Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 185

Jonas

James slams the door shut behind him and freezes when he sees me standing against the wall in front of him. We stare at each other and he’s the first to look away. He sighs and tries to get to the stairs. I stop him and he squares his shoulders to

meet my gaze.

“What?”

“You didn’t have to ask her that,”

“I did. Maybe you should have asked her that. I don’t understand how you can let her bring his family around. A reminder that she was never yours to begin with. All of this is just a sick twisted stroke of fate,” he growls.

“There is no fucking way you’re this fucking lost, James. She lost her mate,”

“So did you and you watched that bitch stomp Eve’s mother to death,” he growls at me.

“She’s your Queen. Don’t talk about her like that. She did it to protect me,”

“So protect her and get rid of them,” he turns around to leave.

“Why does it bother you?” I ask. He stops before getting to the stairway that leads upstairs. “Why did you come to check on her?”

“Mackenzie doesn’t fucking care about her. Jacob is used to the life she’s provided for him. That girl is nothing but an object to them, Jo. The same way she is to the old man. You should listen to the way they talk about her when she’s not around. He does and says what she wants. She belongs to us now. It was the wolves who betrayed her and sold her to us. Remember that,”

“Again, why do you care?”

“Because she’s your mate, Asshole,” he growls. “I see the way you look at her. You never once looked at Evie like that. Eve was a fucking idea to you. Something our parents fucked your head up with. This girl dies and what do I have left? Nothing. We’re all fucked.

“She’s going to get herself killed, Jonas. That thing is going to take her or kill her. We have nothing else to ground us. I fucking hate you, but I don’t hate her. This is the only common ground we have, brother. I don’t care how you stop her. Impregnate her, lock her up, paralyze her. I don’t care, but do it before she has everything she needs,”

He turns around and stomps up the stairs.

“He needs a fucking life,” I shake my head. I turn around to find Perry standing in the door with a smirk on her face.

“I agree,” she nods. “You do any of those things and I’ll hog–tie you and drag you around this entire property with the spaceship,”

“I’d deserve that,” I laugh. “You left me alone all night,”

out and takes my hand.

playfully. “I think I can help him get those Lycans back. We can trade them for the

her up and take

I set her down and then glare at her when I see she didn’t eat the ravioli I

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not like it?”

loved it,” she

a microwave

“Yeah,” she laughs.

make

myself breakfast. I can have Valentina make me

away, my lady,” a voice comes from

from? It’s not the first time

than anyone anywhere. She’s mute. She can also see shit from far far away. It’s kind of creepy but cool. I’m going to put a planetarium here

my arm. “You should have told me sooner. I actually have a gift

one does that. That’s not a thing,” I laugh. She’s having a manic attack after the shit storm from yesterday. Fuck. That. Fucking. Wraith.

goes over to the bookshelf closest to her desk. “And you get yours

book?” I ask when she spins around with a black leather–bound book in her hands. It’s thicker than it

all but

flip the page and yellow stars fly out at me. Starry Night is painted on the page with borders around it where the stars go and the little origami folds that make the stars pop out when I flip the page. The first question is, What the fuck even

did you make me a journal?” I

I was in the looney bin,” she shrugs. “I was actually going to give it to you for Christmas but I wasn’t going to last that long. I

because of that?” I look through the pages to find that

shark one. When I

nods. “I’m a

shouldn’t be,” I set the book down and pull her into me. She growls, rolling her eyes, and

Even your brother is laughing at me and he’s

will always agree on that. Tell me

program to hack the servers in the mansion the gold was collected from as well

“Okay, now what?”

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