Chapter 64

Elena

Never in my life have I struggled to sleep so much, all night I tossed and turned, sleep refusing to take me as I won- dered how long Axton would keep me from our sons, yet Luke’s eagerness to remain here until I prove I would return kept playing on my mind. I wonder if mom would consider staying here with Axton.

She would be safe here until I returned, the idea of leaving Luke here by himself worried me to no end. Turning my head, I see Axton sleeping facing away from me, sitting up he is still fast asleep when I spot his keys on the bedside table next to his head. Quietly as possible, I pull the blanket back. He was asleep and this was our chance to escape him.

Lexa, feeling my change in mood, pushes forward. “Elena, quick before he wakes,” Lexa urges as she looks through my eyes to spot the keys, and what brought on my sudden ex- citement.

My heart beats hard in my chest as I pull the covers back and crept out of bed. Moving around to his side, my fingers lock around the keys, the jingle making me freeze in place to glance at him. His eyes were still shut, and I let out a breath, quickly fisting them so that they don’t rattle and make noise. Yet as I stand upright, the floor creaked and his eyes snap

 

open.

I barely had time to blink before he reached out and gripped my wrist, jerking me across his body and pinning me beneath him against the mattress.

in my head at my failed attempt to get us back to our sons. Axton pries my fingers from around his keys, peeling each finger back until he retrieved his keys, taking them and any hope I had of escaping

me. Emotion clogs my throat, threatening to suffo- cate me, as I

he fucking ruined everything. Everything, I hate him for it, hate what he did, hate that he took everything from

out in a tsunami

me again!” Axton yells at me

it at him before lash- ing out and attacking him. Axton growls at us, but I was far too gone, I wanted to hurt something, hurt him, anything. I needed my babies, I needed them because at this point they were the only reason I am still breathing. The only reason I haven’t ended it all. My reason for fucking breathing, and he was keeping me from

the side of his head, he grunts pinning my arms to the bed and Lexa surges forward, trying him buck him off when roars

easily make me submit. My breathing is

eyes.

longer feel like fighting every step of the way, only to

I’ll make you.” Axton growls, his teeth raking down my

responsibility, lived with the burden of what is expected of me and I lived

every- thing I worked my entire life

never be mine.

A title I lived and clung

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