“Would you recognize the number?” he asked right back, and she could see that he was actually trying to figure it out. Maybe it hadn’t been him? Was that why he’d been ticked off she’d not been home, why he’d broken into her apartment and collected her dress even?
“No, it was just one text, but it correlated with everything that was going on,” she shrugged.
“I don’t know who sent you that message, Ms Morgan, but the only people I spoke to that day was Dwane, yourself and… Lotti.” He seemed to just trail off, and then he turned and looked at his Beta for a moment, who was also frowning now.
He looked back to her. “Would Lotti have your number?” Jared asked her directly.
“No, I don’t give that out to just anyone.” She shook her head.
“Who has it?” he asked now, “So I can try and find out who sent you that message. It wasn’t me if I had sent it. Why would I have gone into your apartment and collected your dress and shoes? Hunted you down at the office and made you get in my car to attend the wedding?”
“All that proves is you broke into my apartment without my permission and stole my things.” She shook her head. “Nothing more.”
Do you have to be so difficult?” he grated out at her. “You’ll also be coming to the Cedar Rapid Hospital and today.” he stated flatly. She’d insulted him, it seemed, and he didn’t like it.
“No, I won’t.” Wynta shook her head.
“You will, the insurance company sent their doctor with full transfer papers, and it’s all being signed off on as we sit here and talk.” He smiled at her. “It’s just a matter of time.” He stood. “I’ll wait out there with Dwane.”
She glared at him now. Not even she’d be able to argue with the health insurance people about transferring her to their preferred hospital, she didn’t think. Though she knew she was going to try and convince the doctors here, she didn’t want that. She wondered if she could get them to think these people were impostors.
“I’ll give you a moment to accept it and give me a moment to find out who text you and clearly didn’t want you coming to my brother’s ceremony. Something not even I got to attend after all that happened. You disappearing and all,” He stated, “I had to go and look for you instead.” He told her, and then walked from the room.
Jared
He left Wynta in her hospital room to get used to the idea that she would be going with him whether she liked it or not. His father was not wrong about her at all. Jared could now see why she was so very difficult to bring into the pack as his father wanted.
She actually didn’t want to be brought to the pack, she had some aversion to pack life that likely needed to be addressed before it could happen. But that raised eyebrow at his comment of her being washed away in flood water. He understood that; she’d not been washed away from the pack, she had actually turned and walked away from it, after he’d left her standing out there.
She’d taken everything that had happened that day involving him, combined with that perfectly timed text message, which he didn’t think she’d lied about. As he didn’t want to pick. her up, or take her into the pack himself.
He had come across as very rude, arrogant and likely selfish in her eyes, he’d also broken into her apartment as she’d stated. But that had been solely because he’d not wanted to waste any time, and he’d needed to know if she’d found her own way to the Luna Ceremony or just decided not to attend it.
So yes, it was an overstep by himself, and he’d invaded her private space, regardless of how very small it was. He’d entered a rogue she-wolf’s home under the Alpha mentality that he could do whatever he pleased and not be punished for it. Though he’d not known she was rogue at the time. But he had a feeling that wouldn’t matter to Wynta.
He was willing to bet what she’d repeated to him had been the exact wording of that text as well. To which she’d had no reason not to believe it was him, and he’d then put her out of his car as well. He’d done nothing but show her disrespect from the moment she’d laid eyes upon him. She might be a rogue, but she was still employed by his father and that man was trying to bring her in.
Every single one of his actions spoke volumes to her, and she’d actually told him right to his face exactly what she thought of him before getting out of his car. She believed he would never show her respect and didn’t care for what she thought.
She was going to be a proverbial nightmare for him to bring into the pack, as he knew his father wanted her to be, to allow initiation. Hell, he wasn’t even allowed inside the pack at the moment unless he brought her in with him. Wasn’t allowed to leave the pack until she was initiated either.
Despite his age and not currently living inside the pack, his father was still his Alpha and he did have to answer to him and follow his orders, if he wanted to retain the position of a pack heir. If he gave up the title he could just walk away, but he’d worked damned hard to create more wealth for himself, for the pack.
Had gone off and done what none of his three brothers had done, established a new and prosperous company in another part of the world that created more wealth for the pack. Proved just by doing that alone that he was capable of running and expanding the pack, growing it.
He walked down the hall with Dwane to step completely away from where she could hear them talk. She didn’t have wolfen senses, or at least he didn’t think so. It was hard to tell with the wolf-less, some had better senses than a human, but some had no wolfen senses at all;
It was just a matter of bloodline mostly.
“Where is Gordon?” he asked.
“Gone off to speak with Wynta’s doctor, I believe. You’re thinking Lotti sent Wynta that text, aren’t you?” Dwane asked right back.
“It’s entirely possible, though, if Lotti deleted it, and Wynta’s phone is water logged and unusable.” He shook his head.
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