The defiant mate by Fennifer Francis novel Chapter 13

She sat in her leather chair in her office and waited. The game of hard ball had officially started. He had stupidly outed his children to the wolfen society, so she had declared herself a free agent that would entertain offers from other packs, and let the other packs know that he had tried to harm her and that was why she needed a new place to go.

Not exactly the smartest thing to do, but she was sure to find a pack that either had no connection to him or was affiliated and had an alliance of some sort so she could have herself and the children protected. She would not have to tell him where she was either, just pledge her allegiance to the new Alpha and his pack and then she would be gone from him and his Luna, who just wanted to hurt and punish her.

Jay-la knew there was a call coming. She Was also pretty sure it wouldn’t be him, probably ‘Jackson, He was a smooth talker who could wheel and deal with the best of them. It had taken all of 15 minutes. She had already told Jordan her secretary to put him through but give her a quick heads up first. She took the call but hung up the instant she heard her Alpha yell at her, full of rage and anger.

He would learn, she would not take his abuse anymore, would not be yelled at like that
day either.

Jay-la waited again, nowing full well that it was not over, Jackson would call back after talking his Alpha down and his friend into shutting up for the next phone call.

It was a good 7 minutes before Jordan, her receptionist put the call through again. He apologised stating that it must have been disconnected, somehow, Jay-la laughed at his comment “don’t apologise Jordan, I hung up on him and will likely do so again. But I will not receive any more calls from him today. This will be the last one no matter how many times he całls back”

“Okay Jay-la.” he apparently understood and seemed slightly amused.

Jay-la allowed Jackson to wait on hold a good 4 minutes before picking up again, “Now that you know I will hang up at will, keep him under control and in check. I presume he is still listening.” she was playing a deadly game, throwing out orders for an Alpha, but he would learn she had rights, after all he had tossed her away.

“He is.” Jackson confirmed, sounding angered with her now. He was losing his composure and clearly didn’t like her attitude towards their Alpha. Unlike him, usually he was cool, calm and collected, not the hot head. His Alpha was “If you hang up on me again Jay-la l will get on the next flight out there, and be at your door before you know it. Do you understand me?”

Jay-la frowned. She got the threat loud and clearly, but he’d be in her world, not his normal comfort zone, the rules were different here. “Is that so? Are you prepared to play human Jackson. I’ve been playing human for a very long time now, I don’t think you can do it, Apollo will hate it.” she smirked. He was a Beta and his wolf, Apollo was dominant and would demand respect just as much as his Alpha’s did.

She heard the growl and knew it was his wolf, Apollo. He was pissed right off, she had challenged his wolfs control with her statement.

Jay-la had grown up with him, If he thought she didn’t recall how to push all of their buttons, he was sadly mistaken.

‘Oh and if you think I haven’t smelled a wolf here or there with pack scent on them since l got back from..” she left it unsaid, allow them to wonder where she had been and who with, she didn’t care.

“KORA” she heard Havoc roar her wolf’s name so loúdly she nearly jumped out of her skip Kora nearly called his name back. Jay-la barely had time to disconnect the call before Kora growled his name out of her, lucky she had her finger on the disconnect button the whole time.

‘He called to us’ she whined ‘our Alpha’ Yes, he wants to order you to bring your pups to him, Kora.

‘Maybe’ she huffed.

‘No, he has a Luna, Kora. Don’t mistake his intent, and his Luna hates us, one that will never tolerate our pups’ existence. It’s why we never told him in the first place, remember.

‘Yes’ she huffed again, she did recall, and she remembered the pain of his tossing them aside like a piece of garbage, he did not want them. Not her and Kora, just his pups, nothing more. She was not willing, they were not willing to just hand them over and walk away from being their mother, which is probably what he wanted.

It had been a long and stressful day, ‘time to go home and see our babies! She knew that would make Kora happier. She loved her pups so much, being away from them annoyed her some days more than others, and today she was itching to get back to them and cuddle up with them on the couch and eat popcorn and watch a movie.

Yes, let’s go: Kora agreed.

Home they went to do just that.

Jay-la stepped out of the elevator on the 12th floor of Stanton & Co Law Firm where she worked, to find the scent of wolves on the floor, to find Jordan waiting for her right there at the elevator. That was a bit of a surprise. He didn’t normally wait for her here. He also seemed anxious. “What’s wrong, Jordan?” she asked.

“There are so many messages this morning directed afyourégarding your press conference statement, and people calling still trying to get appointments with you. It’s kind of freaking me out to be honest.”

Jay-la laughed softly and so it begins “I was expecting this, just take one call at a time and go with it okay Jordan, just breathe, Oh and don’t tell Eric. I think he’ll get very angry.”

“Um Jay-la…” he said, walking behind her slightly as they finally moved from the elevator and down the hall towards her office and his desk. Goddess had he already informed Eric, if so, the man was likely in her office.

As she got to her office, there sitting on 2 of her waiting room chairs was none other than Beta Jackson and Gamma Stephen. Ah no wonder Jordan was so nervous it was not an angry Eric. It was 2 wolves.

They were both sitting there giving off aura’s of power, Jackson glared right up at her. She simply waited for Jordan to take a seat behind his desk. “How long havethey been here?” she asked him.

“They came up with me at 8, I did tell them you don’t get in till 9 today. They just sat and didn’t move. Haven’t said a word the whole time.”

“Hmm” not to you, she thought to herself, probably been sitting here talking through the mind link with each other the whole time they have been here. She took the stack of messages he was holding out. She steadfastly refused to acknowledge either of them, she stood flicking through the messages in a slow manner appearing unfazed by either of them, there were many Pack Corporations requesting that she call them.

She turned to her office door, “Do you have an appointment?” she asked, glancing at Jackson, knowing full well that he did not. Jordan would have informed her already if they did.

He was wearing a suite and tie, looked every bit the professional business man as did Stephen for that matter. She took in their appearances, they had gotten bigger in the past 6 years, must be working out way more, she had not really taken much in on her last visit to the pack too scared and terrified of the punishment that had been awaiting her, to really get a good look at her old friends.

“No, but you will see me Jay-la.” he stated in a flat, no-non-sense tone, that implied he was going to get his way due to being the Beta.

“I have court most of today, I suggest you make an appointment and come back for it.” she turned to Jordan once more “is there available space in my schedule tomorrow?” she didn’t want a very pissed of Beta loosing it here so she would show some respect and get him that appointment she had mentioned.

“1130 for 15 minutes.” He nodded at her after checking.

“Does that work for you?” she asked with a soft laugh and walked into her office and closed the dõor she didn’t really care if it didn’t, this was her world and not theirs. She had shown respect then dropped it away.

She headed to the court house and found they followed her, neither said a single word to her, just sat in the back of the court room and watched her do her job and go head to head with other lawyers on her client’s behalf. At the end of the day, she returned home to see them follow her there as well. Annoying indeed.

Even Kora was feeling smothered, they were so used to being able to do as they pleased when they pleased, without any pack interference or supervision that this was bothersome and annoying. She wondered for a moment if this was what it felt like to be under police surveillance. She had not returned to her office after the last court session, had simply gone home, getting there just on 5pm, surprising her babies and the nanny, who got to go home early.

It was7pm when her intercom buzzed.

Jay-la fröwhed. She wasn’t expecting anyone this evening. Tim hadn’t called for a visit. She shrugged and answered “Yes Jimmy.”

“Evening Jay-la, There are 2 people here that would like to come up?”

She sighed, probably Jackson and Stephen she thought, “Names please Jimmy?” She did like this building. Jimmy was a diligent doorman and she could well imagine at this hour the night security guard Carlton, would be standing by the front desk too.

“Jay-la it’s Blaine and Darla, may we come up?” Alpha Blaine’s deep rumbling voice was heard through the intercom.

Jay-la was shocked, to say the least, she had not expected them to turn up here, at her apartment. It could only mean that Nathan had told them about the triplets.