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,”

takes my hand. “I wasn’t in

don’t take you over my lap,” I nip at her ear playfully. “I think I

jumps on me. I pick her

at her when I see she didn’t eat the ravioli I made

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not like it?”

it,” she says and

a microwave

“Yeah,” she laughs.

can make

breakfast. I can have Valentina

lady,” a voice comes

Where did she even come from? It’s not the first time she has

away. It’s kind of creepy but cool. I’m going to put a planetarium here for her.

even more now. Ah!” she squeaks and smacks my arm. “You should have told me sooner. I actually have a gift for you. Do you guys do Thanksgiving

after the shit storm from yesterday. Fuck. That. Fucking. Wraith. Asshole. She’s been doing

goes over to the bookshelf closest to her

I ask when she spins around with a black leather–bound

all but shoves it in

Space. I 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

you make me a journal?”

I was in the looney bin,” she shrugs. “I was actually going to give it to you

the pages to find that it’s

my shark one. When I look up she can’t

nods. “I’m

She growls, rolling her eyes, and then pulls away to fall

am. Even your brother is laughing

will always agree on that. Tell

not him,” she lets out a sigh of relief. “He used an old program to hack the servers in the mansion the gold was collected from as well as the computers. It was sloppy, but he fucking

“Okay, now what?”

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