The Devil You Know (editing)

Chapter 9

I walk away from Axel with my eyes on the street below thinking.
"I heard what you said Elizabet."  A baritone voice says behind me. I stop not surprised that he followed me and Ax. "Ok." was all I said. I didn't know what to say. I told Axel that I wanted to try and work things out with Warren. To see if we could work but honestly I didn't know what I wanted. I turned around to face Warren his blue eyes matching the sky. Blue eyes I once wanted to get lost in. I could tell by how the light went out of his eyes that he knew how I felt. "I'm sorry." my voice barely above a whisper.  Those blue eyes I love flared red. He clenched his fists and my body began to tense. Although he couldn't kill me he could definitely hurt me. I remembered his temper all too well, he never laid a hand on me but I've seen what he does to his victims.

I feel a presence behind me my senses are flooded with the smell of vanilla with a hint of mint. "Ax he won't hurt me." I say to the person standing behind me. "You're right," axel's voice is emotionless behind me "because I'd kill him before he could even touch you."
"I'd like to see you try." Warren's voice was inhuman, his eyes darted to Axel and then back to me. He was going to charge us, Axel could see that. He was in front of me in less than a second. He put his hands up trying to defuse the situation.

"Warren calm down this won't get us anywhere good."
"Warren," I try in a soothing voice. "What's going on?"
"I saw you guys kissing. I heard what you said. I saw our memories." his temper is building each sentence getting louder.
"I don't get-"

"THE TRIGGER IS TRUE LOVE'S KISS ELIZABET!"  Warren cut me off, yelling. I was taken back, confused for a second to what that meant. In front of me I feel Axel tense and his breathing turn shallow.
"Ax..." I say realizing what warren meant, I step around axel so that I was standing in front of him. A silly grin spreads across his face when his eyes meet mine. "Why did I think of this before." his hand reaches up to cup my face. My body relaxes almost immediately at his touch. "I had to be true loves kiss. But it didn't have to be with him." he spit out the last word like it was acid in his mouth.

In whipped away from axel in less than a second and my lips are pressed against another's it took me a second before I got over the shock realized who it was. Without my consent my lips melted into his. The world faded to black and like the start of a play a scene appears of a church. The room is decked out in white. The pews have flowers decorated at the end of them all the way up the aisle, it had a white carpet, leading up to the front of the church and to Warren who's wearing a tux.

In snapped out of it by a light yank on my arm. Pulled back from warren, I stare into his eyes. Axel lets go of my arm. "Elizabet, what happened." axel's voice is emotionless. I had gotten his hopes up again and I'm going to have to hurt him again.

Not looking at him, my eyes are locked with warren's wondering how I could forget all that. He's staring into my eyes like they would give him answers to the questions we had.
"Ax, w-were married."

I look over to where axel is standing to find him long gone. I move to go after him and my arm is caught again in someone else's arm. "Don't." warren says "he's not worth it."
I yank my arm away "what's wrong with you!" I yell not caring that I was attracting attention. I whip around so that I'm facing him. "You were never so cruel to the people I care about, and you definitely never made me kiss you when I didn't want to!"
Warren seemed uncomfortable, he kept running his hand through his hair. Shifting from one leg to another. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that. I just," his eyes met mine burning with emotion. "I wasn't thinking. When you kissed axel I got my memories back as well." he looked defeated as he pulled his eyes away from mine. "I got the memory of us getting engaged and when I figured out that the only way you could've gotten those memories back was by kissing axel. It was like you were cheating on me." I stare at him trying understand how he felt but I couldn't.