Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (40 page)

We couldn’t find a classic car that spoke to me, so
since I am European,
I decided that Jay Dee will
drive
a European import, even if it’s
German.

The beautiful metallic red BMW M6 Coupe
was beautiful and when I saw it, I could picture
Jay Dee
stretched out across the hood in a barely there bikini, licking her lips, beckoning me to caresses the luscious, velvety, ro
se-tinted pillows with mine...

T
he woman was kicking me arse without even knowing it.

Luck
y
for me, not so lucky for the owner of the dealership who had ordered it specificall
y for himself, we came across it just as it was unloaded off of a trailer early enough in the day that we could still get lunch before heading back to Lummi before Jay Dee and the others returned.
Jarvis was most impressed with the s
ignificantly reduced price tag, but it was like I told him;
you never pay retail when you
have
thrall
at your disposal
.

Regardless of finding the perfect present,
Jay Dee
was
going to hit me, this I
knew without a doubt
, and Jarvis
advised that I
duck.
The young had
honestly
bewitched me—mind, body and soul—
and she was
so damn difficult in all of the ways that
I wasn’t
used to
women being difficult in
.
Usually
women
want
ed
lavish gifts, expensive dinners, jewelry, everything and anything money can and can’t buy.

However, none of that appealed
to Jay Dee.

Jay Dee only
wanted
for others
and the most simplistic things
which
she
could
afford
herself
, otherwise she
didn’t
want them.
Her humility and non-materialistic nature
were
very attractive traits, but
they
drove
me
completely insane
.
However, nutter or not, and as irritating as it
was
, Jay Dee
was
more than worth it.

My mobil
e rang; it was Romeo
.

“Yes?”
I asked.

“Hey T,” he
started then laughed; that was never a good sign
.
“How’s it going? C
an we head back yet?”

“Yes,
we are
in line for the ferry.
How did it go?”

Again,
he laughed.
“Well, I got to lace her up in a corset.”

I snarled and he laughed again.

“Trust me,
Cousin
, she is
kind of
hot and all,
and her tits are amazing and wood inducing,
but whoa.
That girl h
as absolutely no idea what she’
s working with or how to work it.
She didn
’t know how to put a corset on,
she didn’t want to put it on, but Abby made her try some stuff on.”

Knickers, sexy knickers that
are not cotton and
sold in packages of ten at a discount store, very nice.

“What did she get?”
I asked.

“Have I told you what a pain in the ass she is?”
he mumbled.

“She
did not
buy anything, did she?” I
surmised and groaned; stubborn woman
.

“No, not exactly...w
ell, she got something to wear tonight.
But
she bought it herself.
The stubborn girl refused to use your platinum card, and then after she
turned many shades of red, from
the whole lingerie store incident, she disappeared.”

Note
to self; never send a six hundred year old vampire with a shopping addiction with my platinum card and Romeo to babysit again
.

“You found her?”
I surmised.

“Playing video games in the arcade, surrounded by preteen boys
with hard
-
ons
watching her kick ass in some fighting game.
She’s a strange one.”

Jarvis
warned
that would happen.
Shopping wa
sn’t Jay Dee’s thing
in the least
.

“Where are you now?”
I asked, annoyed that it wasn’t exactly going according to plan, and yet at the same time it
was as expected
.

“Seattle.
Jay’
s stretched out in the backseat sleeping, and Abby disappeared in a shoe store with your credit card.
I’m guessing w
e’ll be here for another couple of hours.”

In all fairness, Abigail did warn me that she wouldn’t be coming home empty handed.
I just wish
ed that
Jay Dee
would have
bought some clothes.

Damn overly difficult bird
.

“What did
Miss
Jay Dee get?”
I asked, running my hand through my hair in frustration.

“I’m not telling,”
Romeo
teased
.
“You’ll have to wait and see.
Can I ask you something?”
he asked, turning serious.

“Can I stop you?” I groaned.

“Point for you,” he conceded.
“Where do you see this relationship going?
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see you happy and I’m over the whole ‘she turned me down’ thing, but seriously,
Cousin
, where do you see it going?
You’ve known her for like what, five days?
And you just bought her a car, you’ve told her nearly all of our secrets, and…well I don’t know what else, but it isn’t
normal
.”

Regardless of what Romeo
said, he was
still
narked
that I got the
girl and he didn’t
.
However
,
his curiosity
was
well founded; I
hadn’t
been with anyone for more than a quick shag in nearly two centuries.
That was
mainly because of my brother,
but at the same time,
I
hadn’t
met anyone who I was interested in.
Why did that
suddenly
change when Jay Dee walked into class on Monday?

“Honestly, Romeo, I
do not know,” I admitted. “
A car was much, much cheaper than jewelry, but obviously not cheaper than a shopping spree.
I have
bought
you
cars before,” I reminded him.
“And most of the time I
cannot
stand you.
I only keep you around because you usual
ly amuse me with your stupidity
,
and we are
a coven
, a family.
”

“
T, you know
love me and want to be like me.
At least you used to, until
you started getting laid again,” he said with a chuckle.

I snarled.
“It
is not
li
ke that, and you will remember to
maintain
a level of propriety while in the presence of the daughter of the alphas of the pack which we are stuck in the middle of.
Tell
Abby
to hurry her a
rse up
in order to
avoid traffic, so we may change before the party.”

I hung up the mobile without a goodbye.

I wasn’t
entirely
narked
at him;
I was
more upset with myself.
What
was
I doing?
I met
had
Jay Dee on a Monday and by that Friday I had
bought her a car.
I sent her shopping with my credit card and two vampires, one who
could barely keep it in
his pants
only half of the time
and who got to lace h
er up in a corset—lucky bastard. I had told her nearly all of our secrets
, most of which would have gotten me in a barney if anyone on the council
had found
out,
but more importantly, told her nearly everything about me...even my siblings and wife didn’t know the real me.

There was no way that it would end well, it was damn near impossible for it to end on a positive note.
Even if Jay Dee eventually love
d
me, and I love
d her, she wa
sn’
t meant for the life of shadows
and the inconspicuous lifestyle
which
vampires must live.
She
was
a glowing star in a world of darkness
who
deserve
d
to shine.
That’s
how she
was
to me; a white haired angel who
got
me on levels that I
didn’t
even get myself.

Would she be
narked
if I bit her?

I shook my head to clear the thought. I could never do that, e
specially not to her.
Jay Dee deserved
to grow up, grow old, and have a long happy life with children and grandchildren, and eventually, death.

Then again, what
would
a short-term relationship hurt?
We
could
mutually go our separate ways once she goes off to school, or whatever she
decides
to do after high school.
That could
possibly work...or not.
Either way,
I am more than willing to find out. Perhaps
we should talk about
that
.
Not today though, today is her birthday.
I will
wait until she
is not narked
about the car and gifts before I talk to her about something that will put an expi
ration date to whatever this is going on between us
.

Yes, that will work.
Let her kick
me
arse for the car first, and
we will
talk about
whatever we
have and where it is going
later.
According to Romeo it is
always better to put off today what
you could
do tomorrow, or next month, or in a couple of years.

Eve
n I didn’t believe my own lies
.

I knew that it wasn’t going to end well for either of us, that I was certain.