Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 54 more than enough.

The blacksmith is practically trembling as he watches me take the melted metal over to the casts we made to pour. It took us weeks to take the thread off the synth metal and press it down enough to create the cast for the chips I need. I can make twelve. Ten students is I haven't seen the King since the evening after he had me marked. I wake up and find my food on the new bed stand he had brought up. He makes sure not to touch my urn. During lunch, he finds a way to sneak food onto my desk. I always catch his scent, but never a glimpse of him. Not that I want to see him. There's a guard beside me at all times now. His name is Jordan and he can't be that much older than me. He stays outside my study and taps on my door when it's time for me to get out and then he leaves after locking the door.

The King also confiscated all of my guns and revoked Jacob's visitations. It's been quiet these past few weeks. But it's still no lonelier than when I was in Red Wood. At the very least, no one here acts like I've got the plague.

I pour out the metal into each thread cast as carefully as I can for each part I need. When I told Silas, who has been around more and more lately, he brought me to Orion. The head of a family who might be the very last Lycan blacksmiths in existence. Having been reading the history lessons Jacob emails me, I've been very well informed of a lot of their insane traditions. Not all of them are bad. The ones that don't involve wolves at least. "Start covering them, Orion," I tell him as I finish the last pour.

"Yes, my lady," he agrees right away and finally stops looming over me. I place his tools back where I found them and start cleaning up the mess we've been making. "You shouldn't-"

I stop him with a glare and the kind man just smiles and puts his hands up in surrender. Once he's done with what I instructed, the two of us finish cleaning up his workspace a lot faster.

"I'll see you later. Make sure the sandpaper I brought is ready,"

"Yes, my lady. Everything will be ready when you come back," he bows his head.

metal shed. I wipe my sweaty forehead with the back of my hand and keep going. He doesn't look like he beat himself up over what happened or the

growl at him as he follows me into

don't have

reason for that," I roll my

need to

"About?"

"Preparations for the ceremony,

care of that.

You have to be seen doing these things, he

ahead. The two of them scramble into whatever store they're standing in front of. The other Lycans know what happened when I was marked. How I permanently scared their King. How I killed the man who did this to me. How I would have

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Chapter 54

I growl