Page 128 of Broken Souls

“We're werewolves. One bottle of wine isn't going to get us drunk.”

“Good point.” He chuckles. “I'll be back soon.” He gives me a kiss and then leaves the house.

I go back to watching my show. Joel is leaving today and not coming back. I'll never see him again. I don't know why but I want to say goodbye. If I went to see him Axe would get angry so I do something I haven't done before. I open a mind link with him.

'Joel, can you hear me?'

I wait for a response. When a minute passes, I think he's not going to reply, but he does.

'What, Elora?'

'You're being freed. I just thought I would say goodbye.'

'Then why not come see me in person?'

I don't know what to reply to that so I stay quiet for a while. Soon Axe walks in holding bags of groceries.

“That was quick,” I say.

“I don't stop by the cafe when I get groceries,” he teases.

“How do you know I do that?”

“The empty coffee cups and doughnut wrappers around the kitchen.” Axe chuckles. “By the way, Dash is babysitting for a bit because I need to take you somewhere after I pack these away.”

“Where?” I frown.

“You're okay with Joel leaving right?” Axe asks.

“Yeah.”

Where's he going with this?

“We're going to see him so you can accept his rejection. You said you didn't want to do it before because he was in a bad place. Well, he's going free now so you can finally put your bond with him to an end.”

“Oh, okay.” I frown, imagining how uncomfortable it's going to be for the three of us to be in the same room. I would prefer talking to Joel alone but I don't think Axe will let that happen.

“You're not fighting me on this.” Axe looks surprised.

“Axe, I love you. I only had a problem with accepting his rejection when I thought he was going to kill himself and it would have been my fault.”

“Good to know.”

“You already knew but you didn't actually listen.”

Cash starts crying, so I get up.

“I'll get him,” Axe says.

“No, it's okay. I need to feed him.”

I breastfeed Cash and then go downstairs, seeing Dash is here.

“You ready?” Axe asks.

“Sure.” I sigh, wanting to get this over with.

Dash comes over, takes Cash out of my arms and goes over to the couch. I follow Axe out the door and we walk to the prison. Levi lets us through and we go into an area I haven't been in before, the medical area.