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“Bit extreme,” I retort.
She raises an eyebrow at me, and I toss my smoke, push off my car’s hood, and walk around to the driver’s side, climbing into the car.
When she doesn’t immediately hop in, my hand reaches for the door handle, but I jerk it back when I see her door open. Elena stares out the windshield, stress etched into her beautiful face.
“Elena, I…”
She glances at me, and a sigh escapes me.
“Nothing, let’s head back,” I tell her, starting the car.
Getting home, she doesn’t fight me or try to escape. And it's that moment that Luke steps into the hall rubbing his eyes.
“Luke?” she whispers, and I feel her excitement through the bond before she scoops the half-asleep boy into her arms, squeezing him and peppering his face in kisses.
“Oh, thank god, he didn’t send you back,” she murmurs, burying her face in his neck while clutching him.
“You’re gonna make me pee myself.” Luke chuckles, which explains why he is awake at such an ungodly hour.
Elena sets him down on the ground, and he yawns.
“Are we leaving?” he asks, and she hangs her head, dropping it on his shoulder as she crouches in front of him.
“Hopefully soon. Alpha Axton doesn’t think I will come back,” she tells him while I watch their exchange.
“Because you ran?” he sighs, and she nods. Luke looks past her to me, where I am leaning against the wall. “She’ll come back. Won’t you, Elena?”
“I want assurance she will,” I tell him before she can answer.
“Assurance…”
“Where’s mom?” Elena asks him.
“Asleep. Eli gave her some sleeping pills.”
Elena nods once and stands when Luke speaks.
“What about me? What if I stayed with you until she came back?” Luke blurts out.
“No, Luke. We’ll figure it out. You’re not staying here. It’s not safe,” she replies.
“But I’ll be with him. He won’t let Dad take me—” Luke motions toward me.
“It doesn’t work like that, Luke. You’re not his son. And no, he doesn’t know what to do with a kid.”
She has a point. I kinda don’t, but Luke seems pretty easy to look after.
“He’ll be safe with me, Elena. I won’t let your father touch him.”
“See, Elena? Then you can go home to them.”
“Mom would never agree with this.”
“Yes, she would. She likes Axton. Thinks he’s a dick for what he did to you, but likes what he did with the city. He is a good Alpha, just a shitty person.”
I scoff at the boy’s brave words.
“What? You are. You leaked a sex tape of your mate! My sister!” Luke shudders at his words, and Elena’s face turns pink. “Like that time I walked in on Mom and Dad,” Luke gags, and I chuckle.
