Chapter 46

Elena’s POV

“It means, in case you haven’t noticed, you haven’t exactly been around lately.”

He hasn’t. Not for days. He hasn’t come over. He’s barely texted me. He’s been pulling away whether he’s ready to admit it or not.

“I’ve been playing hockey! In the NHL!”

“Stop saying that! Stop saying that like it matters or changes anything. Every other night this season, you’ve had no problem spending the night in my bed.”

“Is that what this is?” He scoffs, pacing back and forth with a look of disgust lining his features. “You’re mad because I haven’t been around to fuck you?”

The air is sucked out of my lungs at his words, and I swear if I wasn’t all hooked up, I would be out of this bed and out of this room so fast because I cannot stand to be in it with him for another minute.

I have no idea who I’m looking at right now. Whoever it is, it’s not Wayne.

This isn’t the same man who has spent countless nights rubbing my back or helping me up