Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Jonas

When the time to leave comes around, the nerves from before come flooding back. I wait for her in the foyer and the only thing I can do is stare at myself in the mirror over the table everyone places their key fobs to charge. I look down at all of thein and find that Perry's is

red and I know for a fact that she's been here for the past week catching up on projects with Bunny.

I almost jump out of my skin when she clears her throat from behind me. I pivot around to see her standing at the bottom of the staircase in the deep purple dress I chose for her. All of my thoughts just drift away as I take her in. I knew getting her something too shiny was out of the question.

I went with something simpler and fitted to her perfect body. I'm a little lost for words. Her hair is braided elegantly. She's wearing a subtle amount of makeup but it serves to sharpen her features. The dark colors only brighten her eyes. Fucking say something you idiot. "You look amazing," she says looking me over.NôvelDrama.Org owns all content.

I smooth the front of my vest and take a deep breath trying to come up with anything and still, I'm fucking frozen. Choking on my own stupidity. She knows it too because she's just staring back at me giving me time to gather my thoughts.

"I want to say something. I just-"

"I know," she laughs. "It's okay,"

"We should go," I say taking the box housing the long leather jacket I found to go with her dress and shoes she's wearing. "This is for you,"

"Thanks," she grins. "Do I open it now?"

"Yes, it's cold out," I nod.

"Okay," she grins and takes the top off the box. Inside are a pair of leather gloves and a matching coat. "Oh, my god," she squeaks and takes everything out. "This is gorgeous,"

"Need some help?" I ask as she shakes it out.

"Yes, please," she beams as she unbuttons the coat. I hold it open for her and she slips right in. It fits perfectly. She then takes the gloves and puts them on to wiggle her fingers. "I've never had one of these. Thank you," ""You're welcome," I say when she jumps on me hugging me tightly.

"Confession time. I have never done this before. So walk me through it, please?" she pulls back with a bright smile on her face. I laugh feeling incredibly dumb.

"What?" I ask looking her over. "Darren never took you on a date?

"Not on one that I needed a pretty dress for," she says stepping back to show me how beautiful she looks.

"Since you've so boldly confessed to never having done this before, I have to admit that neither have I,"

"What?" she laughs. "You never took Eve on a date?"

"After everything went down, she didn't like going outside. You've seen how vicious Lycans are. She wasn't prepared for that kind of backlash,"

"Fuck," she shakes her head. "We should go,"

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"We should," Lagree. She takes my hand and lets me lead the way When I take my fob off the charging pad I see hers next to mine. "Did you forget to charge that?"

"Hmm?" she asks and looks down at what I'm pointing at.

"I can get you a portable charger if you like,"

"Ok, it would be the same problem," she laughs. "I wouldn't charge the portable one either and no. I never forget to charge anything. Learned that lesson the hard way. James doesn't have a car and I let him borrow mine. He definitely forgot to charge it because I've never seen it turn red before now,"

I don't know why that upsets me, but I brush it off and open the door for her.

"Maybe I should get him a portable charger," I scoff. She laughs taking my hand again. As I go to close the door I find my asshole brother at the top of the stairs with a fucking smirk on his face.

"Have fun," he mouths. I flip him off making him laugh as 1 shut the door behind me.

Don't let him ruin my night. I scold myself as I lead Perry down to my car.

"What's this?" she asks stopping next to it.

"My car,"

"Not the spaceship?"

"Not tonight," I shake my head as the driver opens the door for us. I hand him the key fob.

"No, I've only ever seen this in movies," she says excitedly and hops on the tips of her heels before crouching down to get inside.

Our driver presses his lips together and turns away as she crawls into the car. I give him a tap on his chest instantly feeling a whole lot better about my chances with this turning out badly. She is way too cheeky to upset me when she's in a good mood and lately, she's been carrying the weight of our mating on her own. I'm still trying to make peace with everything I did to her and wondering why she would ever forgive any of it.

"My King," he clears his throat.

I get in and he shuts the door. The divider is up to give us privacy. Perry is looking around pressing buttons and playing with anything she's discovering. I stop her when she gets to the divider.

"Now, I have to," she laughs and pushes my hand to make me press the button. The divider goes

down.

"Drinks are in the center console in front of you," the driver grins and then shuts the divider. "Drinks?" she reaches for the cooler and then looks back at me when she sees the Dr. Pepper bottles in there. "That is cool," "You are very active tonight," I laugh.

"I'm excited. I admit that I was worried at first, but it's just cool to hang out. Am I allowed to ask what we're doing?"

"Dinner and a show,"

"A show? What kind of show? Like while we're eating?" she fires off in one breath.

"No, after. I was actually planning to take you to the observatory after dinner. There's a gala, but I acquired some tickets to the fight tonight,"

"Russo's fight?" she jumps up turning her body to face me. Her eyes are as wide as saucers. "You're kidding,"

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"James gave these to me show her the tickets.

"Holy shit. Wait," she takes them and then hands them back after inspecting them closer. I didn't even think to check if they were fake. "I thought he was meeting up with that Veronica girl. "What?"

"Yeah, there's this super hot Lycan chick he was talking to. He was supposed to take her out tonight,"

"Are you being nosy?" I laugh.

"Jordan and Bunny are. They like to gossip. I kind of feel bad for him," she sits back. "I hated when Darren monitored me

like that,"

"Why would he?"

"Insecurity, she shrugs. "I think I was cute in color. I'm like a fancy cute now,"

"Still as cheeky as ever, I grin.

"Thank you," she blushes

"You shouldn't feel bad. He's camed this"

Tm honestly betting on him to try. He's your brother. There's no way he's that far gone," she looks out the window and I get the perfect view of my mark on her neck

I don't think I can add this to her, but I also don't want to hold it in until it explodes. It's such a fucking pathetic thing to feel given how chow we've gotten

"I want to tell you something and I know that it might come off as offensive, but that is not my intention in any way."

"What's wrong?" she turns her attentions back to me

"When I was with Love, I thank maybe she was bored with me. I work a lot. I always have and I love my job. It came up in therapy and Ead told me that at something that I have to bring up with you. With James here, it feels a lot like he fills a role I can't I see the samplaries between the two of you and it makes facking angry. He knows he gets under my skin. It's like a game to him," grunng it somehow feels a battle better and i have to take a deep breath to prepare myself for what she thinks

of it

What Eve dad had nothing to do with you jonas. I don't know what the situation was like, but it was on her to never be in a situation where you had to guros your Friationship," she taky hand. "You are a whole lot of things, but boring isn't one of them You're the Kang I'm kind of glad that you brought up I see you struggle with trying to find something that we both like outside of our roo

hut to me, what we have is fucking great because if we land all the same things, we wouldn't be able to grow. Every time we hang out, you teach me something I didn't know. You make me look back at things I do and say and I feel ashamed that I handle things so poorly I have really bad habits no one has ever addressed until you

And as for Jamars being a piece of shit. He's your brother You haven't seen Mack and I alone in a room for more than a couple of hours Siblings, especially younger ones are a pain in the ass. I'm sorry you feel that way irut if you ever need any kind of reassurance, do not hesitate to come End me. Whatever assurance you need, I will grant,"