Semua Bab Claimed by the Wildwoods Pack: Her Triad Fate : Bab 111 - Bab 120

Maya sucked her bottom lip into her mouth—a bad habit she’d yet to break. She was nervous, and there was no way to stop it. The number of people in the ballroom was staggering. Media and big names from the video gaming industry were all dressed to the nines. She glanced up to Noah’s serious face and smiled.“You look so happy to be here,” she joked.“I hate crowds,” he said, guiding her toward an opening between the people and a man standing by the stage.“Noah!” The short, bald man slapped a hand to his chest. “I swear to god if you do that shit to me again, I’ll stop being your agent. What’s wrong with you? Telling me you weren’t coming. Do you know how many Tums I had to take to calm down the ulcer I got from worrying over your too-sexy ass?”Maya’s brows rose, and she couldn’t help but smile. The smaller man waved a hand over his face like a fan. She bit back a giggle and cleared her throat.“Stop the drama, Claude. This is Maya. She’s your priority while I’m on stage. Do you un

“Noah, this is my sister Linda.”“Nice to meet you, Linda.” He shook her offered hand.Her lips tipped up, a hint of flirtation in her smile. “The pleasure is all mine.”“Maya, come help me in the kitchen,” her mother said. “Linda will watch Noah for a few minutes.”He didn’t like how she ordered Maya with that brusque tone, like she was angry at her over something.“Let me wash my hands in the ladies room. I’ll be there in a second.” Maya turned to Noah. “You can sit at the breakfast table in the kitchen if you want to come with us.”He nodded, happy she’d given him the option to stay close to her. He didn’t like the idea of being too far apart. His panther certainly didn’t like her mother or sister. They were too cold toward Maya.Once she was gone, her mother’s pleasant smile dropped.“I heard about you,” she said, her voice a soft hiss. “You’re one of those animal people.”“Is he, mom?” Linda asked, her eyes wide with interest.“Yes. I don’t want you in my house,” Luisa said.

Isabella Barca glanced at the door with trepidation. Her cousin, Tally, had spoken to Mrs. Wilder on her behalf. Since Mrs. Wilder needed an assistant and Bella had just lost her temp job, it seemed like a great fit. Considering Mrs. Wilder’s matchmaking business was growing exponentially, Bella was worried about messing up for the lovely woman, not that Bella ever messed up due to lack of work ethic. It seemed her inability to stop working on something until she felt it was perfect annoyed some of her previous bosses.The door flung open, and Mrs. Wilder looked her over from top to bottom.“Why are you just standing there?”She frowned and met Bella’s gaze.“You’ve been standing there for the past five minutes, and I have been giving you time to knock, but you didn’t. What’s wrong? Don’t you want the job?”Bella nodded jerkily.“I do. I’m sorry, Gerri,” she said, having already been chastised once for calling her Mrs. Wilder. “I’m a bit worried about not meeting your expectations.”B

Alyx Treyvaal slammed his fist on his thick, wooden desk, which had been passed down his family for a few thousand years. The sound reverberated around his chambers, but he didn’t give a shit. He was losing time, time to have been with a mate, all because of his stupid, picky lion. He should have been mated with at least five kids by now. Instead, he was hosting mindless dinners and parties, like this was some kind of fucking storybook romance.“What do you mean she said she’d think about it?” he growled at Karel.The lack of humanity in his voice didn’t faze his security chief. Karel raised a brow and shrugged.“You already knew that was a possibility. You’ve been rejecting her help for years, and you expect her to just ignore that and come to your aid?”“Yes!”He gripped the wood on his desk, grateful tevali trees were stronger than even him.“I am the king!”Karel shook his head and glanced toward the ceiling.“Will you never learn? Gerri Wilder is not your average matchmaker. She

Gerri gasped.“Oh, honey. That’s horrible!”Not as horrible as living through it.“It stained my new, gold dress.”She gulped back at the renewed dryness in her throat.“I stood there. In shock. Watching him laugh and yell at me over how I could think he would really want to go anywhere with a fat girl.”“That son of a bitch!” Gerri growled. “I swear, kids are assholes.”She shrugged and let out a slow breath.“I know.”“What did you do?”She glanced up at Gerri and met the other woman’s concerned gaze.“I ran for the limo, yanked him out of it by his tux, gave him a bloody nose, and then proceeded to have a panic attack.”“That’s the fighter in you. I’m glad you didn’t let him get away with it.”“I couldn’t even if I’d wanted to. The anger and hurt I felt were too great.”She pushed the painful memories away and cleared her throat. Her gaze roamed the trees surrounding them.“There’s so much color in this forest.”Gerri laughed.“Bet you never thought you’d see a purple forest, did y