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“No.”
His nostrils flared, eyes narrowing into slits. “Now is not the time for your brat behavior, Wes. I am in no mood.”
“He mentioned my stitches. Does that have something to do with his help?”
“It’s none of your damn business!” he burst out.
Silence fell, blanketing the thick tension and anger in the room. As thick as it was, it still couldn’t muffle the hurt his words stabbed me with.
Pushing off the wall, I exited the room. I’d made it to the dining room table when he snatched me from behind, his entire body wrapping around mine. Chin on my shoulder, he made a sound. A broken sound that injured my already tender heart.
“Everything about you is my business,” I whispered, words thick.
“Yes, baby, it is.” He agreed. “I’m sorry.” The gravelly tone of the apology echoed deep into my ear, making my eardrum tingle and echo. “Having him in the same room as you. Breathing the same air.” His arms tightened around me. “I can’t take it. I wanted to fucking kill him.”
“But you didn’t. Because you are nothing like him.”
He didn’t say anything.
I tried to look over my shoulder, but he was wrapped around me so tight I couldn’t even turn my head. “You know that, right?”
“A part of me will always be like him.”
“If you really were like him, you wouldn’t havewantedto kill him. You would have.”
He turned his face into my neck. “I’d never do something that would take me from your side.”
My heart shattered, but it was a pain I actually loved. Welcomed. It just meant that now there were more pieces of me to love him with.
“Maxi.”
He made a broken sound.
I wrapped my arms around his where they squeezed me.
“I’ve been seeing the biologics when they call,” he admitted.
I stiffened, head falling back onto his shoulder. “What? I thought you hadn’t seen them in years.”
“Because that’s what we told you.”
I tried to pull away. I fought and stomped on his foot, but he refused to let me go. When I sagged back against him, guilt washed over me. “I shouldn’t have stomped on you. I’m sorry.”
A low rumble, what could have been a laugh, vibrated his chest. “I deserve it. I deserve worse.”
“No.” I was vehement. “You don’t deserve that, Max. Even when you are a lying asshole, you don’t deserve any type of abuse.”
“That wasn’t abuse, baby. That was just you being a brat.”
“I’m sorry just the same.”
He kissed my ear, and to my surprise, tears welled up behind my eyes. “Let me go.”
“Please let me hold you when I say this.”
I relented. I would always relent to him. He was my greatest weakness.
“When those assholes attacked you back then, I, ah, kinda lost it.”
