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That was exactly what he wanted. He wanted Elias to believe that I was betraying him.
“You fucking coward,” I hissed at Samson before I moved closer to Elias, placing both my hands on his chest. His muscles tensed and coiled beneath my fingers and his eyes lowered sharply to where I was touching him.
“I know what you think you see, but I need you to focus on me and listen.”
His eyes darted past me to Samson then lowered to mine again. He tensed all over and his demeanor slipped a little more and not for good.
“Elias,please.” My voice was trembling but I could do this. I could make him see me. No matter what was going on with his head right now he was still in there. I just needed him to focus.
I could see his mind warring as his eyes bounced from my hands on his chest to what was happening behind me. I didn’t care about Samson. Only Elias. The longer I touched him the more his jaw hardened. He was being defensive because his trust was shot but I didn’t back down.
“This isn’t what you think,” I said softly. His body rumbled with the growl that moved through his chest and settled into his throat.
“He paid your therapist to mess with your prescription. He had people following me so he could send you pictures that looked like I was betraying you but I wasn’t. It’s not true. None of it’s true.”
“Don’t you dare fucking move,” Elias roared, lifting his arm higher. Samson must have tried to come near us. But I wasn’t focused on him. I needed Elias to hear me.
“Elias will you please listen—”
“I don’t need to fucking listen. I know what I saw. What Isee…” His eyes lowered to mine then moved past me. “He’s here in your apartment. Why, Cress?”
The accusation pierced me in the chest. I would never do this to him. Not what he was thinking, what he believed, but right now, he didn’t know that.
“Because he knew you would come. How did you know he was here, Elias? Think about that?How?”
His jaw flexed then his eyes were on me again. “Someone sent you a text of him showing up here, right?Why? Think about it. Does that make sense?”
His jaw flexed again and his eyes moved from me to Samson who decided he wouldn’t fucking shut up. He was going to keep trying.
“Cress, don’t baby. He’s not going to believe you. Let me handle this.”
“Shut the fuck up,” Elias yelled and I could feel his muscles locking tight again.
Something moved in the hallway behind Elias. When I focused on the movement, I realized it was Ez. He gently shook his head and lifted a finger to his lips requesting that I not give him away. A moment later, everything around me was moving. Ez injected Elias in the neck with something. Someone else grabbed him. I didn’t see who because several other men rushed into the apartment past me with guns drawn, aimed at Samson. I could hear Elias struggling, yelling from the hallway for whoever had him to let him go then hands were on me.
Christian.
I turned to find him pulling me down the hall and into my bedroom where he slammed the door.
“Oh fuck. Thank God. You’re okay.” He yanked me into his chest squeezing me so tightly that I could barely breathe.
When he let me go, his eyes moved around my room until he grabbed a pair of sweats that were tossed on the bed and shoved them into my chest.
“Put these on. We’re getting out of here.”
I stepped into the pants but backed away when he reached for me.
“Wh…what’s happening? How did you know to come here?”
“Ez called me.Youshould have fucking called, Cress.”
“Why? I didn’t know about any of this.”
I could have called when I left the house but I didn’t. I was too worried about my husband, my marriage…
“But you knew about Elias, didn’t you? You knew abouthim. You knew he wasn’t right in the head. He’s fucking crazy and you kept that from me.”
“He’s not crazy!”
