Chapter One Hundred and Fifty One
“How is that healing up?” Axel asked as he shrugged off his jacket.
“It’s only a bruise now; that ointment must be really good,” I responded.
I had informed him earlier that I needed to speak to him, so I waited for him in his room.
“So what do you want to talk about?” he asked radiantly. He was doing this purposely; he was acting like nothing had happened last night.
“I want to talk about last night.”
“What about last night?” he questions.
“You know what happened last night; why are you pretending like nothing happened?”
“Am 1?”
“Yes, you are.”
“So, would you prefer I go announcing last night’s incident to the whole pack to prove that something did happen?”
“No, the problem is you don’t even seem worried about it.”
Axel turned to me. “Not everyone shows emotions like you do. I am worried about him, and I spent the whole day researching to find out what must have gone wrong with him, and I came up empty. Thane feels guilty about last night, I am supposed to help you take your mind off things.” he explained.
“You are right; I’m sorry. That was not exactly what I came here to speak to you about.”
“It is not?” Axel questioned doubtfully.
“Okay, maybe it has to do with that.”
“Well, go on; it is
ot like I have any other option than to listen,” he says jokingly before taking a seat beside me.
“Before Bailey went on the ‘mission‘ I had been speaking to her… about Thane.”
“That’s new, Bailey and you… chatting,” he says, clearly amused.
“We weren’t exactly chatting; it had been that time she visited to offer me a deal in which she was £ generously going to let me be Thane’s mistress as she took my title.”
“That makes more sense,” Axel admits.
“Have
you noticed anything strange or rather… different about Thane?”
“Aside from last night?” he questioned.
“Generally, I mean“.
Axel watched me as if trying to discern where this conversation was going.
“He is strong really strong. Bailey had said he was as strong as two Alpha wolves combined, and then, his speed- everything about him had always been different. Tell me that you noticed that too.”
“I don’t know what you are talking about.
“You know, and I know it.”
“Okay, maybe he is faster and stronger, so what?
“I don’t know, I just feel like it’s all connected to last night’s incident; maybe it was a part of
him…”
Axel cut me off. “That is not a part of him, at least not a part I had ever witnessed.”
“You know what? Forget it.”
“Riley, don’t be mad. I know you want to help him; I want to help too, but whatever monster that had done that to you,” he said, pointing at my wrist, “is definitely not a part of Thane I had ever seen before”
I waited anxiously for Thane to return home; the seconds turned into minutes and the minutes into hours, but Thane was yet to return.
I had almost given up, maybe he would spend the night elsewhere, Axel had told me that Thane felt guilty and that explains why he would want to stay away; maybe I should go meet him.
Just then the door opened, and Thane walked.
“Thane,” I called out, running into his arms. A part of me had been worried about him; I had been worried that he would want to keep his distance after what happened last night. His hold on me was hesitant.
Now that I was close, I could perceive his scent better. Wait, was that… alcohol?
1 looked up to meet his gaze. “Thane, are you drunk?”
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