Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

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Silas and I both laugh when he growls lowly under his breath when we find Jacob and his mom laughing at the exit door that leads to the courtyard. He doesn't say anything, just storms past hem.

Jacob doesn't say a word to me as Silas escorts us to wherever the hell my things are. A smile tugs at my lips because I know Jacob is going to put the moves on the Queen. In fact, I think he already is and she is one hundred percent falling for it. He's dressed nicely. There's not a single hair out of place. He smells great and he trimmed his beard to the setting I put on his electric trimmer. I hope it works out for him and maybe I need to talk to the King about his insecurity of letting his mother be happy again. She deserves that after birthing not one but two a****es. Three if we add the little girl. There is a team of Lycans ready to take what I want up to my room when we arrive. They've set everything up as if I were shopping at a bodega. The first thing I pick up is my urn. I growl at the Lycan that tries to take it from me as I tuck it under my arm. I hold up the black jar and smile.

missed you, Extra Crispy," I whisper to it.

"I

"Just touch what you want to be taken up, Silas tells me. "You too, sir,

"Thank you Silas," Jacob says,

I walk around looking for my things and tap them as I go

"Can some of this be taken to the dome as well?" I ask him. He straightens up and nods before waving someone over. whispers to them and they nod handing him an old price gun with black stickers

"Black sticker on what you want in the office," Silas hands it to me.

"Thank you." I call out to the man. He bows and goes back to his position.

"You have an office?" Jacob asks.

weren't talking

He

do, Pernicious? Jump for joy to hear the only person I have

pat my head, Jake. This is all I care about, I hold up my jar. "I love

My eyes hurt from not sleeping properly. My head literally feels like it's going to explode all day long. I haven't turned off my survival mode since my mother died and the only person who got me to calm down enough is

of frames and some extra linens and blankets. It didn't take long and when we

to throw away something so special," he says when I head to the elevator to take my jar up to my room. "My son knew exactly what he had. He wouldn't

a single thing about me, Jake. I just want

my room and start placing things around as

Chapter 20

Everyone is here and no one says a word as

office. There are a few desks on the platform and computers are

it in small payout companies. He then takes that money and puts it in his mother's account and that is what is used to keep their family assets from being sold. Including this village.

the Alpha King's. Except, there aren't as many Lycans as

fifty years ago. It's designed some of the most innovative tech for shifters ever. It owns smaller companies run by

was from the pack they had come from in England and gave him some really great advice. That's where I come in: Morgan's family worked minimum wage jobs and six kids

me in.

thin. I had a small inheritance from my parents and learned quickly that if I wanted to survive in the city. I had to keep my head down and let things work

a lot I could do to help them legally. So, I chose numbers as a coping mechanism. Business mathematics, physics, and coding. Darren handed me five hundred thousand dollars when I was sixteen years old. Days after my first shift. I took that money and

take a couple of million. I took half that money and bought my first piece of Lycan Tech shares the following morning and paid for the program

to Calvin and Morgan. How crazy is it that I ended up here, Jar of Ashes? Everything you trained me for, I have

when the graphs on

just went up twenty-six points on the stock market, someone else points out. The King turns to