Fated Mistake: Max & Josh by K.A. Bauer

Author:K.A. Bauer [Bauer, K.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: K.A. Bauer
Published: 2024-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

MAX

I don’t question him about the fact that he was obviously crying this morning. I don’t even ask him how his day is going. Instead, I have spent the last eight and a half hours listening to an audio book that started as a game of never have I ever and ended up with roommates getting together. When the book ends, I am beyond ready to talk to him. This silent treatment isn’t going to work if we’re going to be facing another pack tomorrow.

“Book two is even better,” he tells me before I can say anything. “It’s a whole thing with a misunderstanding and there’s an app and the one guy is actually a stripper and…”

I snatch the phone from his hands and place it between my legs. Not that the book doesn’t sound interesting, but I know he is using it to hide from me. It hurts to know he doesn’t trust me enough to tell me what is wrong.

“We are about to stop for the night,” I announce to cut off his protest before it can start. “I don’t want to surprise the Alpha up there by showing up this late in the day with no warning. Nor do I want to show up stinky and tired from driving all day. We have roughly a four hour drive ahead of us tomorrow, so let’s save the next book for that.”

In my peripheral vision, I see Josh swallow nervously and sit on his hands before he nods. If there is one thing that therapy got through my head after Ms. Anna dragged me in for it, it’s that you can’t force someone to talk before they are ready to. As much as my wolf and inner alpha bristle at not being able to command it, I know I just have to wait for my mate to be ready to talk to me.

Using the GPS built into the car, I locate the closest mid range hotel for us to stay the night. Even though I know the sunlight doesn’t appear to be problematic for my mate, I don’t want to take any chances with someone being able to open a door and have the outside pouring into the room while he is asleep and vulnerable.

“What? No Four Seasons?” Josh asks with a smirk when we pull into the parking lot. “You wolves have no sense of class.”

It takes my caveman, please my mate, centric brain to recognize that he’s joking. During one of his rare trips to the house before the babies were born, I happened to eavesdrop on a conversation between him and Ethan in the playroom. I think they were having a tea party or something with the stuffies at the time.

“More tea, good sir?” Ethan asked in a horridly fake British accent.

“Oh but this tea is too pedestrian, poor chap,” Josh replied with a more natural accent. “You need to have dried it for ten days in the rays of the last sunset of summer overlooking a baboon’s red arse in the jungle for it to be worthy of a prince of the vampires.

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