Page 55 of Loup Garou
I threw my hands in the air and stormed towards my office door. Tossing power at it, I forced it to open. “I don’t know if I want to hit you or hug you!”
Stomping into the hallway, I headed straight for the gymnasium. My hopes were to find the ass who had caused all the trouble and annihilate him. I rounded the corner and found Myra, Gina and Jay engaged in battle with the bad guys. As Jay moved, his arm muscles flexed and his entire body rippled. Watching his caramel-colored skin as the lights reflected off it, I couldn’t help but notice just how sexy he was. The wolf within him gave him even more mystic.
“What in the hell are you doing, woman? You almost died. You don’t go—” Exavier stopped in mid-sentence and stared at everyone as they fought.
Gina’s mouth fell open a second before she lobbed a were-lion’s head off. “He’s still around? Do you really think he should be here rightnow, Lindsay?”
“No. I think he should go.”
Exavier growled and stood close to me in a protective stance. “And I think you should keep your sexy ass in one spot, stay safe, and let someone who knows what they’re doing, do it. Gina was right. You weren’t created to have to fight for your life. That’s my job. You were made to look pretty and stay safe while I do it.”
My jaw dropped.
He did not go there. Did he?
He did.
I eyed him, the I-am-woman part of me roaring to life. “Look pretty?”
A shifter charged at me and Exavier moved to cover me. Tossing my hand up, I let my power out. It circled the shifter and lifted him high off his feet. As I clenched my fist, his body twisted and contorted, smashing into pieces. What remained dropped to the floor and I stared at Exavier. “Make yourself useful. Make sure he’s dead.”
Grabbing my arm lightly, Exavier gave me a stern look. “Lindsay, this is ridiculous. You have to be the most stubborn woman ever to walkthis earth. Would you please just stop and acknowledge that you’re happy to see me? That you missed me? That you still love me?”
A vampire came swooping down at his head from behind. I aimed my magik that way and let it loose. Exavier’s eyes widened as he ducked down. “Lindsay! Killing me is a bit extreme, don’t you think?” The dead vampire fell at his feet. “Oh, sorry. Thought that was directed at me.”
“I’m not only too low to count as cheating, I’m an attempted murderer too? Great. Care to add to the list, or do you think you’ve screwed yourself enough, Xavs?”
Exavier sent several bad guys hurtling into a wall as he continued to stare at me. “Think about it, Lindsay. You are my mate. If you and I do anything, how is that cheating?Youare the spouse! I can’t cheat on you withyou.”
He had a point. I’d just been too upset to realize it. “Oh.”
“Oh?”
If he thought I was going to eat my words he had another think coming. Emotions swelled in me as the reality of it all began to set in. “I hope you aren’t expecting me to apologize. I have been hunted, beaten, tortured and so many things I don’t even want to talk about, all because some jackass upstairs thought I’d make a great Eve to your Adam.” Tears flowed down my cheeks freely as I glared at him. “I can’t have children now, Xavs. I can’t give you that heir the vamp was so quick to bring up. Do you want to know why?”
He closed his eyes and tipped his head down.
“Do you?”
Exavier refused to look at me.
Coward.
“Lindsay, don’t do this. No one can change the past,” Gina said between killing bad guys.
“You wanted to kill the prince guy earlier,” I said to Gina and motioned to Exavier. “Have at him. Do me a favor. Make him suffer. Okay?”
“Lindsay.”
I tapped myself in the chest. “I can’t have children because I spent four days having my insides ripped from my body repeatedly, Gina! They would let my body begin to heal itself and do it again and again, each time demanding I give the prince over to them. It’s his fault! His fault she’s not here now.” I swallowed hard, not wanting to go into further detail. I’d expended too much of my emotions on him. I’d not let him have any more of them. “Where was he when it was all happening? Huh? I’ll answer that. Probably fucking some woman who wasn’t his mate. I can hate him all I want. I’ve earned the right.”
Exavier swung his arms around and a loud, ear-popping boom occurred. I didn’t take my eyes off him. Everyone else gasped, impressed by his show of power. I was still too hurt to care.
“Holy shit, he killed them all with one magikal blow,” Myra said, sounding more than surprised. “He’s a prince all right.”
He moved towards me and wrapped me in his arms, tight. Pressing his mouth to my ear, he whispered, “I will never be able to say sorry often enough, Linds. Never. I will never be able to prove how much you mean to me. I’m just asking for some time. I want to get to know you all over again. I want to have you back in my life. I have loved you from day one. Let me show you.”
“Didn’t you hear me? I can’t have—”
