then she’d wised up. No one would ever bother her
enough to make working hard. She didn’t know everyone who worked in
the building as she didn’t venture farther than the ground floor
staff room. Max stood with her as Jane was inside making breakfast
for the members of Zeke’s pack who’d stayed behind.
She wasn’t allowed to leave the
house unless Max or one of the men was with her.
“ I’m not going to flee,” she
said. “I struck a bargain for Jessica’s life. I’m not going to
leave before I’ve fulfilled my part of the bargain.” Besides, she
wasn’t ready to leave the sex behind. Zeke had awakened something
inside her. For the first time since being bitten she was starting
to feel like her old self again. She had always felt ill and filled
with burning heat. Since Zeke had been fucking her, she’d been able
to focus and remain calm throughout. Last night had been hot as
hell. She’d loved the minutes when she was able to be on top taking
his cock deeply within her.
“ I’m not here in order to
stop you fleeing,” Max said, looking up at the sunshine.
The sunlight did feel rather lovely
today, Mary thought.
“ Then why?”
“ Since finding out … some things, he
wants you protected.”
Jessica was sat inside with Jane, eating.
Glancing behind her at the door Mary saw the young girl’s shoulders
were hunched over her bowl of cereal. She’d not been the same since
she had gone out with Zeke.
“ He wouldn’t have killed her, you
know,” Max said, drawing her attention away from the other
girl.
“ What do you
mean?”
“ Zeke, the Alpha. He’s a tough
man, but he’s not a bad man. She didn’t smell like the others.
Neither did you. He wouldn’t have killed you.” Max smirked. “I
imagine when you offered to give him anything he couldn’t resist
your tempting offer.”
Heat filled her cheeks. Max wasn’t being
mean. He didn’t have the first clue as to what her life had been
like before she met Zeke. The men loved to tease her about her
curves.
“ I’ve hurt you,” Max said,
looking remorseful.
“ What?” Mary shook her
head.
“ You lie badly. Every type of
emotion has a certain smell. I can detect it.” He tapped his
nose.
Tucking some hair behind her ear, she
ran her hand down her shirt front. Zeke had allowed her to wear
clothes while others were at the house. She’d begged him this
morning so she could have some dignity.
“ It’s nothing. Just the men are
not all that nice with, erm, my shape,” she said, feeling her
cheeks getting hotter.
“ I’m sorry. I don’t always think.
Men can be such assholes.” Max looked sheepish.
“ This is not the kind of
conversation I want to be having,” Mary said, heading away from the
house. Her humiliation was complete.
“ We’re all different,” Max
said, following her.
“ What?”
“ The bitches that are born rarely
have anything about them other than being slender with no tits to
their name.” He looked down at the ground, clearly shocked to have
spoken to her about it. “Shit, I’m ruining this. I turned Jane
because she’s everything I want in a woman. I love her curves, and
I wouldn’t be seen with a full breed.” He showed off his arms and
the thickness of the muscles.
Had she entered an alternative
universe where the men didn’t have a filter between their mouth and
brain?
“ I’ve been with slender women,
and I feel like I’m going to break them. Jane, she’s all woman, and
with her being a wolf, I know she can take the kind of fucking I
want to give her.”
If her cheeks got any hotter she’d be
able to set a fire with them.
“ Erm, I think you’re giving me a
compliment.”
“ Jane would have my hide if
she knew I was talking to you about it.”
“ I do know, Max. I think
you’re scaring the woman half to death,” Jane said, wiping her
hands on a towel.
Mary chuckled as she saw one of her
eyebrows raised and a smile lifting her lips.
“ Go and get your
breakfast,”