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“Granny,” he said. I didn’t bother nodding. “When did she employ you?” “She didn’t, at first. She harbored me.” His brows drew together, his gaze intensifying. “When did you first start making drugs?”
Didn’t he just read her journals?
“Terrible fucking life,” I murmured. “Why would she care about those she’s hurting when she doesn’t have a friend in the world to protect?”
What? Seriously?
“Do you think it was about control? Keep her weak, keep her an outcast, show her the only kindness she’s liable to get, and thus keep her dependent. Do those things and you maintain control of the prized asset.”
At least Tanix is currently thinking of shit that makes sense and he didn’t even read the journals like Weston did.
How you’re so fucking naive that you think it’s okay for Granny to cage a village of people under the threat of pain using rules they were tricked into agreeing to. But that can wait.
Exactly. Ijs.
“I should probably give you some distance,” I said. “I’ll walk.” He turned a little sideways and narrowed his eyes dramatically at me. “What’ve you heard?” He lowered his brow. “Who was talking, Kurt? He gets all his information from Liron, that cornholing dickface.
🤣🤣🤣 How could she have spoken to either of them?
He waited patiently for me to get my thoughts together. It was not easy. “I didn’t hear anything about you, no. I was just trying to make things easier on you.” “Oh good, that’s a relief.” He reached out to loop his arm through mine, probably so that I wouldn’t run.
🤣🤣🤣
“But I understand you wanting to keep your distance. It’s nothing new. I’ll walk.”
When did he ever say that?
“Ooh, what’s this now?” Hadriel hurried to get closer. “What sort of sexual affliction did you catch, how did you get rid of it, and what were you doing when you got it? Tell me everything!”
🤣🤣🤣
“Not until we can all participate. We’ll compromise this time.”
Her wolf.
“Well,” he said, not coming closer. “That’ll teach you to wander off, hmm? Looked like a nice little fingerfuck you had just there.
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It’s like he thinks we have an endless supply of your drab attire.
Lol
You were standing in a fucking field, getting off on him manhandling you. I was riveted.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“What the fuck am I doing?” I murmured, my face heating. “Making very delightful, if somewhat questionable choices.” He plucked at my shirt to get me moving faster.
Lol
“A shirt for her. She had a tryst with her enemy and ended up coming all over his fingers.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“And thanks,” he said, ushering me toward the front of the line again. “For what?” “For letting the alpha finger bang you. I would’ve gotten my ass chewed for letting you wander away. Here we go.”
Lordt…
You’re going to hold me around the middle, but don’t hold too tightly or the alpha will freak out. Definitely don’t grab my cock. I wouldn’t really mind, but the alpha would. Tweaking my nipple a little would be great, but only when he’s not looking.”
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Also incomprehensible was the change in Aurelia’s outlook. She’d seemed to hate Granny in these passages.
Exactly…
“Only you would be able to calm him down like that.” “Because I’m a captive?” “Something like that.
🤣🤣🤣
I could’ve been his best friend for how comfortable he was with my touch. I found I liked it—the easy, friendly closeness.
That’s Hadriel for you!
“She went to the strongest alphas she could find to try and pull out her animal.
Oh! So that’s what that old lady neighbor was trying to say. She made it sound like her mom had been sleeping with all those alphas. I was so confused.
The last alpha apparently made me, and when she’d told him she was with child, he banished her from the kingdom.”
Oh! Now I have to go back and reread because maybe sleeping with them is the way since Weston also said he’d almost pulled hers out while they had sex.
“Wait, wait, fucking stop. Stop. Everyone just calm the fuck down.”
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“And the alpha that put something in instead of pulling something out?”
🤣🤣🤣
“Don’t worry about that, spit is the least of the terrible substances that have been sprayed on me.
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“She was with the alpha from court for a few months before she realized she was pregnant.
So, Hadriel was correct in calling her highness when he first spoke to her…
When he sent her away . . . It crushed her. She couldn’t talk about it without breaking down. I think that’s why she went.
Maybe they were also true mates but that alpha couldn’t handle the scrutiny he would get for having a true mate without magic.
Then I asked the hottest guy in this mini-detail for a pity lay.” I nearly spit out the tea I’d sipped. “How did that go?”
🤣🤣🤣
You had that scandalized tone to your voice.
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“No—well, I just mean that maybe he knows you need it, and is responding to that need . . . Actually, you know what, let’s revisit that another time.
🤣🤣🤣 Hadriel is once again forced not to tell the female that she is the true mate of his boss. 🤣🤣🤣
“Which is why you are my babysitter, I take it? You try and pull information out of me through idle chitchat while Head Dick over there reads my most intimate thoughts and feelings from over the years.” “Something like that, yes.” He patted my leg. “I’m enjoying my time with you, though, if it’s any consolation.”
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And look, what she said would happen if I got captured came to pass. Imprisonment, taking me away, the leader using me for sex . . .” She had failed to mention I’d like it. “She tried to protect me from exactly this. And you killed her for it.” “Phew.” Hadriel braced a hand on his thigh. “This is a juicy onion. I have water works with each layer.”
🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, that’s from the gas in that light that’s making you tear up.
It should’ve been the opposite, really.
Exactly with all that money you were supposedly bringing in from the product…
Tears threatened to fall and I sank to my knees.
I hope not in the meat and cheese vomit…
Maybe her mother hadn’t been totally honest about her history. There had to be some other sort of creature mixed up in Aurelia’s genes, because no shifter I’d ever encountered could do something like this.
Sounds like fae to me with the white streaks in her hair.
I thought my wolf caught a faint, familiar whiff, but not one from the prisoners. Slowly, he tried to catch it again but it was elusive, older. He couldn’t quite place it.
A demon or someone from the royal wolf court, his old king’s beta.
“The woman ran into the trees at near the same time the prisoners escaped,” Tanix said softly, his gaze on me firm. “They took off in the opposite direction.”
Oh stop. Like you aren’t aware of the entire conversation that came to pass causing that situation.
“Any idiot can see she’s a product of Granny, not a team member. I’m not saying she isn’t a guilty party, because we all heard that she has no reservations about what she was doing, but she is just trying to stay alive.”
Exactly
“She would sacrifice herself here to help her people go free. Any good alpha would, even if she doesn’t know she has that kind of magic.”
Right… that’s why she had to ask who had escaped… 🙄🙄
My question is, why didn’t they free her? Why didn’t they include her in their plans?”
Because she doesn’t know anything. She doesn’t know how the product is tampered with, packaged, and distributed.
“She’s being watched closely by a powerful alpha. The others had a lot less people paying attention to them. They just had to break the bond to get free.”
Oh, I thought he was about to say that another powerful alpha broke the bond. That would give our dear Weston a rival and actual enemy.
“No,” I said. “They said the bond weakened. They would’ve felt someone taking it, even in that state.”
If it had weakened, wouldn’t that mean it would be harder to detect in human form?
Everyone was wary of that product’s dangerousness, no one wanted to dig through it.
So why not ask her what this particular product does? Common sense.
Turned out, there were more. Some ahead, some behind, scattered in the dirt with enough space between them that they could easily be missed.
Maybe it’s that relaxant one and that allowed the bond to break.
“Cute, Kurt. I can see why you never developed a sense of humor—your mother was all out of jokes after she had you.” “Ooooh,” a few people said as everyone started laughing.
🤣🤣🤣 So this is Kurt.
I realized my eyes were closed, reveling in the press of her body, in the feel of her breasts pushing up against my chest and her lips resting against my neck. Fuck, this was heaven.
They might end up enacting that horseback riding sex that Nyfain and Finley tried… hope she doesn’t lose her pants though.
“The horse will be okay? You’re much bigger than Hadriel.”
And very likely, so is his horse…
I grabbed her face, squeezing her cheeks to pop her mouth open. I dug in my fingers, searching for that drug before she swallowed it down.
🤣🤣🤣 Like a little kid.
“You mentioned they hunted,” another guy said, the one I hadn’t been able to cleave in Granny’s cottage.
Lol. Tanix then?
“I’ve never taken this product under duress. It’s incredibly pleasant. Good job, me.” “You’ll have no more of it,” Weston growled. “It’s a wonder you’re not addicted already.”
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While this is nice when riding atop a handsome stranger I don’t like, it would get in the way of my being productive.
Not atop a horse with a handsome stranger, atop a handsome stranger. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
