When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 109

Chapter 109

Demetra Pride Covenant.

Contd

55 vouchers

I blink again, now completely embarrassed by what I boldly did. My face is burning. My ears are burning. Even my neck is burning. If someone lit a match near me, I’d probably go up in flames.

I absolutely do not look at Emris.

‘It doesn’t matter what either of you have going on.”

‘Derisha-”

‘Isn’t two days from now going to be Pack–o–ween?” Silver says, simply walking into the living room and cutting off Emris From whatever he was about to say. I’m guessing it was something rude, because he called her by her name instead of “Mom.”

Lycar’s Eve.

‘Yes, it is.” Emris says, eyes still on me like he’s waiting for an answer. Regarding what I drew of him.

‘Oh wow, it’s gonna be lit. We can have a theme-”

I don’t wait to hear the rest of what Silver has to say.

I walk off quickly. Sabrina texted me to go out tonight and every single cell in my body said yes before I’d even finished reading the message.

I need one evening where nobody is looking at me like I’m either a Luna or a monster or both simultaneously.

Lycan’s Eve and bonding ceremonies and toy car investigations can all wait until another time.

Tonight, I am going out.

Alpha Emris.

The end. I close the book softly and look down at the little girl I’ve been reading to.

She’s fast asleep already, both small arms wrapped around a stuffed bear that she’s pressing against her cheek

She’d refused the bedtime story at first. Sat with her arms crossed and her chin pointed at the ceiling but I sat at the edge of her bed and started reading anyway, and somewhere between the second and third page she’d stopped pretending not to

listen

Persistence. Apparently, it works on five–year–olds.

I stand carefully so the mattress doesn’t shift and tuck the book back into its slot on the bookshelf right between The little Wolf Who Found His Howl and Moon Princess when I hear the door open behind me

It’s Demetra.

“She’s asleep.” I whisper, putting my fingers over my lips to shush her in case she was about to make noise. The room is dark except for the little nightlight shaped like a crescent moon as Amma’s chest rises and talls beneath the pink blanket

1/4

thego and then folum berting bura at

song for more woont integring i snd unga

the who and where the hallway where mosterd and I stand these for exactly two veronds to my

conform is my sex derby wyned

I know I germ out under the last finery mast

I fell her sad and dust the box

Righa’s Cerne karming 11 just

Thur: what (40

to hours soos guantly bars out in the hallway anymore so I make my way so the

out and muter a graver at hare part of the room

color with home when she’s coming out in a red gamery art and a tube top like a girl sneaking out to a wag few ye

Why this is down the job as terms of wructural responsibility.

y the hut her saggies per nghe thuah so I can see them, and anyone else can too.

We are set high without a bra

The hote

nd that on

the ined to put

thing up the whole world would get a shot of her panties. The hem hats mad–thigh at eu ante feu carburs the light every time the moves. That glows on her lips makes them look wet. Kissable

beste ku da farking 1LNA and is supposed to be wearing those ugly but expensive–looking gowns?

Why wolf on the way to look at her and think bonded, mother of two pack Luna. They’re going to think wake MA Netwoke the move

pes in the KITI

Wat my Camera way were wappened to be on pack rotation have quietly evaporated into the city because they think I

Vee the raty is parked due to the front coming for Park oween Every bar every chub every altres comes in By the food will waves at a dry mile radius looking for trouble Looking for fun Looking for someone exactly like

ep that fuck wolves are everywhere tonight. And they draw to her like ties to Toticy

Model is way the king my watch in a sarcastic way I know should get under her skat

beers were arly to walk past the She virps to the leb Farepe to the left she steps to the right step in the right

5:19 pm PPPP.

Chapter 109

55 vouchers

“Do you mind? Her eyes go sharp immediately. “Do you have something to say to me?”

“Hurry up and act like you want to pick something up off the floor.”

“What?”

“Your skirt, Demetra. Bend down and reach for something and every single person in that building is going to see your underwear. I’m giving you a practical demonstration of the problem.”

‘Oh please. You are not my father, Emris.”

‘No. I’m your husband. And if I called Ronin right now, I genuinely don’t think he’d be thrilled about this outfit either.”

‘Husband.” She says the word back to me like it tastes strange. “I thought I made it clear that between us, this is a marriage of convenience. That’s the arrangement.”

I never agreed to that.”

I don’t care what you agreed to.” She folds her arms, and there’s a laugh underneath the words that isn’t amused. “You can un whatever you wanna run in your damn pack house, but you’re not gonna tell me what happens between us. Also, I’m aking Amira to my parents‘ house during the weekend. We’ll come back the next week.”

Something cold moves through me..

W–why?”

t comes out with a stutter I did not authorize, and I hate it immediately.

The truth is I’ve been thinking about this weekend. Somewhere underneath all the noise of the past few days…

When I saw Elena injured, I was aggravated that Milo had to see that. Everything was happening. Amira was there, seeing her mother being accused of wanting to kill someone. Those kinds of fucked–up memories stay in the heads of kids…I know, >ecause I was once a trauma–fucked kid.

didn’t mean to hold her wrist that hard. And damn, I tried to stop her from moving back over and over again…until she fell.

wanted a picnic or something over the weekend. Something where I could get the kids to start playing again. Something where me and Demetra could-

don’t even know where I would start. First, I would obviously apologize for leaving her high and dry on the table in my

‘oom.

But now I have to wonder if that horniness I left her with is what she’s looking to go get finished tonight. That thought arrives fully formed and I do not enjoy a single part of it.

“Why she repeats.

And then she walks away.

I follow her, lethally.

I don’t think she realizes I’m going with her as she gets into her car the red Range Rover with the heated seats and the custom plates that say LUNA I But I don’t need to rush to chase after her either, because there’s a tracker on her car

3/4