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 to

He

the

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

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 kept a couple of frames and some extra linens and blankets. It didn't take long

when I head to the elevator to take my jar up to my room. "My son knew

I just want to write my epitaph before things get

my room and start placing things around

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down. Everyone is here and no one says a word as we eat breakfast

like an office. There are a few desks on the platform and computers are still being updated. Silas is showing me what the King meant when

and that is what is used

Lycan Council is a lot like the Alpha King's. Except, there aren't as many Lycans as there are wolves and there's

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

gave him some really great

me in.

inheritance from my parents and learned quickly that if I wanted to survive in the city. I had to keep my

Darren handed me five hundred thousand dollars when I was sixteen years old. Days after my first shift. I took that money and

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 I realized that I was living someone else's dream. Someone who didn't exist

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

asks when the graphs on the

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