The Seduction of Jac Frost (by Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 45

Stormy Behavior Part I

“On that happy note,” Jacqueline rolled her eyes, “I’m hungry.

I’m going to Rooster’s to get dinner.”

“We were supposed to have dinner at the lodge with your family.” Wilder said. “It will help us see better what Jacinta is doing and how she manipulates them.”

“Or” she pursed her lips dramatically, “you can go have dinner with them and I will actually go have a meal which won’t cause indigestion from the company. You can even get the drinks with her you promised.”

“We didn’t promise her drinks. We were politely putting her off, so she doesn’t get suspicious that we are suspicious.”

Jacqueline lifted a stack of books and smiled at Bar, “I’ll take these.”

“Good choices.”

Wilder pulled the top one off, “you are not getting a book about a woman being reamed by a bear shifter.”

“You

don’t get to censor my reading material,” she pulled thes

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book back and defiantly put it on the stack. “If I want to read a book about a frozen fae who gets reamed by a human,

a fae and bear shifter and then makes her way through an

entire town, you will be grateful all I’m doing is reading.”

“What human?” Wilder growled angrily.

“She’s referring to Wraith because she knows you warned him to not flirt with her.” Rafferty sighed loudly, “he can’t try to get into your bed, Jacqueline. You are our mate.”

“Mate? What’s a mate? Not anything I can feel,” she mocked him as she glided purposefully to the counter where Bar was putting a paper bag ready to take her collection of books. “It’s entirely possible I never feel it if I can’t open my heart up. I feel I need a lot of practice opening up.”

“You could start with your knees,” Bar said with a twist of his lips causing her to giggle and the twins to growl angrily.

“We will not tolerate this disrespect, Bar.”

“What are you going to do?” Bar laughed at them. “You are in my lair, Vaughn princes. Literally in the den of the beast you are threatening. Do you really think you have any power here?”

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“Do not underestimate the power of our bond and the

strength behind it. While she might not feel it, we do and we

will not tolerate you trying to destroy our relationship with

our mate any more than you would have done so with your

own mate. It has been a long time since you felt the bond

but perhaps you need to search your memories to recall the depths a mate will go to protect what is his.”

Bar chuckled, “I don’t need to try to mess with your bond,

boys. You’ve done a bang–up job of that on your own by

overwhelming her, not trusting her, flirting with the enemy, and treating her like she’s stupid.”

“We do not treat her like she’s stupid.”

“No? Do you feel a valuable part of the team with your mates

when they engage in shit without including you or making you part of the plan?”

“Not particularly.” She felt the warmth of Bar’s protection.

“Thirty minutes in her presence and I will tell you both, if you fuck it up, I’m going to swoop in and dry her tears. I’ve been alone a very long time. I’m not the kind who looks a gift horse

in the mouth. We don’t get many magical beings in this neck

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of the woods.” He put her books in the bag and held it out to her, “on the house. You come back and visit me anytime you like. Whether for friendship or anything else.”

“You are deliberately baiting us.”

“I am telling you outright that you better cherish your mate or there are others who will. You have no plans or ideas on how to keep her safe and feeling secure in your bond. Figure it out before her own family drives a wedge bigger than your ignorance does.” He rounded the counter and with his back to the twins opened his arms and hugged Jacqueline tight.

“You come back.”

“I will,” she hugged him back, rolling her eyes at the way the two men were throwing Bar backwards away from her. “Good grief.”

Bar winked at her, “a little jealousy to get their engines running.”

When the twins each grabbed one of her arms to haul her out of the bookstore like a truant child she angrily shook them off and pushed them furiously. “Who the fuck do you two think you are? You let that bitch hug you and link her arms through yours strolling into the lodge like you were her 4/6

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personal escorts and I make a new friend and I can’t hug

him?”

“She’s not trying to get in our bed!” Wilder yelled.

“Are you sure about that, stud? Because she certainly wasn’t

behaving like someone who has mates of her own!” She

blinked incredulously, “oh my god, what if this is what it is?

What if all her shit is because she wants you two?”

“What? Impossible. We would not have known you were our mate until at least your twenty–first year.”

“She is jealous of me and has been since I was in the womb. It’s not a stretch to think she’s not going to try to take my

mates too. I mean why not? She stole the rest of my life,

what’s this part too?”

“Jacqueline,” Wilder frowned with concern at her words. “We would never betray you in such a way!”

“I don’t know who to trust anymore but I will say this.” She

looked both men straight in the face, her chin lifting despite how it wobbled with the emotions she was trying to control,

“that man in there made me feel safer and more seen in

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intuitively knew I needed someone on my side while you two have done nothing but act on your own wants and needs.”