Page 103 of Broken Souls

“Don't Axe. I'm still pissed.” I pull away from him.

“Then why did you come home?” he asks.

“I can go back to Dash's if you want me to,” I bite back sassily.

“No, I want you here. Honey, I miss you. I don't like fighting with you.” His voice is soft.

He's back to his regular self. Yet three days ago, he killed someone. How can he switch between each persona so quickly? If I killed someone, I would never stop feeling depressed. Yet here he is, back to being sweet, despite full on raging a few days ago.

“I don't feel like talking right now. I'm going for a nap.” I walk towards the door.

“Wait, sleep in here.”

“No.”

“Why are you angry about Joel? You said you didn't want him.” Axe stands up.

“Are you serious? Just because I didn't want him doesn't mean I'm not allowed to be angry that you killed him.”

“It's better this way. Nothing will come between us,” Axe reasons.

“He never was between us,” I snap.

“Elora...”

“Don't Axe. Anything you say will just piss me off even more. I'm going to relax so my baby doesn't stress the fuck out. Since I don't plan on talking to you for the rest of the day, I'll tell you now. Ryleigh and I are going on a girls' weekend trip.” I walk out of the room but hear his footsteps sound behind me.

“You're delusional if you think I'm letting you leave town.” He pulls my arm so I'm facing him.

“And you're delusional if you think I'm going to forgive you for being a monster,” I state, watching his face fall.

Chapter Sixty-Six

Axe and I have been avoiding each other all day. I feel bad about calling him a monster but he legit killed someone for a stupid reason. There's no reason to kill someone. Actually, when Axe killed Reeve, that was understandable. Someone as evil as Reeve would have just continued hurting people so he had to be put a stop to. But Joel, he never committed a crime. If we lived in the human world and this happened, the law would laugh if a girl tried to charge a guy for rejecting her. But since it's werewolf life and Axe is the judge of it, what Joel did was considered a crime. I love Axe but he's been acting way too domineering lately and I don't like it.

After I have a long steamy shower to help me relax, I go to my room to sleep. Sleep doesn't come easy. Everything is overwhelming me. Somehow I manage to doze off.

I wake up when I feel an arm wrap around my waist and a large hand press against my stomach.

“You're leaving me, aren't you?” Axe whispers. “This girls' trip is just a ruse for you to escape, isn't it?”

The fear in his voice slaps me in the face. He's scared. Maybe... maybe that's why he killed Joel. He's scared I'll leave him, for any possible reason.

“I'm not going to leave you. Why do you have to be like this?” I whisper.

“I lost her, Elora. I don't want to lose you, or my little one too.” He tightens his hold on my stomach.

“We have problems that we need to work through but I'm not leaving you. Ryleigh and I are just going to see Amelia for the weekend,” I assure him, keeping my voice quiet.

“You'll come back?” Axe whispers, sounding unsure of himself.

“Yes,” I whisper.

It seems neither one of us wants to disrupt the dark and silent atmosphere so we don't raise our voices above a whisper.

“Go back to sleep.” He presses a kiss to the back of my head then his warm presence leaves the bed.

“Where are you going?”