Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games novel Chapter 72

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Chapter 72

“So,” I finally said aloud, “I think that’ll be a good plan to start. You and the girls can get her training going and I’ll be by tonight. We’ll go for a run and head home.”

“But I don’t think we’ll be getting much sleep,“I told her slyly through the bond, remembering how it felt to have her beneath me. My wolf practically howled in delight

“Kyle,” mom scolded me, “you know you shouldn’t be around her. You can’t take her back to your

house. You need to keep your distance until it’s all sorted. It’s for the best.”

“Mom, you know I can’t do that.”

“He’s tried, even before the, uh, m–m–mating,” Kelsey stuttered, clearly nervous. “He’ll just spend the night in the woods and be completely miserable without sleep, and too grumpy to live with.”

“Hey!”

“What? It’s true. You’re horrible to be around without your beauty sleep.”

“Me? What about you? It was like waking the dead trying to get you up this morning.”

“Maybe, but I’m going to sleep regardless. And besides, once I’m up, I’m up. You mope around like a zombie for half the day, snapping at everyone, when you aren’t getting proper sleep.”

I opened my mouth to protest then shut it knowing she was right.

My mother actually laughed out loud.

“My my my, this is going to be quite fun to sit back and watch the two of you. I always expected my boy to take a meek mate. Someone caring and nurturing and catering who would stroke his ego. You, my dear, I never even saw coming, but how he needs someone capable and strong enough to dish it back at him and keep that big head of his grounded.”

After the plans were finalized, I dropped Kelsey off at the office. The story was that her car broke down and I was helping her get it repaired and would take much of the day to do it. It wasn’t any surprise to anyone. I loved tinkering with cars and had skipped work on more than one occasion to do just that for others. It would also explain why her car was currently at my house and why Elise was taking her home. I’d see to it that her car was back home before they got there.

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Chapter 72

In the meantime, I quickly changed and headed back to my parent’s house in preparation for the Pack Council meeting. A part of me was dreading the outcome of the meeting, but like my mom had said, what’s done was done and nothing they could do or say would make me less mated at this

point.

The Pack Council was comprised of seven men, including my dad. They were all older, except for Cole Anderson who was only a few years older than me. Ambrose, Saul, Mallick, Quinton, and Neil made up the remaining board members. No, they didn’t have last names. Until about two decades. ago when it became trendy and safer in the digital age, shifters rarely held last names outside of the pack name. As far as they were concerned, they were all Westins. But an entire town of Westins would look a little odd to the outside world. It never used to matter, but with credit cards, and electronic IRS forms and so on, it was determined necessary and most of my generation had begun choosing their own names for just such purposes. Sometimes it got a little weird, like one Miss Willow Flowers or Christine Canine. That one had nearly started a riot, but she’d batted her long dark lashes and flashed her perfect pearly white smile and the board had dropped it. It was hard to say no to Christine Canine when she set her mind to something. But whatever.

When I walked into the room, all eyes turned to me. I watched Saul take a deep breath and shake his head in disappointment.

“She better be worth it, Kyle.”

I couldn’t erase the grin on my face if I’d tried. “Oh, she is.”

Cole chuckled. “You see the tattoo I gave her?”

A growl slipped out as I tried to control my jealousy that this wolf had touched my mate and marked her, even if it was with my picture.

“I take that as a yes. Tried to talk her into making it black, but she said she wouldn’t have it any other