Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (24 page)

Tenderly
I caressed her head whil
e her fingers played in my hair, and it felt as if the moment was perfect.

“
May I be so bold to ask
if I may kiss you?” I whispered
,
tuck
ing
a
strand
of hair behind her ear for her.

“Can you keep your fangs to yourself?” she teased
, though it was more than obvious that she was as nervous as I was
.

I smiled reassuringly.
“I think I can manage.”

“
If you are simply trying to preoccupy yourself with the strange wolf girl out of boredom, and tell everyone about this to cause drama, simpl
y so you have something to do,
I’ll rip your throat out
,” she warned.

Bloody hell, she is completely ridiculous.

“
As romantic as that sounds, warning
acknowledged,
though I would like to point
out that none of the above appl
ies as
to why I long to
snog
you. I have not been able to stop thinking about
snogging
you since making your acquaintance
, if you must know.”

Her eyes narrowed, her mind scrambling, before they widened with understanding.

“Oh,” was all she said and even I strained to hear it.

Nervous
,
Jay Dee
bit her bottom lip, moistening it in the process.

Bloody hell that i
s sexy.

I had
never been nervous about kissing someone before, but
Jay Dee was unlike
any other woman I had ever met
,
and the fact that she gave me permission to indulge in what I had been thinking about since the first moment I saw her, made
me exceptionally nervous.

“I’m getting old here, Cousin. Would
you just kiss her already?” Romeo amusingly called out from one of the lounge chairs on the other side of the pool.

Bollocks
.

Jay Dee laughed; it
was
cross
ed
between nervousness, embarrassment, relief,
irritation,
and disappointment
all rolled into one.

“How was school, Romeo?” she asked, looking over my shoulder at him.

“Slow,” he said, studying his nails.
“It dragged ass as I watched the hands on the clock mockingly move backward.
Not to mention, the mystery of what
my
lovely
cousin
had
been doing all day with the missing six-foot blonde.
Imagine my pleasant surprise to find you enjoying one of the many amenities that our lovely estate has to offer.”

I flipped him off, getting a smirk in return.

Jay Dee unwrapped herself from around me
and I whimpered in disappointment. She
swam across the pool
toward
where
Romeo
was sitting, and pulled herself out of the water.
His eyes
worked
over her body many, ma
ny
times as a perverse smirk found its way on his face
.

If you lay on
e
finger on her I will kill you.

She strolled towards him with exaggerated sultry in her hips,
her chest pushed out even more, and s
he becko
ned him forward with her finger, which
he complied
without question
.
Softly
she caressed his head, her eyes
working
over his face many times.

You are dead!

“Tell me something, Romeo,” she purred in a deep
,
sexy vo
ice, “what irritates you more? T
he fact that I’m here with Tanis and not you, or the fact that you never had a chance in hell with me to begin with?”

Surprisingly fast, she cupped the back of his neck and sent him
flying headlong
into the pool.

I laughed hysterically
, and it pulled me from the dark thoughts
which
were suddenly consuming my mind,
and
I
pulled myself out of the water
.

That’s me Duckie.

Jay Dee stood with her hands on her hips,
an
eyebrow
cocked in irritation
,
and glared
at the fuming vampire
treading
water.
“Next time, knock,” she growled
and
flipp
ed
him off.

In the same manner, she strolled around the pool, her hips swaying
with overly exaggerated sultry, as she combed her fingers
through her long hair; that
was,
by far
, the sexiest thing I had
ever seen.

“Very nice, Duckie,” I said. “However,
I think
you have
made an enemy for life.”

She looked over her shoulder at the glaring vampire.
“He’ll get over it, they always do.
Besides, if he stops trying to get in my pants, I’ll show him which pants he
can
get into.”

I looked
to
Romeo and he was smiling like a
lad
in the girls’ locker room.

We ran into Abigail and Steffen back at the house after we
got
dressed.

“Hey kids,” Steffen greeted with a smile.
“How was your day? Productive?”

“Yes and no,” I
admitted, trying to keep the irritation of Romeo’s intrusion from showing
.
“She threw Romeo in the pool after giving him blueballs.”

Steffen roared with laughter.
“That is awesome!” he
beamed and
hugged Jay Dee,
picking her up off of her feet and
her eyes wide
ned
in surprise.

Get your disgusting, claimed, hands off of me Duckie.

“We totally have to keep you around for a while,” he said, setting her down.
“Not many get the upper hand on Romeo like that.”

“
I will
see what I can do,” I
dryly commented, pulling Jay Dee away from him
.

She is mine!
I mentally snarled before shaking my head, trying to clear the suddenly possessive thoughts from my mind.

“How was school?” I asked, trying to think of anything but the unfamiliar thoughts that were
, once again,
consuming
my mind. I honestly didn’t care about school or anything else, I was more concerned with the sudden possessiveness that I found myself feeling towards the beautiful young woman I couldn’t stop thinking about,
however small talk
kept humans at ease, and my anything but normal behavior was making it unbelievably comfortable for her.

We
made ourselves comfortable in the
parlor
, and I softly growled under my breath when Steffen went to sit next to Jay Dee. He cocked an eyebrow, confused by my actions, but Abigail seemingly understood when I did not, and pushed him back on the chaise across from us and crawled up on his lap.

“School?” Steffen asked unsure, still looking at me curiously, his eyes going between Jay Dee and I many times.

“Yes, school,” I repeated, my top lip snarling.

Jay Dee weaved her fingers through mine and held my hand.

Instantly I was at ease and I turned to regard her and smiled when our eyes met.

“It was strange,” Steffen said—I didn’t miss his underlying
statement. “
After the first hour, nearly a quarter of the students disappeared and didn’t return.
Something about someone was missing,
but
I
can’t
be sure.
It was very hush-
hush.”

Jay Dee groaned and
bur
ied
her face in
our hands since I would let go of hers.
“This is so stupid!”
she said.

Bloody hell, I wi
ll let go of your hand. You
do not
have to get narked about it!

She looked at me with pleading eyes.

Huh?
Oh shite
.

Realization washed over me before I said or did something even more daft than I already had that day.

“Jay Dee’s adoptive par
ents are the alphas of the pack,” I explained. “
They were looking for
her
.
Duckie, do
you need to
phone
your parents
before an all out war begins?”
I asked.

She groaned and nodded.

“
It is all right, Duckie. They will not attack,
”
I assured her.

Honestly, it was a lie. I hadn’t
a clue if they
would attack or not, and since Toran was away on business, there was no one to speak on the vampires behalf with standing in the werewolf community.

Before I could get my mobile
,
M
um
and an unfamiliar man walked into the
parlor
.

“Jay Dee, what in the hell do you think you’re doing?” the man, correction, werewolf, demanded.

“Hey Daddy,” she
greeted with a raised eyebrow
.
“I skipped school and work, and went swimming.”

He started yelling at her in an unfamiliar language and she yelled back
much the same
.

It was
as if we were watching Lummi Tribe
soap operas without subtitles.
I hadn’t a clue what they were talking about
, however
I had an idea; her werewolf father was
narked
that she had spent the day with a vampire boy.

“Stop,” she yelled loudly.
“You are being rude. We are in their home, thus you will show respect by using your inside voice.”

He glared at her and his nostrils flared.

Jay Dee ignored him. “
Daddy, this is
Mr.
Tanis Ashton, and these are his cousins
:
Steffen and his wife
,
Abigail.
Tanis, this is my father, Chief
Reign Lightfoot.”

I stood. “Sir,” I
said with a nod and
offered
him
my hand but he growled at me, and Jay Dee growled back at him.

“We are leaving,” he
growled
through clenched teeth.

“Now that we look like white trash trailer park rejects who just performed a live taping of Jerry Springer in their living room, you think?”
she said, rolling
her eyes and I laughed, most of the vampires in the room did.
She turned to me.
“Tanis, thanks for listening to me bitch for hours toda
y, when no one else would.” She
glared at her
father when she said the latter
.
“I had fun, and I hope to see you around sometime.”

“Of course,
would you care for
a ride to school?” I offered with
smile
.

She smiled just as wide back. “I will see you bright and early in the
morning.”

Reign
grabbed her by the arm and
pulled her
towards the door.

Steffen and Abigail grabbed a hold of me when I went after him, to address his roughness with someone so delicate and beautiful, but they kept me from following them out the front door. Once it slammed behind them, and the loud growl of Reign’s truck was far in the distance, they let go of me.

“Thank you,” I mumbled under my breath.

They both nodded and looked at me curiously.

“That
was not the endi
ng to the day I was hoping for,” I admitted. “However,
the day went better
than I could have ever imagined,” I said, turning to them with a smile and they both laughed.

Next time no one will stop me.