Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

Roman and Baby couldn’t wait to get out of here and head into the pack lands to find Temperance Scofield, the neighboring alpha’s daughter. Baby and the girl are best friends. They met once when she came looking for me and Violetta a couple of years ago and they hit it off. Roman and Baby are best friends, but when they fight, things get bad. He’s raised her since she was twelve, and as expected of a sixteen-year-old raising a kid, she’s a huge brat. One Vy and I have to put up with from time to time.

Knightly has to catch up with the rest of his band in a few days, so he’s staying here. I’ve been sitting in my study in absolute silence since everyone left. I thought I’d feel some kind of catharsis after killing that sick b**d, but I don’t. It doesn’t feel as good as it did when I killed Calvin.

Maybe it’s everything we all admitted to or the fact that this thing had such a huge influence on my life. Whatever it is, all I see when I shut my eyes is the way his cold dead eyes looked back at me while I held his body-less face in my hands. A tap on the door brings me back to reality and hit the button on my desk to unlock it. I don’t know who the King hired to add that to my study, but he should give them a raise.

“Mind if I come in?” Knightly asks.

“Sure, just don’t touch anything I’ve written on,” I nod.

“Why is there a bunch of Hello Kitty shit outside your door?” he asks. I spin around in my chair.

“What?”

“Bags and stuff. You didn’t know?” he smirks.

“Help me bring them in,” I groan.

He laughs but does as I ask. Sure enough, there are a bunch of bags and boxes with the Sanrio logo and Hello Kitty characters stacked up next to my door.

“What is all this?” he asks when I take a box of mystery toys from a bag and take it with me to the couch area.

“The King thinks buying me shit I like is a way for me to feel better,”

“Does it help?”

“Yeah,” I nod taking the plastic wrap off the box. “What’s up?”

“I just wanted to see if you were okay,” he says watching me rip into my new toys.

I pull the first one out and look around the room to see where I’m going to put it. It should go on my desk. It is the first I put in here it should have a place I can see it every time I come in here.

“No,” I finish opening the rest to find that I have most of the collection of this series printed on the side of the box. An excited squeak comes out of me as I take them all over to my desk to set them up.

“It looks like you’re doing great to me,” he laughs.

“This is like getting high. I’m excited about it now. I’m going to decorate my entire room and then go back to being f**g wrecked once the excitement settles. If I go non-verbal it’s not you, my brain is processing. If you stay long enough, Jonas will come in here with food and drinks,”

“You should be excited that he’s gone, Perry,” he says after a while. “Or I don’t know. Happy?”

“I am. Both. It means we can all move forward without having to worry about him sending one of us to kill another. We can actually move forward without always looking over our shoulder I stop and look at him. “I take that last one back. A lot of

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people hate us individually,

“Come sit down for a moment. Bring the f****g toys,” he shakes his head.

If you’re going to give me advice, don’t,” I grab all the bags and put them on the glass table top. “I don’t want any from you,”

What is that supposed to mean?”

You know exactly what it means, Knight. How am I supposed to sit here and listen to your advice when you’ve never even considered mine?”

“I’m not going to be here very long. My wolf is dying, Perry,”

“You can still fix it,” I sit back losing my unboxing unnecessary shit mood. “I’d help you scour the earth to find Phoebe. You go left, I go right. Like always,”

“It’s not that simple,” he sighs.

“But it is. You’ve been running away from your destiny for a long f****ng time, bro. You’re not like me. You aren’t infected by what that man did to you and your mom. If you needed us to, we’d kill your father for you. Who’s going to unnecessarily pick fights with us for absolutely no reason at all?”

“All of us. We all do that to each other,” he smiles but it doesn’t reach his eyes.

“Will you at least consider going home to say goodbye to your family? Your tour is over in a couple of months. By how not alpha you feel, you don’t have very long, Knightly. You can’t do that to your mom. She’s been through enough. She deserves the closure you being with her in the end will provide,”

“She’s going to line up all the unmated shewolves she can get her hands on to make sure I don’t die,” he shakes his head

“What’s so wrong with her trying to save you, s**id? Maybe tell her about Phoebe. How human and perfect she was when you met her. How you couldn’t bring yourself to ruin her perfect life. Say something, anything. What you’re doing is very cowardly even if your intentions are pure,”

“I’ll consider it,” he gives me a one-shoulder shrug. “Just don’t cry

“This is why I stopped coming around,” I pull a box out of a bag to find it’s a plushie in a box. I quickly take it out and wrap my arms around it needing to love something because he hates being touched just as much as I do. “I was dying for real and I didn’t want you guys to see me like that,”

“We knew why,” he sighs. “I also know that it’s going to take you a while to let this go because you’re scared,”

“I just murdered the f***k that ruined our lives. I beg to differ,” I scoff.

“You’re scared there are no more excuses for you to stop being the f***ing a***ole you are. Perry, your life with Darren wasn’t an ideal one,”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“Here we go,” I roll my eyes and reach for another box. He growls and pushes them off the table away from me.

“You are more than what that animal made you, Perry. You are one of the smartest people I know. Like insanely smart. Second only to Mackenzie Phurry,” he sits back. Okay, that one stings a little. “You’re not a soldier. I told you that the first time we met. The same way I told the old man you weren’t going to cut it,”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I far exceeded your expectations. I exceeded your work,”

“That’s what I’m talking about. You’re better than the rest of us. You always have been. Roman is a straight hater and Violetta is just as bad as I am. Take a look around you. Think about where you are and what it means for you to be in the position you’re in.

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“You’ve always been so eritical of the people in charge of giving of us orders. You in a place where you have the power to change things to the way you would do them. Maybe re-evaluate the mass executions and the punishment ideas Godrick threw out when you said them out loud. You sounded insane. But it makes sense, TB. It might not be the destiny you

wanted, but it’s a really f**ing good one,”

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