“You are awfully bold for an alpha with a mate,” Lissa says. The words are right and pretty much align with what I was thinking, but instead of sounding reproachful, her tone is playful.
“You know, Lissa,” he mutters. “Things are… complicated.”
“How so?” I ask, almost on autopilot. How can it be complicated? The man has a fucking mate!
Jordan doesn’t even look at me and just keeps smiling at Lissa. “You know my situation, don’t you?”
“I know,” she sighs sadly.
“Did something happen?” I ask, just to get ignored again.
That fucker! He is doing it on purpose; that much is obvious, but what is his problem? Why have Lissa drag me along when he doesn’t even want to talk to me?
To humiliate me.
It’s to humiliate me.
“She is cheating on you, isn’t she?” Lissa says quietly.
“I loved her so much, but I can’t believe she would betray me like that,” he sighs. “I mean, we are only chosen mates, but it should mean something, shouldn’t it?”
“You marked her,” Lissa says. “Of course it means something.”
I had no idea Jordan’s luna wasn’t his fated mate. No one ever said that she wasn’t. I thought with a pack as big as his and a name as popular as his, this type of news would have certainly traveled.
“Man, Jordan, is that true?” Two other alphas approach us. “I am so sorry, man.”
Jordan tells them about how he felt betrayal pains and found out she was screwing one of his elite warriors.
“You should kill her,” one of the men mutters.
“Or bring her to one of our meetings. We’d have fun with her,” the other says.
“Maybe I’ll do that,” Jordan grins.
Lissa giggles, hitting me completely out of the blue with her reaction. They are just talking about how they want to assault, or evenkill,this douchebag’s luna, and she is giggling? What’s wrong with her? I guess she just wants to kiss up to Jordan to make any future deals easier for us, but still… Something in my stomach churns. So even if his luna cheated on him… how come they think it’s within their rights to rape her? Fucking lunatics! “Why don’t you separate from her?” I ask the obvious.
I know it’s hard to separate from a mate—fated or not—but in case they are truly only chosen mates, then it should be doable. I do know that separating from a fated mate needs to have a proper trial beforehand. It’s very much illegal otherwise.
Again, Jordan ignores me, while the other alphas grin. Yeah, there is no doubt he wants to degrade me as much as possible.
The whole group ignores me, and one of the guys turns to look at Jordan. “I have never seen your luna, Jordan. Does she really care so little?”
“Yeah,” he says. “She likes to stay in her chambers. She doesn’t even interact with anyone from the pack.”
If she doesn’t interact with anyone from the pack, how did she hook up with a random warrior? Something about this whole story doesn’t add up for me, mostly though, because Tristan told me only an hour ago that Jordan has been seen with another woman. The other woman, apparently Lissa, but maybe it was someone else. I doubt Lissa would sleep with a mated wolf. She has morals after all, even though it’s difficult to believe in her when she plays along, as she does now.
She wouldn’t need to do it if I had more of a presence and a backbone.
While Jordan continues his talk with his peers and Lissa, I stand around awkwardly. Didn’t he want to talk business? Wasn’t that why Lissa dragged me here? I want to, for once, show some guts and ask him about it directly, but something holds me back. Part of it is probably due to my anxiety, but it’s not only that.
I justreallydon’t like that guy.
By the end of the evening, the only deals I’d struck were with Tristan, in terms oflet’s get together and talk business. He leads a small pack, but he is loyal, and I kind of want to stay in contact with him.
As for Jordan, it seems like Lissa was much more successful. Actually, she was successful with two of his friends as well.
“Alpha Jordan wants to meet in private,” she tells me while we climb into the car that will take us home. Martin was already waiting for us. I didn’t see much of him during the evening, but at times I spotted him lingering in the shadows, so I guess he kept an eye on Lissa and me.
