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Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 43: Wow, that was intense
Sue had thought the worst part of their day was going to be facing her kidnapper and Knight’s abusive stepdad. Learning that her brother had been living like that was far worse. Sue felt like a terrible sister because Joey hadn’t felt he could tell Sue the truth when he showed up at her apartment.“She’s not always like that,” Joey said from the backseat of Knight’s car, his voice uncharacteristically small. “It’s only when she drinks.”“I’ve seen humans react in various different ways when they’re drunk,” Knight said. “Some people can’t even drink a little without it changing them into something else.”Sue thought about her dad and how, not for the first time when leaving that house, she wished he was still alive.“My dad used to have a beer when he got home from work, every day. Just the one. Sometimes on the weekend he’d have more, but it only ever made him even friendlier,” Sue told them. She smiled as a memory she hadn’t thought about in a long time came to the surface. “One Chri
Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 44: Who is my real father?
Sunday family dinner at the West pack house was crazy on a typical Sunday, but throw in the fact that the women in the house were in full-on wedding mode, and that Joey was with them, and things got a lot crazier.“You’re grilling?” Knight asked his grandpa as he came out onto the porch with a couple of bottles of beer in his hand. It wasn’t unusual for his grandpa to fire up the grill, but usually Sundays meant a roast of some kind from his grandma.“I needed an excuse to get out of the house, and your grandma’s busy,” Lenard explained. He held his hand out for the beer that Evan had brought him. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Jared, I just don’t want to have to give my opinion on napkins and chair covers.”Knight smiled at that and perched himself on the railing. “I don’t think Jared does, either.”“Oh, really? You’d be surprised,” Lenard told him with an amused twinkle in his eye. “I heard him arguing with a florist the other day on the phone, saying that if the peonies weren’t
Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 45: A talk with Joey’s father
The drive to Joey’s dad’s new apartment was kind of out of the way, and given what they were going to talk to him about, it made for a tense car ride.“We could just wait a little longer,” Joey said from the backseat. He had seemed so carefree and happy at Knight's grandparents’ house. All the wolves had taken to him quickly and treated him like pack. Sue was glad that Knight hadn’t told most of them why Joey was with them. He really just wanted to handle this quietly.Sue turned in her seat to look at Joey. “I tried calling Mom a bunch of times. She isn’t answering.”“Maybe something happened,” Joey said, his voice tinged with panic. “Maybe she’s hurt. We should go and see her.”“I already called Mrs. Daniels from next door and asked her to go check on her. She said that she was there but wouldn’t answer the door.”Joey’s face fell. “I shouldn’t have left. It’s just going to make her worse, being all alone.”Sue felt some measure of sympathy for her mom—she wasn’t a monster, after al
Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 46: One on one talk with Joey
Knight wasn’t someone who was used to waiting. As the boss of his own company, people waited for him, not the other way around. He supposed it was good for him, every now and then, to get a lesson in patience.While he waited in the car, he tried to train his hearing, to find Sue and listen in, but the apartment must have been at the back. All he could hear was a baby crying with a woman singing to it and a lot of different TV sets blaring different things.He tried not to think about his real dad, but it was hard. He had the name in his head now, and he felt as though he at least needed a face to go along with it. He pulled out his phone and pulled up his browser app before typing in the name, Charles Garcia. He felt a swell of nerves go through him as he waited for the page to load but it soon turned to dread as a thousand or so different Charles Garcias showed up.Thankfully, he was spared having to think on it any further. Sue and, surprisingly, Joey came out of the apartment bloc
Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 47: You know it's actually pretty romantic out here
After a late second dinner, Joey went straight to bed, the emotional turmoil of the last few days no doubt finally catching up with him. Sue went out onto the balcony that was accessible from the living room and the main bedroom. It had a great view of the city but neither she nor Knight spent much time out there.It had been the gentle sound of the rain falling, hitting the awning above and running off over the side, that had drawn Sue out.“What are you doing out here?” Knight asked as he came out. The werewolf closed the door behind him.“Just getting some air.”“Are you okay?” Knight asked as he circled his arms around Sue from behind and rested his chin on her shoulder.“Yeah, are you?” Sue asked. “What did you and your mom talk about?”Knight sighed and placed a kiss on Sue’s neck. “She told me who my real dad is.”Cold turned sharply in her arms. “Are you serious? That’s huge.”“I’m trying to pretend like it’s not.”“Right,” Sue said with a nod. “The typical West way of doing
Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 48: Charles Garcia
Over the days that followed the revelation about Knight’s real dad, Sue had seen the internal struggle going on inside him. Knight had told her about the conversation he’d had with his mom and the fact that he had even looked him up to no avail. However, when Sue had offered to help search for him, having far superior Internet skills, Knight hadn’t been sure and told Sue that he needed some time to think about it.Of course, Sue wasn’t one to wait, or to do as she was told, so she had been looking for this Charles Garcia ever since. She told herself that she was just going to find him in case Knight wanted to meet him, that way he wouldn’t have to wait around. She also wouldn’t have time to change his mind.Her article about the bombing had gone over well, and she had decided to write a follow-up. She had been busy leaving messages all over the Internet looking to interview someone who had either been a part of a humans-first movement in their past or were close to someone who was.S
Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 49: Knight finally meet his true father
The drive out to his dad’s place wasn’t nearly long enough. The sun was low in the sky, making everything look more golden and beautiful than it actually was. Beside him, Sue chatted away as usual, no doubt wanting to distract Knight from what he was about to do.“So I found these erotic cookies online,” Sue told him. “They’re in the shapes of two people getting it on in different positions. I thought I’d get some for Jared and Sarah for the wedding.”Knight looked at her out of the corner of his eye. “You want to give them erotic cookies for their wedding gift?”Sue shrugged. “I mean, they’re rich, like you, so I thought rather than get them the usual crap that they’ll get three of, we could make them up little gift bags filled with things they like.”Knight gave a little smile at that. “That’s a nice thought, but I don’t really know what Jared likes.”“Sure you do. Food, booze, and football,” Sue said. “I already found him a few Seahawks things. We throw in some bottles of scotch o
Her Boss, Her Mate Chapter 50: Cafe
Sue had asked the mysterious F to meet him at the café across the street from the Fang and Claw building. The oversized clock on the wall behind the counter said that it was coming up to three thirty. She was sitting at a table by the window, watching the people walk by, wondering if any of them were F. She had gotten there a little early, wanting to make sure they had a table to themselves so that they wouldn’t be disturbed. On her phone was a list of questions she wanted to ask F about life inside the humans-first group and what had happened to make him, or her, get out.Sue sat nursing her coffee, her eyes darting to the clock every few seconds. She had her book bag with her with a rough draft for the article she planned on writing. She was about to get it out to read over what she had so far when she heard someone approach her table.“Sue Andrew?” a man not much older than Sue said as he stopped at the table.Sue looked the stranger up and down. He was in his late twenties with a
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