Chapter 12 - Persephone
Riding in Jonathan’s Aston Martin DB5 erased all my troubles about M from my mind. Hard to think
about annoying bitches that want my mate when I’m in a car like this. And while it was fun to tease him
about himing to Incubi, I never even considered that an option. If I were in line to be Beta of
Nebrodi, I’d have fought for my rank. But I don’t have a rank and wouldn’t dream of taking him away
from his role as Delta.
Every trouble I had melted away on the drive back to Bloodmoon. Nothing else mattered between
being in this car and talking about our future. I was excited to get to the packhouse because we’d let
others know we were mates. I’ll have to video call my family back in Sicily. I would say I don’t know who
will be more excited at this news, but I already knew it would be André.
I had a smile on my face as we went into the Bloodmoon packhouse. The smilested all of five
seconds. I should’ve recognized her, but I met many people when I got herest night and was too tired
to care. And right now, I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with bitches trying to throw themselves at
Jonathan. I couldn’t do anything about M because we were at the office, but now I’m done letting
people think they can touch my mate.
“Hana? What is going on?” Alpha Logan questioned, raising his toddler daughter’s hands from his eyes
as she was perched on his shoulders.
“What happened? I was trying to bathe CJ.” Luna Aurelia frowned as she came down the stairs with
their infant son wrapped in a hooded baby towel in her arms.
“She grabbed my cor and threw me to the ground.” Hana used, urately but still using, as
she got up, pointing a finger at me.
It dawned on me very suddenly who this human was. She’s the Bloodmoon Princess. I folded my arms
because there was no way I would back down. Being an Alpha’s kid doesn’t mean a free pass to throw
yourself at other people.
“Alpha Logan, Luna Aurelia.” I bowed my head respectfully. “Tell your daughter she touches my mate
again, and it will be worse than her ass hitting the floor.” I red at Hana.
All eyes turned from me to Jonathan. “Guess who found their mate this morning.” He grinned and
moved closer to me before wrapping an arm around my waist.
Logan groaned while Aurelia sighed. Hana, however, looked at Jonathan and then at his arm around
me, tears filling her eyes before rushing upstairs past her stepmother and baby brother. I should feel
something, right? Like empathy or something like that. But I can’t bring myself to. What did she think
would happen? That Jonathan would never find his mate and be hers?
“I’ll go check on Hana.” Aurelia sighed. “She shouldn’t be so surprised. She knew he wasn’t hers.” I
heard her muttering as she walked up the stairs.
“Coud!” The little red-haired girl on Logan’s shoulders pped before holding her arms out. “Up!”
Jonathan arched an eyebrow at me. “Are you going to duck it out with a toddler if I hold her?”
“A two-year-old is very different from a sixteen-year-old and older throwing themselves at you.” I rolled
my eyes and elbowed him.
Jonathan chuckled as he took the younger Bloodmoon princess off her father’s shoulders. “Hey, Rosie.
Are you at least happy for Uncle Silvercloud finding his mate?” He spoke in the sweet voice people use
when talking to a child.
“Happie.” Rose parroted with glee.
“I’m sorry about Hana.” Logan sighed. “She’s unfortunately had a crush on this idiot most of her life.”
He shrugged.
“I never encouraged it, to be clear. And you don’t have to worry about Rosie here.” Jonathan smiled,
kissing the little girl’s cheeks. “She’s already got her sights set on Royce Bryant.”
Logan growled and took his daughter back. “Let’s not start talking that way. She’s two. She doesn’t
know what having a crush means.”
I chuckled. “I wonder if this is what Alec will be like when Gwen and Christina start liking boys. Then
again, I wonder if he was like this when Katrina and André were growing up.”
“Probably.” Logan sighed and nuzzled his daughter’s face. “Stop trying to grow up so fast. No liking
boys or dating till you find your mate.”
“Are you going to tell CJ the same thing about girls?” Jonathan arched his brow.
“Of course. Not going to give CJ special treatment because he has a dick.” Logan rolled his eyes and
then looked at me with a heavy sigh.
“So you’re his mate. So I have to deal with both of you for the rest of my life?” He shook his head. “And
I’ll have to call Alec and let him know your summer visit became a permanent residence. Speaking of
residence, you don’t n to keep living here, do you? Cause I swear to Goddess I’m not insured
enough for two crazy inventors under my roof.”
Jonathan and I were bothughing. He warned me this was the most likely reaction, at least from
Logan. I wish he’d warned me about Hana and her crush on him. I might have been less aggressive.
The key word is might.
“Don’t worry so much, Logan. It’s not healthy.” Jonathan teased.
“We nned to discuss our living arrangements tonight. We’ve got bigger issues to deal with.” I sighed.
“Like?” Logan arched his eyebrow.
It’s so weird to look at him. I’ve been told he was shorter than his brother but resembled him. So I was
prepared to meet a good-looking man. I didn’t expect him to be shorter than me. Thank the Goddess
that I was too jetgged toment about his height. I’ve heard stories about what happens to people
that mock his size.
“Work and skanks,” I grumbled, thinking about M.
She had better note sniffing around Jonathan tomorrow. I don’t think I’ll be able to keep Sara in
check, especially if she shows up without a justifiable cause. And by justifiable cause, I mean she was
sent on an errand by her mentor Reed. I cannot think of any reason Reed would need tomunicate
with Jonathan. I’m sure if Reed needed Jonathan for something, he’d use the office email.
“Which reminds me, I need to ess the database we keep for approved nonpack in the territory,”
Jonathan announced, walking quickly past Logan.
Oh good. It sounds like Jonathan’s going to do some digging into that bitch. I hope she didn’t file the
correct forms and gets sent back to wherever the fuck she came from. And with her ditz routine around
Jonathan, I wonder if M got a spot as an intern on her merit. Like maybe she submitted someone
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else’s project. Or perhaps her name isn’t M, and she’s impersonating the real M to spy on
Silvercloud and/or Bloodmoon.
“Wait, what’s going on?” Logan frowned as he watched Jonathan go into his office.
“M Bn,” I growled. “She’s an intern too, and a werewolf. She’s been getting on myst nerve, and
if we weren’t in an office with the mixedpany, I’d have ripped her throat out.”
“Gotcha.” Logan nodded as he looked past me. “Wee back Delh. Scott, why do you look pale? If
you’re sick, you can go to the doctor and stay far the hell away from my pups.” He narrowed his eyes at
Scott, turning enough to keep Rose away.
I looked over my shoulder and smiled at my sister. I know precisely why Scott looked pale. He’s
terrified we’ve already ratted him out because I know who Jonathan is.
“Don’t worry, Alpha Logan. Scott is not sick, at least not in a way that would be contagious to your
adorable babies.” Delh assured. “Oh, she’s so cute with those red curls. May I hold her? Being so far
away from Gwen and Christina, I miss my baby fix.” She sighed.
Back home, Delh is the baby whisperer. She’s excellent not only with Gwen and Christina but with
the babies of the other packs, like Katrina and Tie’s little boy Thales or Stephen and Amelia’s little girl
Grace. Between Delh and Regina the heirs of all three packs have loving sitters. It’s like they are
born mothers. I don’t have that gene.
‘I bet you will feel different when it’s your baby with Jonathan.’ Sara taunted.
Damn her and getting that thought in my head. Now I’m trying to picture how our gics would mesh.
But more than trying to imagine what our future child could look like, my brain rolled into the gutter. I
remembered how he looked shirtless and wondered what it would be like to have sex with him.
I must have spaced out because Delh was standing next to me, holding Rose, when I blinked back
into the conversation. Scott was stammering, trying to exin why he looked pale. Ugh, he’s going to
drag this out. I can’t watch this any further.
“He’s terrified because the dummy called my mate Silvercloud when they ran into us at lunch. In his
utter stupidity, he revealed Jonathan’s identity to me before my mate could. Jonathan said he’d have to
deal with you for the slip.” I shrugged.
“You did what?” Logan growled, stepping towards Scott. Scott went wide-eyed as Logan’s eyes
narrowed, bing less blue by the second.
Scott was quickly scrambling backward till he hit the front door. Logan’s alpha aura was oppressive
even for me, and I dealt with Chesed. It was bad enough that Rose started to sniffle.
The aura dropped at her sniffles, and Logan looked back at Rose in Delh’s arms. His eyes were back
to being blue. He sighed and looked at Scott.
“You are fortunate that Rose is right there. Go to your apartment and do not leave it till I say so. I will
deal with youter.” Hemanded, pointing to the door.
He didn’t have to be told twice. Scott eagerly ducked out of the packhouse. I would almost feel bad for
him, but he’s the idiot who revealed Jonathan’s identity publicly. More than just Delh and myself
could have heard him. I hope no one else from the office was there. I didn’t even think about it before
now. I’ll have to ask Jonathan so we can confirm.
“LOGAN! Get in here!” Jonathan shouted, leaning out of Logan’s office door.
I furrowed my brow, not sure I liked the urgency in his voice. Something was wrong, and I was going to
find out. I know he didn’t call for me, but I followed Logan to the office to find out anyway.