I’m not going to lie, do you want to study that, Ill have you enrolled next semester? He’d stated.
I’m not actually going to study it.
I like fashion.
I could model for your magazine.
That would work, and I dont need a degree to be a model.
She’d smiled at him now.
My wife, a beautiful runway model.
Oh, I like that.
Are you going to do that? he’d asked.
If you insist, She shrugged.
Ill have a contract drawn up, and youll follow it to the letter, attend photo shoots on time and do the job properly.
He told her and she frowned directly at him.
I’m also not attaching you to my human world portfolio for a year.
That gives a good separation between you and my ex.
He refrained from using Belladonnas name as per Carinas request.
That’s a bit stupid, were not human who cares what they think.
I care about the stock market and the company shares dropping in price, you should as well.
If they drop, you’ll get a limit on that card of yours.
Again, she frowned at him but said nothing.
She didn’t know him well enough to know if he was telling the truth or not.
He would do it.
The first ones to absorb that monetary hit and give back to the pack would be him and his Luna.
Both their cards would be limited, seeing as it would be their fault for the stocks dropping in price, it would be directly related to them and their sudden marriage, so no pack members would be expected to tighten their budgets.
They’d both be on limited funds until the shares returned to normal.
He’d done it before, could and would do it again.
He didn’t really spend anything on himself anymore, he had everything he needed.
Spent money to make money, or to make the packs conglomerate more prosperous.
He had a wardrobe full of clothes and a car.
That was all he needed at this point in life.
His and Carinas bond was still forming, and he could see it was going to take some time.
He knew it would grow day by day until it was fully realised.
He’d watched Carina leave his office and heard her mutter about how she would go and buy what she wanted now then.
He’d stood and washed his face in his office bathroom and sighed heavily.
His eyes landed on the silver filigree on his neck, it too was different from the last one he’d sported, it was simple silver swirls that curled around and fanned out.
His previous one had been silver but had what looked like pale blue glitter through it, as had Belladonnas, and they’d both gotten what looked like a soft all sparkly blue Belladonna Lilly flower in the center of it.
Her own namesake on both their skin.
It was almost as if she’d branded her name on his skin.
Or that was how he had seen it, had liked that tiny flower glittering up at him as well, it was sweet like she was.
His two mates couldn’t be any more different from each other.
Perhaps it was meant to be like that, to help him let go of the first one.
The s * x was also different.
Carina climbed on him every day, touched him and wanted to have s * x; told him she did.
They had s * x two or three times a day, it was a nice feeling to not always be the one to initiate s * x, be wanted by his Mate Vex was also allowed to Mate her wolf Ruby, which was good for his beast.
He’d called her out, and she’d come right to him without issue to be mated by her wolfen mate.
They mated in human and wolfen form now.
Their bond was good and solid, from what he could tell.
Which showed him that he and Carina would be in time.
She was just very different to his former Mate, who was quiet and unassuming.
Had never demanded, let alone even asked anything of him.
Just left him be, to run the packs and the company and did her Lunas duties diligently.
Carina wouldn’t sit in that office until it was fully redecorated to her liking, and didnt want to work in a room designed by the previous Luna.
To which he’d told her, Belladonna hadn’t changed a thing, had simply worked in the office as it was.
Carina had frowned and stated Really ! kind of disbelievingly.
Yes, chosen not gifted, hasnt changed anything ever.
He nodded.
Though that had made him walk up to the Luna suite and look at it.It, too, was as it had been the day she’d moved in.She’d personalized nothing in this packhouse, not even the room she’d lived in for near on a decade.No, she didnt live here, he realised, had resided here, with a view to leaving one day.
He knew nothing about her at all.Eight years and he did not understand her.
He had loved her.
But he only now realised he loved a complete stranger, because in all likelihood he’d fallen in love with only who she’d presented to him; not who she truly was.
Belladonna
That meeting with Alpha Gretta and Alpha Hailey, about her mating alliance, didn’t go too badly.
That clause did clearly define born into a mate bond, not conceived into one.
So that would go in her favour.
Gretta read through the whole thing and shook her head more than once.
Then looked at her and stated, You were chosen, just to be rejected? Correct.
Bella had nodded, she already knew that.
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