Who’s Right?
Ayla
flares up.
I don’t want
Mummbled noises outside tell me Thane is home. I can hear Raven’s footsteps descend the stairwell and anxiety I confrontation. I am also not well right now. I sit up in my nest and check my phone. Five hours have gone by and I haven’t heard a single word out of him or any other shifter. I toss my phone in the nest and put my hands over my face, trying to keep myself from losing it.
The door starts to creak open and I know that I need to uncover my face to see him, but I can’t bring myself to do it.
or behind me. This room is starting to feel too small
“Why aren’t you asleep?” Thane asks while walking into my nesting room and closing the door despite its large size.
I remove my hands and see him for the first time since the explosion happened. He is exhausted. Thane looks as if he spent time on a battlefield and I don’t need to question the red on his clothing. I need to know if it belongs to her or not. The fact I don’t know the answer to the question is slowly angering me.
“Why do you think?” I ask, hating to, but I need to get an understanding if he even knows he screwed up.
|“Because you have been through a very traumatic experience and your mind is probably anything but quiet.” No, he doesn’t understand.
“No, that is why I couldn’t stop throwing up earlier.” I had nothing left to throw up, but apparently, my nerves didn’t get the memo.
“How are you feeling now?” Thane takes a few steps toward me, but the look on my face must make him stop.
“That question has a very lengthy answer that I am not sure I can give you right now.” I want to get it all out there, probably pake some more, and figure out how to move forward, but I don’t know if he can handle it any more than I can.
“Can you try?” Thane speaks quietly as he intently watches me from the center of the room. He crouches down low as if I am a wounded animal L probably look like one.
“You sent me away Thane. You disregarded what I wanted and sent me away with the jerk of your chin. Like I am a burden to be removed from
“That wasn’t my intention. I needed to get you to safety.”
“I could have stayed and helped!”
“You were helping by leaving. You are the pack Luna, you lead this pack if anything happens to me. We didn’t need us both in danger.” Thane says a little more sternly which just angers me more.
i just finished telling the pack I would stop at nothing to keep them safe and you sent the away from them in their time of need!”
“You are pregnant with my pup.
Your
is more important.”
“It isn t more important than the entire pack’s Thune!”
“It is to me, Ayla. There is nothing you can say to change my mind on that, I needed you safe and that is what I did.”
“No, that is what you think you did. You did far worse.” I chew on the inside of my cheek trying to keep it together, but I can feel my eyes watering up.
“Then enlighten me. Because from here, you look pretty safe.
“This is safe to you? Me sitting in here alone…
You had Raven, you could have let her in the interrupts and it makes my blood want to boil.
*You sent me away. You left me here and you closed off the bond. Remember how you felt when I didn’t know I had completely kept you closed off? Now add tonight’s events to that feeling. I couldn’t feel you, Thane. I didn’t know if you were okay. I couldn’t check in on you, I couldn’t feel
“I was trying to keep you safe! Do you think feeling my emotions down the band when I was digging through debris would have helped your state
What Right!
amy? Do you think feeling my emotions when I am pulling bodies out of the rubble would make you feel better? The pain, rage, and fear would only magnify your feelings.
“I would rather feel your pain than think you are dead!” Sending me away was wrong and closing me off was worse.”
“I won’t apologize for keeping you safe. Do you want to talk about emotions? I almost lost you tonight! We were just there. I would have lost my entire world if the bomb had gone off a few moments sooner! I almost lost you and our pup and you’re upset that I sent you home to keep you safe?” Thane s temper is flaring as he stands and runs his hand through his hair, his jaw tight as he rom his eyes all over me, probably checking for an unseen injury. Too bad they are all on the inside.
turn my head away from him as tears start to fall.
“This is the last bomb this psycho detonates. I will stop at nothing to see that through and to keep you safe. Thane states more calmly but I pick up something he said that I hope isn’t true.
The last bomb? Has there been others?” I ask and Thane and I see his shoulders deflate as he sight.
There was one found in my car. 1 also believe it is probably who poisoned me.”
“Are you serious right now? How can you stand there and tell me this isn’t the first one? Did I have a right to know?” I stand up and climb over the wall of my nest. Answer me!”
“I was trying to keep you from worrying, Thane whispers.
“I am your mate and you kept a threat on your life a secret? I am the pack’s Luna and you kept this from me?”
“You weren’t actively in the Luna roll yet,” his excuse isn’t good enough.
“I can’t believe you kept this from me, I say in disbelief, tears running down my face as I stare at him emotionless in the middle of my room.
“I was trying to keep you safe Ayla.”
“A lack of knowledge won’t do that Thane,
We stand in silence, neither one of us knowing how to move forward.
“Who’s blood is all over you?” I whisper, my gut fearful of the answer,
“I don’t think we should talk about this right now.” Thane takes a step toward me, but I take one backward.
My voice is weak and my lips tremble. “Tell me, Thane.”
I see his internal conflict in his eyes. He is attempting to keep something else from me and I need to hear it, even if I think I already know the
“Its Monicas
A whimper leaves me as tears rapidly fall. I bite my lip trying to get a hold of it, but it isn’t helping
she
“Is she okay?” I ask, desperately needing to hear yes.
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