Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

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She stretches and the dress she's wearing rips. Her eyes go wide and she snorts ripping it clean off her body. She stops for a moment looking down at herself. Her hand gently caresses over the left side of her body where the marks had once been. She stops where I'd punch my hand through her chest and looks up at me. I hold her gaze not wanting to tempt the bond. "Here," I hold the lab coat out for her. She buttons it up and slides up onto the counter. I lean against it next to her not wanting to touch her again.

"The marks are all gone. Even the mating one," she says quietly.

"Yeah," I I push off the counter to face her. "She's right you know. You're not obligated to stay here, Perry. I'm-I'm not sure how I feel about you being alive at the moment, I-" I swallow back the knot in my throat. "You're free to go. Everyone thinks you're dead and it'll stay that way if you want it to," "Do you want me to go?" she asks softly.

"You've got a second chance, Sweetheart. You're twenty-eight years old. That's like twelve for a Lycan. What I want shouldn't matter to you anymore," "You're my mate," she chokes out.

know,"

"Are you-" she turns away. "You're rejecting me?"

"What?"

"Okay," she slides off the counter.

"Perry. I'm not-" I reach for her but she growls at me swinging her hand out. Her claws cut across my forearm. "Why would you think I'd reject you?"

"Because I'm a f*u**ng loser," she says like it's the truest thing in the world. "I ruin everything. I ruined my mate and his family. I ruined my life. I ruin everything. Why wouldn't you reject me?"

"Don't ever say that again,"

"I'm gonna go," she sighs. "I need to be

away

from you

for a while."

rejecting you," I

crazy," she shouts. "I love you. I respect the lengths you were willing to go through for your people. But as a mate, as a friend, you're an a****le. And I need time to get it out of my head. It didn't matter before because I-"

"You don't have to leave. You can stay here. This is your home now. I'm sure your father has space in his villa for you. You're still the Lycan Queen,"

dead," I remind

made. Tears stream down her face as she

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my own. They were so close," she chokes out. "No

in. He stops in the doorway his eyes

before he pulls back to push her hair out of her face. "You're going to be fine. I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere," It only serves to make her cry harder. The bond between us is itching. Like fire ants on a hot summer day. But I can't bring myself to get any closer. I step out of

turn from worried to horrified. "She tried

"Jonas,"

her? There's no fixing this for either of us. "Whatever

I

sir," she nods tucking the scalpel into her pocket. She formally bows and proceeds

my

room. Her makeup is streaked down her face and she looks the way I feel. "What's happening?

give her some time to process her new position," "Why would

she's a lycan now. Lycan laws apply to her.

it? You're just going to let her

she can f****ing go, Annie," I growl and move past her so I clean myself up and hopefully

of pressing the button. "You just

do?" we both look back to

***id business trip so that Eve and James could f*** one out one last time. Sofie was his daughter," Andromeda answers. "And this idiot let her run," "Perry is really good at hunting runaway *****es like that," Mackenzie shoves her forward. "Big tension in the house of what's

answers. "She's Pernicious Prince

Are you serious Chapter

"Big tension in the house of Prince Let us go hunt her down. You do your thing. We do ours. It'll give us all the

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she has one. His name is Jordan," Andromeda

want to