Free Sassy Ever After: Wise Sass Mates (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Tasha Black Page B

now.
    There were no lights on inside.
    Addison jumped out of the car without cutting the engine and dashed up the stairs and in the front door.
    Ian cursed her foolishness even as he applauded her nerve. Bianca had good friends, loyal friends. Even if the three of them were beyond careless, it was good to know they really cared about her.
    Inside Addison knelt on the rug next to their other friend, Mei.
    Mei was sitting up, but seemed to be dazed.
    “He jumped on me, and I hit my head on the way down. I don’t remember anything,” she said.
    Bianca wasn’t with her.
    He searched the first floor, inhaling deeply. She wasn’t there.
    He dropped into his wolf, jeans and t-shirt shredding in the transformation, and landed with a click on his front paws.
    He lowered his snout to the floor. He recognized the scent at once - the same one from Bianca’s invitation.
    Zachary Greenfield .
    The silver wolf howled with fury, and ran out the back door, following the soft scent of his mate, and the stink of his enemy.

Chapter 19
    B ianca trembled in her bonds .
    Zach had brought her back to his basement apartment and tied her up with a thin, but surprisingly strong nylon rope.
    Now he paced the floor in front of her, the fluorescent overhead lights shining in his dark hair and making his cheekbones look sharper than ever.
    At least he’d had the decency to put on a pair of jeans so she didn’t have to stare at his package.
    The nerve. He probably thought Bianca was shaking with fear. He was wrong.
    She was shivering with rage.
    And something else as well. Her whole body had that feeling she sometimes got at night, where she couldn’t keep her legs still.
    “Where is the treasure ?” Zach demanded for about the hundredth time.
    “I have no fucking clue what you’re talking about,” Bianca answered, enunciating each syllable carefully as if she were talking to a kindergarten class, although she imagined most kindergarten classes went a little lighter on the f-bombs.
    “Then why were you breaking into that house?” he asked.
    “We wanted to get the journal, it’s an important historical document,” she told him.
    “You don’t break into places to get historical documents,” he said.
    “ You don’t break into places to get historical documents,” she corrected him sweetly.
    “Where’s the goddamned treasure?” he yelled, his face marred with fury.
    How could she have ever thought he was handsome?
    “What makes you think there’s any treasure?” she asked.
    “Angus Wolfe said so. He was drunk at the Seven Veils and he was yelling about it. I had to bring him outside so he didn’t tell the whole world,” Zach said.
    “What exactly did he say?” Bianca asked.
    “He said he had found something in the files, something that would lead to treasure, the most remarkable discovery of our time,” Zach said.
    Bianca gasped, realizing that Wolfe had meant the journal. Only someone as stupid as Zach Greenfield would think he meant literal treasure.
    “What?” Zach asked.
    “Nothing, that’s just… amazing,” Bianca said.
    If she told him there was no treasure, she wasn’t sure what he might do.
    She hoped he wouldn’t kill her.
    “Zach, what are you going to do with me?” she asked.
    “I’m going to find out where my fucking treasure is,” he said.
    “No, I mean, once you find it. Then what?” she asked.
    Zach knelt by her side.
    She looked purposefully away from him, but he brought his hand under her chin and tuned her to face him.
    His eyes were burning yellow.
    “Then, my little piglet, you’re going to have the night of your dreams. Anderson might have marked you but I’m going to cover his bite with mine. You’re the luckiest girl in Blue Creek, Bianca Silver. You’re going to cook my meals and suck my cock every night for the rest of your life,” he said with a sneer.
    Bianca fought the urge to vomit.
    “Y-you don’t even like me,” she stammered.
    He pressed her hand to his crotch. Beneath