Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 21

The next ten days the team the King put together helped me catch up with everything. I've slept in the dome talking to the New CEO of Lycan Tech, trying to convince him to let the Queen in on some of my projects. James, that piece of shit, has stepped all over the name Alegra Prince up and down the business world. When Eddie Sentinel heard me say mated to Jonas Prince, he almost hung up on me. Killing James is not going to be enough. The damage done is extensive. I can see why the King wants everything so public. "We're going to have to do some i illegal shit for some really mean people," I say to myself.

"I'm still here," the King says from his desk. I look back to see that he's the only one here. "What do you have in mind?"

Maghere in the middle, he answers honestly.

City." I sigh and slide down the armchair I'm sitting in enough for my chin to rest on my chest. "On a scale of one to I'll kill you before I let you do it. How flexible are you about selling some of your brother's minions to the vampires for blood harvesting "We need to get that tracker on him, Lycan King, I don't like not knowing where he is or what the f*k***e's using all this money for.4 think it's time for movie night,"

"You want to invite my feral Lycan brother to watch a movie about a hundred-and-something-year-old teenage falling in love with a sixteen-year-old so we can put a tracker you still haven't shown me on him?" vampire Yes, I push myself up to sit on the edge of my seat. And I think Bella was seventeen. Girls mature differently-especially those with mothers who have children very young. They raise themselves and their mothers. They get mean when you add extra siblings." "Is that why you're mean?" "Yes. I was older than Morgan. She has two sisters and four little brothers. Then there was Mackenzie. If I had a dollar for every time she f***d me over growing up, I'd be able to buy your family,"

"She sounds like a Lycan," he smiles. "You really don't know where she is?" "She uses the money I tran I transfer into her credit card at an ATM in Madrid, but there is no record of her ever actually being there. Phurrys are insanely smart and c***y. If I hadn't been raised the way I was, I don't think I would have been able to keep up with them. "Even Jake. He's a tracker Even Jak le's a tracker and he was the best Chief of Police Red Wood had ever had. His ability to close cold cases is unmatched and he did it while drunk. I'm good at making friends with rich people because of their mom, "So, you know what socialites are,"

"Yes,

I do. But influencers in Red Wood are nothing like what you guys have going on here. Your sister posts a video of her morning routine and the company that manufactures her lotions makes millions. Your spaceship. There were only fifteen of those made and people are fighting over the other fourteen for more than it's actually worth. There was a time I would have killed to have your marketing expertise, "My mother wanted me to ask you if you would like to buy the rest of her shares and take over her position on the board," he says after a while. "I told her what we've been doing and she realized that she's way in over her head,"

"I don't have enough for the rest of them and if she lowers the price we're really f**d," "We can sign you in,'

third of one of

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get out of their shares and it takes us back to square one.

place a tracker on

to help, but my hands are tied here. Come over here. Silas gave me a

Silas brought for me. I take the map of Clifton Way out and set it on the coffee table. He uses our empty coffee mugs as paperweights so it doesn't roll up

the city, we had towers because it's just concrete out there. It's a good strategy, but you guys live in the countryside. This is you," I point at his populated areas. "But all of this is open. You literally live in a hole in the ground. It's not easy to get out. These towers have blindspots," "I

the type to care about killing one of his own, I remind him. These, I tap the high hills. "Are better than

hods.

difficult to sneak in. And if all things go accordingly, you

the past five years and it's working. Without me and Jake there, that city is going to fall. I'm willing to bet that your brother is using the money your father made to pay his way through this this uprising. "I know you don't want to hear this, but your brother is kind of an evil genius. He's winning a race you're barely starting because you refuse to see him for what he really is, I reach up th cup his face and smile. "You think we're compatible, but the truth is that you're a really kind and gentle person. I'm not. . I never have been. You're angry, right now, but once you get to where you need to be things will fall back in line for you. These people will love you again. You are their King. I know it's because we're bonded that you

turn the tables. James is already claiming victory and it looks like he's right. Your

to hurt anybody else,"

be the last pet you put down. think I can have some fun with this if you let me and it's not going to take me five years. I already have

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