Total pages in book: 202
Estimated words: 193561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 968(@200wpm)___ 774(@250wpm)___ 645(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 193561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 968(@200wpm)___ 774(@250wpm)___ 645(@300wpm)
“We do need some shuteye,” Grey says, but his eyes are on me like he sees through me.
No, I definitely don’t need Luke spewing more information to make Grey angrier. I’m already a bundle of nerves with the sensations and emotions coming off him. I need a breather. So does he.
He turns his gaze to my cousin. “Luke, like I said in the woods, you’re safe here. But I need to know we’re safe, too. You’re being shown trust by being allowed to sleep under this roof instead of in a cell with the other beta from your pack that survived. Don’t mistake this for weakness, pal. Gonna ask you to stay put. Yeah? We’ll talk some more in the morning.”
Luke swallows hard and not making eye contact with Grey, he says, “I will, sir. Thank you.” He stuffs the last bit of sandwich into his mouth and washes it down with the rest of the glass of milk I poured for him.
***
“Seems like a good kid,” Grey says as I get into bed.
He pulls his shirt off and tosses it before dropping his jogging pants and climbing into bed nude.
“Yeah. Thank you for letting him stay tonight.”
“He’s family to you,” he says. “And he’s clearly a good kid so he’s now family to me, too. Erica’s spell was to do with pulling all the bad out. That’s why he didn’t get pulled up into that.”
“Not everyone was bad always. Wyatt destroyed those betas. His treatment of them turned them bad, you know? He turns everything bad. If he’d won here he’d ruin this place, too.”
“He didn’t win, Blossom. Nothing he could do would allow him to win. Believe that.”
“He had machine guns. He sabotaged Tyson’s house. If not for Erica, what else would he have done? What was his full plan?”
“Don’t know, but it’s over for tonight. We’ll figure the rest out tomorrow.”
“But he’s still out there,” I whisper. “I wish this were over. I know it sounds awful, but I can’t help but wish when your pack pulled those betas out of the lake that they got him, too.”
“It doesn’t sound awful. He’s hurt you. Hurt your family, your old pack. He’s repeatedly tried to hurt us. He’ll be stopped.” He presses his mouth to my forehead, then my nose, and now he's kissing my mouth and working my pajamas off.
Now nude together, he gently caresses my face.
“Gotta talk more in the morning, get more information from the kid so we can strategize, but right now… I need you. Then I need sleep.”
We connect and when his knot starts up, I whimper softly into his shoulder through it, trying to be quiet so Luke isn’t disturbed in the room down the hall.
But he makes me look at him. And love shines in his eyes, so does determination. So much happened tonight. And he got us through it. I love him. I love him so, so much.
Tears come as I climax, emotion oozing from my pores for this man.
Grey swallows my whimpers with more kisses and lets out a low groan as he finishes powering into me.
“Try and get some sleep,” he says a few minutes later while I’m snuggled up to him.
I feel gooey and my body now feels ready for slumber, but my mind has other plans. Because how can I sleep when he’s still out there? I don’t know what’ll happen to the beta in custody, don’t even know who it is. I didn’t pick up enough scent to know who was here. I’m not sure what’ll happen long term with Luke, either. Will we send him back to Silver Hills? Will he stay with me and Grey while this is all being sorted? How gruesome will the wake of Wyatt’s path of destruction get before he is stopped?
My brother blew up part of Tyson’s house. It’s not completely destroyed, but Grey told me their bedroom was damaged badly and that they’re staying with Mason and Amie tonight. Ivy could’ve died. Their unborn baby!
I hate my brother. I have no idea where he could’ve even gotten the machine guns. I’m just grateful that whatever his dumb and awful plan was, that it went wrong and there were no losses on the Arcana Falls side. I’m also glad that Jessie Young is okay and back with her aunt and sisters.
Grey seems to read my thoughts. “He’ll have to go find resources. Regroup. It’s over for tonight. Let’s rest, okay? Jase and Linc are leavin’ at first light, heading to Silver Hills to meet up with Jared. We’re gettin’ to work on making sure this is over. I’ll get on it just as soon as I catch a few hours of sleep. Okay? On it until it’s over, babe. Full throttle.”
“Okay,” I whisper, thinking of poor Sherry who’s undoubtedly going to realize very soon what being the ‘Queen’ of Silver Hills means.