Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 214

"That's all?" There's something in the way he says it that makes me feel better about the whole thing. He doesn't say it like it's nothing. And he doesn't say it like it's a joke. He just asks me if that's really all it is, so he can know what's really going on.

I nod. "That's it."

He pulls me closer, rubbing my back. "Okay. We'll fix it then."

I raise an eyebrow. "What?"

"Let's fix your window."

I don't believe what I'm hearing. That is, until he takes my hand, leading me back the way we came. It's such a simple solution, but still.

"Right now?" I struggle to keep up with him and process what he's saying.

He chuckles. "Yes. Right now, Mia."

"But what about the tour?" I ask.

He waves me off. "We're done with it."

"Really?"

"Yeah..."

I give him a flat look.

He scratches the back of his neck.

"Axel?"

"We've done enough?" He smiles, albeit guiltily.

I'm not amused. "Is Aiden gonna think that? Or Carson?"

"Carson's kind of got no room to talk," he says. "He's the one who broke your window in the first place."

"And Aiden?" I ask.

He doesn't say anything.

"Exactly. This is just gonna start a fight."

"No, not exactly," Axel says. "How could it start a fight when he's not even here?"

I raise an eyebrow. "What?"

He doesn't say anything. He just opens the door for me back into the restaurant.

I sigh exasperatedly, not wanting to start the very fight I was trying to prevent. But at the same time, I'm getting really, really irritated. I don't know where this is coming from.

He closes the door behind me, but he doesn't say anything else. I feel like he's miles away, even though he's holding my hand as we walk back to our seats..

"Where's your brother?" I ask more directly this time.

He takes forever to say, "He's helping Carson with something a town over."