Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (59 page)

Jarvis looked at me curiously. “What do you mean?”

“There is a
reason why our coven
is not
highly regarded in vampiric
society
.
Toran sided with the
werewolves during the accords
…he always sided with the werewolves, even when in th
e service of the vampire legion
,
thus tarnish
ing
his name and
stature
in vampiric society.
Prior to moving here, I had only met a dozen werewolves in me life
time…truth be told, I was terrified of them. Their raw strength and primal animalistic nature was terrifying.”

“Gee, thanks.”

“I assure you, Mr. Jarvis, that is not a bad thing. The werewolves I did meet
never
wronged
me
, though most were rather unpleasant fellows
.
However, being
around your sister, even
on that
first day, if she would have straight out said, ‘Tanis,
I am
a werewolf,’ I would have laughed at her and thought she was joshing
me
.
I
, honestly,
would not
have believed her, even if she had phased in front of me.
Though, I suppose
,
it
would not
have mattered
.
I loved her before I knew her, and possibly before she was even born.
The unrealistic idea of her, a woman who
is impossible to find and the
Gods
would never create in fear of starting a war between our three
worlds, I once held in me arms
and had the honor and privilege of calling her mine for a few hours.
Jay Dee is everything I
did not
know I wanted in a person,
but more importantly,
wanted in m
e
self.
And then I
went
and ruin it simply because I
cannot
keep from blurting out a large majority of the derogatory remarks I had heard m
y
entire life from others who were not of our coven.”

“That you did,” Jarvis dryly agreed.

“There is something about your sister’s presence
which
mak
es me blurt out everything that
i
s in me head, even when I obviously
should not
.”

He
softly knocked into me
.
“
Don’t take it personal
ly
, Jay
does that to everyone.
Some people are just more noticeably than others, perhaps because they’re used to keeping everything to themselves, like you.
If you hadn’t noticed, everyone says what’s
on their
mind
when
around her.
Jay someho
w turns off the mental filters
. Believe it or not, the annoying girl doesn’t
even realize
she’s doing it, and that’s what makes it so damn
endearing.
I love that about her and I hope it never changes, that’s why I haven’t told her that she does it.
Either way, keep your head up,
Dude, and I think
she
’ll eventually
come around.”

“Thanks.
When do you leave?”

“Friday.”

“
If I
may, allow
me take you to the airport
.
I need to run to
Sea-Tac
for something.”

“If you like, Miss Daisy.”

“Shut up,” I
groaned and
pushed him over.
“Come on,
Pup, let us get a spot of tea
.”

Jarvis laughed and flipped
from his back
to h
is feet, and four strides later
,
I was walking back towards his house with a large black wolf, which was, and it could have been my imagination but I don’t think it was, skipping through the brush, bouncing off of everything he could find.

Jarvis truly was a strange pup.

Jerk-f
ace had made
it e
xceptionally difficult
be mad at him.

However
,
I
had
to stand by my principles
. A
nd
if that
meant
I
would
be completely
miserable for the rest of my life,
and alone since I marked him
, so be it.

Truth was, I
honestly couldn’t
picture myself loving anyone but that annoying vampire.

What
was
really ironic about
the entire situation was
that
I had
heard what he said many times before, and worse.
But
hearing it from the man I love
d
, the
person I gave my everything to
—mind,
body,
soul,
trust
, mark
…
virginity
—made
it inexcusable.

Last night
,
I crawled into bed with Jarvis
. I didn’t want
him to leave
, and I kept
getting the feeling from him that he didn’t want to leave either, so we stayed up all night and
talked.
Every time he mentioned
the
sniveling vampire
I was purposely trying
not
to think about,
I
’d
punched him and changed the subject.

Needless to say, my brother
was
littered
with
bruises.

Never did I
imagine
that my brother, the one who
had
always been insanely protective of me, would approve of the guy who took my virginity, and then side with him
!

When did hell freeze over?

Jarvis and his best friend
,
Jerk
-f
ace
,
headed to Seattle to put
him
on his ungodly-long flight
to
Mosco
w. Aside from the poor company that took him to the airport, I felt bad for Jarvis because
there was
a lot of connecting flights
and
more tha
n eighteen hours of flying
ahead of him
.
First he
went
from Seattle to Spokane, Spokane to Salt Lake, Salt Lake to Chicago, then Chicago to London, which
was
cool as hell
because I had always wanted to see
London, then London to Moscow.
Surprisingly,
the
ticket wasn’t that expensive using online booking sites, but I couldn’t imagine being stuck in a cramped cabin with no room to breathe or stretch for that long.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t
afford first class,
and when
I tried to give
Jarvis
my savings
so he could
get
bump
ed
to first or business class
,
which would give him
more legroom, he declined and smacked me upside the head.

“
Are you okay, Mom?
” I asked
as I sat
the table, accidentally grabbing four plates when there
was
only three of us now.

She forced a smil
e.
“
I suppose.
It’s hard saying goodbye to your kids, even though he’ll be back in a few months.
I wish
I could call him every
night so I can
tuck him in over the phone.”
She sniveled and wiped the
moisture from her eyes.

I hugged her tight.
“You can.
That asshole who broke my heart bo
ught Jarvis a satellite phone
.”

“What’s that?” she asked.

I groaned; stupid Jerk-f
ace was the hero once more.

“It’s a
way for you to
call
Jarvis
regardless of where he’s at in the world, and since
the number
’
s local
it
won’t cost us long distance charges.
The number
’
s written by the phone.”

Mom
breathed a sigh of relief
and kissed my forehead.
“Thank god.
I was going to have to get a second job
just
to afford the phone bill.
I hate my little boy being so far away.
”

“Me too,” I agreed.

“
Tanis is a good man,
Sweetheart
.
You need get over this.”

I pushed her back at arm’s length.
“What?
Who are you
and
what have you done with my
mom?” I asked.

She rolled her eyes
.
“
Smartass
.
You know what I mean.
I don’t like the fact that he’s a vampire, I don’t like the fact that he hurt you,
I
don’t like the
fact that you had sex with him
-”

I choked
and quickly looked away from her.

“
And I really don’t like the fact that you marked him.”

Oh my god. She is going to kill me.

“Uh…I did?” I countered in the worst possible attempt at lying in the history of the world.

Mom laughed. “
Oh come on.
I’m more than a hundred years old, Jay Dee; I was born at night, but not last night.
The way you two would look at each other, and smile, and laugh, and the little things you’d do to touch; he brushed against you, you caressed the bac
k of his hand with your pinkie
…
it’s
stomach turning but
cute.
”

I groaned.

“
And
Jarvis told me you
had sex with him and
marked him,” she added and I stomped my feet—I was going to kill my brother. “Jay Dee, that’s
what love is
. It’s
an up and down roller coaster of
shit
that counters the non-
shit
.
If that makes sense,” she
said with a chuckle
.