chapter 57

Cane and I sat in a tense silence as he drove to Elijah's Mansion.

Cane hasn't said a word since he found me. He looked angry, angry enough to swallow me whole, chew me up until I was nothing but a bag of bones and spit me right out again.

If Cane was this angry, I couldn't image how angry Elijah would be.

"What were you thinking?" Cane suddenly scolded, startling the life out of me. "Did you honestly think walking out of the restaurant without letting me know was a good idea?"

I glared at Cane, who was side eyeing me as well.

"I did let you know." I sighed with anger.

"Yeah, well if I didn't give you a reply to your text, it meant that I didn't see it. So no, Ella. You didn't let me know." He yelled in a fit of angry again.

Tearing my eyes off of him, I looked out of the window, refusing to let him scold me as if I was a child. It wasn't entirely my fault.

"I don't care what happened in that restaurant. You should not have walked out on your own. I have a responsibility to keep you