Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Jonas

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I'm nervous is an understatement. I hate to admit that I've never been on a date before. I'm the King and before that, I was a prince. Things like dating were never something I needed to consider given the range of women who would line up to get a piece of me. Pernicious Nelson Prince is not just some woman and I've been enjoying the company she brings. Under all that rage and military training, she's kind of a brat and I'm living for it. She doesn't ask for much, but I'd like her to ask for this. My attention and I want to give her as much of it as she demands.

Nova is brand new. It's the same age as Alpha Scofield's eldest son and he just turned nineteen. The main trajectory of this pack is education and business. With that said, their battle training is the best I've ever seen from a pack this small.

The borders are all covered and no one would ever know. It's like stepping into another world or a timeline based on a future society. It's designed to help alphas and betas transition into the era of technology and business while maintaining their traditions in a way that doesn't result in them killing one another. The graduation rate here is eighty-two percent.

The housing is strange. Each house is built in its own clearing and gated. The buildings were built and designed to keep the forest and fields intact. One of the biggest pastimes here is hunting in wolf form.

Every restaurant and deli sells its fresh kills. Deer, moose, fish, and rabbit are favorites. There is an abundance of cattle all around-cows, goats, and bison. The preferred method of transportation is walking or horseback riding. Some of the teens in their influencer days have dirt bikes and dune buggies.

Andromeda has taken to the norms here and loves showing off her side saddle skills.

I've been pacing my study for a little over an hour. It's bothering Silas and he's been on edge since James returned late last night. He's made himself scarce. I heard him asking Perry if it were okay for him to get his own apartment in town. She declined and told him that as long as he was her asset he would be staying in the main house. She did, however, give him the spare room across from him so he could set up whatever he wanted.

"Would you sit down?" Silas finally snaps. I growl at him. "She's not going to be unimpressed with what you planned, Jo. Perry likes you for whatever reason. You're married and given how calm you've been since she's returned-"

"Enough," I sit at my desk.

"What's the problem?"

"We have nothing in common," there. I said it out loud.

"You're joking, right?" he laughs. I glare at him.

"We don't. Other than sex and politics, I have nothing to talk to her about,"

"Have you tried bringing up a topic that isn't political or sexual?" he grins.

"I don't bring up sex. She does,"

"Does that mean you're the fucking political weirdo?" he jokes earning himself another growl. "Perry is, despite being as crazy as she is, simple creature. I saw her get excited over a pair of fluffy socks Oz brought her,"

"They were Hello Kitty. It's her favorite," I sit back trying to calm myself. We both look up when there's a knock. I immediately know who it belongs to. "Come in,"

James opens the door and looks around my study before meeting my gaze.Material © of NôvelDrama.Org.

"I'm looking for Jordan," he says.

"He's not here." Silas growls.

"He went back to Cliffside for his final hearing. Is there anything can help you with?"

"I'll just ask Her Majesty, he reaches for the door to shut it. "I'm sorry I bothered you,"

"Wait," I stop him. "Perry is getting ready. Is there something you need now?"

"The Queen said that the thing in my neck copied files from devices that got close to it. I need some information regarding the whereabouts of some of my former associates. Jordan asked me if I knew any dealing ammo. Just wanted to see if he could pull something up," I wave him in. He walks into my study and takes a seat in front of me.

"Do you know how long ago you came into contact with the device or the kind of device it was?"

"I was around it all week. It's an iWolfe Huntress," he gives me the number and I pull up all the information provided. She is keeping him on a very short leash.

I laugh when I see that he's received a few spicy pictures from a few different women. I turn the monitor around to show him. He smirks as he takes his phone out to snap a few pictures of what's on the screen. Phone numbers, pictures, notes, apps, and bank statements. "Thanks," he says and gets up. He pauses just before getting to the door. "Fancy dates and expensive gifts are wasted on her. She's primitive and likes doing primitive shit. You've never been good with women. Some girls like watching the world burn You've only ever fucked with princesses.

"This one is a warrior and does warrior shit," he reaches into his coat pocket. Silas is on his feet immediately. James rolls his eyes and places what looks like two tickets on my desk. "Riveria and Russo are fighting tonight. Front row tickets. I'm more of a VIP section kind of guy anyway,"

"Thank you," is all I can say. He doesn't respond and simply leaves. I reach for the tickets and see the fights start a couple of hours after our dinner reservation in the pack a town over.

"You're going to take your mate to an event that public?" Silas asks.

I stare at them and his words from before flood in. A part of me wants to rip the tickets up and shove them down his fucking throat. But he's right. Perry isn't a princess. It's why I have trouble connecting with her outside of our bedroom and work. These events are public, but not enough for us not to be able to attend.

"You're considering it?" he asks.

"If it doesn't work, I still get to see these two wolves rip each other apart," I shrug. He laughs and goes back to his desk.

"She is a little bit of a tomboy. She's closer to Jordan than she is to the twins. Maybe he's right," he sighs. "Get what he said out of your head. They're familiar because they were groomed to fight. Nothing else,"

"You can't deny their similarities,"

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean she ever belonged to him. He's a snake. There's no doubt in my mind that he's going to want something for that favor," he points at the tickets in my hand.

"Perry asked me to give him the benefit of the doubt. You've seen how much she's changed since she started taking the blue wolfsbane,"

"I don't think she's changed, Jo. I think she's just better and you're seeing her for who she is without having to fight the beast she was. After everything we've learned about her, it looks to me like she had been in survival mode for her entire life. Even

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when she was with her mate.

"You're providing an environment where she doesn't have to be anymore. If you're having trouble connecting with her, find comfort in that. You'll make that connection soon enough. Keep looking for a way in. I've seen the way she looks at you, man. She's probably looking for the same thing,"

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