hapter 99
Chapter 99
Xavier POV
Regan looks stunned as she stands between the both of us, looking at the two of us with displeasure on her face. “Is somebody going to tell me what the hell is going on and what the hell is the matter with you two” she shouted out, her voice carrying across the grounds, “And why I just had to drag the both of you apart when you are brothers and my mates” she added with heavy emphasis and a scowl on her face.
I look pointedly at Xander. I’ve managed to get a few good hits in and I feel nothing but satisfaction as I look at my brother, considering him to be nothing but a traitor: “Tell her Xander” my voice is icy. “Tell your mate, the one you claim to love” I glared at him, “What you intend to do to her and to us?”
Xander shifts on his feet and stares down at the grass, looking as though he’s a deer trapped in headlights. Now that he’s facing Regan and looking directly into her eyes, he seems to have lost his confidence or maybe he’s hesitating because he knows how Regan will take the news. Too bad. He should have thought of that before. It’s too late for him to change his mind now. He coughs, blood splattering onto the ground, and Regan winces, a look of sympathy crossing her face. I continue to glare. I should have hit the bastard harder, I thought morosely, crossing my arms over my chest and raising a
brow.
“Come on Xander. It’s a little late to pretend you’re afraid to now. Have the guts to at least tell Regan what you intend to do” I spat out.
He needed to stop being a damn coward and admit his stupid plan. I doubted Regan had any more patience than I did when it came down to it. I wished him luck though. He was going to need it.
Xander looked uncomfortable. Regan stepped forward, going to reach for his hand and Xander quickly yanked it away. He avoids her eyes. She bites her lower lip, a look of bewilderment across her face.
“Xander” Regan’s voice is shaky, “what is Xavier talking about? What are you intending to do?” she pleaded.
She wants to understand. But how can she, when I don’t even understand myself how Xander can be capable of doing such a thing? The mate bond should be so strong by now, that severing it would be excruciating, possibly even fatal.
My brother finally meets her gaze. For a moment he looks torn, his expression haunted. I think maybe he’s about to change his mind and admit defeat. Regan sucks in a breath as he shakes his head, his eyes darkening and a look of determination on his face. Damnit. He was still going to go through with it. I felt like slamming his head against the ground, I was that irritable with him.
“It’s for everybody’s sake” he begins, as Regan tightens her lips and eyes him suspiciously, “and the best solution. You would still have Xavier” he began to explain as thought that would make a difference, and then I watched as Regan raised her hand and slapped Xander with all the force she could muster, leaving a bright red handprint on his cheek as he stared at her in shock.
I wanted to applaud her.
“Xander Dominion, are you attempting to suggest that you’re solution is to reject me” she yelled at the top of her lungs, her chest heaving as she glared at him.
I was impressed. I had seen Regan angry before, but not like this She was practically breathing flames as she narrowed her eyes at Xander. Even Xander looked taken aback. I smirked, enjoying myself at Xander’s expense. He should have known his stupid plan wasn’t going to work. Now he had to face Regan’s wrath and she wasn’t holding back on her anger. It was something to be admired and feared at the same time.
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“I…I…I thought” Xander stammered, putting a hand to his cheek in shock “that it would be the best way to…”
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“To what?” Regan’s voice roared. “To leave me devastated? Is this because of your stupid belief that I shouldn’t be helping you raise your child?” she narrowed her eyes, her tone going cold as Xander began to look nervous. “Is this some sort of stupid sacrificing yourself for my sake thing” she hissed, alinost stomping her feet as he stared at her blankly.
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Xander was in for it now I thought smugly, smiling widely at my brother and making no move to help him. He’d gotten himself into this mess and now he could talk his way out of it. Although I doubted Regan was going to make that easy on him. I wish I had the nerve to pull my phone out and record this, but I wasn’t about to bring Regan’s attention down on me.
“I just wanted to..” Xander tried again.
Regan poked him in the chest, causing him to stagger backward
“You listen to me” she snarled “I don’t care about the baby. Will enjoy raising it?” she said shrugging “I don’t know. What I do know is that I care about you and I care about Xander. If I was so upset about the idea of helping you to raise your child don’t you think I would have tried to reject you already” she snapped, causing Xander to look down at the floor ashamed. “You don’t get to decide for me what’s in my best interests” she glowered “I do. I’m not some damn woman who is incapable of making up her own mind. If you don’t want to be with me” she continued to speak, her voice breaking slightly with raw emotion, “then let it be for a proper reason instead of an ill–constructed one that is all in your damn head” she yelled.
Xander blinked, his face contorting into a pained expression. “I do want to be with you” he admitted, moving forward but Regan wasn’t having it, putting her hands up to halt him in his tracks.
She was seething. A simple apology wasn’t going to cut it.
“Well you’re not acting like it” Regan snapped, drawing her shoulders back and regarding him mutinously. “You’re acting like a damn lunatic who has no brain. I don’t blame Xavier for hurting you” she looked over her shoulder at me, “because it seems like he was trying to knock some commonsense into you.
I saw Xander flinch at the callousness of her words and felt the slightest twinge of sympathy for him. Only slightly though. He deserved everything he was getting. He should have listened to, me when he had the chance.
“Now instead of all this stupidity” Regan said, eyeing us both with contempt and making us feel small “maybe you can put more effort into finding Isabelle and Heather. If you’re going to waste valuable time like this, then clearly you don’t have enough important stuff to do” she retorted.
Instantly we felt guilty. She was right. We should have been looking into Heather and Isabelle’s location, chasing up leads, and helping where we could instead of leaving Father and his men to do it. I cleared my throat. “Regan, I’m sorry” I began to apologize and that instantly set her off again.
I should have kept my mouth shut.
She turned on me, her eyes blazing so brightly that I was almost blinded by how full of flames they were. I shivered. “Don’t bother apologizing to me” she said, her tone dangerous as I glanced at an equally frightened Xander. “Apologize to each other. If I see you do anything this stupid again, I swear I’ll have your men put you in the dungeon until you see sense” she added in a threatening tone of voice as we nodded, feeling repentant.
She stared at us. We realized she was waiting fatte
us fo speak the words.
“Sorry Xander” I mumbled, feeling the
pressure.
“Sorry Xavier” he muttered, running a hand through his hair and peering apologetically at me.
Regan began to turn on her heel, scowling to herself. She flung up her hands as we began to file behind her. “Of all the
ridiculous, selfish, despicable” she vented, before her foot tripped and she fell backward.
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I grabbed her in time but she looked pale as I swept her up in my arms and to my shock, her eyes began to roll back in her head.”
“I don’t feel so good” she mumbled and fainted dead in my arms causing me to look at my brother stricken.
We began to run towards the hospital, feeling a sense of urgency Why had our mate fainted and what was wrong with her?
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