Wolf Bait (Perry and Jonas)

If self-destruction were a job, I'd be the CEO of that entire industry. I can't even look up at the King even after those amazing four hours of whatever the f****k that was in my study. I will never be able to sit on those pillows again and not think about what happened. Now, I have to confess something I swore to secrecy long before I knew the kind of person I wanted to be. Long before I understood what it meant. "Were you compelled not to say anything?" he asks as I try to piece everything in my head together.

"No, I spin around in my chair. I guess just coming right out with it is the only way to go. "I took an oath when I was thirteen. I was addicted to smoking a strain of wolfsbane that kept me awake without any insomniac side effects," "Lilac's Bane," he says pausing his pacing.

Of course, he's familiar with it. It was his Lycans who gave it to wolves to keep them complacent before there was an Alpha King. Back when the two superior races were Vampires and Lycans.

"Yes. It's how I jumped rank and studied. How I got so much done on top of my training. Because it is wolfshane and we're constantly treated with other forms of it. It doesn't show up on drug tests,"

"I am very familiar with it, Perry," he sighs.

"Right. Remember when I told you Darren and I would get high and browse the dark web? About the puzzle?"

Tes.

"He didn't want to access the servers we unlocked with the puzzle. At the time, we didn't know we were mates. He just wasn't interested in what our tech could open up for us. The puzzle comes with a warning and he told me not to play with it anymore. I didn't listen and I got in. I got into many things someone like me shouldn't have. Especially at that age. The more I unlocked, the deeper I fell into this hole.

Then a couple of weeks after unlocking the puzzle and solving some cool coding maps, a woman showed up at the academy. She gave me money, she gave me these special computer components to build a new PC, and she tagged me," I show him the tiny mark on my ankle. "I am code io-0004. The Terabyte. I have a particular set of hacking skills that are bound to six others. The seven of us together can take down entire systems like the one I'm building for you with ease," "You're a cyber-terrorist?"

"I took an oath to the Falcon. To be part of his pack and his family and also remain part of societal norms. When Darren found out, he took the oath to protect me. I made a deal with Falcon. The deal was that if I let Darren into the KNAVE, he would never be harmed. Should something happen to him, my contract with the KNAVE would become void. That is what it is now, I still have access to all of it, but I no longer belong to the old man the way the others do.

"I never brought it up before because I have nothing else going for me. The old man made me who I am. He granted me the life that I'd willingly throw away now. He has your brother. This man isn't like you or any other king. He doesn't want power or money. He has it. He is dangerous and not a lot of people know what he looks like. Even without the oath, it's not easy to say no to him. He could destroy me. He'd force me back. Bite me. Turn me into what he is and then I'd never be able to die. He wouldn't allow it," "You sound genuinely terrified, Perry. I can feel it," he leans over the desk and stops me from spinning. "How do I help you?"

"You don't. I don't need help with this. It's not a prominent thing anymore. It's an alliance. That's how it works. You get what. you want our of the oath and once it's broken, you're free. But, should either party need assistance. We are required to answer the call. I need him to get your brother under control and he needs Silas's DNA,"

"What would he need Silas's DNA for he asks. I lick my lips and sigh.Belonging to NôvelDrama.Org.

"Since I've been part of this. I've heard rumors from the other codes. He's looking for Wraith King potentials" Chapter 69

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"What does that mean, potentials?"

"Wraiths are hidden away, right? No one knows who they are. I could be one and you wouldn't be able to tell. You'd think I was a wolf or a Lycan. A hybrid like the alpha of Nova. That's how they blend in with everyone else. And they have bred outside of their species. There are bloodlines linked to theirs. Silas might be one of them,"

"He wants to see if he can breed him with a pure Wraith bloodline to create a King for their race?"

"Most likely," I nod. That's probably the biggest reason why he's here,"

"What other reason would he have?"

"Your pack census,"

"What would he need that for?"

Red W

"For the same reason he has the census to Red Wood To overthrow the alpha and establish a hierarchy he can control,"

"What?" he straightens up without taking his eyes off me.

Your brother probably made a deal with him to give him your kingdom in exchange for your head. What he didn't expect was for you to get access to someone like me. I've been doing this since I was a kid. It was easy to counter him because your brother is an amateur. But he had great headway. The Falcon probably saw potential in him until he ran into me and Nate," "How do I know he didn't set this up?" he asks pointing between us

didn't think it would bother me as much as it does. I mean he's not wrong. Nothing is stopping him from thinking that. But to hear him say it out loud hurt my feelings and I find myself wanting to throw something at him, wanting to ask what I've done to deserve him not trusting me. He's the one who has been unworthy of my trust this whole time.

"I would have taken all of it by now. The day you gave me access to your very outdated system. It would have been a couple of clicks away from being irradicated. I wouldn't have let you in the way I did. I know you see my dreams. I know you like digging around my head. If I wanted to hurt you, you'd know it