Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (36 page)

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Jay Dee was quiet as her
feet
tapped out
a slow rhythm
to match the one
I
was
slowly
rocking
the swing back and forth
to
.
“What a bitch,”
 
she finally said.
“Seriously, I would have kicked her ass up one coast and down the other.
I don’t understand how people can deliberately hurt someone like that.
I mean, when you marry someone, you are bound by that vow, immortal or not.
Hell, my parents have been toge
ther for more than eighty years!
Completely ridiculous,” she
said with a snort

Needless to say, that was not the reaction I was expecting, and as usual, the strange young woman had me in awe.

“Why’d you try to kill him
most recently?” she asked.

“No reason other
than the usual reasons, Duckie,” I whispered, truly at a loss for words.

We sat quietly for a while; the only sound was the creaking of the porch
swing
and the rustling leaves from the slight
breeze
blowing in from the west
.

It was nearly the
perfect moment.

“Do you still love her?” Jay Dee whispered.

“Who?”
I asked; yes, it wa
s a daft question and a horrible stall tactic.

“Your wife,” she
clarified and
rolled her eyes.

“I will
always love her as a friend,” I admitted. “However,
the love that went beyond
friendship
was lost long ago. I think it died when she embraced the dark gift.
Who she
once was
...
Sam
was
completely lost
to me, thus there was no one left
to love.
You have to rem
ember, Duckie, I was very young,
and times were
very
different back then.
Samantha, the Sam who was me best friend, she had no connections, no family, no money,
no livelihood...
nothing.
When her fami
ly perished, she was...the only options for young women without means and support were to turn into mistresses and whores
.

Her eyes widened.

“So you see, o
n one level, I was helping me best friend and first love, and on another, it was a very
young, quick, and questionably non-
existent
courting.”

 

Interesting,” Jay Dee mumbled, watching the
,
once again
,
spinning flower. “
What does she look like?” she asked.

“Sam is short
with dark brown hair, gray eyes, very dainty wit
h no curves and hardly any breasts...
the polar opposite of you.”
I laughed; it was rather amusing w
hen I
finally thought about it
.
Sam wa
s nearly a foot shorter than Jay Dee, and her opposite in every way.
“Why do you inquire
?”

Jay Dee
simply shook her head
as
she slowly plucked each petal of
f of flower between her fingers, watching what she was doing studiously
.
“Tanis,
why
are you here with me?
I’
m not what you find attractive.
I guar
antee that
all the girls you’ve been with, or have been interested
in,
will all be tiny brunettes.
Are you just preoccupying yourself with the strange wolf girl because everyone else treats you
like a leper, and she should as well
, but she is obviously too stupid to know
so
?
Let’s not forget this blonde also antagonized your homicidal asshole brother, regardless of oath, and I’m sure he’s going to go out of his way to get back at me.
..most likely through you since you weren’t included in that stupid oath he made.
Honestly, Tanis, why bother?”

Wolf girl?
She’s
obviously
been around too many
bloody werewolves...
she
even
talks like them half of the time.

“Duckie, you are correct,” I agreed.

She sighed and p
out
ed her bottom lip out.

I
t made me laugh.

“If you will so kind as to allow
me
to
fini
sh,” I said, trying to clear the amusement from my voice.
“You are spot on
when it pertains to me past,
however, Duckie, you are
me present, at least
I would
like you to be.
Honestly, Duckie, you are by far the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and the fact that you physically go against
what I thought was attractive makes
me
laugh
.
In getting to know you these past few days,
I have
discovered that the person you are on the inside is a thousand times more beautiful than the person on the outside
, and never did I image that it was possible to find that in a woman
.
Am I using to you
pre
occupy myself with, to distract me from this shitehole small
village
life?
I may have been initially,
however,
everything
is open to change, and that is exactly what happened
.
Change is one of the many
joys of being who we are; change is a constant and
it truly can be a wonderful thing, as you have shown me without even trying.

“If Sam knocked on
my
door tomorrow and pleaded for me to take her back, and vowed to devote her life to me
and our marriage
, would I take her back?
No.
Would I even
contemplate
it?
No.
She is
my
past, a long, nearly forgotten memory
of many lifetimes ago
.

I was sensing that she didn’t believe me in the least.

“Duckie, w
hat is it that I can do to get you to believe me?
I just had dinner with werewolves and
did not
think twice about it.
If that
does not
show intent, I
do not
know what
would
.
..come to think of it, I do not recall ever having to meet someone’s parents before. That is rather interesting, and yet
that omission should work in m
e
favor,” I said and cocked an eyebrow and caressed my thumb across her pouting bottom lip and she softly kissed it. “Angelic pillows of rose-tinted velvet that beckon to me in the darkness,” I whispered. “You so easily distract me, Duckie. You truly have bewitched me, mind, body
,
and soul. What is it we were talking about?” I asked since I allowed myself to be distracted by her beautiful lips.

She
smiled.
“Nothing.
I’m just being a stupid girl.”


Duckie, you are the
farthest
thing from daft. Please
tell me what
you are
thinking about.”

“When I was thirteen,” she
whispered and closed
her eyes, “I went to my first boy-girl party at Marsha Heder’s house.
It was the fir
st and last time I wore a dress,” she mumbled the latter. “
They played
Seven in Heaven. Y’know,
that dumb kissing game where they lock
you in the closet with someone
and you’re supposed to make out
for seven minutes.
Anyway, when my turn came, they locked me in the closet with
Marsha’s
golden retriever.
She said
he
was the only male who would
ever
kiss a disgusting freak like me, and since he licks his own ass, he obviously
didn’t
have taste.
I ran home in the rain crying.
After that I gave up on the whole endeavor of boys.
Obviously her words
had
merit because no one bothered or wanted me before or after that.
So you will have to excuse me
for having some doubts and self
-
esteem issues.”

Simply give me the word, me love, and atonement you shall have.

“Does
this
Marsha Heder
still
live in the area?”
I asked through clenched teeth.

“Why
?
” she
asked
,
and
opened an eye
to look at me.
“Did you plan on killing her?”
she
said
ominously.

“The thought crossed me mind,” I told her honestly.

Jay Dee softly snorted.
“Don’t worry about it.
She got what was coming to her.
Karma is a bitch,” she
purred
.
“She weighs like three-fifty
and is only five-two on a good day.
She got knocked up her freshman year
and dropped out of high school,
doesn’t know who the fathers of any of her
four
kids are, so why lower yourself to her level?
I’m over it.
In the end, I got the better end of the deal.”

She may b
e over what had happened to her, however I am
not.

Homicidal thoughts aside, wh
at they did to her was horrible, and as
usual,
Jay Dee didn’t hold any ill-will because of it.


Duckie, I have never played Seven in Heaven
before, however
,
if
you would care
to play now,
it would be an honor and privilege to hold you in me arms and caress your lips with mine
.”

She chuckled. “Thanks but that isn’t necessary.
I think we played
many
hours in
Heaven
last night
,
and it was much better than I could have
dreamt of
.”

“Silly bird,” I whispered and leaned down and caressed her lips with mine.
 

 

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