The defiant mate by Fennifer Francis novel Chapter 9

Jay-la POV

Photographed and injuries documented and tended to by a human doctor. Jay-la gave her statement to the human Feds. All that she knew, she only told exactly what happened, leaving out that she had killed one wolf, but stated she had injured him. No lies about what had happened on pack territory, she would not incite more rage from her Alpha.

Technically, he and his men in the pack had not hurt her at all. Nil wounds were in fact inflicted by the Alpha, Beta or previous Alpha, all of whom she used their human names for. She was returned to Tony and Lauren’s house where her children were. She couldn’t allow Kora to heal her because it would be suspicious to suddenly have no wounds.

Jay-la fell onto her knees and hugged her children tightly to her, k!ssing them repeatedly on their heads, they were all crying at the state of her, touching her gently and asking if it hurt. She didn’t want them to see her like this, but it was the price of living in the human world. Their distress at her being missing was evident. Even when she tried to use the bathroom, they all trailed her, she just let them. She and Kora didn’t want to let them out of sight either. So it was fine.

She and the triplets had slept in the same bed every night that week. Tim had come straight over to Tony’s house the minute Eric had informed him she was back and safe. He had stayed that first night and held her in his arms all night. While she had spent the night staring at her babies, it wasn’t often one of them would actually spend the night, usually they would have s3x multiple times and then one would go home. Sleep overs were rare.

There was no s3x, she had too many injuries and she was not interested either and neither was he. He was just worried about her current state and wanted her to know he was there for her, to Jean on. She was grateful for that, he could only stay on the weekend due to having to be in court all week. But it was nice to actually have him around. He had often hugged her and just cuddled her for no reason, he played with the kids and was generally nice to have around.

The way the Feds had found her, bruised, battered and bloodied and running screaming from the Blood Moon Pack or Browning’s Corporation to the humans, had landed Nathan in hot water, though she knew it was most likely going to be swept away by the Wolfen council as they would find away to get him off the hook and out of the human worlds trials and he would never ever see the inside of a real human prison. It would probably take some doing or time, but it would be done. Pay the right people the right amount and anything could go away.

Jaya knew that he had been charged with k***g and causing grievous bodily harm as Eric had drawn up the charges and was going to prosecute the case himself just like he had said it was going to. Eric was very unhappy and could see why she had stated she would not be able to bring them in as a client, called him all sorts of vial names when he’d collected her from the airport and took stock of her condition. He’d been the one to take her to Tony and Lauren’s.

Eric had announced no work for the following week and so she had spent it with her children at Tony and Lauren’s she felt safe there. It was a gated home with security camera’s and she didn’t think that Nathan or any of his men Would know about them or at least she didn’t think they would.

Tony had taken to calling him a ‘Prick’ or unethical bastard’ and occasionally a dumb-áss. Jay-la and Kora were never more that 5 feet from their children at any given time. It was a long night every night, Kora promised to keep their pups safe while she slept, she would monitor from within, no wolf would get near their babies again. She had allowed Kora to heal her a little each day, the distress in her children’s eyes was too much to take and after just 7 days she was fine, healed up and back to normal.

She knew it would have taken longer for a real human but she just shrugged it off and said she was healthy and a fast healer, she guessed.

Going back to work and sending her babies off to school again worried her, Alpha Blaine had gotten a good look at the three of them. She was certain that he’d pick Nate as his grandson. He might be a bit confused about the twins. They were smaller and looked a year younger, but she didn’t doubt he would see just how much Nate looked like his father. Spitting image even at that age, she had grown up with him. She reçalled what he looked like at 5. So would Alpha Blaine.

And now Nathan also knew she had children a family. What would he do with the information? She had defied him at every turn, not gone back willingly, killed one of the men designated to get her, assaulted his Beta and run away again, back to the human world. A place she’d found solace and sanctuary from her banishment. Not only had she defied him, she had also not declared her children to her pack, and certainly had not told him they were his.

Two things she should have done, especially the last one, keeping an Alpha from his offspring was a deadly game. At some point when they got older, she knew his wolf would sense it, and definitely feel it once they got their own wolves, the hunt would have been on then, but that was years away and so she had never thought about it. That was future Jay-la’s problem.

Jay la wasn’t about to go telling him either, he was already angry with her and she wasn’t about to go and make him 100 times more angry. He had already lost out on punishing her and had clearly planned to. He hadn’t even gotten to tell her what that punishment would be. That must really enrage him even more. Alpha’s did like to strike fear into their enemies, loved the power they had and could push around. Fear was how they protected their pack and members from other Alpha’s.

But because she was so well ensconced in the human world, known to many here as an expert divorce lawyer and had many wealthy and well-known clients to represent, her Alpha was going to have to deal with her here in the human world, play by human world rules or it will just appear that he would have come and abducted her again, Jay-la was pretty certain he was not going to like that at all. Wouldn’t risk it probably, being trapped in the human world risked his pack to attacks from other Aipha’s.

Every day for her now, though was going to be like a ticking time bomb however, waiting for him to sever her connection to his pack, if his father didn’t say anything and she had no idea if the man would, he hadn’t really reacted to the sight of the children, perhaps he had not made the connection at all, perhaps a vision of them was not enough for him to sense his Own bloodline.

‘It is fine, it was a long time ago. I do not blame you, you know that, so please stop
feeling guilty about it.’