Chapter 8
Garret
There was so much tension in the air that you could cut it with a quick swipe of a claw and I wanted to swipe a claw across someone. I just wasn
sure who
Who was I meant to be mad at Prudie had apologized and we had made up but there was a
as a prickliness between us
to get myself together. It was like somthing had changed. Or maybe it was me that had changed! I didn’t know. All I knew was that I had to
The king was coming. Gracing us with his presence after years of asking for an audience and I needed it all to go well.
My enemies were drawing close and I was tired of living under the threat of an attack. One had already taken my father and mother away me, I couldn’t our enemies to take my pack as well
So tonight had to go well. It had to
There could be no fighting amongst ourselves and there sure as hell couldn’t be any talk of me rejecting Skyc
The king would not like that at all.
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“Did you hear what I said about tonight?” I turned my eyes back to Prudie. Watching as she brushed out her long hair into a smooth curtain that fell over her shoulders in glossy waves.
Her eyes met mine in the mirror of the vanity table, “Yes. I heard you.” She smiled sweetly and I frowned. There was nothing sweet about Prudie She wasn’t like Skye.
I shook the name out of my head. I had to stop thinking about her. Prudie would be able to tell and I didn’t want another argument.
“You just show her – frowning I struggled to find the right words. “Respect.”
In the mirror Prudie scowled at me. “Respect? For her? She’s nothing to us. Reject her Garret” She pouted as I snarled at her. “You said you would reject her.”
I was across the room is a second. She was about to throw a fit again. I could see it in the narrowing of her eyes and the tilt of her lips. Placing my hands on her shoulders 1 kneaded them. “I have said that I will. You are the one who has my heart. Prudie only you.”
Her eyes blazed in her beautiful face. “Sure, sure you will. Her voice dripped with sarcasm. I’m starting to think you want her deep down. Do you crave her little frigid body Carrer?” She taunted. “Does it make you feel like a man?” Prudic laughed and it jolted through me like ice. Anger rushed after it. Burning through my veins..
“I think-”
Not lening her finish I wrapped my fingers around her throat and squeezed. My eyes bored into hers via the mirror.
“Don’t you dare – Anger made my voice tight.
Prudies eyes widened. She hadn’t expected me to react like that but she shouldn’t have been surprised. I let her get away with a lot but I would not let her sit there and question my manhood.
Tears sprang into her eyes. I saw you kissing her. She gasped. “Kissing her like she was someone special and it made me feel like no one. You make me feel like no one Garret. Tam the mother of your child. You said I was going to be Luna.”
I loosened my grip and finally dropped my hand to my
my side. I shouldn’t have done that, not in her position.
“You will be my Luna Prudic.” Lowering my voice I took a deep breath and then another. Trying desperately to calm down my heart. Tonight was so important.
it had to go well
Otherwise – well otherwise things would not go well for us
you promise. Her hands went to her stomach and I followed them. Staring at her slim frame.
“Day
She was carrying my child.
“I promise” Nochling my head I stepped away. “As soon as this visit is over you will be my
my Luna
“And you will send Skye away. Banish her ur-“Her eyes sparkled
“Enough” Lunapped. “You will be Luna and Skye won’t be in our lives. Now hurry up and get ready. Our guests will be arriving soon. Remember
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though.” I lowered my voice to a growl because sometimes Prudie needed reminding who was alpha of this pack
“Remember your place.”
The eyes that met mine in the mirror were defiant. “Oh I know my place alpha.” Turning in her seat she reached out a hand to me. Cupping me over the thick fabric of my trousers. Instantly I hardened under her touch. My eyes closed and I let myself enjoy the feel of her touching me.
“My place is by your side. Giving you the pleasure you deserve.”
“Yea it is.” Bending over her I found her mouth with mine and lust burst to life in my veins. “You are-” My nose wrinkled and i stumbled back.
“What’s wrong”
Confused I narrowed my eyes. She was the same woman I was in love with. There was nothing different about her.
So why did she smell so strange.
Like rancid meat
Taking a step
ep back I forced myself to s
to smile at her. “I will see you downstairs when you are ready Prudie”
Not waiting for her reply I walked away. I needed a few minutes to myself before our guests arrived but I wouldn’t have long.
A quick walk in the moonlight and then I would go about the business of saving my pack from annihilation
Moving through the busy house I stepped outside and rushed into the trees as the sun set.
I knew where I wanted to go. It was my favourite place. The last place I had felt happy in the last few years.
I didn’t need to look where I was going to know the way. My feet just instinctively went that way. To the place where I had first realized Prudie was my mate. Where her quick thinking and soft lips had saved my life for the assassins sent to murder me.
We had both been different people then.
She had changed but then again so had L We had both had to g
grow up.
Poor Prudie had had to watch me take another as my Luna. She’d had to watch and not saying anything at all as I took Skye to my bed and tried to produce an heir. Today she’d walked in on me in Skyes arms.
And she had been right I had liked it.
Prudie had every right to be a little high maintenance.
Out of the trees Skye stepped. Her arms wrapped around herself like she was cold. My eyes narrowed Barefoot and still in her nightdress. She hadn’t even bothered to get dressed before coming out here.
What kind of Luna was she?
The sooner I got rid of her and took Prudie the better.
“What are you doing out here?” She seemed to shocked to see me.
“I live here.” Before I could stop myself my eyes scanned her body. To wear the material curved against her breast
I swallowed hard, my mouth suddenly dry.
“You should be ready by now”
Skyes eyes widened. “For!”
“The king-” I lapsed into silence. Had no one told her? It was a very real possibility. Skye was Luna in narse only. “Don’t worry I will take Prudie in your stead. Stay in your room tonight.”
“But the king will expect me.”
“Stay in your room Skye. I do not want the king to see you like – I motioned at her as if they said all I needed to say and in a way it did.
Her eyes fell
“Trudie will make a better impression.”