Chapter 21.-1
Rhyson
He’s not father material.
Scowling, I watched as they walked away. I didn’t like the look on Gideon’s face. It wasn’t
predatory.
It was adoration.
Clam
Nyx was a beautiful woman. Here, she’d be something new and exciting. The news that she was pregnant clearly didn’t bother him. Judging from the children running around the camp, he’d welcome a babe. Pups could be hard to come by and were revered. Nyx was young, and already
proven to be fertile.
“You’re growling,” Duke sighed. “Nash isn’t happy to be pulled away from Dante to follow her.”
“Nobody should be alone.”
“And yet you’re letting her walk around with him.”
“He’s going out of his way to appear relaxed around her so he doesn’t scare her. That means he’s letting his guard down. If he’s a threat, Nyx will sense it.”
“We’re trusting her perception?”
“I get the feeling Nyx understands danger very well.” The more I got to know her, the more I realized she wasn’t the pampered princess everyone made her out to be. What kind of secrets was
Nyx hiding?
“Care to explain what happened in the cabin?”
“She shifted, but her wolf was still in charge.”
Duke snapped his head around and stared at me in horror. “And you decided to fuck her instead of
kill her?”
“She
says
it’s the first time it’s ever happened, and I believe her. Her wolf took control while she was unconscious. Honestly, I think her wolf is trying to tell me something, but I can’t communicate with it the way I can communicate with others.”
A young pup bounded up to me with his long legs and scrawny body, still so gangly and so much growing to do. I didn’t need to release any power to reach out and understand him. “That’s
cheating,” I told him. “Use your nose to find her.”
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His tongue rolled out of his mouth, and there was a mischievous twinkle in his eyes as he bounded away. “He’s playing hide-and-seek with his older sister, and he can’t find her.”
“You can’t do that with Nyx?”
I looked at Duke steadily. “When she’s in human form, I can’t reach her wolf at all.”
“She attacked Juniper.”
“She woke up in an unfamiliar place and in pain. She’s still learning to trust. I don’t think it will happen again, but if it does, I will deal with it.”
Duke raised an eyebrow. “That still doesn’t explain why you were fishing out your cock.”
Gideon and Nyx circled back around, and Nash stole through the trees toward us. “Nothing weird happened. Nyx didn’t give him any information about you. Can I go?”
“They were gone a long time. They just spoke about the wolf hybrid creature?”
“No. She didn’t know anything else. He told her that she could stay, if she wanted. She wouldn’t be the only single mother to raise a pup here. They’re a village. Yada yada.”
“What did she say?”
“What?”
Impatiently, I turned to Nash. “What did she say when he offered it to her?”
“She said she’d keep it in mind. Honestly, I say you should leave her here. We’ll circle back around
and pick her up on our way out.”
Fury rose in me, and I turned to face him. “She saved Dante’s life. She’s been instrumental in our journey, and yet your response is that we drop her off with a bunch of strangers in a mountain we are increasingly discovering that we know absolutely nothing about, and leave her here. Am I understanding that correctly?”
“She did save Dante’s life, and she nearly died for it. She’s not trained for this,” Nash said in an even
voice. “I just thought she, and that baby she’s carrying, might be safer here. But maybe there’s
some other reason you want to keep her around.”
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