Bait novel 186

Chapter 186

Jonas

Perry tried to fight how tired she was, but she collapsed at my desk when we went into my study to find Silas. I’m going to need him to cover for me while we try to explain what it is we’re going to offer Lilithian in exchange for her help once again.

Even in her sleep, she looks exhausted. I take her sneakers off and wiggle her jeans off so I can tuck her under the covers. What happened affected her badly and a repeat might send her spiraling again.

I should have tried to get her out of that room sooner. I thought she had gotten carried away with whatever she and Tulips were working on. I can’t imagine what must have been going through her head at the time. I should have known something was wrong when she didn’t come down for dinner.

I’ve been playing what I caught from her conversation with James in my head over and over again. He’s a fucking idiot for coaxing that out of her. The way she closed up and kicked him out was priceless. He should consider himself lucky she didn’t hit him the way she had Scofield. She wouldn’t have inflicted that much damage, but it would have hurt.

James and Jordan are waiting with Silas for me when I get back to my study after tucking her in.

“What the fuck is he doing here?” Silas asks when I shut the door

“He’s Perry’s lapdog and if his master dies or has another mental breakdown he’s going back in the glass box,” I answer. “So, I texted him from her phone,”

“Oh, that’s a great reason,” Jordan smacks my brother on the shoulder. James growls at him but doesn’t retaliate.

“What’s going on? She’s been doing great,” Silas crosses his arms over his chest.

“On Saturday, vampires tried to hijack our date. They gave her an invite to something and fucked off. To get to us in Nova they paid the alpha off,”

“Scofield accepted a bribe from the vamps? That’s treason,” James points out. “She didn’t tell me that,”

“It’s business,” Jordan and I correct him the same way Perry corrected us.

“You’re her goon. You don’t need to know all the details,” Silas adds. Jordan tosses his head back trying not to laugh out loud.

“Fuck you,” James growls at him.

“Perry took one of the gold bars he was given and had this fuck trace where it was last stolen from. She did her thing and it looked like Darren was the one who took them,”

“Before he died?” Jordan asks before I can continue.

“No, the heist happened three months ago,” James answers.

“What the fuck?” both Silas and Jordan stand up.

“He’s alive?” Jordan asks. “I’ll fucking kill him myself,”

“It was staged. What happened three months ago?” James asks. “Why did he do that? Something must have triggered him,”

finding out that Belaires were moles. She asked him to hand you over “I’ve been thinking about that and it lines up with us and told him she knew who he really was and that if he continued to try and fuck with us she’d release that information the way her father’s was leaked. He was very upset with her when she brought it up and she was terrified,”

“He was going to try and lure her back in by making her believe he was out there,” James sits back and scoffs. “What a piece

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of shit. Someone takes notes because that’s brilliant,”

“By her reaction, it would have worked. Except with the blue monkshood in her system she obsessed over the details. Ed warned me it might be a sign that she’s overly stressed. He told me to adjust the dosage when it happened,”

“You’re still giving it to her?” James asks.

“All the fucking time. You’d think the one mated to twins would be bad,” Silas scoffs.

“This fucking guy with the jokes,” Jordan laughs. He holds his fist out and the two of them bump. “You are on fire today,”

“She needs more heads,”

“Yeah, she does. You should work on that,” Jordan smirks making Silas laugh.

“You walked right into that, Jo,” James cracks a smile.

“Focus,” I growl at them. “She needs more ma–I fucking hate you guys,” the three of them laugh. “We have two dead gorgons. I planned to give them to the little hybrid girl in exchange for Jesse and Lucious,”

“Those two fucks helped James kill three wolves and tried to kill Perry on more than one occasion. I almost killed Luke,” Jordan growls.

“Almost doesn’t count, team leader,” James rolls his eyes.

“Perry wants them on the L.L. task force,” I explain.

“Perry is out of her fucking mind,” he shoots back.

“That’s why she’s on the fucking blue monkshood,” Silas sighs. “Did you change her mind?”

“No, we’re still going do that. However, both gorgons were tagged. Perry and I are going to explain to her what the fuck they are and how they came to be. She’s going to give the science crap to the little vampire girl in exchange for her help to get us to get to the wraith,”

“You came up with that?” James asks almost impressed. “Huh,”

“What?” Silas asks.

“She’s getting to you,” he laughs. “The Jonas I know would never even consider that as an option. Much less come up with it himself,”

“The Jonas before you fucked up everyone’s life wouldn’t have offered any of our criminals up to be blood bags either. But here we are,” Silas scoffs. “I’m in. I’m assuming you need me to stay here to cover for you?”

“Yes,” I nod.

“What do you need from us?” James asks.

“I call dibs on whatever gets me out of going back into that house,” Jordan raises his hand. Silas and James look up at him

amused.

“What house?” James,asks.

“The hybrid girl’s coven house. Dude, she had pieces of her victims in jars on display all over the house. Perry killed some people for her and she put them in a big ass jar with gold glitter so it’ll look cute against the redness of the blood coming out of all four heads

“They tried to keep me there so they could bite me. They said it would make her stronger so when they fucked and had

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babies. Perry almost fought one of the other IOs to get me out of there,” he says trying to shake the images out of his head. “It smelled like gingerbread cookies. It was a very Hansel and Gretel–ish experience.

“With you know a vampire hybrid and her vampire and werewolf mates. It all started fucked from the beginning. We delivered a girl in a body bag, but she was alive. It smelled like hell in that bag when they opened it up. She ran and they chased her around. I still have nightmares of the whole thing, I am not going back there if I can help it,”

“I’m going,” James turns his attention to me. “I need to see that for myself. Look at him he’s sweating. That sounds like fun,”

“Fine. I don’t care which one of you goes. Jordan, you’re going to shadow Annie. James, you can come with us. Once we get her answer, we’ll know how we’ll proceed with all of it,”

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