Chapter 218

Xade’s pov I took a step back, looking down at the floor. ” You’re right,” I mumble low and lift my head to look at Kaylee. “I’m sorry for being harsh,” I apologize, feeling a bit ashamed to have blasted her.

She had not deserved that at all.

Kaylee lifts her head off the ground a bit and nods, a small understanding smile on her face. “It’s okay, I understand.”

We’re all worried about Avery,” Xaden grumbles, his tone still displeased by the way I had spoken to his mate.” But being an asshole to people who care about you isn’t going to help.”

I shot him a quick glare but I knew he was right. With a heavy sigh pushing out of my mouth, I looked back at the door. Just behind, my woman was lying on a bed, hooked to many machines.

“I should be in there with her,” my voice breaks, the weight of unease pushing down on my chest painfully. ” She should not have to be in there alone. I’m her mate, she needs her mate.”

It’s true, there was the doctor and three more nurses in there but….I needed to be in there too.

“You being in there right now wouldn’t help her Xade,” Dad said gently. “You’re just going to be hovering over the doctor who’s already squirmish from your attitude. Give them a chance to work on getting her stable.”

My jaw ticked. I knew he was right, however I wanted to be in there with her. I needed to be with her. But deep down I knew that I would only make things worse by just barging in and demanding answers.

Answers I knew they would struggle to give me.

She’s in there alone,” my words tore through my throat painfully. The thought of her lying there, all alone with not even a hand to hold hers while she goes through this is, agonizing.

She’s not,” Mom butted in, her voice soft and cautious. I looked at her and saw the ghost of worry in her eyes as she looks at me.” You might not be in there physically beside her, but don’t forget that you two are mates. She can feel you, she can sense you. She knows you are there with her.”

Her words made me swallow hard and for a moment, I froze, relaxing a bit as I now remember that indeed I could feel her. Especially if I focus enough.

“And right now all she needs you to do is trust that she will be strong enough to get through this. Which she will,” Mom finishes with a gentle smile.

Trust. Such a simple word.

I had to believe she would be strong and I knew that more than anyone that she was.

“Yes she’s strong,” my voice shook as I listen to the sounds of the machine and the shuffle of the nurses and doctor in the room. The sound reminds me that she is in there, vulnerable and-

“She is,” Mom reminded me firmly.

I lift my eyes to hers and my vision blurred. “I can’t lose her,” my voice broke.

“You won’t,” Mom said more firmly. “I know you hate not being able to be beside her right now but trust me, Avery knows you’d do anything for her. Even give up your life-

Then why didn’t you?” The voice that cut into my mom’s words came from behind me. Low and bitter. I turn around to see Avery’s mom staring, I mean glaring at me. I stiffen.

“You claim to love my daughter yet you do nothing to save her,” her glare turns lethal. ” She’s fighting for her life because of you. You have no one else to blame but yourself.”