s body was riddled with bite marks, and it looked as if she was starved, in addition to the many bruises from that bloodsucker’s torture. There was also a cage down in the basement that we suspect he had kept Alisha locked in. How could Derrick, of all people, not know he was a vampire for all those years?
I remain in the back of the car with her, meeting the pack doctor at the packhouse before setting her up in the infirmary. We watch as the doctor goes over her and does his tests and ultrasound, while I also email the investors to set up a new appointment.
Khan is restless and angry at the condition Elena is in. “You should have never leaked that video. You shouldn’t have taken it in the first place. Once you knew she was our mate, your plan should have gone out the window. I told you not to take those pictures of her or make that video. You just don’t listen, and I thought I had issues. After finding her the way we did, you just couldn’t help yourself being an even bigger asshole and rejected her out of spite.”
Before I can defend myself, Khan recedes to the back of my mind, blocking me out. The mangy bastard has some nerve.
Our pack doctor said she had multiple welts over her body in different stages of healing. He also said it was a miracle she survived such savage beatings and didn’t lose our pups. I might have had it wrong, but she willingly ran from me all the same.
“Alpha, if you mark her, she will heal faster, and it could help the pups after such high stress on the Luna.”
I pop my head up to what he’s just said. “That is completely out of the question. She is not my Luna. Do whatever you need to heal her outside of me marking her, and make sure my pups are okay.”
I feel Khan come forward when the doctor talks to us about how badly Elena was beaten over weeks, her oldest bruise being over a month old. For it to linger so long just reinforces how savagely Jake had beaten her. He says she only has one bite mark, which is fresh, and no evidence of any others.
If I hadn’t arrived when I did, I would have been burying her and my unborn pups. Derrick just left her there for a week, knowing exactly where she was, just to use it as leverage against me. Elena could have died in that time. He clearly doesn’t love his daughter, especially after he mercilessly beat her three months ago. I wish I had killed him in that council meeting when I had the chance.
Khan pushes forward, only to berate me again. “You have no room to talk. You don’t love her either with what you did. You are no better than Derrick using Elena to get what you wanted. Let that sink in before you pass judgment on her father.”
Just as I am about to say something back to that mutt of a wolf, he blocks me out again.
Fuck this shit. All she had to do was come back. It was that simple. She betrayed me first, and I had every right to reject her back.
Khan barges in on my thoughts again. “No, she didn’t. You did, you big dummy.”
That bastard won’t let me get a word in edgewise, throwing a wall up in between us. Elena wakes a couple of times during the doctor’s examinations. He asks her questions, but she just stares at him vacantly, either ignoring him to piss me off, or she just doesn’t care for our babies, which only angers me more.
Eli wanders in, stopping at the door. I look up at him, and he motions for me to follow him out. Sighing, I tell the doctor I will be back and follow Eli to my office. Stepping inside, he takes a seat at the desk while I take mine.
