Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 69

If self-destruction were a job, I'd be the CEO of that entire industry. I can't even look up at the King even after those amazing four hours of whatever the f****k that was in my study. I will never be able to sit on those pillows again and not think about what happened. Now, I have to confess something I swore to secrecy long before I knew the kind of person I wanted to be. Long before I understood what it meant. "Were you compelled not to say anything?" he asks as I try to piece everything in my head together.

"No, I spin around in my chair. I guess just coming right out with it is the only way to go. "I took an oath when I was thirteen. I was addicted to smoking a strain of wolfsbane that kept me awake without any insomniac side effects," "Lilac's Bane," he says pausing his pacing.

Of course, he's familiar with it. It was his Lycans who gave it to wolves to keep them complacent before there was an Alpha King. Back when the two superior races were Vampires and Lycans.

"Yes. It's how I jumped rank and studied. How I got so much done on top of my training. Because it is wolfshane and we're constantly treated with other forms of it. It doesn't show up on drug tests,"

"I am very familiar with it, Perry," he sighs.

"Right. Remember when I told you Darren and I would get high and browse the dark web? About the puzzle?"

Tes.

"He didn't want to access the servers we unlocked with the puzzle. At the time, we didn't know we were mates. He just wasn't interested in what our tech could open up for us. The puzzle comes with a warning and he told me not to play with it anymore. I didn't listen and I got in. I got into many things someone like me shouldn't have. Especially at that age. The more I unlocked, the deeper I fell into this hole.

gave me these special computer components to build a new PC, and she tagged me," I show him the tiny mark on my ankle. "I am code io-0004. The Terabyte. I have a particular set of hacking skills that are bound to six others. The seven of us together can take down entire systems like

and his family and also remain part of societal norms. When Darren found out, he took the oath to protect me. I made a deal with Falcon. The deal was that if I let Darren into the KNAVE, he would never be harmed. Should

other king. He doesn't want power or money. He has it. He is dangerous and not a lot of people know what he looks like. Even without the oath, it's not easy to say no to him. He could destroy me. He'd force me back. Bite me. Turn me into what he is and then I'd never be able to die. He wouldn't allow it," "You sound genuinely terrified, Perry. I can feel it," he leans over the

thing anymore. It's an alliance. That's how it works. You get what. you want our of the oath and once it's broken, you're free. But,

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hidden away, right? No one knows who they are. I could be one and you wouldn't be able to tell. You'd think I was a wolf or a Lycan. A hybrid like the alpha of Nova. That's how they blend in with everyone

him with a pure Wraith bloodline to create a King for

likely," I nod. That's probably the biggest reason why he's

other reason would he

"Your pack census,"

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