Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 120

"Do

you mean that?" he asks placing his hands on my hips.

"I'd mean it even if you weren't my mate. You know shit about me. Real crazy shit about me that would require one of us dying should our relationship ever implode. Me being alive is your worst-case scenario. This isn't a good thing. At least, not where the past is concerned," I 'I climb off him and fall onto the stack of pillows. He sits up resting his elbows on his knees. "What happened with your Mother?" "You know what happened," he says quietly.

I me anyway,"

"She took me away so that James/could ****k my mate one last time,"

What? I didn't know that. I did know she was manipulating the hell out of him, but that is some next-level p********-mom stuff. I didn't think she had that in her.

"I would have killed her,"

"I couldn't in front of Annie, the twins, Jordan, and Mackenzie," he sighs and falls back on the bed.

"Do you want me to bring her back?" I ask. He rolls around and crawls into the spot next to me. "You're

I're my Queen now. I am never going to give you a task that I couldn't carry out myself. This isn't what this is anymore, Perry. I don't own you anymore," "That's not what I asked," I sigh. "I know you don't own me anymore, but you're still my king. I'm still me. There's a whole lot for us to do. I took the same oath you did. Granted I didn't expect to live past that, but still. I'm not one to take back a promise," "Death did us part," "So, you want me to just bail? Out of sight out of mind? That sounds like you," I "I scoff.

Dea

and sits up

It's odd seeing him like this. I get it. The situation has turned on

stabbed yourself in the throat," he

Half, Jonas. It's just gone," I sit back on my calves and take in the words that just came out of my trap. "It's like reaching out to Jake or Mack only to find nothing. Crystal was all I had left, "You have me and your family,"

head.

what you are. I was a wolf. I was chosen by a powerful spirit, and I destroyed it so badly that it turned feral. Maybe one day, I'll wake up and see this second chance as a gift, but after everything I've done. It

away and look up at him. "I just need to clear my system of her. Maybe redeem what's left of the person I wanted to

me as your friend. I'd like for you to help me," your

"I'm

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if you're going to get all mushy about training. I'm going to side-bust you in the face with the strength of a newly shifted Lycan female. You've seen what I can do with just the strength of four of five alphas," "Dearly noted," his body shakes with his suppressed laugh. His hold

had to kill me,"

real?" he whispers after a

were to mark me, would I go into heat

"No, your b

"Sweet," I

I saw some of the scans Oz did. Like I said,

He laughs as I straddle him again. "That means, we have to

your second chance mate

fast my head spins. I laugh trying to shake it off and then stop when I see he's gone completely serious. He leans in pressing his forehead to mine. "This isn't like asking a girl with nothing to lose to help me save my people," his eyes stay on mine. "I want this. I want you. All of you. Not like before," "Even knowing everything

he lifts himself up. "The good