The defiant mate by Fennifer Francis novel Chapter 24

Jay-la POV

Staring at the unknown number that was calling her new number, it did look familiar but she couldn’t quite place it.

Tim was in the kitchen making them a cup of tea, he smiled at her and she smiled right back. She had leaned into his hug when he had arrived and really hugged him back. She had needed it, he had chuckled and murmured “miss me sweets?

Jay-la had smiled just could really use a hug”.

He had squeezed her tightly at her words and not let go until she had stepped away from him. He was so good to her.

She answered the phone when Tim stared at her with a raised eyebrow at her hesitation. Maybe he thought she was embarrassed to take the call, or that she didn’t want to, so he didn’t know who it was. She had never cheated on him, never even considered it.

“Get him out of the apartment now’ was yelled at her down the line. She recognised Jackson’s voice instantly.

“How did you get this number?” she demanded.

“Get him out of the apartment NOW: he yelled again.

Jay-la could hear growling and snarling in the background, she frowned, it sounded as though he was in the middle of a fight. But why call her of all people, in the middle of a fight with another wolf? !diot didn’t he have his priority’s straight.

“Unless you want your human friend to die, GET HIM OUT NOW.”

She and Kora turned their attention to the background noise. The fight clearly involved several wolves.

“Jay-la damn it, I need to hear you tell him to leave,

“It’s my life, Why?” she stated not getting why, in the middle of a fight he was having, was it so important to call her and demand her boyfriend leave? He had no right to ask that, no-one did.

“You don’t understand, he’s here in the city and is going ballistic, all Havoc. Tell him to go, or he will die Jay-la, I’m 100% serious.” he was throwing his Beta aura down the line but also seemed to be struggling to maintain the fight he was in. His tone left no room for argument.

If Nathan was indeed here and Havoc was out and coming for Tim, due to the fact there was another man around his pups, then she had no doubt that Havoc would kill him.

“Give me a minute” she muttered, unimpressed that they actually had this much control over her life, she was going to have to comply to keep Tim safe. She didn’t want any harm coming to Tim. He was such a nice man and she really did like him.

“Don’t hang up. Need to hear it.” he was yelling not at her, she thought, but to be loud enough to be heard over the angry growling and snarling and banging and crashing that was going on wherever they were, while they were dealing with a very pissed off Alpha wolf. A shiver of fear ran down her spine.

She walked over to Tim, who had literally just got here like 5 minutes ago, and barely had time to make them a cup of tea.

“Tim, I’m so sorry an emergency has come up, one of my clients has stupidly breached his AVO and is begging me to help him.”

“Do you want me to stay and watch the children, wait for you?”

“No, I’ll call Suzzy, it’s probably going to take a while, it’s not the first breach either.”

“Ah! Alright sweets.” he nodded, but sounded disappointed to her. He’d obviously been looking forward to tonight.

“Again…’m so sorry Tim.”

“l get it, I have dumb-ass clients too, that no matter what they don’t do as they are told” he grabbed his overnight bag that he’d brought with him. It was the first time he’d packed to come over here. She really did feel bad for sending him away, if only he could know the real reason.

She walked him out the door, her phone still in her hand.

He turned and leaned down to k!ss her. Jay-la didn’t know if that was a good idea, it might be picked up with wolf hearing and make things worse. She indicated to Tim that she was still on the phone. He nodded, sighed and hugged her briefly before heading for the elevator. “I’ll call you.” he nodded to her and she smiled thankfully and apologetically at him.

She put the phone to her ear after closing the door and snapped He’s gone, are you happy now?” and hit the end call button. She was not only angry with them, but with herself.

She should not have let them force her hand, but by the sound of it, Havoc was on a rampage of unknown proportions and she had truthfully believed Jackson when he told her that he was 100% serious. So she had, had to comply. She hated obeying them for him.

Jay-la woke in the morning with a start. There was loud aggressive banging on her apartment door, she shot out of her bed. Was he here? Fear was already filling her. She got out of bed in such a rush that she nearly fell face-first onto the floor as her feet were tangled in the sheets.

Nate was up and standing in the twins’ doorway, they to were up and he had his arms protectively around them. “Its going to be okay, stay here” she told them, pushing them into the twins’ room and closing the door, if things went badly and a fight broke out, she did not want them to see it.

She stood before the front door and listened to the thunderous banging on it. How had they gotten past the doorman without him notifying her?

“Damn it Jay-la, open the door, or I’m kicking it in: Micheal’s voice yelled from the other side of the door. Relief that it wasn’t her pissed-off Alpha coming for his children swept through her, though this was just another pissed-off alpha come to think of it.

His wolf hearing would have heard her coming to the door and his wolf senses must have picked up her scent by now knowing she was at the door.

“how did you get up here?”

“How the bloody hell do you think? I went through your doorman. Open the damned door now.”

“Okay.” she said a little nervously. This was just what she needed in her life. 2 pissed off alpha wolves after her, she opened the door and he barged right in, stepping up to her without hesitation, she stumbled back a few steps, then Kora rose to the forefront where he could see her.

“Don’t be stupid.” he snapped at her and her wolf “You will FIX IT he roared at her anger spilling off of him.

“Fix what?” she asked, not knowing what he was talking about.

“Fix what?” he screamed in her face. “What the hell do you think, Rae-Rae left me..Its all your fault, FIX IT” she could feel his anger boiling over and filling the air around her.

She hadn’t meant to hurt him and Rae-Rae. It had just happened that way, she was truly sorry to hear Rae-Rae had left him.

His phone was ringing and he grabbed it, jabbed an angry finger at it after checking the caller ID and before he could get any words out Jay-la heard Nathan’s voice roar an alpha order down the phone “Get out of her apartment now.”

A shiver ran down her spine, she knew the power of that order, had been ordered by him with so much rage behind it too once, his voice now reminded her of the pain of it hitting her back then and forcing her to leave even though she hadn’t truly wanted to.

Nathan knew Micheal was there in her apartment. How close was he? Fear was building again, on top of what was already there.

Micheal backed out of the apartment but his eyes never left hers. “Fix it” he shot at her.

Jay-la nodded at him, indicating that she would try too, hoping he understood that she was going to try.

She closed the door as he walked away, her heart was hammering inside her chest. She turned on her heels, pushed the door to the twins room open. They were all standing there staring up at her, “We’re leaving, get dressed quickly.” she saw them all move. None of them even argued, Jay-la packed just one suitcase for her and then tossing in whatever she grabbed from the first draw in each of their rooms not really caring, yanked on a pair of jeans and a tee-shirt.

Took the triplets and put them in her car and drove away from her apartment at high speed.

She ignored her ringing mobile the whole time, it was ringing before she was even packed. She had seen it was the same number as last night. Jackson was calling her, she just pushed it into her back pocket and let it ring out she didn’t care about anything other than getting her children to safety right this minute.

She was headed for Tony and Lauren’s place. Their house was in a gated community and was surrounded by a 10ft high brick wall with security cameras everywhere. She had always felt safe with them, behind their security protocols.

Thank the Goddess, Old Man Hill loved his daughter to bits, insisted on the walls and the security cameras.

Jay-la could also try talking to Rae-Rae, Lauren and Tony while she was there. She had ruined their Mate Bond, had not meant to and she needed to try and fix it. It was a goddess-gifted bond. Micheal had not chosen Rae-Rae, she belonged to him and he to her, it was sacred. She had a responsibility to try and salvage it if she could.

She pulled her car up out the front of their house having used the gate code to get past the big gates, she got the triplets out of the car and grabbed the one suitcase she had packed and walked them up the front door, pressed the doorbell while she was fumbling in her handbag looking for the front door key to their house. It was barely 7 in the morning.

She thought they would be awake but whether they were out of bed she didn’t know. It was Sunday morning, they could be lye in.

The door opened and Lauren stood there in her pyjamas, took in Jay-la and the triplets’ unkempt appearances. She had not stopped to brush their hair or teeth, or even feed them for that matter. They must all look dishevelled and she simply stepped aside.

“Sorry Lauren, I didn’t have anywhere else to go right this minute”

“It’s alright honey. What is wrong?” she asked, concern lacing her voice

How was she going to explain this, that Micheal had practically beat down her door after beating up her doorman, to demand that she come here and talk to Rae-Rae, or that his brother was now here for her children.

Jay-la hadn’t even told Tony and Lauren that the triplets were Nathan’s yet, whether they had figured it out for themselves she did not know, she hadn’t ever mentioned him to them and her babies certainly didn’t know who their father was, if she just suddenly blurted it out in front of them, they might be hurt.

“Can we stay here for the night, or a few days maybe?”

“Of course honey. Is that all the luggage you brought?”

Yes she nodded, “no time to pack”

Lauren sighed and nodded Okay, you should call Eric right away if it’s got to this point.”‘ she then smiled down at the triplets. “off to the kitchen, lets get you some breakfast, hey.”

They all nodded and went down the hall towards the kitchen.

Lauren’s hand landed on Jay-la’s shoulder. “how bad is it.

“I don’t know. It wasn’t him that got me to leave actually.