Chapter 87: The office
Elijah’s pov ;
As soon as she opened the door, with that saccharine smile plastered on her face, I didn’t even give her a chance to speak. My hand shot out, clamping around her throat, and I slammed her back against the door with a force that rattled the frame. The look of shock and fear in her eyes did nothing to cool the rage that burned inside me.
"Why the hell did you tell Ash about the accident?" I growled, my voice low and dangerous. My grip on her throat tightened as she gasped, her hands clawing at mine as she tried to free herself. Her lips trembled, and it took everything in me not to squeeze harder, to not crush her windpipe right there and then.
"Elijah...please..." she whimpered, her voice barely a whisper as she struggled to breathe. "Ash...he doesn’t deserve you..."
Her pathetic excuse only fueled my anger. I leaned in closer, my face inches from hers, my breath hot against her skin. "And you think you do?" I spat, barely holding myself back from smashing her head into the wall. The urge to do so was almost overwhelming. "How did you find out about my parents?"
She hesitated, her eyes wide with terror, and I could see her mind racing, trying to come up with something to save herself. When she didn’t answer fast enough, I tightened my grip even more, and she let out a strangled cry.
"I-I-I looked it up!" she stammered out, her words stumbling over each other in her desperation. "When you came last time asking about the accident...I started looking into it...online. I found the reports...and the date...the date matched...the couple that died that day was the same day as your parents..."
Her voice trailed off, her eyes pleading for mercy, but all I felt was a cold, seething fury. She had no idea what she had done. She had no right to dig into my past, to use that against me, against Ash. My vision blurred with anger as I stared at her, my entire body trembling with the effort it took to hold back from doing something I’d regret.
"Listen to me," I hissed through gritted teeth, my face twisted in rage. "If you ever—and I mean ever—try to meddle in my life again, I will kill you. You hear me? I’ll make sure you and your mother suffer in ways you can’t even imagine."