CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
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ELINA
"Elina, I ..." he starts to say, but my anger only worsens hearing him speak to me so casually.
"How dare you touch my babies? Are you forgetting that we are investigating your involvement in the attack against them?" I ask him, raising my voice with each syllable.
"They were crying, and I just wanted to make sure they were okay," he replies, but he doesn't make the slightest attempt to get away from them, and I don't want to do anything to upset them, as they are certainly quite calm.
"They were perfectly fine, in fact, they were with their babysitter who is perfectly trained to take care of them," I reply, and then I notice something strange, so I add:
"By the way, what the hell did you do with my babysitter?"
"I ... well ..." he starts to stutter guiltily, and I am trying to control the anger that is pouring over me.
"Bastian ..." I tell him in a threatening tone, and he seems bewildered for a moment.
"I ordered her out, and she went to make their lunch," he replies, looking anywhere but at me.
"What do you mean by ‘I ordered to’?" I ask raising an eyebrow, and he purses his lips guiltily.
“Did you use your alpha aura to command my babysitter? MY BABYSITTER?" I yell at him, and Aiden immediately breaks down in crying causing Alissa to freak out as well and start crying, which just drives me even madder.
"They were so calm ..." he mutters in an exasperated tone, and I glare at him as I bend down to take Aiden into my arms and try to calm him down.
"Look, I know it was wrong for me to give orders to your people, but they calmed down as soon as I arrived, and I was just here playing with them for a while, I didn't mean to hurt them, I have never intended that," he tells me while rocking Alissa up and down on his legs.
"Everything you have done since you came into my life has been hurting me, so I don't want you to get close to my babies again or I won't answer for what might happen, I won't give a damn if we are in the middle of a truce, I will rip your head off or whoever dares to touch them, do you understand me?" I tell him in a low, threatening voice so as not to scare the babies even more, and he looks at me with an indecipherable expression on his face.
"I have never wanted to hurt you, I could not do it even if I tried, I have loved you more than anything or anyone in this world, and I still love you despite all the time that has passed and everything that has happened ..." he begins to say as he looks at the babies and then at the wedding band in my hand, and I feel the air catch in my throat, but he seems absorbed in his little monologue and continues speaking:
“I know you blame me for what happened with your father and I understand why you do it, but if you would just let me explain everything that happened that day, you would know that the last thing I wanted was to hurt you or damage our bond, and I looked for you to talk to you, I looked for you everywhere but I could not find you even when I knew that you were at the forefront of the attacks against my warriors.
And then you simply married that i***t, I do not understand how you were able to do it when I know perfectly well that our bond is not completely broken, and when I myself have experienced the feeling of rejection towards any other woman other than you, but you have f*cked him as if nothing had happened between us, as if my mark were not in your neck, as if your chest didn’t hurt every time you did it…” he says with a broken voice, and I can't hide my surprise at his words, because although I had my suspicions about the origin of the pain, I never thought that he too could to feel it.
“Yeah, I feel it too, I have felt it every time you sleep with him, and that is why I know these babies aren't his children, they couldn't be because I have not felt the pain before that damn wedding, so he can be their father, there is an answer to all this, and that is that they are as much mine as they are yours, I have been observing them carefully during this time and I have noticed that he has your eyes, but also my nose and the same color of my hair, and she has the same shade of green as my mother's eyes, although the dimples and the rest of her features are identical to you, I don't understand why you started a war against me when you knew perfectly well that not only does the bond still tie us because you could not break it, but now they are also bonding us, what do you intend with this? Leave them fatherless? Is that what you want, Elina? Leave the babies fatherless because you lost both of yours and you blame me for it?" He tells me, and I feel that my self-control is fading with each word that comes out of his mouth, and if it weren't for the babies being so close that I could hurt them, I would have already let my wolf out to tear off his lying tongue.
“So, who should I blame for my father's death? You gave the order so you could look good with your alphas, AND YOUR MEN EXECUTED IT! Are you forgetting that I was present when it happened, and I saw everything as clear as day? I suppose you have already forgotten, you are so determined to be the victim because your fated mate did not want the bond that united her to her father's murderer anymore, that you forgot that I myself saw you sitting there as if you were in just a regular meeting while your men were stabbing him; so forgive me for not feeling sorry for your pain, in fact, if I had known earlier I would have f****d Zane every day to make sure you suffered.
And stop getting your hopes up about MY BABIES, because for your information, pain only occurs when I am reaching o****m, and the last time I checked it is not necessary for a woman to c****x to get pregnant, so all that story that you created in that head of yours, it is not true, you have no idea of anything that has happened to me since I rejected the bond, which by the way I do not want to have again, and I left your side after seeing you murder my father," I reply with all the hatred that comes out of my heart, and he frowns in response.
"I didn't murder him," he responds.
“Your men did it under your command, which makes no difference to me,” I say angrily.
"I didn't murder him, he chose his own destiny," he repeats almost monotonously, and I feel my patience completely draining.
"Get out!" I shout to him.
"You never let me explain what happened that day," he tells me.
"I don't want to hear anything that comes out of your lying mouth," I reply.
"If you would just listen for a moment," he insists, and then I decide I have had enough.
I take Alissa from his arms and then I put the babies in the crib, causing them both to start crying immediately, and turning to him with my eyes glimmering gold, my nails starting to lengthen, and my wolf taking more and more control, and I say to him with the most powerful voice of which I am capable of:
"Get out of here!"
His reaction is immediate, I see him fight against the aura that surrounds my order, but he is still unable to resist an order given by an alpha queen with much more power than his, and after moving his gaze from my face to the Babies in the crib, he leaves the room, and I collapse on the floor under the full weight of his words, feeling tears roll down my cheeks for the first time in almost a year.
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