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REJECTED MATE Chapter 35
I stared open-mouthed into the wolf god’s burning eyes. Even though he stood twenty feet away from me at the base of his dais, it felt like he had wrapped one of those armored hands around my neck and was dangling me in the air.How could he offer me something so terrible yet enticing—the opportunity to wipe away my sins but at the cost of Griff. Beki strained against our bond, her ears pricking up, but she was showing no signs of stress.My throat spasmed. It didn’t matter if my wolf had been mesmerized by the creature standing before us. He was cruel and wicked and likely consumed people’s entire lives.“Your answer?” he said.“I can’t accept that.”“Not even to rescue the souls of thousands of wolf shifters, who are currently trapped within a crystal?” he asked, his voice echoing across the huge chamber.A cool draft meandered around my face, bringing with it the scents of sand and centuries-old dust. I gulped. Someone needed to place this guy in a sarcophagus and bury him thousand
REJECTED MATE Chapter 35.1
“The only way in and out of Hell is with the power of The Opener of the Way.” He spread his arms wide.I stared up at him, my brows rising, and waited for him to get to some kind of point.His shoulders sagged. “Me.”“And?” Griff said, sounding thoroughly fed up.My lips tightened. We hadn’t even wanted an audience with Ophois, and we’d tried to leave through the door we’d come through, but the wretched god had turned us around and deposited us in this half-buried-in-sand tomb. By now, I just wanted to return to the Überwald and forget that I’d ever visited this bizarre place.“If you’re going to do this, then you’ll do it properly. I will open the wards and share with you the name of an angel you can blackmail into keeping the theft of the souls a secret.”“What’s your price?” I asked.He shook his head. “I’ll get to that in a minute.”“With my immense power, I can move the crystals from point A to point B, without damaging the souls, and create the barriers required to keep Hades ou
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Maybe Ophois had a point about my mate wanting me to grovel. If Griff wanted me out of the way, he could have let Fenrir toss me to the demons, but he didn’t. But he also continued to let me know that he wasn’t interested in any kind of relationship. Not that I blamed him, because I’d done the unforgivable, but there was no point in turning down a generous offer when only our wolves were mates.I stepped out into a bright summer’s morning with sunlight streaming through the blood-red cherry blossoms that adorned the street. Some of the cafes down the road were already open, with vampires sitting out in the sun, enjoying alfresco breakfasts.“Can you believe we were there the entire night?” I asked Beki.She shook her head.Ignoring the malevolent presence at my side, I walked to the silver Überwald, where Wulfie sat slumped against the window.“Excuse me.” I raised a hand to rap on the glass.Griff grabbed my wrist and spun me around. “What the hell was that about?”“The bargain I mad
REJECTED MATE Chapter 36
I sat back in my seat, totally and utterly fed up with Griff, whose knee kept touching mine. Beki leaned against our bond, making contact with her wolf and acting as though the tension in the cab wasn’t thick enough to hack through with an ax.Our driver, seeming to have sensed an argument, raised the barrier between his section and ours, leaving me alone with the infuriating wolf. How dare he try to make me jealous about his roller-skating apothecary?My hands curled into fists, and I stared out of the window at the tall buildings whizzing past. No matter how much I tried to relegate him and his misdeeds to the depths of my mind, memories of Griff and those women kept floating to the surface.His gaze burned the side of my face, making my skin itch with irritation. I sat straight in my seat, raised my chin, and forced myself to remain dignified.“Back to your old habits, eh, Cathwulf?” he said, his voice slathered in scorn.“Would you prefer it if I kicked you in the balls?” I asked.
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She ignored me, of course. At this stage in my afterlife, a hug between two clothed individuals meant nothing, especially since the demons enjoyed torturing me with memories of Griff’s orgy.“Juniper?” Griff said.“Luna’s my mother.” Juniper rushed behind the trunk and shouted, “Mum! You’re not going to believe this.”“What is it?” shouted a voice that sounded like it was coming from below.“Frankie Bloody Griffiths is standing right in front of me.”Silence.My brows rose. Was Luna in shock?“Who?” shouted the woman.“The man in the photo,” she shouted. “The one you partnered up with to win that roller disco?”After several moments, Luna asked, “Are you sure?”My gaze darted to Griff, whose smug expression had faded into annoyance. I bit back a laugh and sidled up to him. “Did you think she would be pining for you after all this time?”“You sound jealous,” he snarled.“Just making an observation,” I murmured, keeping my features even. “You implied she was an ex. Maybe you didn’t leav
REJECTED MATE Chapter 37
The smoke filled my sinuses, stung my eyes, and went down my throat. I coughed, but thanks to the dart Luna had shot into my neck, I didn’t seem to be affected by it. Griff grabbed me by the arm, and we ran to the back of the tiny shop, where Luna had already disappeared down the hatch in the floor.An almighty crash filled the room. Just as Griff shoved me down the hole, a bunch of armored enforcers burst through the door. I tumbled down into the interior of a van, landed in a crouch on its oak floor, and jumped back. Griff appeared seconds later, his chest heaving.“Shit.” He spun around to where Luna and Juniper were already firing up the engine and pulling out from wherever they’d parked. “That was close.”“You know the drill,” Luna yelled from over her shoulder. “Close the hatch.”I turned my head up to a ceiling made of wooden boards, where the green smoke was wafting down from the shop. None of the enforcers followed after us, I guessed because they’d been affected by whatever
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A shudder ran down my spine, and no matter how much I tried to assure myself that our mission hadn’t yet failed, I couldn’t help but dread how the Norse god might react to this new development.I was about to ask Griff what he thought when bright lights filled the windows at the back and flooded the van’s interior. Then a vehicle much larger than ours rammed into our rear.Everyone jerked forward or to the side, depending on where they were sitting. My breath caught, and I turned back to the beds. The cushions and blankets had fallen to the ground, giving a better view of the outside threat. It was black, truck-shaped, and looked like it wanted to run us off the road or at least into the side of the tunnel.“This doesn’t seem like any kind of routine raid.” My voice trembled.“That’s because it isn’t,” Luna snapped. “Enforcers never send the plow for minor offenders. You two must be big-league.”Guilt wrapped around my guts like a cobra and squeezed. Maybe we should have told them tha
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My lips tightened, and I tried not to flare my nostrils. Any time people compared me to Dad, it was always to point out that I wasn’t as feminine or as graceful as Mum.“Is that a compliment or an insult?” I asked, keeping my voice measured.“After all that time in isolation, you knew exactly what to do,” he said.Some of the tension around my muscles eased. “Dad taught me from a young age how to prepare for anything. When he died, Gerrison did his best.”“Lydia’s father?”I nodded. “Did you get to spend much time with Dad when you were in Hell?”“Once he stopped kicking the shit out of me, we managed to have a few conversations,” Griff said. “If my father had been anything like yours, he would never have lost his pack.”I raised a shoulder, not knowing whether this was Griff’s attempt at starting a conversation or making amends. This was one of the first civil things he’d said to me since discovering my true identity, and I wasn’t about to push my luck and bask in his grudging admira
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