Chapter 31
FREYA
I saw the muscles on his back go stiff. That was the only hint that Aiden had heard me. Other than that he had neither moved an inch not replied. He took off the watch from his wrist and roughly chucked it on the dresser. His hands caught my sight. His knuckles looked busted and there was dried blood
With that deafening silence, the air was heavy with tension. Not caring that he had ignored me. I stepped inside.
“What happened?”
“Not now, Freya” Aiden brusquely threw over his shoulder, his tone clearly asking me to get the fuck out but I too was stubborn as hell.
“No, Aiden. I need to know what happened there.” He turned around, very slowly. The breath got caught in my throat at the look in his eyes..
They were different, the look in them was very different from what i had ever seen. A sane woman would run for the hills. I on the other hand I had never shown any signs of sanity. I was probably the character in the horror film that died first because she had walked right where the creepy sounds had come from.
I swallowed. “Your knuckles are bloody. What did you do?”
Probably not the correct thing to ask at the moment. There was a twitch in Aiden’s eyes. He clenched and unclenched his fists.
I didn’t kill him. If that’s what you’re asking”
A shiver went up my spine at the low intensity of his voice. He didn’t kill Noah and he didn’t sound pleased about that. Did he actually consider doing that? Somewhere at the back of my mind I had thought of it, his body language had said that. He looked dangerous, unapologetically and distinctly vicious
swallowed down the nervousness and walked closer till I could see the nurmoil in his eyes up and close. “Are you okay?”
He didn’t answer, just quietly watching me. I couldn’t make sense of all the emotions swirling in those brown orbs. I lowered my gaze to his hands.
“That needs to be cleaned up, Where do you keep the first–aid kit?”
Aiden kept staring at me. I was almost convinced he hadn’t heard me when his eyes shifted towards the bathroom. I nodded and immediately moved towards the bathroom to get the first–aid kit. He stalked in after me and leaned against the counter, waiting while I took out the things out of the box
I ran the water, gesturing to him to put his hand under the cold water. He complied which was indeed a relief and quite unexpected
it his hand forward, waiting for me to hand it over. I held his hand and flipped in
Til do it” He put
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“Let me” I dabbed at the skin with the cotton pad soaked in saline solution. I looked up to gauze his face for any reaction. There was none, as if he couldn’t feel the pain. He was scarily silent which actually helped me focus on the work at hand.
“We need to put some ice on that.” I said, looking up at him. I hadn’t realized that we were standing this close. I caught a whiff of tobacco mixed with the musk of his cologne
I wondered what was going on in his head. All that silent staring was getting a bit overwhelming for me and somehow I still didn’t put some distance between us. I kept standing there, letting him pierce me with those eyes.
“I wish I did.” Aiden muttered. I almost didn’t hear it but I did. The conviction and cruelty in his voice made the hair back of my neck rise. Took me a few seconds to understand what he said…
“I didn’t kill him. If that’s what you’re asking”
He meant Noah. He wished he had killed him.
“No, you don’t“” I stepped back and stared at him incredulously. Even though Thad for once feared the possibility, still hearing him say it was something different
“You cant kall someone over that”
There was a dangerous glint in his eyes. He pushed back against the counter I stepped closer till he was crowding my space.
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“Over hurting you? Sure can. After piating their filtby hands on you no fucking one should get to fucking live” The words sounded controlled and so calms, total contradiction to how he appeared, unmerciful and gloriously laidal
Aiden brought his less injured hand up and moved the strands of hair from my face. His hands trailed down to my neck, his tuinle grazing the skin there. I could literally taste the tobacco on my tongue. A zap of electricity passed though me, making my head reel. When he spoke, thr breath but my moth
“Tronically, the only reason he lives to see another day is you?
I realized what his words meant, even though I wish I didn’t. He spared.Nouli’s life becage of me, because I wordiT’ve wanted that
My chest felt heavy with that realisation Why did he consider any feelings, why did he think of what I wanted On the other hand he wanted to kill
Noah because he has touched me
“No one fucking touches you and goes unscathed”
I didn’t know what I was supposed to make all these: Despite knowing Tenaldiccatfood wandering into dangerosos territories, my brain somelinu relused to shut up. I took a shaky inhale.
„Aiden squeezed his eyes shut and breathed out. The very next seconil he hail pur quite some distaner betweenias. I saw lidi nuca hand through his hair that was already tousled. He looked distressed, inistrated and mostly angry. Very angry.
He spared me a last glance before storming out of the bathroom, leaving me feeling a littledizzy and extremely confused.
