When she called Erica back, it overwhelmed her with so much joy she couldn't contain herself. Hearing her best friend's voice was music to her ears, especially with everything going on now.
"Lily! Thank God you're alright! Where have you been? Why haven't you contacted me?" She started going off on her like a parent going off on a rebellious teenager.
"Erica, slow down."
When she got the okay to visit her, it overwhelmed her with joy. She packed everything she could fit into her suitcase. She cleared her schedule and in the morning she was off. Lily had told her it was a close call of her not coming because of security reasons, whatever that meant, but her new boyfriend reconsidered."I swear, if he's just like Jasper, I'm leaving with her." She grumbled as she walked off the escalator. Most of her anger was aimed at herself. All the signs were there, yet she blatantly ignored it. She was focusing so much as Lily's manager and less as her friend. She could've ended the relationship sooner with Jasper
Damion checked the address for the fourth time, feeling the bags under his eyes. He strained against the exhaustion, forcing his mind and body to focus on the mission at hand. He looked up at an apartment building that was eight stories tall with a red brick exterior. Nigel and Joel flanked him, ready to kill this sick fuck that hurt his best friend's Mate. He felt eyes on them as they entered the building, but didn't care who watched him. They followed the steps to the fifth floor, walking down the sticky hallway until they reached the last door at the end. He nodded to Joel and Nigel before he slammed his foot against the door, sending it flying open and off its hinges. What he wasn't expecting to see was a lair of obsession.
Once Damion and Erica left the room, Jayce rose from his seat, circling his desk until he towered over Lily. She stared up at him with a defiant look on her face, but he knew better, and so did she. He grabbed her tank top, pulling her to him and kissed her hard. She leaned into him as he lead her to the couch. He tossed her down onto the sofa with a soft thud, a growl rumbling in his chest that ripped a loud moan from her lips."You're troublesome, you know that?" His hands unbuttoned his shirt as she pulled off her tank top. She no longer felt self-conscious about her body with him. He tossed his shirt aside, his mouth descending u
Maybe Erica was right. Maybe she was taking things too quickly with Jayce. She was always like this with a guy. She'd fall too quickly, and it would just be a mess in the end. The same result with Jasper, except he took things too far and she couldn't turn back. Jayce, to her, was like an untouchable force with a quick temper and an insatiable lust. Lily had sensed his power that flowed through his veins. The power of an Alpha. A King. He had grown accustomed to doing things alone, or with help from his Beta, Damion. Yet there was still this thick black curtain that stalled her from approaching him. It wasn't his Wolf. She faced him head on. He was purposely keeping her out, and for reasons she didn't know.
When he received a call from Damion that Lily was in trouble, he sure as Hell wasn't expecting for him to carry her into the pack house conference room unconscious with Erica and Doctor Marshall in tow. Damion kicked down his office door, interrupting a meeting with a couple of council members."Sorry gentleman, duty calls." Damion said to them as he laid Lily down on a couch staged off to the side. One of the council members turned up his nose at the sight of two humans in the room.
She looked at the poster that Erica taped on the wall behind their table. The large golden dragon staring down a lone woman fighter. Her fingers touched the woman's back, trying to borrow the strength she had. Tomorrow was the day. Jasper would meet his end, but the strength she yearned for from the fictional character didn't come. Instead, there was a growl in her mind. A familiar warmth and his scent wafted through her being and she glanced around, but Jayce wasn't with her.Mate.
"Hello?" He picked up his cell to an unknown number. Damion sat across from him at another desk in his large office in the pack house."Get your Alpha looking ass at the dress store right fucking now." Erica shouted at him. He held his phone away, his eyes looking over to Damion who recognized his Mate's temper easily."Can it wait?" He asked her after bringing his phone back to his ear.
The look on that Wolf's face was priceless!Jasper chuckled to himself as he made his way over to the motel he was crashing in just outside the city. He barely got away in time, but it was worth it. The rage. Anguish. The torment. Jasper felt himself harden as he entered his dark room. He glanced around as he turned on the light, his eyes lighting up as he looked at all the pictures of Lily on his walls. She was smiling, crying, screaming. She was clean, dirty, bloodied. He looked at the more recent pictures that he took of her, sleeping s