Bait novel 207

Chapter 207

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What is my life right now? The files just keep popping up endlessly. About twenty minutes after my father dismissed me, the files all shut down and my entire system is rebooted. It’s going to take a minute.

“We have to kill him, the King and I say at the same time. We both stare at each other for a moment and then laugh.

“This whole thing.” I agree. “We should tell the others,”

“Yes,” he nods and takes a deep breath. Everything comes back online and the cute Kitty startup greets us

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That was a moment we just had. I feel my face flare up as I try not to look over at him. A logo I’ve never seen before comes up taking up the entire monitor space. I sit back as the curious le kitty projection moves across my desk. Disappearing only when my arm blocks the projection. I pull my hand back as he looks up at me expecting further orders.

“He’s here,” I say to no one in particular. “In everything.”

“Not yet,” the kitty shakes her head. “But he’s not far,”

“How did he get in?” I ask her.

plugged it into any of our A window pops up and I feel like a total moron. I never encrypted the King’s phone. He’s never computers because he literally never puts the fucking phone down. I look over at him to see that he’s holding it up to his

face.

What?” he asks.

“Give me that,” I growl and squeeze it until the entire thing shatters. “How long ago?”

“This morning,”

“We’ve been here for days,”

“He didn’t connect to our routers until this morning during the snowstorm,”

“You sneaky mother fucker,” I growl and sweep my hands over the fucking table. Everything hits the floor. Some of the monitors flicker but the symbol remains

“Perry-

“No!” I scream and growl at the King. “Don’t fucking tell me to calm down and take a fucking breath. All of my work. My entire fucking life is gone! Just like that,” I sit down trying to catch my breath. Tm proud of you, he said. You passed the trials, he said,” I stand spinning around to grab the chair. I throw it at the monitors. Most of them come down crashing and breaking along with the chair. I have been trying my best, Jonas,

“I know you have,” he’s in front of me the moment I step away from anything I can

throw.

“Enough, is enough. I can’t do this diplomatic shit. I’m not cut out for it,” I shake my head need to burn something down. right now,”

We just burned down a big portion of Redwood City,” he takes my hands and turns them palm–side up to kiss them. One kiss to the center of each. “We’ll find wherever he’s hiding as welRemember what I said?”

“It’s just you and me, I iod. He smiles holding my face with both hands.

↑ “Do you trust me?”

“You know I do,”

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Chapter 207

“Then let’s get him, he leans in pressing his lips to mine.

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When he pulls away, every instinct in my body screams to run away. Get away from him as far and as fast as possible. Keep running and never look back. This is a nightmare. I’m caught in fucking nightmare. A never–ending loop and the last thing I want is for him to get hurt.

“I just say yes?” I ask him. “If anything happens to you or the others”

His lips crash against mine cutting me off

“You’re thinking like a beta,” he says against my lips. I meet his eyes when he pulls away. “That’t not who or what you are anymore, Lycan Queen, We’ll piece this together. Whatever it takes,”

“Using my own words against me, I bump my head on his chest oud enough to hear his little huff and the vacant sound. “Low blow,”

“How low can they be if we’re here? he’s smirking when I look up at him.

Cliffside isn’t going to be compromised. The kitty system I sent to Roy isn’t the same as mine because it was never meant to hold the KNAVE secrets. I look over at the stack of USBs that I managed to get out before he took over.

Anything I tise from these builds will be compromised already. Iran isolate it here. Keep it all to myself until I’m ready to share it with the others. I’d have to relocate the people living here and expand–wait. A sick thought crosses my King stares back at me to see what it is I’m going to be coming up with next.

I shut it down as quickly as it came and I step away from him.

mind as the

“Sit with me,” I say gently and sit on the floor in the middle of the room. He sits cautiously and crosses his legs. “Do you remember the first time I taught you to bond with me?”

“Vividly,” he smiles.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve done that,”

“You want to fuck like that? Right now?” he looks up at a projector probably thinking it’s a camera.

“No, I want to connect. At the time, sex was the only way we could access one another

“We can do that without wanting to tear each other apart?”

“Since it’s early in our mating, probably not,‘ I shake my head.

“If that’s what you want,” he nods. “I’m game. We haven’t disgraced your temple of cuteness, yet,”

“You’re an ass,” I shake my

head.

“You fell in love with me like that. You can’t take it back now, he hrugs.

I smile taking his hands in mine.

“I don’t want you to be upset with me,” I clear my throat and shut my eyes. “But I have to be honest with you. How we handle this situation will tell us both what we need to know,”

“You’re trying to recruit me into the fucking thing,” he blurts out This whole thing has been you manipulating me into making you my Queen,

“What?” I Dinch.

“You think I am?” he points at himself.

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“Are you?”

“No, are you?”

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“No.” I tighten my hold on his hands and for some strange reason I already know what my answer is and by the way he’s holding back laughing. He already does too. “So, bonding. Final confirmation,”

“Agreed,” he nods and reaches for me so he can pull me onto his lap. I straddle him.

“I just want to say that, I am so fucking proud of you right now,” laugh. “You’re a quicker study than I gave you credit for,”

“Well, I am learning from the best,” he laughs, “Do the thing,” he rocks his hips forward and I feel why he wants to hurry this up. “If he’s watching, he can get a full view of my ass,”

“Don’t make this weird, I roll my eyes.

I remove my t–shirt and he doesn’t hesitate to remove his. His hands glide across my back as I wrap myself around him and release the hold on the beast. His mind immediately opens up for me.

What stands out immediately is his grief. I bury my face in his neck taking in his scent and letting his warmth and essence surround me. I feel bad as memories of the days that have come to pass flash in his head. He’s very upset for me.

The deeper I dive the more interesting things get. He’d been planning to take out the Wraith long before he proposed it to me. I thought he was making shit up as he went as we moved forward with the plan but he had already had his plans in place. It wasn’t until James told me about the heist that he chose to incorporate me so that we could do this together.

pull back to look at him. His eyes are shut, his breathing is uneven, and his hands are moving lower and lower by the second. I don’t move or fight him when his claws rip into my jeans where they cover my bottom. He rips them apart down the middle until he can slide his hands over the globes of my ass. He rocks me against him before his tongue slips out to lap across my chest.

His eyes snap open and suddenly we’re standing and he’s carrying me over to my empty desk. He lays me down on the table and rips my jeans completely before pulling my shoes off to drag what’s left down my legs until they’re gone.

“I want to connect with you all the fucking time,” he growls pushing my back until I’m leaning back against my elbows. My skin squeaks against the table when he pulls me closer to him and tucks his arms under my thighs to lift me up to be at eye level with him. His eyes clash with mine. The purple in his eyes glowing. “I swore would never love anything more than my duty to my people,”

“Don’t-” I shake my head because I already saw it. If he says it out loud we’re both screwed. His hand lashes out to wrap around my throat. He pulls me up so we’re inches away from one another.

“I don’t want any of it without you,” he says like it kills him to admit it. “I go where you go.

There’s no other way for me,”

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