Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

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"You did it," the King repeats. I take it with me to get to the main motherboard. "Wait, you're going to test it? Here? Right now?" Silas all but panies.

"Duh.

Dun,

"What about the laptops?"

"This is my laptop."

This is our entire business setup and collective pack census. If this leaves us vulnerable we're f***, he growls. "Nothing I've ever made left anything vulnerable. I control it from here. Who's going to let anyone in?" I ask "You control it," he points at me accusingly. "Not us. You. You can let the wolves in. My King

He looks over at the King as if he were asking him to do something about me. I turn to the King and shrug. The decision is his to make. I'm not taking offense to his outburst. Silas isn't wrong. I just don't care to do what he's implying. Old me wouldn't have hesitated. I also wouldn't want to upset the big guy any more than I already have without provocation. He stares back at me without saying a word for a long while. "Put the chip in," he orders.

My King, Silas growls. "It was bad enough that we let her build here,"

"That was an order, Pernicious," he keeps his eyes on me.

"Are you sure? I don't want to turn this into a headache later. We've been chill this past couple of days and I am in a great mood, right now. This isn't hurting my feelings or anything. He has a point," we stare at one another for an uncomfortable amount of time. "Perry," he growls standing straighter. I almost jumped out of my skin.

"Yeah?" I step back with my hands up.

and plug that in," he

I spin around to do as he asks. Silas lets out a heavy sigh as

my desk. I go over to it to find the bar is asking for a system reboot I look over at the King and he gives me a nod. I hit enter and everything starts to shut down. The lights all turn off and then come back on.

the King answers.

phrases for him to repeat. He goes back to my desk to set it up. Once she locates

1 already did everything for him.

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something that didn't seem right and didn't hold back to make himself heard. "It's cool. I still think you're the traitor, I say loud enough for everyone to hear. His nose flares but one person

Oh,

a step back.

Wolf. That was all me,

door. I mean it wasn't exactly a

the back of his head. The King and both start laughing when he cries out and the guards surround him. I didn't mean to kick him that hard. I guess I don't know my strength as well as I thought I did now that I share some

T

continues to work on the computer "No one should be

his head and goes over to the guards. That was clean I'm not even going to unpack that. I don't think he

asks

f***** just smiles at him as he's taken away. Silas groans and storms out after them. I didn't even realize he had

laughed

understand. I want to play with my new computer system as well, but that