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With my shoulders slumped, I let out a sigh.
“Put your big boy pants on and go back out there to her right now, or I’ll do it for you.”
With a growl, I walk out and down the hall and enter the dining room to find it empty. The plates are gone, and so is Elena. I make my way to the kitchen to find everything cleaned up and put away.
“Look what you did, you unappreciative swine. Yep, brain on empty, that’s for sure.”
Just as I am about to head back, a sticky note catches my eye on the microwave.
Left this for you, just in case you change your mind and get hungry. — Elena
Khan pushes forward. “I hope you feel real proud of yourself, dummy.”
Like clockwork, he blocks me from saying anything back.
I do feel like shit for making her eat alone after all the effort she’s put in. I walk to the back of the apartment, wanting to apologize, knowing my wolf will hound me until I do. Just as I am about to knock, I hear her sobbing, and Khan shoves forward, snarling in my head.
“Don’t. You’ve done enough. Just leave her be. I don’t trust you not to make things worse,” Khan tells me.
Putting my hand down, I return to the kitchen to eat my food alone. I dig my fork in after reheating it. Goddess, it’s so good, making me feel more of an ass than I do already.
Khan pushes forward. “As you should, dummy.” Then blocks me out again and refuses to talk to me for the rest of the night.
Exhaustion takes over, and before I know it, I force myself to bed and fall asleep.
Khan
I can’t wait for him to go to sleep; he’s irritated my soul to no end. I don’t give a fuck what he plans to do, and I have to convince him not to do the nanny interviews. I saw him message Eli asking what time the first woman would arrive to be interviewed.
I want Elena, and I need her; I am wolf enough to admit it. She doesn’t deserve Axton being a dick to her on top of everything she has been through. I already know the truth. That fucking vampire compelled and commanded her. I need to hear it from her; if not, her wolf will tell me. I make sure Axton is tucked away behind a barrier, none the wiser about what I am doing as I use his itchy-ass skinsuit to walk down the hall to her bedroom. Gripping the door handle, I open it, finding her in her bed.
Chapter
Thirty-Seven
Elena
The sound of the door creaking open alerts me to someone entering my room. Rolling over, I barely look at the door, only to lurch upright when I see Axton enter my room. Only he moves differently and stops in the middle of the room when he sees me sit up. I rub my eyes, wondering why he is here. Only when I open them again, he is standing at the edge of the bed. I shuffle back when my eyes meet his to find them pitch black, and I know he isn’t the one in control. I thought something was up when he walked in because his movement appeared forced.
“Lexa!” I hiss at her, forcing her awake. “Get your furry butt up and deal with his creepy-ass wolf.”
What does he want, and why the heck is he standing there staring like some creep?
Lexa mumbles, pushing the veil separating us and peering out of my eyes. “What the fuck?!”
I have to fight the urge not to roll my eyes. “No shit,” I tell her.
“Why is he just standing there? Has he said anything?” she asks me.
I blink up at the behemoth of a wolf wearing and inhabiting my mate’s body as if he owns it. I am about to speak with him when Lexa shoves forward abruptly, taking control of my body, and my face flames at what spurts out of my lips.
“Yo, you know we can see you? Just because you’re standing still doesn’t mean you’re invisible!” she snaps at him.
Axton’s head turns before raucous laughter leaves him, making me lean back.
“He’s not all there. He is one of those special wolves, you know, the crazed ones that spend too much time in their owner’s skinsuit,” Lexa whispers as I move across the bed when he steps closer.
“I was trying not to scare you,” he says. His voice is so much deeper than Axton’s. As he comes to sit on the edge of the bed, I lean away from him as the bed dips.
