Chapter Sixty–Two
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DONONIC
Looking around at my brothers sitting around the hat, I can feel their disappointment. They wanted Draven to stay and although I acted like I was never going to let that happen – I wanted it too. But now, with Marcus death and the
which he was killed, we all understand it will be safer for her if she Innti.
“This is bullshit,” koda hisses.
Okay, maybe not all.
“We can’t protect her from what we can’t see, Rainier says. The ice of
- of reason as usual,
“I think we can,” Bartlett whispers,
“Enough,” I snap “verything is set for her to get on a plane tomonow and go to Mian
“What about Emily?” Quinn asks and my eyes go straight for him. “She’s homeless.”
“Whatever she does is what she does,” I say. “She’s in no danger that Em are of any of you wants to provide her with a
place to stry-
Koda’s sharp chuckle cuts me off. “I don’t think so.” He shakes his head. “She and Draven he become quick friends. I’m pretty sure where Draven goes, she will
“You don’t know that, sigh. “But it doesn’t matter either. In fact it might be better she does.”
koda smirks, but says nothing, Crossing his arms over his chest, he glares at the four broodingly.
“What about tonight?” Quinn prompts. “Who’s gonna watch the part
Goose and Gryffin will take over for us tonight, I inform, meeting the surprised starts of every wolf in the room.
“Wait a minute,” Grant hisses. “So we’ve decided jest to trust them now? Since when did we start leaning on them?”
“Yeah,” Logan chimes in. “What happened to no allies‘?”
I grit my teeth sighing heavily as Paul, who has been uncharacteristically silent for the past two hours, finally jumps in. The entire Blackjack Pride put their lives on the line to help us take care of the threat that followed Draven here from Miami. They’ve proven themselves.” He swipes at his chin. “Caylin even lost his ability to shift that night.”
“Speaking of Gryffin,” I say as four motorbikes come racing up the street. I called them in on this meeting.”
“What?” Andrew.complains
i’ve got to be kidding me!” Lief shouts.
“Hey!” I yell, putting the boom of authority into my voice. “Em the Alpha here. Rember?” I sigh. “Now I know for the past few years we’ve been doing things by a more diplomatic system than tradition demands, but the fact is I still make all the foil decisions. And I say they can be trusted.” Then, as four lion shimmers enter the bar, I add. The fact is we need their support.”
“And we’re happy to give it, Gayle says, sauntering in with a sway of her hips. Goose Tardora, and Gryffin follow close behind her. Each of them standing as a united front against the back wall.
“How are you doing?” I ask, my eyes going to Gryttin questioningly. “Any change?”
He shakes his lyrail, his eyes fired. “No.”
I nod, “I think I may have a theory on that,”
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Gryffin prends à beary fit on the bar. “You think the fine took my room,” be concludes hommingly
swer and I see his hew go fight. “I think that’s what he was harvesting to change his humans into shifters. And I think thats why you haven’t been able to
“Son of a bitch,” Grant Kisses. That makes a weird anvoont of venue.
“So then,” Gryffin starts, fingering his chin. “In theory,
8, it should come fuck on its own enough time or if I find my ma..
I shrug. She can mark you and heal you.”
That a fucken brilliant, Conse chirps. “And nuts,
“Unfortunately,” Gryffin smiles grimly. ‘I don’t have a fucking clue who my mate
by mate is where she is. The last one of us that found a mate was two generations ag
“Maybe the venom’s in the calen” Gayle chimes. “We will haven’t searched it thoroughly enough?
“What about the sedans? Lask, “What happened to those?
Goose shakes his head. “We burned them on the mountain right
ht after the raid. If the venuts was in
there, it’s gone now.”
“What does it feel like? Fada’s voice floats forward, softer than I’ve heard him sprak
“What does “what” feel like? Lask.
“Marking your mate?”. He neys, kiu eyes glued to the window at my !
I sigh, the memory of last night diving heat up every nerve in my body. “Really, real fucking gol,” I admit, “I cant even begin to explain how good.”
“Tas she know that you’ve marked her?” “Tardora doqulies, a strange smile playing over her lips.
I det her eyes with a
the chuckles, her mocha colored lips twisting into a purse of disapproval. “That’s just sening on an many levels.”
“No one asked you to approve,” | sey sweetly. “We only asked you to pound her.”
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She lowers her head in submission. Understood. Not my business,” she says with a shake of her head that sends her tightly beaded braids clattering,
“It’s time for you to head to the island anyway, I command, my vision going blurry as I’m suddenly physically aware of Deaven waking up. Fuck, I snap. I marvel at how much of her emotions. I can feel from Gifty miles away. The shit is incredibly perful. And the one thing I know in Draven is pissed. “She’s awake:
Paul chuckles. You can feel that??
I nod, doing my best to shake the strange sense of displaced rage that is now burning in the back of my mind somewhere. I can. She’s not exactly happy about note I left her
Tadora snorts. “You left her a fucking note after biting her with your sharp ass fangs?
I flip her off and turn to Paul, Take Gayle and Taedora to the island. Take the speedboat and they’ll follow j
Are you sure you want to do it that way?” He asks.
Inod. Oh yeah, I’m not leaving anyone stranded there ever again.”
you on my yacht.”
s that what shes mad about?” Paul ads.
I shrug. Then in true Draven fan my phone rings in my pocket and I grimace krawing without a doubt that it’s her. God, I’m gonna m
“Fuck.” I hiss and the entire room laughs. I answer, “Baby?”
DRAVEN
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I’m standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom after my shower, when I realize that my body has healed. And it’s not just that. Every single mark and avery tim scar, – every little imperfection that I have ever had, including the rip in my ear lobe that Leo put there yesterday – is gone. All that remains is a tiny hint of a crescent shaped abrasion on my neck. Exactly where Demonic bit me last night.
What in the actual fuck?
I can’t believe it. It s a damn miracle. So of course, I forget to put on my
to put on my clothes when I peek out into the hall in search of Domonie, or at the very least, one of
To my surprise, no one seems to be here. So I flip the window shades open and look toward the wharf.
The boats are gone.
Wall Fit be a worry as bitch.
They fucking left me here! Alone??? Why? Because of the full fucking a
“Emily? I shout, charging up the stairs toward Koda’s room.
I swear to God if they took her with them 10-
aha sleepy Emily stumbles out. She’s wearing one of Kodas shirts and I can’t help but smile at how adorable she looks rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
“Is Koda in there with your 1 Equity, hoping that she was able to talk to him the way she has been wanting to..
io,” the groans. “He never came back to the room last night. He slept on the couch.
I roll my eyes, fores. “Well, I’m glad you’re still here at least.”
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Since we seem to be alone for rrupts in my body.
ent, I don’t bother to dress when I head for the kitchen to make something to eat. T
- The moment I reach the fridge, anger
A fucking note and when I read the damn thing I’m burning with anger.
I thought the understanding was that the pack would run in these wood tonight:
They’re not coming back tonight.” This. “None of them are“.
I race spstairs and grab my phone to dial Demonic. He picks up on the
every first ting
“Baby?” He roos and although just the sound of his deep, sexy voice has me ting u between my legs, I focus on my anger instead.
- q. “You re not coming back tonight? Are you serion?”
What the fuck? I soap.
Listen for a second okay-“”
“No, No 1 don’t think I will.” I growl out. First, I wake up to an empty bed and then I find out that I’m stranded on a goddamned island without so much as a kint
“Fuck you!” I snap. “What if something happens out here, huh? What if by some act of God a fucking tree crashes into the house and one of the two of us girls are impaled by a renegade branch, Domonic? How will we go and get help? Swing?”
His chuckle has me tightening my internal muscles and 1 blame his fantastic penis and his dimples for the wetness that fairly drips down my legs
Baby, don’t worry.
- v. Paul is headed over
r with a boat and a couple of friends I want you to meet
About? Okay, okay. Friends though? “What friends?” I ask suspiciously.
“They re Gryffins friends. Lion shifters. They’ll look out for you tonight.”
Lion stuften? He sending lion shifters and Paul out here to be alone with me? Really?
Ooh, Paul. Haven’t seen him in awhile,” I trase.
His growl is immediate. “He will not be staying
“Are the lions rute?” I taunt.
“Not funny, baby.” He laughs, and I lose my smile. They’re female shifters. And before you ask, no I have never been with either of them. But I have known them for
“Whatever, I say. I’m still mad at you.”
I can feel him smile through the phone and the e strangest senuation of warmth travels through my chest when he laughs.
I have a feeling you’ll like them,” he says. “I have to go. I’ll call you before sundown,
As I hang up the phone, I realize something. I’ve had quite a few questions that Dominic’s been brushing off. I want to know what a means for instance
Suddenly, I cannot wait for our guests to antire,
“I have a feeling I say to myself that I am gonna like them too.”
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