The Forgotten Heiress novel Chapter 37

The finality in his words let Jessica know that that was all she was getting on the subject, and she was satisfied with it-for now. "Where is she?"

"Somewhere safe, it's not a good idea to bring her here."

"Why not?"

"To bring her here would be to bring trouble." He eyed her up and down. "And trust me I have plenty of that at the moment."

Jessica rolled her eyes. "What's the Council?"

Nick scrubbed his face with his hands. This was the part he'd been dreading. He motioned for her to take a seat while he tried to figure out the best way to explain things to her-and just how much to tell her.

"The Council's main responsibility is to keep the peace between packs. There are six Council members. Each member used to be an Enforcer before the Council was formed."

He explained to her that after the murder of their last ruler, the Council was created to keep war from breaking out between packs. Many Alphas wanted the power afforded to the ruler of all the packs in America and they would be willing to declare war to one another to achieve the ultimate status.

With the advancement of technology, it was feared that so many deaths could lead to the discovery of their people. So the most powerful packs made an agreement, their enforcers would enforce the law.

"We Alpha's can be very prideful." He told her wryly. "And we don't like taking orders from others."

"But isn't that what you used to do, you used to take orders from the last ruler?" Jessica cut in.

And this is going to be the tricky part, he thought.

"The Lykaon Alpha was the exception to the rule. He was the most powerful of our kind. Through his veins ran the blood of the first werewolf, the Arcadian King Lykaos. There were very few who could resist his power."

"Lykaon, as in the Greek myth?"

"So when do you think you will be ready to move out?" He asked her, trying to change the subject. Doubting that now was the time to dump such a large load on her lap. She'd taken everything in stride so far but he feared that any more heavy confessions and she might explode.

"Move out?" Her eyebrows came together in a frown and his words ping ponged through her brain not making any sense.

"You are my mate now, mates live together." The words were spoken slowly and he moved his hands around in circles as if personally turning the wheels in her brain. Helping her realize the obvious.

Her eyes widened with every word, and when it all finally sank in, she leapt off her bed and shouted, "What?!"

"As my mate and the female Alpha, your place is by my side."

Nick knew she was going to object, it wasn't in her nature to go without a fight and he had to admit that he enjoyed sparing with her. She challenged him in a way that no else could and he was looking forward to this next match. He was curious to know what kind of objection she would find.

"Actually about that..." She bit her bottom lip and it gave his lower body a jolt, he couldn't take his eyes off of her lips, he kept imagining them wrapped around him, until her words made it through the haze in his mind. "I was thinking we could keep all of this in name only. You know live separate lives? No one has to know-"