Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 186

Jonas

Perry tried to fight how tired she was, but she collapsed at my desk when we went into my study to find Silas. I’m going to need him to cover for me while we try to explain what it is we’re going to offer Lilithian in exchange for her help once again.

Even in her sleep, she looks exhausted. I take her sneakers off and wiggle her jeans off so I can tuck her under the covers. What happened affected her badly and a repeat might send her spiraling again.

I should have tried to get her out of that room sooner. I thought she had gotten carried away with whatever she and Tulips were working on. I can’t imagine what must have been going through her head at the time. I should have known something was wrong when she didn’t come down for dinner.

I’ve been playing what I caught from her conversation with James in my head over and over again. He’s a fucking idiot for coaxing that out of her. The way she closed up and kicked him out was priceless. He should consider himself lucky she didn’t hit him the way she had Scofield. She wouldn’t have inflicted that much damage, but it would have hurt.

James and Jordan are waiting with Silas for me when I get back to my study after tucking her in.

“What the fuck is he doing here?” Silas asks when I shut the door

“He’s Perry’s lapdog and if his master dies or has another mental breakdown he’s going back in the glass box,” I answer. “So, I texted him from her phone,”

“Oh, that’s a great reason,” Jordan smacks my brother on the shoulder. James growls at him but doesn’t retaliate.

“What’s going on? She’s been doing great,” Silas crosses his arms over his chest.

“On Saturday, vampires tried to hijack our date. They gave her an invite to something and fucked off. To get to us in Nova they paid the alpha off,”

“Scofield accepted a bribe from the vamps? That’s treason,” James points out. “She didn’t tell me that,”

“It’s business,” Jordan and I correct him the same way Perry corrected us.

“You’re her goon. You don’t need to know all the details,” Silas adds. Jordan tosses his head back trying not to laugh out loud.

“Fuck you,” James growls at him.

where it was last stolen from. She did her

Jordan asks

the heist happened three months

fuck?” both Silas and

“I’ll fucking

was staged. What happened three months ago?” James asks. “Why did

really was and that if he continued to try and fuck with us she’d release that information the way her father’s was leaked. He was very upset with her when

try and lure her back in by making her believe he was out there,” James sits

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takes

over the details. Ed warned me it might be a sign that she’s overly stressed. He told me to

still giving it to

the fucking time. You’d think the one mated

fist

“She needs more heads,”

should work on

that,

at them. “She needs more ma–I fucking hate you guys,” the three of them laugh. “We have two dead gorgons. I planned to give them to

James kill three wolves and tried to kill Perry

team leader,” James

the L.L. task force,”

of her fucking

monkshood,” Silas sighs. “Did you change her

that. However, both gorgons were tagged. Perry and I are going to explain to her what the fuck they are and how they came to be. She’s going to give the science crap to the little vampire girl in exchange for her help to get us to

that?” James