Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 41

"No." the King shakes his head. Typical.

"She's thirty-two now. Mated and has twin boys. She's the prototype of what an alpha should be. The Lockwoods would be the Kings of the wolf race if we didn't have good leadership. When she was eleven, Eloise was s***d right off her porch in Lockwood City. Tecnition Lockwood had a lot of enemies and one of them was his own brother. Alpha Tec looked for his baby for three years until he found her locked in a cell where they had tortured and raped her. "When she she turned she was already feral. She was a danger to herself and everyone around her. Still, he couldn't put her down so he locked her away in their tower where she stayed for the next fifteen years of her life. She created one of-no. She created the best security system in the world and gifted it to her pack before she stepped out of the tower again. She cleaned the streets of the corruption her uncle had brought to their city "I had gone to Lockwood City with my mom when I was a little girl and she carried me on her back the entire time because she was afraid that I was going to be stolen. If you go there now, kids are running around without a care in the world because she dropped their crime rates to almost nothing. They have juveniles walking around in their bare skin. They have some of the best training programs and schools. She did that," "That's what you and Darren wanted," he nods..

"Yeah." I

I say wh

when a kid brings our food. He's very young. Thirteen maybe.

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"Beta Phurry." I flinch when he calls me that. "Is it okay if I get an autograph?" he pulls out a picture of me and Darren from. his apron. "You don't-" "Yeah, Kid," I say reaching for my purse to get à marker. His face lights up. "What's your name?"

"Darren," he answers. I laugh. Of course, it is.

"It's very nice to meet you, Darren,"

I sign the picture and dedicate it to him before sliding it back. He takes it, holds it to his chest, and bows formally before running back toward the kitchen. I watch him show the picture to his dad who laughs and plays with his hair. When he looks up at me he mouths a thank you. "I wasn't always like this, Lycan King. But I've had enough. It's finally caught up and I'm done. So you can call me whatever the f**k you want. A traitor, a terrorist, a f***g pet. None of it matters. It'll all be someone else problem soon enough. One thing you shouldn't question is my loyalty to you. "You're going to be the person to give me what I want and that's all that matters to me anymore. So if I have to kill, cheat, and betray my way through everyone I care about so you can give me what I want, I will. And I can tell you now that they'd do the same to get what they want want. They already have. I'm probably the last person you will ever fully trust this way. Because this is the world you live in. And if you let it, it'll destroy you too

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I take a bite out of my bacon cheeseburger deluxe and smile at how delicious it is.

"What do you have going on with the Alpha King?" he asks when we're back on the road again. We got extra food.

Nate is related to her mate's brother. He runs the underground s** in LC. That's why the crime rates are so low. He's the son of the

Her maler

cell next to

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when the Alpha Kipg evaluated her work he asked her to help him clean up some of the other cities. Red Wood Gorgon. Midnight Moon. And High Rise. No one can know he's involved because if the Wolf High Council finds out. They're going to try and assassinate him and the Royal family. He's been a King for a whole year now. Not even mated yet. Nate was Eloise's contact here,

to swear your allegiance to him to save

but things change. Nate doesn't understand. He's never had

out of him

and the kid is running with it. He's smart. Driven and dedicated. Just like you. Just a lot more hopeful. I told them that. So, the rest is up to you to even out with them. when the time comes,"

won't. I'm expendable. There are dozens of others like me with a whole lot

my tum.

he sighs.

hat is

my collar made of?"

not try to take it off, he growls. Don't f****in our

"I mean I do, but it's already there and

"I can't tell you."

the Wraith King made before he was assassinated, isn't

me some so I can build you something." "What?" he asks. I reach into

Darren and I tried to create to surpass every other system in existence, but when I uploaded the program into it and put it in another computer it got so hot it burned through the second floor of our house when we first bought it. It burned down to the basement where

would love

Lycan Tech would

how valuable it

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