Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

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I glance away from my monitors when I hear giggling, Jordan has Bunny Girl pinned against the walkway shelf and is whispering Mother Moon knows what into her car. Her face is bright red. I shake my head and go back to the five monitors in front of me. I look down at the finished component in my hand and smile. At the very least, Jordan and I aren't miserable this fine afternoon. -I've finished it.-

-Don't upload it without me.- the King sends back immediately

-Where are you?-

-Headed back now. I had a private meeting with my mom and Nate.-

-How is he doing?- there's a long pause. You there?-

-He's fine. his tone makes me laugh.

"What are you laughing at, Crazy?" I look back to see Bunny Girl leaning against the desk where Jordan watches videos of Lillies reviewing or rather s***t-talking famous PC setups.

"The King's possessiveness is wild," I shrug. "What do you want?"

"Am I invited to your wedding?" she crosses her arms over her chest.

"Do you want to be?

"Yes," she nods. "Jordan is going."

"I'll try to get him out of it,"

"No, why?" she immediately becomes defensive. I glare at him for telling her.

"No, I don't want you there or him. The fewer people the better say trying to wave her off.

"Look.

emo girl. I am tired of trying to be your friend. I hate that you-" I cover her mouth. Jordan stands with a warning vibrating in his throat. Not the button I wanted to press. He's been a great bodyguard,

I

"A lot of people are going die there, Bunny. If this were my real wedding. You'd probably be my maid of honor. I don't have a lot of friends. And I would have let you put little C**on Roll heads in the flowers. But this isn't my wedding and the King forbade me from picking out any / other colors than the ones he chose, I might not even come back from that I let her go Jordan sits down but doesn't take is eyes off us. She calms down and gives me a sympathetic look. "But you're like Bionic Good Girl. There's no way you get taken out by something that lame," her tone softens and her expression makes me want to kick myself. She's so offputtingly sweet. "Bionic Good Girl?" Blonic Good

"Yeah, like you pass all the rules of being bionic," she shrugs. "You're hot, smart, a hunter, and like you got some kind of crazy hypnotic ***it going on. Everyone loves you. Not even the King is immune," "Move," a low growl comes from behind me.

*Ronic Good Girl. That's worse than the Local L***c," I laugh choosing to ignore the rapidly approaching King-

"Local L***ic was fire. You'd think you wouldn't ever recover from that. Like there was no coming back, but here you are. Breaking the barriers. All B.G.G. and ****t. Laters, Perry. Please, let me be the first to play with that when it's done," she points 08:25 Fri, Oct 18

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at the computer and then comes in for a hug. I almost shove her when she says. "Air hugs. Bye. Your grace,

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'he says glaring at her. Jordan takes her hand and leads her out. The King and I both huff. "I almost killed her."

"My soul left my body for a second. Just like when your sister made you slap your face, I try to steady my heart because it's hit full-on adrenaline with nowhere to go. I think I almost had a heart attack," "That's what it feels like when you disobey me," he says and sits in my chair. "Let's see it,"

"If this doesn't work, everything connected to my pillars will fry I point at the pillars holding the platform and hold up the little chip

t you've been making with the blacksmith?" he grins holding it up. "It's a very elegant design, Pernicious,"

This is what

don't hate them,"

as a marker," I hold my arm up.

"Thank you. I used this as

"All I hear is that you don't hate

"I hate them, but it doesn't change the fact that they're pretty," I take it from him and slide the chip into the drive. "Ready!"

"Should we evacuate the room?"

"Nah, it'll be funny to scare the f****k out of them if I fail. It'll hurt less," I wave him off. He laughs as I set up the program. Silas clears his throat behind us. "I mean it's not going to fail No need

"F**k off,

off, Little wolf, Silas rolls his eyes at me.

"All right. Who wants to hit Y?" I ask.

"You have to hit Y, the two of them say in unison.

"That way if someone gets hurt, we can blame you," Silas adds.

"All right, you son of a b***h," I whisper to myself thinking of the day I told Darren and he told me I was dumb. "Here's to that Wraith s**t is just a legend,"

Thit Y

and the screens all turn black. I look back at the towers to see them all struggling to keep up. I look down at the table and activate the dry ice sequence I originally added to keep my drinks cold. The little downloading bar comes up and 1 squeak because it's never done that before. The computer usually goes up in smoke. But not this time.

Si**s gasp scares me when the little digital blue liquid starts filling the bar.

"What the f***k is that Perry?" the King stands up shaking his hands out.. "Anticipation," Silas whispers.

dan says.

"Anxiety," Jordan says.

"Wrong. All of you. The void is calling. I laugh nervously and then it happens. "Download complete," I say turning the cooling system off. I hit the eject button and take the chip out. It's smoking, but it's not damaged. "Good Mother Moon. We did it,"