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“She fucking hit me!” I snap back at him.
“And by the look on her face from your stupidity, it would have hurt less if you’d punched her,” he retorts.
Gritting my teeth, I move toward the door when I feel Khan shove forward. It becomes a battle of wills as we both fight for control. However, I have no choice but to sit down at the end of the bed. Eventually, my anger recedes, and I have no idea how much time has passed. I am too busy trying to block Khan out when I hear her door open, making me sit up.
Khan also stirs as I get to my feet and crack the door open. I hear her move toward the kitchen and expect to hear her open the fridge or flick the lights on, but she doesn’t, which has me stepping into the hall. Quietly, I go see what she is doing. Only she isn’t in the kitchen. My eyes scan the large open space when I see her next to the phone. I flick the light on, and she jumps.
“What are you doing?” I ask her, seeing the broken handset in her hands. “Elena?” I ask when she says nothing.
Instead, she sets the handset and base down back where they were and goes to walk past me when I step into her path. She smacks into my chest, a shrill shriek leaves her lips, and I grab her arm to steady her. My eyes roam over her nightie and robe. Her belly brushes my stomach, and I fight the urge to reach out and smooth my hands over it.
She jerks away from me. “Let me pass.”
I look at her face to find her glaring at me. “Why were you playing with the phone?” I ask her, but she just presses her lips in a line, refusing to answer me. I growl at her, and she finally meets my gaze.
“I asked you to move,” she says, coldly.
“Axton!” Khan snaps at me, forcing me to step aside, yet as she moves past me, I see the end of a cord peeking out of her robe pocket. I grab her arm, stopping her and pulling it from her pocket. She growls at me and tries to snatch it.
“Who gave you this?” I demand.
“I fucking did. Now let her go!” Khan snarls in my head.
Elena reaches for it again, but I pull back from her.
“I have done everything you have fucking asked for months, and you deprive me of everything. I just wanted to speak to my mother!”
“Deprive you? I give you everything you could possibly need, Elena, and the first chance you got, you left!”
“Because you wouldn’t let me see her! I have lost everything because of you, everything!” she screams, shoving me. Her hands smack into my chest, and she snatches the cord off me and turns to walk back to her room.
My arms wrap around her chest when I grab her, and she freezes.
“Don’t blame me. You ran off with that bastard. You rejected me. Was I supposed to welcome you back with fucking open arms? Now, give me the cord,” I growl at her.
Khan tries to force control before stopping, realizing his fighting me has my grip tightening on her chest. She whimpers, and he backs off instantly as she struggles against me.
Elena’s entire body trembles, and I am about to let her go when she holds her hand up, the cord shaking in her grip.
“Take it then,” she chokes out, and I let her go, stepping away from her.
“You fucking hurt her!” Khan snarls.
“I did no such thing,” I snap back at him. I am damn done with his commentary. I know the bastard has been up to something with how tired I have been waking up. The smell of blood reaches my nose, and Elena turns. Only then do I see he is right. Her chest is bleeding, and my lips part. My claws have slipped out. I gasp and reach for her when she takes a step back and tosses the cord at me. It hits me in the face, and I snatch it out of the air before it falls to the ground.
“Elena, wait, let me check on you,” I call out, chasing after her.
She doesn’t stop, instead shutting her door in my face.
“Fuck! You didn’t have to intervene. I wasn’t going to hurt her,” I snarl at Khan.
“How was I supposed to know? All you’ve done is hurt her!”
Growling, I move back to my room and open the bedside drawer. When he sees me pull the sedatives out, Khan instantly tries to fight me. “Wait, Axton, I—”
“No, you lied to me. I knew you were sneaking around while I slept. I can’t even trust my own wolf,” I tell him while popping the cap and swallowing the pills. I gag. Khan once again tries to fight me for control when I manage to swallow them down.
“Axton, you idiot…”
