Page 32 of Big Bad Wolf: B.B.W
“I feel like that could be arranged. What do you think, Farad?”He waited for his response before he continued.“We would need to meet them prior to making that decision. You understand that, right?”
As the chief, he made the final decisions when it came to joining the tribe and pack. Based on what I’d observed about his leadership, he never decided about pack business without consulting Farad, which was more of a courtesy. When I asked him about his leadership style, he said that there was a pack leader, and it wasn’t him, although he was the overseer of the pack. I respected that as a leader myself in my organization.
“I told them that you would want to meet them. I also told them if it was agreed that they could join,a ceremony would have to happen,”I let them know.“My baby really wants this, and I want this for her. The plan I have is to bring them back at the end of the week. Shit, hopefully, I can get Ma Mary to draw up a landscaping plan. She’s a landscape architect and has a horticulture gift.”
“Damn, they have all the good gifts. Here I am with no fuckin’ gift but a big dick for my wife,”Sebastian said with a sigh. He did too much sometimes.
“Yeah, this conversation is over,”I declared.“I’m going to let them know the plan. If they do move, is there an open house that they could possibly rent or purchase? I’ll be the one paying for it.”
Thaddeus nodded with a smirk.“This must have been orchestrated by the gods. MJ called me yesterday to let me know that the tenants in his house were moving out of state. He wanted to know if I had anyone who wanted to rent or purchase. That would be perfect since it’s basically next door to your house.”
He was right. It seemed like all the stars were aligned.
“Damn, that is perfect. Although, I would probably move me and Elodie in that house and let her parents have the big one.”
We spoke for a few more minutes to solidify the plans. I was excited about the possibilities of the Summervilles joining the pack and their move to North Carolina. It felt like a chance for them all to work on their relationship. They would be close when it was time for Elodie and I to have our wedding, and because they would be members of the tribe, they’d be able to attend the mating ceremony. They’d be there to see their grandchildren born. I planned to have a baby in Elodie soon after our first anniversary. She didn’t know that yet though.
“Alright, let me get back out here. Ma Mary cooked a good ass breakfast,and I’m trying to get another plate.”
That would be another advantage of Ma Mary and Pops’s move. I’d have access to her cooking all the time. My baby could cook too, but I think she held back since I wasn’t her husband yet. Once during one of our pillow talk sessions, she said the problem with some women was that they often gave husband treatment to their boyfriends.
I used the bathroom before I headed downstairs. Just as I reached the living room, the doorbell rang.
“I got it.” When I got to the door, I unlocked it, then pulled it open. “I know you’re fucking lying!”
Back to the Present . . .
Dyami was the type of bitch that had big nuts but a little dick. He talked a good game but could never fuck with a real one. I tried to warn this man about his offensive behavior, but he allowed his hegemonic attitude to get him fucked up. There would never be impunity for a person who fucked with my mate.
I hated it when I had to show this side of me. When my mother was alive, any time I got out of pocket, she would claim that it was the Florida boy in me. I never agreed until I was older. I spent a lot of summers and holidays there. Some of my cousins were straight menaces with no regard for anyone’s life if they weren’t connected to them. My father taught me how to be a man and centaur, but my cousins taught me how to be strategically unhinged.
I helped get Pops on the porch of his house with Ma Mary and my baby. I made sure they were alright.
“Stay here, Elodie.”
Her right nostril enlarged when the corner of her lip turned up.
“Why do you have to tell me to stay anywhere? I didn’t even do anything, Orion.”
“You’re hardheaded. I told your ass to go in the house, didn’t I?” I was proud of her for fighting, but in the same breath, I didn’t like the thought of my mate fighting.
Her eyes widened, and her mouth dropped open. When her head snapped in her father’s direction, he lifted his hand in surrender.
“Don’t look at me. You’re out of my hands now. You have a mate.”
Damn right.
I scooped the back of her neck to pull her lips to mine. We kissed deeply. Before I removed my lips from hers, I mumbled, “I love you, hardheaded girl.”
I walked into the house to put on a pair of sweatpants, sneakers, and grab my gun. There was no need to shift again when a bullet worked faster. I chose to forego the shirt because I was hot as hell. When I got back outside, I went straight to the tree where Dyami was being nursed by the two females that needed to be nursed their damn selves. Elodie’s mind threw that girl like a damn football. Her body literally spiraled. I pulled my hammer back.
“Give me a reason why I shouldn’t pop you and your lil harem. I tried to give you a pass yesterday. I see you wanted to find out, so you fucked around.” My words were filled with venom.
One of the girls raised her hand. I wasn’t sure whether she was the one that Pops said thought she would be his mate. When they arrived here on their bullshit, they were in their wolf forms.
“Please, we will leave.”
Dyami just stared at me. Before I said anything, two cars pulled up.
