Chapter 144: I Choose You
Chapter 144: I Choose You
Elena
I couldn't sleep last night even after Bernard had told me the truth about what had really happened, my heart still felt uneasy. I felt so many varying emotions inside me, I was angry, hurt, and numb all at the same time and it was so confusing.
I was meant to have my engagement party yesterday but because Helen had decided to come and make a mess of things yet again, I was forced to cancel it. I took my first swing and hit the bag. Bernard had installed a punching bag on the back porch for me. He said that it would be good practice whenever I felt overwhelmed, I could come and have a go at it.
Helen Elison had been a thorn in my side from the moment I met her, she made me want to act out of character. She made me want to do things that I normally would have never done if I wasn't provoked. She made me want to murder her, I swung again, hitting the bags right in the middle. I imagined Helen's face on it as my fist kept colliding with her face over and over again. I wanted her to pay for all the hurt and pain she had caused me, she tried to steal my mate, she tried to have me killed and she tried to take over my life.
I am tired of showing mercy, I am tired of holding back and showing restraint. For once, I wanted to let it all out. I continued punching the bag harder and harder and the hatred I felt towards Helen fueled my body, I wanted to unleash her and let her roam wild. I swung one last time and my fist pierced through the thick fabric of the punching bag.
"Looks like I am going to need to get you another one."
I looked over my shoulder and found my mate with two cups of coffee in his hands, his hair was damp so I knew that he had just come out of the shower. He walked over to where I stood and handed me a cup. I would have wanted water but this will do.
"How are you feeling, my love?"
He stared at me and it felt like he was treading on eggshells with me after last night. He is scared that whatever he would say might piss me off.
"I am not a bomb, Bernard. You don't have to walk around eggshells with me, I am fine."
"Are you sure, because the punching bag would say otherwise." He was trying to be funny but I wasn't in the mood to joke.
"You were tossing and turning all night and you didn't even sleep after you woke up the first time." I shrugged.
"I was tired."
"Elena," he sighed.
"I can't help you if you don't talk to me, I don't like seeing you worked up in your head. I can feel you retracting from me."
This is not the kind of conversation I feel like having right now, we need to focus on the problem at hand and that is dealing with Helen and her father.
"Shouldn't we be getting ready? Jasper and Liam should be at the clearing now."
"You are running away from the topic, Elena."
I stayed silent, my eyes looked everywhere that wasn't my mate because I was sure that once he looked into my eyes, I would lose it.
"Look at me." He stepped forward and was standing in front of me.
"Please, Elena."
I moved my eyes slowly to meet him and our eyes finally connected. His forest green eyes pierced through mine, every walk I had tried to put up to shield myself fell to the ground. The brave front I had been trying to portray faded, that anger that had been festering within my soul turned to a heaviness that I could not carry. The first tear rolled down my cheeks, my heart squeezed.
"My love," he whispered, reaching his hand to my face. He gently brushed away the tears, took the coffee mug from me, and pulled me into his embrace. He placed his chin on top of my head, and kissed me gently, squeezing me a little tighter to his body.
"It is okay, my love. All will be well."
If it wasn't Richard then it was Helen, I feared to see what would come next. Our love had been on life support from its birth, we had the world against us. We were never allowed happiness, how could I be sure that something like this wouldn't happen again? How could I be sure that we would get our happy ending? I had been fighting for us for so long, that I was growing tired. I just want our love to be easy and simple, couldn't we just have that?
"We will get through this." He murmured into my hair.
I knew we would get through it, we always did but that didn't mean this wouldn't reoccur, that our love wouldn't be tested yet again.
"Remember those words you said to me in the hospital." His voice was soft and low.
"If we just choose each other, the rest doesn't matter. So, I need to ask you, my love. Do you choose me?" I pulled back and looked into his eyes.
"Yes, I do. Do you choose me?"
"Always." I nodded.
I had to keep reminding myself that no matter what came our way, we would be okay but a part of me wondered how long could we keep on this constant up-and-down roller coaster we had been put on. I will always choose Bernard at every turn, I will choose him over everything and everyone but how long would we be forced into a situation that continuously strains the relationship?
We get upstairs to get ready, we need to be at the clearing before eight in the morning.
"Will you kill, Ronald?"
"No," he looked at me as we walked through the forest.
"I can't, I need to maintain some semblance of peace between us. He will have to agree to my terms or I will call for Akeesh and then once I win, I will demand what I want. The main priority today is making sure that the child stays in the Pack." I nodded in understanding, I was proud of how he was handling things, all things considered.
We walked further into the woods and finally we came to the clearing. Jasper and Liam were already waiting for us, Liam had a piece of paper in his hands that I assumed to be the test results.
"Alpha, Luna." They bowed their heads in greeting.
"Is that the paternity test results?" Bernard pointed to the paper in Liam's hand and he nodded.
"They are the correct ones. When I went to retrieve the results the first time, it showed that you and the child were a match. Then I ran the test again myself and found that you were not the match. I think someone had tampered with the first results."
"It was her, wasn't it?" I muttered and Liam nodded.
"I believe so, Luna. I am guessing that was why she was so calm about taking the test, she had already devised a plan to manipulate the result, I also ran a test with Jones's DNA and they were in fact the perfect match."
"How long before they arrive?" I look at my mate.
"They should be here any second."
As if on cue, Helen and Ronald walked past the tree line to the clearing. Followed closely were Jones and Jim, who looked as white as a sheet. Helen had a scowl etched on her face and Ronald looked like his usual angry faced self. They came to a halt a few meters from where we stood and Helen's eyes connected with mine, I didn't miss the smirk she threw my way. I wanted nothing more than to beat her but I held my claws, this is not the time for violence. This is the moment of truth.
"What is the meaning of this, Bernard? Your stupid men came and dragged us out of the bed like animals. He could have hurt the child I am carrying." Bernard ignored her.
"Helen, is that any way to talk about the father of your child, isn't that right, Jones?"
We all watched as horror covered her face for three seconds before she schooled her features to be passive. She is going to try and lie herself out of this one but I wasn't going to give her a chance.
"We know, Helen. We know that Jones is the father of your child."
She stared at me with a death glare and I returned it back. She is not going to get the chance to talk her way out of this one, she has been caught.
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