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“Almost certainly one, already pregnant with Matt’s child, who knows he’s a wolf, possibly her best friend, who she told Matt was a wolf, and perhaps another female who also got told, but she didn’t believe it, so we don’t know much about her. I still haven’t heard whether she told anyone.”
“My God!”
“It’s true,” Lisette said. “Every word. She gave them three days to find out who’s been told and what they’ve been told, then they have to call her.”
“That deadline is over tomorrow, so I’m going to leave my phone on at training,” I said. “Why don’t you and the puppy fuck Dani. We didn’t get much sleep last night, so I’m getting tired.”
“Who’s fault is that?” Conor said.
“Mine. I just hadn’t had any cock for a little while and I needed some. I’m like Dani, I need a steady diet of dick.”
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At half past ten the next morning, while doing rowing exercises to strengthen my core, back and arms, I got the phone call from Jan. I stepped out of the gym to take the call after asking Jan to wait until I was in private.
“What did you find out? Anyone other than that girl Tanya told know?”
“Yes, she told her boyfriend, because she thought it was funny, so they could laugh about it, but he didn’t say anything to anyone else.”
“Can you get here either this evening or tomorrow evening?”
“Tanya is working tonight, but we can all show up tomorrow.”
“Great, can you all get here by six? We’ll grill steaks.”
“Are you sure we’re not going to be killed or arrested?”
“Jan, if you were, I couldn’t tell you. How exactly would you expect me to answer that question? I’m either lying to you, or I’m not. Now, if I were lying, I wouldn’t have to offer you a steak dinner. I could tell you we were having snacks, and that would be sufficient. So far, you haven’t done anything to be executed or imprisoned for. Everyone would like to keep it that way.
“In your case, you’re carrying an innocent child. Now as a pregnant mother-to-be, I’m not going to lie to another pregnant woman. In fact, four other people who are going to be here tomorrow night, are all pregnant. It happens. Now, it’s possible you can get paid for your pregnancies, a lot of money. If you’re willing to do that, no one wants to see you dead or in jail. You can provide a very valuable service. I’ll even make sure Matt is here and you can talk to him.”
“He told me he was in a lot of trouble, that he was being hunted.”
“He was, but not to death, but he’s made some mistakes he might be punished for. Nothing so bad it can’t be fixed, same as you. That’s why he took the chance and turned himself in. He was starving to death out in the woods. He’s not anymore.”
“I really want to see him again.”
“I’ll make sure he’s here. Jan, you can’t let this go on any longer. The more people who know, the more danger you’re letting yourself in for. You can sign some paperwork, everything can be explained to all of you. You can get offered some money, which you can choose to accept or not. That’s all that’s happening, except for a steak dinner.”
“We’ll all be there.”
“Look, you can call your parents once you get here, Call them again a couple hours after we chat, perhaps again before you start home. You’ll probably be safer in my house than in any major city in America, so be cool. I’ll see you at six.”
“Better make it six-thirty. Tanya doesn’t get off work until five, and we don’t exactly know where we’re going or how bad traffic will be.”
“Six-thirty. What’s the other woman’s name?”
“Sabrina.”
“So four people, Jason, Sabrina, Tanya and Jan for steaks at six-thirty. Got it.”
I called Quinn. “I have another favor to ask of you,” I said.
“You’re racking up quite the debt there.”
“I’m good for it.”
“Are you?” Quinn asked.
“If it doesn’t involve getting gang fucked by eight strange wolves, Quinn. I thought it might be fun being submissive to an Alpha male. Parts of what we did made me hot. Some things I wasn’t ready for.”
“You had a safe word.”
“That wasn’t a safe word, it was an insult. ‘I’m a lying bitch who doesn’t keep her promises,’ is not something I wanted to say if I could help it. I wanted to give you something, something that didn’t make you angry and abusive. I wanted to be something for you, be someone for you, someone who might be able to ease the pain you felt losing Adriana. But no, you had to cheapen it, turn me into a whore, a plaything for your trackers. You had to make me hate you.”
“Jess, I’m sorry.”
“Do you know what the worst thing is? When you took Dani home the other night, and I thought of you pounding her poor pussy into a froth, I wished it was me. That she came back with the collar you made for me, and how much I wished it was around my neck. That was the truly disastrous part of it.”
“Jessica, that wasn’t your collar.”
“It wasn’t?”
“No. I still have your collar. No one else will ever wear that collar. It was made for you, and you alone.”
“How can you be such a shit and so nice at the same time?”
“It’s my superpower, I guess. Does that mean you still want to wear it?”
“I don’t know. From what I know of Dominant/submissive relationships, the ones that aren’t out and out slavery, a submissive has to trust her Dom. I don’t know if I can trust you. You hurt me; not physically, but emotionally and spiritually. I wanted to like you, to play games with you, and you trashed me.”
“I can’t promise that I’ll never do anything to hurt you again. I know I’m still messed up, but I do promise to try to do better.”
“How many more chances can I give you without feeling like I’m banging my head into a brick wall?”
“I can’t answer that question. What’s the favor you need?”
“The four teenagers that know or suspect, or who’ve been told that Matt is a wolf, are coming tomorrow night for steak dinners, having the full nature of werewolves explained to them after signing their NDA’s, and hopefully, having at least one of them turned into a breeder for the pack. Three are female, one is male. He’s probably hopeless, but who knows. Jan, the one Matt knocked up, wants to see him. They’re in love, according to both of them. Is Matt locked up?”
“No, I took your suggestion. I’m putting some meat on him and teaching him how to hunt, and perhaps be a tracker. His ultimate punishment is up to Rene, and it may depend on how well we can mitigate the damage he’s done. That might be up to you and your party.”
“Good, bring him along. The two lovebirds haven’t seen each other for weeks, or even talked except very briefly when Matt gave himself up. And, knowing how well you grill, would I be imposing too much if I make you the grillmaster?”
“I don’t mind doing your grilling for you. It’s for a good cause.”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
“Thank you. Dani told us what you and she are doing for Carl. That’s sweet of you.”
“It doesn’t involve much more than answering a text once in a while and fucking Dani in front of him on occasion. Hardly much of an imposition.”
“Still, it’s one of those good things you do that give me hope you can be something other than an asshole.”
Quinn laughed. “I guess I’m making progress.”
He had a good laugh. I’d never really heard it before. He didn’t laugh often enough.
“You should laugh more often. You have a good laugh. It’s very pleasant.”
“I’ll work on it.”
“I need to call Rene and have him and Sasha show up with some paperwork. Is that going to be a problem for you?”
“No problem.”
“Then I’ll see you tomorrow around six. You can tell Matt he’ll see Jan tomorrow when she gets here. She said around 6:30, but it might be earlier depending on traffic.”
“I’ll tell him.”
“Goodbye, Quinn.”
“Goodbye, Jessica.”
I called Rene and arranged for him and Sasha to be present tomorrow, and went inside and told the other breeders to come for dinner at six with their bodyguards. Now, we could only see.