Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 197

• Jonas

Perry is trembling as she looks down at the blood and the body of the creature she’d been terrified of for almost half her life. Tears spill from her eyes while she attempts to stand still, eyes wide and almost pitch black from how big her pupils are.

The hold she usually has on her presence breaks away and almost everyone in the room takes a step back. Her presence erupts all around us. The remaining glass beside her explodes in pieces so small it almost looks like sand.

“Jo, step back,” James whispers. He takes my hand and pulls me away several feet.

We all jump back when a blood–curdling scream comes out of her and she falls to her knees holding the head she just cut off him with both hands. Violetta steps forward with a blank expression on her face as Perry tries to inhale.

“Breathe,” she growls at her.

She can’t. It’s stuck there in her throat. Her face is turning red, her body is shaking as she stares back at her friend.

“Perry!” Knightly shouts. I flinch when Violetta’s hand whips out to slap her across the face.

It’s only then that Perry inhales sharply and drops the head in her hands. Violetta doesn’t hesitate to wrap her arms around her as Perry cries out. I breathe in looking away as she just completely falls apart.

My head swims with the overwhelming grief that floods my senses. My ears are ringing. My body feels hotter than it should.

“Holy shit,” I gasp for air feeling like I’m drowning.

James tries to stop me but I push him away as I reach for my mate needing her closer. Violetta looks up at me, her face still stoic. She nods and pulls away. Perry is covered in blood. Her face, her hands, her clothes.

girl has some seriously fucked up issues. I know that in spite of all the shit he put her through, there’s a part of her that loved that thing. A part

is very familiar. The eyes of the little wolf that was dragged in and forced to kneel in front of me the day we met. Yet, while my wolf bait’s eyes were cold and empty, my mate’s eyes hold every emotion passing through her

phantom feeling anymore. It doesn’t feel like the memory of what had once been. They’re loud and demanding. As if she were screaming at

body tingles. Everywhere. Enough to make me tremble with her.

sound almost as if it snapped her out of the box she put herself in and she grins. We both laugh without saying a word. I almost fall back when pounces on me wrapping her arms around my neck. She buries her face in my neck

she chokes out but

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this blood on you. I thought you said you were a professional,” I tighten my hold

her emotions and her presence. Once she’s sealed it away, the others seem

against the wall. “I thought she was

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the fucking idiot who tried to fight her earlier,” Violetta laughs. “Now

when he rolls

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is?” she pulls away to look at the little boy standing behind Roy and Jordan. Everyone looks down at

snaps his attention

clears her throat and pulls away from me. She rubs her face on her sleeves and shoulders trying to get the blood off her face. She wipes her hands on the back of her ripped pants. I don’t have the heart

stands to go over to him. “Are you okay?

little boy answers.

reveal the little girl that had been with him. “This is my mate,” he states with conviction. The kid

When he gives her a court nod she steps up to Perry her hands balled

the little boy