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 to

He

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

my head, Jake. This is all I care about, I hold up my jar. "I love you, but the last time I trusted you. You

f***g 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 mother died and the only person who got me to

continue to touch things and put 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

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. "My son knew exactly what he had. He wouldn't change a thing

to change a single thing about me, Jake. I just

take my jar up to my room and start placing things around as wait to be called down for breakfast. Šilas is the one

Chapter 20

here and no one says a

are starting to look like an office. There are a few desks on the platform and computers are still being

his mother's account and

like the Alpha King's. Except, there aren't as many Lycans as there are wolves and

was founded by a man named A***ial Barton a hundred and fifty years ago. It's designed some of the most innovative tech for shifters ever. It owns smaller

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 take care of

me in.

had a small inheritance from my parents and learned quickly that if I wanted to survive in the

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 invested four hundred thousand in a new electronic currency project called Paw

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

company instead. Brought in the vampires, other alphas, mortals with deep pockets, and now it's time to bring the Lycans in. I had a lot of time on my hands and well, I joined the City's police force. I 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 guy who paid two hundred thousand American dollars for me. That was all I was worth to the people you died to protect. To the people we bled for. Every asset we establish isn't going to keep our city from dying. It's going to save a race of monsters

just happened?" Silas asks when the graphs

twenty-six points on the stock market, someone else points