Aspen stepped between, furious at Eli. "Stop it! Honestly, Eli! Give him a chance to explain himself!"
Her deadly gaze watched him. "Right. And then you decided to kill someone without learning anything. Just stab them and leave."
“I thought he had killed August,” he hissed. “Which I wouldn’t have thought if he had just told me! And you! You lied to me, Aspen!”
“Even worse,” he said flatly as August stood up, standing in front of Aspen. “So you made her lie too? What the *squee!*, August?”
He glared at August, looking furious, before knocking him down to the ground with his fist, kicking him in the stomach.
He barely even noticed, kicking August again in the stomach and once more in the neck before leaving through the wreckage of the door.