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“What’s up? Did you find out who he was?” I ask Eli.
“He was a newbie vampire. He also wasn’t listed with the councils. After speaking with a few locals, they thought the woman who owned the cafe went into a nursing home. We found her body in a freezer downstairs. Her head, however, was missing,” Eli tells me.
I sigh, leaning back in my chair.
“Your mate?” Eli asks.
I growl at the term. She was not and will never be my mate.
“You’re about to have kids together,” Eli snaps at me angrily.
“She had her chance. Once they are born, she won’t be needed.”
“You’re going to banish her?” he scoffs before shaking his head.
I fold my arms across my chest and glare at him. “Issue?”
“Yeah, you’re a fucking idiot. Months, I have put up with you pining over her, and now you’re going to throw it all away because you can’t see past your fucking ego.”
“She left me for him,” I retort.
“You’re an even bigger idiot if you truly believe that. You clearly haven’t listened to anything the doc told you,” Eli snaps angrily as he stands up, then turns on his heel and walks out of the room.
Khan pops in. “Told you so, you fucking imbecile. After riding in your meat suit for weeks, it is clear that despite your good looks, that brain is doing nothing, and once you open that mouth, it goes even further downhill from there. No wonder she rejected you. She is in fucking shock, you asshole. She was abused in more ways than one. Elena’s best friend was killed in front of her. You, then her father, that vampire, and now you, yet again. You don’t deserve her or our pups.”
I can’t find a point to win this argument no matter how much I try. Khan is right.
“Thought so, dummy.”
Then, the fucker blocks me out again. I swear, if I could get another wolf, I would.
“Feeling’s mutual, dickhead.”
And there he goes again on radio silence. I just slump back in my chair, marinating in my misery.
Chapter
Thirty-Five
Elena
I have been in and out of consciousness for hours, finally able to sleep. I hadn’t realized how little I had while staying with Jake. Yet I am beginning to believe safety and stability are a mythical concept as I wake up to the doctor jamming a needle in my arm. My eyes flutter open at the sound of Axton’s voice. That painful reminder of him rejecting me, making me realize my connection to him is severed.
How I hadn’t noticed that the bond wasn’t fully broken is beyond me. Now, to match the pain in my back, there’s a void in my chest, a coldness, and a sinking feeling to go along with it. It feels like dread, like someone has removed a limb, and I am now having to learn to live without it.
Lexa has fallen quiet. She revels in the sound of his voice, despite the broken bond, and the safety he can offer. Yet some part of me knows I am not safe here either. And his words prove it.
“I don’t care about her. I just want to know if my twins are okay,” he says.
I look at the doctor; his eyes flick down to me before moving behind me, which makes me turn my head to find Axton on the other side of me while the doctor draws blood. Axton glances down at me, his face expressionless, before he looks at the doctor again.
“Call me when you get the results back,” he says before walking out.
We watch him leave, and the doctor sighs heavily.
“Quite the mess you made there, Luna,” he murmurs as he slides the needle from my skin and places a cotton ball over it. He offers nothing else in the way of explanation, but after a few seconds, he removes the cotton ball and takes his vials, moving toward the door.
“Doc?” I ask him.
