Bait novel 203

Chapter 203

The red liquid is filling his veins turning them a pretty rose red. Je’s trying to get out of the rope. His words are triggering that same itching sensation I used to get when Crystal wanted c. If he’s not talking about the old man, who the hell is giving them orders!

“Who do you work for?” I ask when the wolfshane reaches his eyes. He blinks a couple of times. His scent floods the room and the beta aura around him is released. He’s definitely feral.

“God,” he answers.

“Does god have a name?

“Hmm,” his eyes swim as the euphoric feel of the drugs kicks in Wow, you said Darren made this?”

“I did.” I nod..

“God, he was perfect,” he breathes out. “Both of them were,”

“Does god have a name?”

“Yes, his name is Oliver Nelson,”

“My great grandfather? That Oliver Nelson?” I ask.

Look at you. I thought you didn’t want to know anything about our shitty family?” he grins. “Yes, and he’s a lot older. Great, great, great,” he says slowly and then laughs. “Creat, great, great great, great grandfather turned Wraith,

“Who was he to the Falcon?”

The same thing you are,”

“There are more of us?”

“Lots more. You have a very big family tree. All over the world. That was the design.”

“Why hide? If he wanted us to be the dominant bloodline, why wouldn’t he do this properly?”

“He didn’t want to do anything like that. It’s so simple–minded, Perry. Even for you, Sweetness. There is no grand plan. It’s all just a social experiment to him. You’re his favorite, he sings. “And god absolutely adores his favorites,”

“It was you all along. Why? Why pin me and the Falcon against each other?”

“That was not part of the plan. No one expected you to be so fucking sentimental. I mean you are the perfect killing machine. We expected you to fumble about a bit, but you just wouldn’t stop bitching about your Darren.

“I mean come on, Pernicious. You two together were toxic. We ked him because he figured it out. We wanted the two of you to take the city and then kill the Alpha King, but after he caught me with Mackenzie he stopped doing his job. He started looking into things. He sobered up.

Then you gave him the good news and he tried to speed the process along. We couldn’t have that. And you,” he shakes his head disappointedly. “You far exceeded the programs we set up. You changed everything and we were locked out. We tried to get Mackenzie to unlock the system for us, but the little bitch made it worse.

“The falcon let her go when she started the second stage of feral He didn’t want to kill her in the same vicinity as the boy. He would have lost control of him. But you fucking trained her a little too well and she got away from him. Idiot came here and I’ve been trying to keep her from shifting since,”

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“What do they want with this kid?”

“He can reverse what she did. Maybe if you take his place he doesn’t have to, all of the gaps are starting to fill in. Why even after killing the old man, it doesn’t feel quite right. “You want to deny it, don’t you? Your feeble brain refuses to accept the truth because you want to keep living in this little fantasy world you’ve been building around you.

“New mate. New pack. New friends. You’re no different from the rest of us. Everything and everyone is expendable, Perry. Replaceable. Think of everything we can accomplish here. How far we’ve come. We-”

“Stop,” I step towards him. “There is no we. You haven’t done shit but sit back and watch me fuck shit up. How do I tell him I know?”

“You don’t. We’ve never had an experiment become self–aware before,”

“How many more are there?”

“A lot,” he smiles. “There are sectors. The Falcon’s was the biggest Arnold Knightly is next in line for the alpha position Violet Wilde will take the beta position,”

Violet Wilde is dead,”

“No, she’s just changed. Like you,”

“Who else?”

“You are all the children of the chosen. It’s not difficult to decipher who does what Who goes where,”

“And if I tell the others?”

“Oh.

come on,

Perry,” he groans. “Why? For fucking what? How was she able to remember?”

“That’s not Kenzie. That’s Jennifer,”

“Fucking silverbacks,” he shakes his head. “Come on, Perry. You’re not going to kill me. I’m the father you deserve. You know that.”

“You killed your entire family, Veyron. You’re not a fucking person anymore. You’re a feral wolf in skin. You’re right. I can’t kill you,”

“Perry,” James growls.

“I can’t. I mean look at this thing.” I lean forward to cover his mouth with my hand. “There’s a little vampire girl forty minutes away from here that can crack him open and tell us what the fuck is happening here,”

“No,” he shakes his head. “That little girl is a fucking sadist,”

“I know,” I agree. “But I think I have enough Phurry blood on my hands already, Veyron. This way I can pretend that you ran off with one of the many women you probably stuffed into the think of your car and ate. This way you can suffer for all the shit you did,”

“Perry,” he smiles as if I were making some kind of joke. “Come on. It’s me. Regardless of what happened, I’ve been looking after you. You’re my number one. You’re my kid,”

“Why did you hurt her? Why did you do what you did to her? You fucked her up. I watched for years as she struggled to keep herself together and you were making it worse. I don’t understand,”

“She looks like her mother,” his smile fades. “Smells like her. Fee like her. Cries and begs like her.”

“You’re fucking sick.”

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“I’m an animal,” he smiles again.

“Are there others like you?”

“Many.”

“Perfect,” I step back and look up at Jaimes who is barely holding it together. “Then we don’t need you after all,”

Pe-

James’s claws cut into his throat cutting him short. He takes him and drags him into the bathrdom as he screams.

“Perry?”

I almost jump out of my skin at the King’s voice. I forgot he was here. Actually, I thought he walked out when Jordan left.

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A sort of relief comes over me. I don’t know why, but the threat feels less now. I look around the room until my eyes land on the mess I made earlier and the spot Jennifer cleared to sit down. I go over it needing to get off my feet.

If I had eaten, there would be vomit all over the place already. If hadn’t taken my medication, I’d be ripping my hair out. I don’t know what to feel anymore. I play the entire conversation in my head again.

Taking accountability has left me a little–I don’t know. Surely, this isn’t what Crystal meant, is it? What do I do with this information? How do I cope with it? Do I pass it on to the others Are there more guardians like Veyron around me!

“I don’t think Valentina should see what I did to him, James steps out of the bathroom covered in blood.

“Perry?” the King comes closer. He pushes the trash away and sits next to me. I open my mouth to try and say anything, but don’t know what to say.

“How do we find out who else is involved in this?” James asks. He comes over to us with a wild look in his eyes. “Perry, how do we know who we can trust?”

“I don’t know,” I breathe out shakily and look between them. “Mackenzie is gone. I was supposed to protect her. She’s my little sister.”

“That wasn’t your fault, Perry,” the King says gently. “None of it was,”

“Do we tell the others?” I ask him. He looks up at his brother who is also expecting an answer.

“For now

We clean up the mess we’ve made,” he shakes his head. This doesn’t get out. It’s between the three of us. Mackenzie went feral and the alpha King put her down. Jacob followed in the grief of losing his daughter,”

“He doesn’t deserve that,” James growls.

“No, he doesn’t. He said only you and the boy can get into their system. Do you know what he’s talking about?”

“Yeah, he’s talking about Kitty,”

“I thought you created that,”

“I did and I used her to protect all of the Lycan Tech servers using the special algorithms Darren, Mackenzie, and 1 created. It’s why no one can hack into any of our shit. It doesn’t exist anywhere else,”

That’s why the Falcon was upset that he couldn’t get into your personal stuff,” he adds.

“Exactly. If he had taken Wolfe Tech back, he would then have wanted to buy back into Lycan Tech to gain access to the servers. Bunny knows the structure now. Bunny and Hunter have to be protected or they’re going to try and take them,”

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“What do you want to do?” the King asks. “We can try to locate th

“Veyron said we’re an experiment. That there are others. He me Roman and Baby are involved. Knightly, Violetta. The Phurry’s a

I think we should carry on like this. Keep moving forward. Even going to come for their system. A system I accidentally have full

“So just keep this to ourselves? James asks.

“For now,” I nod. “For now we only have each other. We don’t trus happened.”