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He must sense the confusion in my expression, because he stops and looks at me from the other side of the car.
When did they even leave the house?
He’s quiet for long enough that I look over at him just as his throat bobs. “Do you regret what happened?” he asks. I narrow my eyes, looking straight ahead. “No. It was—” I swallow. “Good.”
And this is where she should have asked, “Do you?”.
“You think I’m mad because you fucked me?” I ask incredulously.
So just tell him why I stop brooding being childish! Didn’t she say repeatedly that she was not one to hold back her feelings about something? 🙄🙄 What a damn crock of shit.
I pull away. “Then why did you reject me?”
Finally, she asks.
The scent that radiates off it as I dry myself is overpowering in the best way, and I hug it close to me as he dries himself with another one. As we climb into the car, he smirks when he sees me cuddling up to the towel.
So they “dried off” while standing in the same rain that instantly soaked her when she stepped out of the car? Then got into the car… Okay.
didn’t even realize that the low noise she’s been making all week is a purr. I just thought she was snoring.
🤣🤣🤣
I smirk at that, hiding the way his words warm me to my core and make me feel like maybe I was missing out on him—on this—my entire life.
Um, you were obviously. 🙄🙄
knowing she’s guarded by my best friends.
Who are at least three hours away if they haven’t left yet.
She grins sleepily. “I feel like this is some sort of euphemism or inside joke that I’m too tired to understand,” she says.
I’m wide awake and it’s so vague I can’t even figure out what she’s trying to hint at. I feel like it’s about his sexual orientation though…but it sucks.
We know so much about each other, and it’s not as if I’ve ever doubted their loyalty. But accepting my mate? My omega? That shows loyalty beyond expectation.
Did they not accept the last one?
“What’s a mutt?”
Is she serious. This girl knows absolutely nothing. Willow Creek can’t be THAT secluded. 🙄🙄
Thank Gods for my IUD… although that’s something Phoenix and I should’ve discussed beforehand.
Hold up author. Why would she even have an IUD, when it’s already hard for them to get pregnant in the first place AND she was betrothed to Zane since thirteen an the alpha must have an heir, at least in Willow Creek?
“You mean when Phoenix became alpha?” I ask, and his gold eyes pivot to mine.
No, she means when Phoenix had sex with Thaler. 🙄🙄
“Or… he could know nothing, and we could walk away with less than what we have now.” “Less?” I ask, cocking my head.
Exactly, how could you possibly have less. 🙄
Phoenix grabs a couple of the lingering coffee mugs lying around and walks toward the kitchen like he’s been here before, while patting Red on the shoulder twice. The old guy only frowns at him, and I have to try not to laugh at their dynamic.
I hope Red’s her grandfather or something.
Red studies us with his dark brown eyes. “This is the new one?” he asks. “This is her,” Phoenix says, almost proudly. Red shrugs. “I can’t keep track.”
Cheeky old man! Starting something! 🤣🤣🤣
“The pups,” Red answers, sounding sad. “There were a number of babies that went missing when Thaler was alpha.”
I knew it! She was stolen!
I’d wondered what the paperwork was, but I assumed it was pack paperwork. I had no idea it had to do with me.
Even after she said when she went to go get the papers that it was for going to see Red… and clarified it was the guy they were going to see about her parents? 🙄🙄
There’s no name or birthday, just a date of when they registered my birth. It couldn’t hurt to reach out to them.
Yet she was named “Adrienne” which means dark queen to Shadow Wolves? 🤔
Why did my parents take me? Was my mom simply that desperate for a pup? How did they do it? Because surely, it would have been illegal.
And why would the Crawfords allow a Shadow Wolf into the pack with the treaty?
“Oh my God, it’s so good to hear your voice,” she answers, her tone also one of relief.
Yet she hasn’t texted back… 🙄🙄
“Okay, good.” There’s a pause, and then she sighs heavily. “I’m grounded, so I can’t talk for long. They took my phone away, but the idiots forgot about my Apple Watch.”
Oh okay.
Deirdre sighs. “I know. But I think that’s what they’re doing here every day. I think it has something to do with the treaty.”
Why would they meet at the Beta’s house and not the alpha’s?
He must’ve exerted himself doing whatever it was that he was doing, because trails of sweat slink down his cut abdomen, and the hair at the top of his forehead is damp, sticking to his skin.
How can she see the front of his body if he’s bent under the hood of the car?
He looks up at me with a small smirk on his lips. Shit, did he hear my thoughts?
Likely.
“Small, quick, sexy…” he trails off, his eyes twinkling with something I’m not sure I want to know as they flick over my body again.
Yeah, like her.
Warm, calloused fingertips graze my chin, and I know he’s close.
Well, if he’s touching your chin, obviously he’s close. 🙄🙄
and she obediently begins to tease the head of my shaft with her tongue, licking up every drop that seeps out. “You suck my cock so well, little wolf,”
But she’s not actually sucking it though…
“Hey. That’s hypocritical to say. It’s not like you’re a saint, either,” I quip, rolling my eyes.
He didn’t say it in a mean way, just a regretful one. No need for the snark.
Rest, I command, testing our mind-link. At some point last night, I started getting bits and pieces back—words, feelings, phrases she was sending me unintentionally. We rest today, I add. I tamp down the emotion at being able to speak into her mind, because I know it means she’s fully accepted this bond.
He was able to speak into her mind from the moment he met her! She also spoke back to him. 🙄🙄
I gasp, and he continues.
This is Phoenix’s POV.
I put her down, just like you’d put a dog down. She didn’t feel any pain, even though she deserved it.
So why the field and sweat and blood she saw in his memory?
I bark a laugh. She’s going to keep me on my toes; that’s for sure. “This thing between us,” I purr, thrusting my already hard cock against her hip, “is not fake, little wolf. It’s very real.”
So, he didn’t have a mind link with her and since the bond he thought he felt slip into place was fake, he shouldn’t have been able to read her emotions. Shouldn’t he have known something was wrong?
“I just mean… you killed someone. In Willow Creek, you can’t just kill someone without repercussions. Unless you fight them to the death, I guess.”
He said he was the alpha when this happened. 🙄🙄
Why are they coming here? Anger flashes through me. Why can’t he just let me go? He lied to me. He betrayed me.
Maybe you should have replied to his text messages saying something to that effect and that you wouldn’t be returning. 🙄🙄 He hasn’t heard from you himself at all. There’s no telling what he thinks is happening to you.
“He didn’t tell anyone when you first showed up here, and he won’t tell anyone about this. He doesn’t trust anyone outside of our family.”
Does it even matter if he told anyone, since before taking her to the cabin people got wind that she was there, an omega in her first heat, and also that he had rejected her so she was unclaimed…🙄🙄
“Do you know what he did to Cain and those wolves?” she asks under her breath. I don’t move. Can’t move. “Do I want to know?”
Um, you kinda saw it a bit and how quick it was through your fever brain…🙄🙄
“Red remembered he had a newspaper clipping of your parents. I guess they were the most vocal about your disappearance, so they got a lot of media attention.”
He’d already said that.
“Fuck,” Phoenix grits out. “What the fuck could they possibly want?”
Seriously?
How can Phoenix not know?
I’m saying, right? Unless he feels it’s more to it than Zane wanting Adri back.
Zade is standing there—and so is Godric. Except, instead of Godric standing in front, instead of Godric radiating his alpha power… it’s Zade.
Well no shit. Of course he challenged his father since his father didn’t want to make you come back. 🙄🙄
Zade. I see a bit of the golden glow begin to burn behind his irises. He’s pushing his power out, too.
How can you see this standing right beside him?
“Technically, she is trespassing, too. Am I right?”
Nope, because she was born Shadow Wolf and you know it. You probably don’t know she was stolen and not adopted though cuz your people are all liars. Show him the article.
Somehow, he must’ve photoshopped it—must’ve altered everything to prove his point, like a petulant child.
Wow dude. You already told her she was adopted. He must know she was stolen. She needs to show her own recently attained paper…
“Shifter law dictates that if there’s an injustice, the alpha of the affected pack must gather signatures of five surrounding packs. Once that’s completed, the injustice is reversed. In this case, the injustice is you being in Shadow Pack land.”
But those signatures were obtain by him telling lies to the others about her. This conversation is frustrating because it’s stupid and there’s no reason for any one of Shadow Pack to be angry because they know they truth now and can dispute the lies Zade is selling.
“If you don’t come home, six packs will declare war on the Shadow Pack.” My stomach flips with nausea, and the room tilts. Valen, Kaz, and Phoenix all begin to growl, the low sound sending vibrations across my skin.
So why don’t they obtain their own signatures and tell those packs the truth because it should be obvious Zade didn’t.
How the hell am I supposed to decide between leaving Phoenix or starting a war with six different packs?
How about all of you stop being idiots and use your brain to fight back, like Zade did. Are you all really that stupid?
But the five others? There’s no way. It would be a death sentence.
Time to skip because the storyline just went to shit with the utmost stupidity in the scene.
He recovers quickly though, because he steps forward and holds a hand out.
Isn’t that laying a finger on her dude?
realize it as soon as it’s out of his mouth. This is my home.
Didn’t she already have this epiphany? 🙄🙄
