Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

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I'm oddly calm for someone who's about to get married to a woman who wants nothing to do with me. As my cousin Roy slicks my hair back with the gold-shaping wax I fight the urge to call out through this bond connecting us. What happened in the plane was f***d and a part of me wants to apologize to her. 1 feel like an idiot. I hand-picked everything for today. I'd been working on it since Debora showed me the design on the dress Perry liked. She didn't let me see it and I've wanted nothing more than to see what made her feel the way that dress did.

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That wasn't the way I wanted the plane ride to go but as always. It's never about what I want. What either of us wants. Since meeting this wolf, I have no f***g idea what it is I really want anymore. She's flipped everything right-side up. Fixed ver single one of my problems. She has given me more than anyone has ever before and I'm not sure it's going to mean anything once she's gone. "She killed Debora," one of the guards informs us.

"Did she say why?" I was under the impression that they were friends.

She doesn't need to," he answers.

"She's the ****truth?

Isn't that the f

We should go, Jo," Roy sighs.

"What?" I ask as we get to the Lycan Sanctum.

There are a lot of unhappy faces here tonight. More than we can afford who have turned against my family and me.

lose, but there is no other way to weed out those

"Can't you just lock her up until she knocks her s**t off?" he huffs.

"She's feral. I lock her up and the wolf rips its way out of her one way or

r another,"

Yo

pills seem to be helping. She hasn't

her claws or fangs. Her eyes are amber more than they are their regular shades. Even if I could keep her, her last days would be

keep her alive for the next forty-eight

order when we

easy to get here. Although she ran circles around all of us from her computer," he smirks. "Good luck, Cousin," "Don't come in here

is that we're calm because the ceremony is the easy part. A role the two of us took at the start of this. My focus is on the doors waiting for her to arrive. My body winds up involuntarily

get married after our daughter was born. She wanted gold and some cream color. Throughout her pregnancy, she pieced together the themes and colors on her own. I didn't want to take part in the planning. All that mattered to me was

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she just wanted to show up and do what I had asked of her. It bothered me to bear her way she didn't care. A part of me broke for her when she found her mate's ring in the things she brought with her. I from here and it looks perfect

Lycans. We're bound by chain. A union like this is bound by all means and only death would

long for me to follow her into the grave. I've never cared about anyone, not even myself, the way I care for this self-destructive little a***e. The very idea of losing her is already killing me and I have forty-eight hours for our deal to

my hand and she places a Chinese ring dagger on my palm. Quite casually I might add. It catches me off guard for a moment but laugh because

her slender body as if someone drew the designs on her skin. To say I'm surprised to see the big

all.

dil.

is glowing. I want to touch her. I want to tell her how beautiful she looks, but she hit my pride hard back on the plane and I'd rather not push that button right now. I don't want her to ruin this memory. It's absolutely perfect. This is what I

her. I can't take my eyes off her lips. They're painted black and coated with flecks of gold. Her eyes look bigger than they usually do. She looks intimidating like this. Older even. I can't bring myself to stop

way she looks at me when I pull her to me after the IDos is heartwrenching. It feels like a lot like looking at a memory. The same memories I see when she's sleeping. Fragments a girl who trusted everyone around her despite their betrayal. The girl who loved nothing more than to get under her best friend's skin. Then the wolf who

away. Her hand swipes over my head. I glance back to see the lycan that had come into my home with James the night we. tagged him. "Now, I call

As soon as we're ready we're surrounded by shields. I provide backup to the guards as traitors try

Perry frie guards! another