“That’s all you two have been doing,” I whisper back.
“Please… I can’t leave you like this.”
He reaches out to touch my face.
“Go… Please…just go!” I’m almost to the point of begging, I don’t even care how pathetic I sound right now. I just want to be left alone.
I hear him let out a deep breath and then finally he stands up and moves to leave, walking through the bathroom and into his room. I wipe the tears away with the back of my hand, then move to lift myself up. I find a pair of panties and a big t-shirt, then climb into bed under all the blankets as I cry myself to sleep wishing I had that sweet sweet Tyler I once knew holding me tight.
I don’t like this scary version of Tyler very much. He’s making me reconsider everything I thought I knew about him.
TYLER POV
I pace the bedroom. My wolf won’t shut up about the way we’ve treated Angel. We’re both to blame and we know it. Nothing can take the image of her petrified face out of my head.
Talon storms into the bedroom and I sense the anger and hostility coming from him. He glares at me and speaks in a deathly even tone.
“Hurt her again and I’ll make sure Alpha gives me permission to end you. Blood or not, you touch our mate that way again and I will make sure she rejects you… That’s if you haven’t already just changed her mind about wanting us.”
He leans against the windowsill and lets out a deep breath, leaning his elbows on his knees, hair falling to cover his face. He always looks so untidy, but apparently girls liked that shit, calling it rugged. Whatever the fuck that means.
“Start talking! Tell me how we’re going to fix this shit. I think we’ve gone too far. I know you don’t mean half the shit you say to her, so tell me how we’re going to fix it?” Talon says, looking up at me.
I’m usually the problem solver, the one with all the answers, but that’s when I’ve had to fix Talon’s fuck ups. I don’t fuck up, but I know that this time… I’ve fucked up big time.
“I don’t know,” I say truthfully. I can tell by the look on Talon’s face that he wasn’t expecting that answer from me.
I sit next to him on the windowsill resting my head in my hands. “I don’t know what to do.”
“You need to make things better between the two of you. Apologise and make it better,” he says.
“Did you see how scared she was?”
I sit up and look at Talon. He nods his head.
“How am I gonna get her to talk to me when she’s so afraid of me? How can she ever forgive me for what I did? What I’ve done,” I whisper, looking down at the floor.
“How will she ever forgive us for the way we’ve been treating her?” Talon says, resting his head against the window behind him and squeezing his eyes shut.
“We fucked up,” we say simultaneously.
“She deserves better than us, Ty… So much better. She deserves to be happy,” Talon says.
I know where he’s going with this and I’ve thought about it before myself, but it hurts too much to say it out loud.
“You think her second chance mate will be better than us?” I ask him.
“Look at what we’ve done! What we’ve put her through!” Talon spits out angrily, standing up and moving to the other side of the room where he starts to pace.
“You think Alpha wil forgive us for what we’ve put her through?” he doesn’t give me a chance to answer.
“No, he’s going to banish us the minute he finds out. Either way we are fucking screwed!”
“I know alright! Don’t fucking talk to me like that, Talon. We’re both to blame and there’s no use arguing about it. It won’t change anything. Kate was around when Angel wasn’t and now…God, Talon. I love Kate. I love Angel too, I love her too fucking much and I know she’s our mate, but I’m… I’m afraid to lose Kate. Don’t you understand how hard this is for me?” I keep my voice down hoping Angel can’t hear.
“Hard for you? This is pretty fucking hard for me too, bro! I care about Lucy, we’re in the same fucking boat. I’ve loved Angel from the moment I wrapped my arms around her that first day, but she’s so fucking closed off, she keeps so much shit from us. How are we supposed to trust her?” Talon flops backwards onto the bed with a loud curse.
“We need to keep our space from her until we can figure out what’s best for all of us. I don’t want to hurt Kate and I know you don’t want to hurt Lucy-” he interrupts me.
“I don’t want to hurt Angel either, Ty,” he says.