Chapter One Hundred–Sixty–Two
Author’s Note
While writing this chapter, an old elementary school rhyme began to chine through any head and I thought to just leave it here for you all. It will make more sense as juu rend… It goes: “Men are from Mars mad Women from hupiter. Men go to Mars to get more stupider” Enjoy!
DOMONIC
Leaping over the side wall into my backyard 1 skid to a stop just outside the kitchen window. That smell is here again. The scent a foreign wolf, but not the same one as before. This wolf is different and I can’t shake the feeling that I have scented him before, just not in my yard. Somewhere else, maybe?
I do a lap around the property, growling when I scent three more by the front gate. Taedora’s words from earlier ring through my head and 1 absently gaze over at her bike, my ears twitching as I concentrate on–the sounds coming from inside the house. She said she met somebody here last night. She must have meant these wolves,
Draven’s musical laughter floats toward me and I hurry toward my shorts stash behind the guesthouse. It’s strange that I always seem to miss her almost desperately after a forced shift. I wonder if it’s normal or if it’s just me, because my dad never complained about experiencing such a thing. But maybe he just didn’t because he knew back then that we decided to remain mateless. Now that I think about it, there might be a lot of things he failed to mention because of our rules.
Shifting and pulling on my trusty white gym trunks, I stalk toward the backdoor and step into the kitchen. There are three giddy women standing around the kitchen island and the only one who doesn’t look surprised to see me is the cat. Flipping her off, I head straightfor Draven who is scantily dressed in her signature booty shorts and a gray jersey crop top. As my eyes climb her legs my dick climbs my shorts. Her legs are so fucken perfect. By the time I make it to her I’m forced to yank her up against me just to hide the firepower in my
shorts.
“Baby,” I murmur, sinking my tongue behind her lips as I press her back into the counter. Grinding my hips against her gently, I let her feel the extent of the elephant in the room.
She chuckles into my mouth before pulling her away and mouthing, “Not now.”
I glare at her, sliding my hands behind her and squeezing her ass as I thrust my hips forward again. This time I do it like I mean it, good and hard, which does not go unnoticed.
“Oh for fuck’s sake,” Taedora snarls behind me while the other chick starts laughing. 1
so… if you don’t mind.”
I still haven’t I picked up any earplugs yet homies,
But I do mind Meowmix,” I grow out, smiling wide at my baby, who for some reason keeps lifting her coffee mug in my face. “Baby, can you stop that please. I want to kiss my girl
Again she lifts the mug, this time pushing it right up against my eyes. “Wake up Domonic,” she taunts me. “What do you see?”
“I can’t see! Because you keep putting that fucken cup in my face,” I stop, releasing her and turning around to face the trespassers. My eves float from one to the next, in equal measure as 1 glare. But it settles on the new girl and right away my eyes go for her mark. What the hack? I chuckle to myself. “There are more hickeys on her neck than she has hair on her head.
This must be Felix. Rainier’s Felix. He must have panicked and tried to disguise the mark from her by destroying her neck.
Taedoras eyes narrow,
her gaze flicking down to the front of my shorts and then up again. “Really? Have
e you no shame?”
1 chuckle, “Absolutely none.” Then I wink at her and do a three hundred sixty degree turn. Making sure that these visitors can fully appreciate the size of my dilemma. ‘Do you have any shame? Have I not provided you with your very own walls, Heathcliff? Do you ever
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Taedora’s smilo widens. “Nopel”
“Is that like a werewolf thing?” Felix asks and my muscles tense. “Do
“No!” Tardora says, giving me the stink eye. “That is most certainly a 1omonic thing.”
“No,” Felix giggles. “I mean the… the uh… the…”
“Size?” Draven supplies and I suddenly want to spank my lovely, dark haired malden. Shit. Don’t picture it, whatever you do. Your dick is already threatening the locals,
I turn back around and shoot Draven and questioning look. She nods, he knows. I told her last night after something… out of the ordinary happened at the bar.”
I love how she already knew what I wanted to ask
That reminds me, I need to watch last night’s recording. “Baby, where did I leave my phone?”
She doesn’t answer, just shrugs then raises her cup again, blocking her Lice.
In a minute or so, Im going to snatch that goddamned cup and throw it into the wall.
Walking around to the living room to check for my cell phone, I notice the locket box on Suddenly everything else fades into the backdrop and I’m forced to suppress a growl.
That bay! That fucking bort
the
e coffee table and a chill
rides up my
spine.
When the box first arrived the one thing I didn’t tell braven, was that suspected whoever sent it, is the same person behind the messages and the ring. The fact that the other picture in the locket was of someone that she didn’t know, was enough to tell me that they might have been forged. I knew she thought it came from her father and I didn’t want to take that hope away from her, so I kept my suspicions to myself. Maybe that was a mistake. Maybe I should have simply laid out the facts for her.
It’s highly unlikely that a human sent that box, because the only soul on it is a shifter. If it is real, and it did come from her father, then the chances of him being alive are incredibly slim. Because if there’s one thing that I do know, it’s that the phantom wolf that has been toying with my pack for the last five years does not leave loved ones alio.
That scent matches the wolf from the yard. He’s the one that sent the locket. He was here! Five feet from my fucking girl and Taedora met
him. A wolf? She was bragging about meeting a wolf? Am I missing something??
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The bastard that sent that locket here to torment my mate was in my fucking yard last night and I didn’t even know it. There were four of them altogether! Draven could have been killed. My child could have been….
I shake off those thoughts, deciding to focus instead on the useless bodyguard lioness in my fucking kitchen. Anger begins to erupt inside me as I realize that neither Draven nor Taedora has even bothered to mention that our yard was infested with unknown wolves! Why not? There must be a reason. Taedora would not have kept them a secret from her.
A wild cyclone of fury starts to build inside of me and it’s nearly impossible to control. Each of my muscles tense in a single progression and my fangs spear from my mouth. It’s time for someone to tell me what the fuck is going on..
“So tell me,” I call out over the mindless chatter of the females in the kitchen. “Who saw the wolves that came over last night? And why
arent they the very first thing that you mentioned when I walked in?”
Just like that all the talking
the talking stops and my anger only rises.
RAINIER
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Chapter One Hundred Sorty Two
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ber and drag her
ass right the fuck back to me,” I grin wickedly, my saps getting a bad boys. “When she truly realizes that she’s literally bed to and there is no escape that senest case her pain, che il come around. And if the deut. I per just out
the doren 17 Suddenly i vedla, a light buth glowing now my baud like I last arad my seener
again and again until she does.”
Before I can even knock Domonics onite carries in my direction. “Canal plan
With a sigh. I step through the doors and the sweet scent of strawber
ponch with pain. Right away my eyes found her. nd fuck the is beautiful the gleniems voor her shoot fighting like hell to keep my balls with my dick. She is sitting between Thedora and Dhawan
them like some armory general.
“Raingert” She breathes out, jumping up so quickly that my heart clear
weetheart,” I reply calmly, happy that I sounded like a fucking man just now.
When she starts to come in my direction, a shy smile spreads armes her lips, it’s almost too good to be true.
And apparently it h
“Sit down!” Dotonic snaps and the freezes. “… down. We are not fired jet
wins a frown.
Who the fuck does he thinks talking to My muscles coil and anger ces through me, my fangs spearing out on reflex. I step forward angrily just as Felix gasps.
“Oh… wow,” Folix startles, staring at my mouth
Oh Shit. Oops.
“I can explain,” I say, retracting my fangs instantly.
“Not” Dominic says icily. “They are going to explain. Now sit the fuck down.
Feliz tosses my Alpha a frosty ass look and I can’t help but smile,
Just sit Felix. Let the litt have his moment. Because I can’t wait to hate mine,” Draven says,
My eyebrows shoot up.
absurdity of this picture. Something wildly fucked up
p is going on
here.
