Where Would She Go?

Elena’s POV

She trembled in fear as he pounced on her and had her neck in his iron grip in a second. Her eyes collided with his brown ones which were spitting fire.

“Where the hell were you?” Derek spat at her face.

“I…I…” Elena muttered, a little bit relieved that it was only Derek, not Aslan.

“I fucking went mad. You know that?”

“I.. leave me…” And he came out of his trance. His eyes travelled to her neck and he loosened his grip which he was holding as if wanted to strangle her. She took a deep breath and then straightened herself against the door.

“What are you doing here?” She asked.

“Where were you?” He asked her instead of answering question.

“I was hiding.”

“Where did you hide?”

“No, I answered you. Now you answer me.”

He took a threatening step towards her, but she had nowhere to go. He invaded her personal space, but she held her head high. He looked into her eyes for more than five minutes and then relented as she was not going to lose this battle of eyes. “I saw the news o