Chapter 15

"Are you going with me or not?" Liam asked Elena when she hesitated.

"I am, but you need to relax," she said.

"I need to relax?" His voice was rising now. "You're telling me to my face that I need to relax? Look, I don't have the social madness to shout my lungs out here. Get into the car."

As Elena was pulled into the car, she heard Stephan's voice call out behind her. "You never told me you had a husband." He sounded betrayed. "That's so unfair, if you ask me."

She had no time to respond, for Liam had slammed the doors of his car, given Stephan a deadly look and turned on the ignition.

Throughout the drive, a pulsing silence prevailed in the car. Each person fumed and frothed. Words and armory flew around in their heads, threatening to spill over the dashboard in red.

When the car pulled to a stop, Liam left Elena behind and walked into the hotel. She nodded severally at this gesture, feeling the anger sizzle in her chest. But she was going to keep the words forming in her mouth to