CHAPTER 211

CHAPTER 211
\[Axle\]

"Thank you very much, Elric." I smiled at him, he and Lex were going to be taking over the activities of the pack until Lexi and I got back from our trip.

"You deserve to unwind, she deserves it too." Elric said, tapping me on the back. From the window in my office, I could see Lexi already beside the car with her luggage, she was talking and smiling happily with her brother, Mina, and her mother.

"Yeah, she's so excited about this trip, I also feel that it would be good for her." I said, I decided to put off my fear and just enjoy the trip with my mate.

Lexi was throwing her head back and laughing, an action that she hadn't done in months. I promised myself to always look after her wellbeing, but even I knew that I'd been slacking in that aspect.

I let her get poisoned, and I exposed her to a lot of harm.

I was determined to right my wrongs and to pull her as close to me as possible during this trip. She had already prepared an itinerary for us, which mostly involved visiting a lot of monuments with Isla, but I planned to distract her so much during our stay that she wouldn't even remember Isla's existence.

"You should get going now." Elric's words pulled me out of my thoughts, and I walked out of the office.

My luggage had already been put in the car, and so I just walked outside.

"Oh, have a nice trip, Axle." Mina hugged me, and I hugged her back.

I took baby Dine in my arms from Lex, and she smiled at me as I cooed at her and held her up in the air.

"I'll be back soon, little baby." I pecked her on the forehead before handing her back to her father. She was already three months old, such a big girl, and she was growing up really fast.

Lexi and I waved them all goodbye as we got in the car and we were driven to the airport.

I didn't want to use the tickets Isla sent us, but I didn't say anything about them because I didn't want to risk upsetting Lexi.

The driver dropped us off at the airport, and soon we boarded our plane. It was first class, so that goes without saying, but we had a private jet, which would have been a better experience, but I dared not mention that to Lexi.

"You're so excited." I smiled at her, she was so happy she had a permanent smile on her face.

"I've always wanted to go to New York." She smiled.

"Why?" I asked her, suddenly concerned. She had always expressed her desire to go to New York, but she had never told me why.

She looked down at her fingers on her lap, and then she looked back up at me.

"My father died when Lex and I were very young, so naturally we didn't really get to know him. Growing up, I always felt his absence, and I missed him terribly, I wasn't doing so good in school and my social life was almost non-existent until one day, when I turned thirteen, my mother gave me a box of my father's memories, and it was the best thing ever." She paused slightly and cleared her throat as she became overwhelmed with emotion.

"There were pictures and letters in the box, my father loved to travel a lot, so there were lots of souvenirs and postcards in the box too. He listed the places he had visited at the back of each postcard, but I found one that was empty. When I asked my mother, she said he had been planning to visit the place before his death."

"New York," I said, and she nodded her head.

"That postcard helped me get my life together because I really wanted to go there for him. My mother worked really hard to take care of us, so I couldn't ask her to fund my trip, and then we lived in Washington, D.C., which is quite far, and so I decided to do better in school so that I could move there for college, ultimately get a job, and visit all the places my father couldn't." She explained.

"But your dreams were halted when you found out you had powers and that you were my mate," I said regretfully.

She nodded her head, and then she rested her head on my shoulders.

"Strangely, I wouldn't have had it any other way." Her words touched me, and I closed my eyes.

"You know it's going to be really hard for me to be in a big city with a lot of people." I told her without opening my eyes.

"I'll be there, if your wolf starts bothering you, just tell me and I'll put him in his place." She replied smugly.

"Oh yeah," I chuckled quietly. "And how are you going to make him behave?" I teased her.

"Wait till then."

"Well, I'm in luck because he's bothering me right now," I teased.

"Axle." She laughed and placed her hand on my chest.

We spent the rest of the flight sleeping, and we were only woken up by the flight attendants when it was time for snacks and lite bites.

We were also served glasses of champagne, and it was the highlight of our time on the plane.

I convinced Lexi not to inform her friend that we were coming on the pretext of surprising her but in truth I just wanted our arrival to catch her off guard so if she was planning on doing something to Lexi, she would not have had enough time to plan it before we arrived.

At least that was my own reasoning.

We got to New York in the evening, and since it was spring, the weather was very favorable, and the temperature was not too cold.

Lexi and I checked into a five-star hotel in New York, and we were given the penthouse suite. I did not have business in New York, but Elric did, so he had pulled some strings for us to get the best accommodations during our stay. He had even gotten us a rental car that was already packed with the valet.

"Wow, this too is amazing, I cannot believe you got us the penthouse suite," Lexi gushed. "I feel like we're on our honeymoon." She blurted out, and when she realized what she had said, she blushed a painful shade of red.

"Well, this could be it." My voice turned husky, and I was by her side in a moment.