Scion by Holley Trent

Author:Holley Trent [Trent, Holley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-13T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

There were only a few people Vic allowed to give him unsolicited advice, and at the moment, he didn’t particularly want to hear what any of them had to say. Still, he clenched his jaw, tightened his fingers around the steering wheel, and said nothing in retort as his father talked at him.

“A month’s too long,” his father said.

Vic drummed his fingers against the wheel and kept his gaze on the road. They were picking up a couple of Afótama VIPs from the airport and needed to be waiting when their planes landed so bogus representatives didn’t intercept them. The Afótama had way too many enemies, and those enemies were stunningly proficient at keeping their identities under wraps. If they weren’t, the wolves would have rooted them out months ago and neutralized the threat. They were usually better at that.

“Your mother thinks you need to go back to your own house.”

“To do what? Stare at that woman and try to force myself to say one kind thing to her?”

“She’s your wife, Vic. She hasn’t left. Doesn’t that tell you she wants to try to make it work?”

“No, it actually doesn’t. Where could she possibly go? No one else would have her.”

“Maybe. Maybe not. Another pack might be hesitant to welcome her, given the dirty tracks her father has left all over the country. That doesn’t mean she can’t go off on her own, if she wanted to. If she needed a bit of money to hide out somewhere in a little apartment, me and your mother could probably come up with some.”

“Why would you do that?”

“Because in spite of everything, I’m her alpha. I’m charged to take care of her, just like it’s my responsibility to take care of you.”

“I’m thirty-five years old. I think I’m doing okay.”

“Are you, though? Look, I knew we were going to have some issues the moment it was clear to me that you two were a match. But the thing is, you’re not gonna stop being a match. You don’t get another try unless she dies. I don’t imagine you wish death on her.”

“Of course I don’t. What kind of asshole do you think I am?”

“The same kind you’ve always been.”

Vic rolled his eyes and steered the truck onto the highway off-ramp.

“And you don’t really want to imagine her moving on to someone else, do you? She could always shack up with a human guy or some other kind of shifter. Your bite wouldn’t matter so much that way. They wouldn’t be able to discern your scent.”

Of course Vic didn’t want to imagine that. He’d been imagining nothing but that for the past month, thanks to his inner wolf’s constant the sky is falling agitation. The emotions were too confusing to sort out. There was a beautiful woman in the house he hadn’t used for much more than a closet in the past month—a woman who represented everything that had made the past two decades of his life a living hell. The logical part of his brain understood that not everything—or anything, really—was her fault.

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