Page 98 of The Saviors: Part One
Axel sits on the foot of the bed. “I know you said no talks of the past, but I need to say something.” I nod for him to continue. “I’m so goddamn sorry, Chelsea, for what happened, for everything I said, and how I acted. You didn’t deserve that. It’s not an excuse, but I saw you, and every dumb thing I did came rushing back.”
“Thank you for that,” I say quietly. “And we will talk. I just don’t think I can right now.”
“I get that,” he says with a sad smile and stands up. He gets to the door, and I don’t want him to leave.
“Axel?” He turns around, and I pat the bed beside me. “That doesn’t mean we can’t talk about other things.” He crawls onto the bed beside me. I’ve been dying to ask this question since it was brought up, but I know how Sean is, so I waited. “Why don’t you tell me about Nolan?”
He looks startled for a second, and then the biggest smile spreads across his face. “What do you want to know?”
I shrug and roll over to face him. “Everything.” I haven’t been around him long, but Nolan is the sweetest and hot in that quiet, shy kind of way. And I caught how Axel was looking at him all day.
“I won’t go into all the details, but he got mixed up with the wrong people. Some friends and I from Abbs Valley busted up his grandparent’s place thinking he was some kind of criminal mastermind.” Axel laughs and shakes his head. “He was just a scared kid trying to cover his ass. So, I took him into the Saviors, and he’s been with us ever since.”
“How long have you guys been together?”
Axel laughs softly. “A couple of days.”
“So, this is new new?” He nods. “And your first?”
“Yeah.” Axel sighs and flops onto his back. It feels like old times when we would all lay around one of the houses and just talk for hours. “I knew there was something different about him than any other guy I’ve ever trained. The guys all teased me that I was soft with him, and I am. He’s probably the only one who can put me in my place, and I listen.”
“How did it start?”
Axel barks a laugh. “He shoved me into a bathroom and told me he could help me with all the tension.”
My face heats up because of the visions running through my head. “Then what happened?”
“He ran after, thinking I didn’t want it, and somehow he forced me into doing it. That couldn’t have been any further from the truth. It took me a while to wrap my head around it, but once I did, I was fine with it. More than fine with it.”
I giggle. “And the hickeys?”
Axel starts blushing, and I’m about to point it out. “Shut up,” he laughs. “We took the final step this morning. I may have gotten carried away.”
“He didn’t seem to mind.” Axel laughs again, and I realize how much I’ve missed that deep, rich sound. “Is he your boyfriend?”
“That sounds like such an inadequate term, and we haven’t discussed labels. I just know that he’s mine, and I’ll go to war to protect him.” Axel looks at me. “The same thing that I’ll do for you. Now and forever, Cupcake.” He holds out his arm, and I snuggle into his chest. He takes a deep breath and pulls me closer. “Thank you. I didn’t know how much I needed to talk about that with someone who wasn’t going to make a shit ton of sexual jokes.”
I laugh, knowing he’s talking about Sean. “I missed these talks.”
“Then we’ll make it a thing again.”
“How? I know you guys don’t stay in one place long.” That thought brings tears to my eyes. I know that if I stay with Sean and Kai, we’ll have to live the majority of our relationship apart.
Axel is quiet, and I don’t think he’s going to answer me, then he kisses the top of my head. “Maybe it’s time to reevaluate that.” I suck in a breath. He’s not saying what I think he is, is he? “I feel like it’s time my team settles down somewhere, and this seems like the perfect place. It’s time to come back home.”
Home.
It’s time for my boys to come home.
Chapter31
Kai
I’m sitting on the side patio when I hear the door open. Looking behind me, I watch Axel step outside and take a seat beside me. I already checked on Chelsea, and she was asleep on his chest. I want to be pissed, but can’t find it in me to be that way. She looked so fucking peaceful, and so did he. This is just another piece of the puzzle for Chelsea to heal.
When she had the panic attack, I hovered outside the door because I couldn’t get my goddamn feet to move to help her. I was sucked back into a point in my life where I had debilitating panic attacks, and it’s not a place I ever want to be again.
“You good?” Axel asks, kicking back in his chair. I knew he would pick up on it because he was the one who would always run to me in the middle of the night when I couldn’t fucking breathe because of the nightmares.
