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Bait Novel 146
Why would you let him disrespect you like that?” Lillies acks and immediately hops on her phone
Who the fuck is she talking to all day like that? Is it Jordan I hope not. He’s supposed to be one of the best hunters as my shadow.
“Because I’ve done far worse. What I said to him is going to stay with him for a while. He’s Luna Bes’s problem now. I’m already over it.”
A group of wolves stalk us until we leave the city borders. My maid goes back to the Nelson Knights Foundation project. Ther terms and conditions are more than satisfactory. Yet, the King found a few problems he wants to be changed before he signs off on it. He informed me that he wants Jake to run the whole thing. I can’t think of anyone better. Except maybe Vincent Wolfe, but he’s got enough problems if he’s calling Violet back to Magique City.
“You’ve been quiet,” Lillies says after a while. I glance over to her in the passenger seat.
“Am I not always?”
“Not like this.” Bunny squeezes between the seats.
“Seat belt,” I growl at her. “I’m just thinking,”
“Let us think with you,” Lillies suggests.
Im going to be put in the psych–ward when we return,” I answer truthfully. The two of them shift uncomfortably.
“The King knows?” Bunny asks.
“Yeah, he’s not too happy about it but ultimately it was my decision,”
“For how long?” Bunny asks.
“I don’t know. I haven’t worked out the details. I asked for some time to bring Allegra back,”
“Are you sure that’s the right choice?” Lillies asks.
“I don’t know what the right choice is. I’m all over the place. Maybe a change in pace will help clear the fog. I just need some time to process. To think. Outside of everything that makes me
“Crazy?” Bunny leans closer to see me smile.
“Yes, Bunny. I might be crazy,”
“Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. So, there’s the upside. You’re just overwhelmed. It’ll be fine,” Lillies takes my hand. “I don’t see why locking down the Local Lunatic is a bad idea. We can keep it as a weapon for assholes like Tech,” Bunny adds.
“Thanks, guys. Jonas thinks it’s a bad idea,”
“Given everything you guys have literally killed yourselves for, I can see why. He’s become dependent on your opinion and work ethic. Might be the only thing you two have in common. You’re both driven by money, politics, and results,”
“I kind of love that,” I admit. “I just don’t want it to be the only thing we have,”
“Sex isn’t enough? I heard you guys are very-” I growl cutting Bunny off.
The two of them giggle identically and it freaks me out. It’s like having a devil and an angel on my shoulders. Except these
are real and apparently langus
“No, sex is not enough. At least not for the. It was always on the Bible. No strings attached,
Well attach them, Lillies sports.
“How am I supposed to attach strings to him when I haven’t severed the ones attached to my dead mate?” I scoff.
“Well, for starters. Darren is dead. Maybe wrap your mind around the fact that he’s never coming back, Bunny says and receives a smack to the forehead from her sister. I growl at the two of them when they begin to play fight. At least, I hope they were playfighting,
“I quite literally devoted my life to making as many people as I could miserable for his death. If I could let him go, I would have done it already.”
“You didn’t have a reason to,” Bunny sighs. I hear the seatbelt click. “Maybe you’ll never love Jo like that, but it doesn’t mean you can’t love him. From the bracelet, it’s obvious that the King mindful of your feelings. What do you people call thing?”
“Common courtesy,” Lillies laughs.
“Right. It’s common courtesy for you to do the same. Married, marked, mated. There’s no way out of this, Your Majesty. There’s nothing wrong with letting him in,”
That’s the problem, isn’t it? I let him in. I just didn’t think I’d live long enough to realize what it is I had done. Letting things go has never been part of who I am. I sure as fuck never once considered
letting Darren go. In life or in death. He was mine and I was his. That’s all I have ever known. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
But the universe has spoken and I’m going to have to accept this moving forward. I just can’t get the image of him and the little boy he was teaching how to play on a laptop in the middle of the front yard he curated himself for that exact purpose. It was just their back profiles, but my heart sank when I saw them and the guilt I feel is so real that I feel like I’m suffocating. I see them every time I shut my eyes.
Sherwood Oaks is one of the funniest places in the world to me. It’s where assholes like Tech move to when they retire. It’s basically Miami but without the Latino werewolves tearing shit up. I wonder if I’m allowed to request a honeymoon because I think the King would love to go down there to party with “Rick”
“See, hella quiet,” Lillies interrupts my train of thought.
“Are you worried about lobotomy? It doesn’t work on us,” Bunny adds.
“Yeah, the king beat you to that one,” I laugh as I take the exit down to Sherwood. Lillies looks back at Bunny and then she
turns to me.
“You guys are weird,” she proclaims.
“You have to have been there, but be glad you
“Why?”
weren’t,”
“Because he was hella mean to the Tech and I rewarded him for it. Vigorously,”
The two of them both giggle like school girls as I stop at the massive gated community made up of retired hellraisers who can probably still fuck shit up like the wild animals that they are. I take my new ID out of my back pocket and offer it to the guard at the front gate he looks it over and nods.
“Take a right, here,” he points at the first street. “Last house of the cauldesac. Can’t miss it. It’s the biggest house in the community,”
“Thanks, Tanner,” I say reading his name tag. He gives me a confused look.
Do we know each other
“Fucking dogs. Bunny says from the back seat laughing.
Your name tag. I point at it. He looks down and opens his mou to say something but then just steps back and opens the gate
‘Don’t call him that. He’s probably straight out of training. It takes a minute to get back into the groove of things,” I defend him. He looks up at me embarrassed. “Bye Tanner,”