Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Chapter 214

Christmas dinner is very formal and as I stand in front of my floor–length mirror in the baby blue dress that was brought up for me, I can’t help but laugh at the turn my life has taken. This year has been insane. My heels echo against the carpet as I make my way over to my room which will belong to Natalie for the night. Her eyes light up when she sees me and she runs up to me spinning around to show me we’re wearing the same colors.

“You look amazing.” I crouch down and give her an extra twirl.

-Jordan said I’m not allowed to stay with him and Tulip while we’re here-

“Yeah, but we can all still hang out, 1 cup her little face. She hugs my arm and nods, James and Valentina are here with her.

He’s staying upstairs, but since he’s technically her guardian now, he’s been going where she goes. When I straightened up. she skips over to him to take the little monster doll from him.

“Ready?” he asks.

“Waiting on the King.” I sit at the edge of the bed,

I look down at the spot where I was held down and marked as a slave. The very same place where I broke free and marked up the King’s face. That memory doesn’t feel real to me. Yet, I think about it often. Even dream about it.

One of the accessories falls from Natalie’s toy and rolls under the bed. I slide off the bed to get it for her. When I reach for it. I find one of the boxes I brought with me when I first moved here. I hand Natalie the toy and reach for the box

-What’s that?– she asks when I set it on the bed,

“Dunno,” I say and help her up to sit with me.

Using my thumb’s claw I cut the seals around the box and open it. It’s full of old pictures. I reach inside to get a handful of them. Natalie does the same. She holds up one of my favorite pictures of Darren and me and points at him.

“That’s Darren. He was mate before I married the King.” I tell her. She looks down at him and signs.

-Like Hunter?–

“Exactly,” I nod going through them all.

He printed every picture we ever took together and not just after we found out we were mates, but pictures of us as kids as well. I didn’t know I had this or that it existed at all,

I look up at the King as he

-Mate.- she tells him.

Perry,” he laughs taking some of the pictures from her. “Your hair was so

of Mackenzie and me with my mom. She

long hair- Natalie signs

for it to

-Worth it-

when you two met, the King holds up

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Mrs. Phurry is holding a baby Mackenzie in her arms. Morgan and I are both squeezing Darren’s chubby cheeks teasingly. We had been competing to see who could carry the most boxes up to their apartment and Morgan won because the two of us

should go James

the box. Natalie sets the picture in Her hand on top and it’s a picture of me standing on the balcony of the apartment we had just before the house Darren had made

not paying attention to him. I was already pregnant here, but I didn’t know. I remember that day early. We had gotten into an

just introduced him to Hailey and I had been on the phone with him for a little over an hour trying to convince him that it would be the loophole he had

He taught me alpha–level strategies that helped me in my beta training. I told him that it was none of his business what I chose to help my friends with. He said these people weren’t our friends. They’re the enemies

or worse. So, I grabbed a bottle of water and got some fresh air. I was watching the pups below play. One of them got hit in the back

the picture and turn it over because he often wrote the dates on the back. The words I’m sorry are scribbled in his chicken scratch along with the date. It was two days before his birthday. I drop it

and help Natalie off the

we had toxic. It was just a different life. I love that idiot. I can’t help the smile on my Some of my favorite parts about him were his competitiveness and the way he snapped.

over it. Darren Phurry and our family will always be a part of me. My hand instinctively reaches for my ring as the elevator pings when we reach the

he can see that I’m not upset. “On a scale from one to holy shit, this is insane. What

couple of jewelry boxes.

“Will it be live?”

photographers. They don’t release anything to the press. Their work is sacred

“Sweet,

Oz curtsies. We both laugh as we’re escorted over to

coffee table in front of us. My eyes wander the spectacular display here.

with you?” the King asks. 1 didn’t catch