“I don’t care,” Jared stated and ended the phone call. Then he turned to Wynta, “It’s about a 10 or 15-minute walk down that path. Just show the gate guard your invitation and he’ll let you in.”
“Are you kidding me?” she stared at him; it was bloody freezing out there, and he’d not given her the time to pick up her jacket, told her she wouldn’t need it.
“No, if you’re in the pack by six, you’ll avoid punishment. I’m trying to help you avoid that,” he stated as he leaned across the car and pulled the door handle to her door, and pushed it open with one hand while his other unclipped her seatbelt.
She bit her lips together, in anger as he directed her to get out of his car. Her invitation was in the clutch purse, that was likely still lying on her bed in her apartment. Her eyes were on him, and she was more than angry as she stared at him. It wouldn’t be missed on him.
“Out,” he stated, “Or we’ll all be punished.”
“Such a f*****g gentleman.” She grated and got out of her car. He stared at her more than shocked by her coarse words, and she watched his mouth open and close, as he couldn’t seem to find any words. She snapped the door shut in his face and he glared at her for a single moment before turning away, putting the car in reverse and driving away from her.
The wind whipped her hair about her face, and she hugged her arms to herself as she watched him just drive away and leave her there. If he was a gentleman, she’d have been allowed to stay in the car, and he’d have driven her all the way to the gate, asked for someone to pick her up. It was only a mile as he’d told Lotti. Or she could have just stayed in the car while he went and got Lotti.
But no, she was just a rogue to him, so he’d not given her a choice, just put her out of the car and told her to walk a mile up that hill, in heels on the wet footpath, without a jacket to protect herself from the cold. “Some Alpha you’ll turn out to be.” She muttered.
“I hope Lance has pup soon and hits 100 before you find your Mate.” she muttered, as she watched his car drive out of sight and around the bend. She sighed to herself as she looked about, her skin was already covered in goosebumps.
Jared
It was more than uncomfortable, driving with this rogue she-wolf sitting in the passenger seat, it was obvious to him that she was sulking about him chastising her. Yes, he’d been overly harsh, he now realized. How long was one supposed to wait for someone to pick them up? In the human world he’d seen both men and women leave caf?s and restaurants after 20 minutes of waiting.
He had no actual idea how long she’d waited, but long enough for her to give up on him arriving and go right back to work. He wondered what his father would make of that. So he apologized to her after a few minutes to settle himself, they were on their way, and they were going to make it on time.
He now understood that this was the she-wolf his father had been trying to bring into his pack for five years. One he’d told Jared to charm into coming into the pack, he’d not known she was rogue, because his father had left that part out. Though from what he’d heard, she wouldn’t even set foot inside the pack.
This function that was being held, was likely the only time his father had managed to convince her to come to the pack; he’d likely used some underhanded tactic to get it, seeing as she was so very stubborn and resistant to being brought in.
He looked at her a few times from the driver’s seat. She was more than pretty, though he already knew that he had seen her work photo. She was not interested in talking to him, just sat staring out the window, hadn’t even accepted his apology. He didn’t think he was going to be able to charm her not after the words he’d spoken.
It was now going to be a Dwane job. He was going to push that chore right to his Beta, wasn’t likely going to have a choice, he was getting nothing from her.
His annoyance with Lotti was out for all to hear, and he couldn’t help it because the girl was always completely irresponsible. But he couldn’t have the pack Beta’s youngest stepdaughter lashed because her car slid off the road and into a ditch. Which meant she couldn’t get back in time and so would take a lashing.
It wasn’t currently raining, and he knew Lotti well enough to know she was going to pitch a she-wolf petulant fit if she had to get in a car with a rogue. Let alone have that rogue sit up front, and her have to be seated behind her. She had come here with her mother, not that it was needed she was old enough to stay in her home pack.
But no if she came here and was bled to Ernesto, she’d rank right up to Beta blood, she’d been ranked up but not bled to Ernesto, and she was a spoiled, selfish brat just about all the time, acted like a 16-year-old when she 27 now, nothing had changed in the 6 years she’d been part of the pack, or so Dwane stated.
Thankfully, neither of them had to have anything to do with her, but he wasn’t about to have Lotti sit in the backseat and make comments about the smell in the car and insult Wynta for no reason which he knew she would. He’d seen her on video calls and had the unpleasant experience of her coming to Europe last year and seen her in action.
He had Wynta get out of the car. There was a well-maintained footpath along the roadside, and he knew the gate guard would call a car to the gate to collect her and take her to the packhouse. It was just 10 or 15 minutes. It wouldn’t hurt her. She could likely do it in just two or three minutes if she used her wolfen speed.
He was more than shocked by that foul language that came out of her and kind of stared at her, not knowing what to stay and then she just slammed the door in his face. He’d had to shake it off she wasn’t actually a pack member at this time, and rogues could be difficult to handle. Five years of refusing to be initiated, she was a handful, he thought absently as he drove away.
His eyes moved to look at her in the revision mirror, standing there on the side of the road, and she kind of looked cold to him, he thought, with her arms wrapped around herself. He shook it off and let it go as he rounded the corner in the bend, and she was gone out of sight. Wolves didn’t really care about the cold unless it was snowing.
Jared put his foot down and sped away down the mountain road as he glanced at the time again, he saw Lotti’s car half in a ditch just next to the back entry to the pack, an old fire trail that was used in emergency situations. She’d not left the car was just standing there waiting for him. He’d told her to move her ass.
He used the pack’s access road to do a three-point turn and pulled up next to her. She was wearing a long coat and holding a white gift bag, the present he presumed she’d gone out to get. She hopped in his car “Thanks for coming to get me, Jared. You’re such a sweetie,” she stated, and he was driving away once more. Then he heard her breathe in and mutter, “What stinks in this car?”
That’s not what Wynta had just called him “Shut it girl. I’m doing you a favor, and father is going to beat me senseless if Wynta Morgan doesn’t make it into the pack.”
“I don’t see what’s so special about that rogue. He’s kept her working at the head office for five years, Jared… Did you know she got my job, the one I worked so hard for, and then she got my promotion as well, just last year.” She stated, sounding annoyed and petulant at the same time.
“Did she? I don’t recall Dwane telling me you have a marketing degree of any kind,” he stated simply.
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