{Nico's POV}
I couldn't risk leaving Elena alone in her room after what happened tonight. We'd have to share my bedroom. The events of the evening had changed things.
“I refuse to share a bed with you.” she snapped, her voice firm. I had anticipated her resistance, but her opinion was no longer relevant. I made the decisions now. “You’re mine,” I told her, my tone cold. “You’ll do as I say.”
She bled in my house.
In my world.
That wasn’t just a breach.
It was an insult.
A declaration of war.
And someone would pay.
I watched her as she fell asleep in my bed, her face half-lit by the soft glow of the bedside lamp. There was a bandage across her eyebrow, another wrapped around her ribs. Her lip was still split. I had cleaned the blood off her body with my own hands, knelt beside her
