“These files are from just under a decade ago. I’m curious to see what the current Shadow Wolves database says.” He presses some buttons on his keyboard, and I narrow my eyes.
“Are you hacking into their database?”
“Do you want to know or not?”
“I do… but -“
“So this is on both of us.”
“No, it’s not. Why not go to the Shadow Wolves Pack and ask them?” I frown. He looks at me with a cold, arrogant expression.
“So, instead of doing something I can do right here within a few hours, you expect me to travel to the Shadow Wolves Pack and waste an entire fucking day?
“It’s called doing things the right way?” Yeah, I’m one to talk, especially after everything I have done. He sits forward, taking a drag on his cigarette, his eyes locked with mine.
“Here’s a news flash, little she-wolf. I don’t follow rules.” I hate how my stomach knots in pleasure at his deep, sexy voice. Why do I have a thing for bad boys?
No, I don’t like Leo. Nope never. It doesn’t matter if he has those sexy lips, or those eyes that are so damn sexy or –
Stop, Azura! I frown, trying to rearrange my thoughts when he speaks.
“Do you have any pictures of him?” He asks.
“No. I deleted what I had when I broke up with him, but he hated pictures so the ones I had were very rare.” I shrug.
“Great,” he mutters, sounding very sarcastic. “I need to check if he’s chipped you.”
“How?” I ask, narrowing my eyes.
“An X-ray. It’s pretty simple.”
X-ray. My heart begins thudding. Although the radiation can’t damage my baby due to our healing, it would show up on the X-ray, and I do not want Leo to know about this baby. Not yet.
Deep down I know at some point I will have to because although he didn’t want me, he would be a good father…
“No,” I reply, firmly pushing the thoughts away before that sadness comes over me once more. He raises an eyebrow.
“Why?”
“He didn’t know I was here, so obviously whatever you’ve got in place stops any unwanted -“
“It’s one fucking X-ray. My jammers hold off any unwanted signals, but unless you never plan to venture out of this pack, we need to make sure he hasn’t chipped you.”
My heart is thudding, and I don’t know what to say.
Think quick, Azura… He is watching me intently… and he sure isn’t dumb.
“I dated him for a while… and I can assure you that he was not tech savvy.”
“Yet you don’t seem to know enough about him to convince me. It’s one fucking X-ray. What’s the issue?” He asks sharply.
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
“Let’s do that at another time,” I suggest, not wanting to discuss this further.
“What are you hiding?” My heart thuds and I try to calm myself, but I know he is watching me intently.
“Nothing,” I lie, swallowing hard and looking back at the screen.
“Oh, yeah? It doesn’t seem like it.”
“I don’t need to explain myself to you,” I growl, standing up, ready to storm off. I need time to hatch a plan to get out of this.
“You’re not going anywhere.” His voice is cold as he grabs my arm, yanking me back to the desk and pushing me down onto it.
I gasp as I glare up at him, bracing my hands behind me to stop myself from falling on my back. Leo towers over me, smoking his cigarette as he looks down at me and grabs hold of my chin. My stomach flutters, sending a jolt of pleasure to my core. Fuck, whyis he so damn sexy?
“Let’s try that again. What are you hiding from me? And it’s in your fucking best interest to tell me the truth so I can fucking help you, Azura,” he says menacingly, his long legs on either side of mine. Help me…
This has nothing to do with Judah… but I can’t tell him…
“Like I said, it’s nothing,” I retort, pulling out of his grip and trying to stand up. I push him, trying to put enough space between us so I can regain my balance, but I almost fall back onto the table and grab hold of his shirt to stop myself, yanking him down with me.
I hear it.
The increase in his heart rate… the way his gaze dips to my lips as he braces his hand on the table next to me.
“Don’t tempt me to punish you, little she-wolf,” he whispers huskily.
We are too close; his scent is getting to me. No matter how much he says he hates me and my pack, I can see the raw hunger in his eyes that he thinks he is doing a good job of masking. Oh, this boy wants me bad.
My heart thumps, and a sinful thought comes into my mind. What if I distract him with a kiss and then run away?
Nikki.
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