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.

you weren't talking

He

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

accessory. We were sold to these things as pet sl****s. They f*****g pat my head, Jake. This is all I care about, I hold up my jar. "I love you, but

tired of being in pain and angry all the time. I wake up with a knot in my belly every morning. 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

stickers on them because that's what everything my mate ever got for me has been reduced to. He only kept a couple of frames and some extra linens and blankets. It didn't

give yourself enough credit. You're the strongest person I've ever met and it kills me to see you trying to throw away something so special," he says when I head to the elevator to take my jar up to my room.

not going to change a single thing about me, Jake. I just want to write my epitaph before things

start placing things around as wait to be

Chapter 20

me back down. Everyone is here and no one

few desks on the platform and computers are still being

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. James Prince is the biggest piece of

as many Lycans

named A***ial Barton a hundred and fifty years ago. It's designed some of the most innovative

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

me in.

survive in the city. I had to keep

handed me five hundred thousand dollars when I was sixteen years old. Days after my first

but it was the only way I could hide the money from what I really wanted to do with it. Had we taken it to the bank, his dad would have gotten in trouble for tax evasion. Paw Coin is now worth two hundred and seventy-two point eight credits to the dollar. My four hundred K jurned into a hundred and ten million overnight. Give or 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 that Darren designed for them. Then he sold it to them for ten times what we had invested and we were both offered jobs and full-ride scholarships to keep working for for them. When I turned twenty-one, I was offered the CEO position. I had a single term left to finish my degree and I turned it down. because

had tarnished any chance of me becoming acting Beta because of all the shit I did to Calvin and Morgan. How crazy is it that I ended up here, Jar of Ashes? Everything you trained me for, I have to use to help a

when the graphs on the screen

stock market, someone