“Okay, we’re done once you have your vaccines and have your blood drawn for a few tests.” Healer Talan said as Melody got dressed again. Malcolm stayed with David while the healer examined her. He left her there and returned to the consulting room and Malcolm. It annoyed her she couldn’t tell what they were saying. It had to be about her or David. Which she should know, right? She frowned as she entered the consulting room. “Everything is okay, right, Healer Talan?” “I checked her out, but I have a few questions for you. Have you been ill with the flu or cold?” “Yes, months ago. But it’s been over and done with for some time.” Melody didn’t understand why this was an issue. “It took you a while to recover. Fatigue, body aches, and coughing?” She wasn’t certain where this was going. “All the above. But what has that got to do with anything?” The healer’s assistant was ready to take blood and give her the vaccines.” “It was a virus that you
Malcolm settled Melody and David into the condo, with instructions to call Ellie if she needed help. He couldn’t avoid going to a meeting, and it wasn’t his first choice of things he wanted to do. When she asked him what the meeting was about, all Malcolm said was that it was about pack business. He wasn’t going alone. Not now, never. Calvin Nichols was a wild card who loved playing close to the acceptable and legal limits on everything. From the private club that catered to many vices and kinks, to the barely legal online gambling, and he also ran a protection racket for supernatural creatures within his territory. So Melody watched him leave the condo. The difference now was as he left several shifters outfitted with weapons and body armour took up posts at the front door. What in the world? Then it was real. He really did fear war. That or he feared she’d run. If that were the case, he could restrain her. This was fear of an attack. Melody closed t
Ellie looked in the mirror. Her shoulder had finally stopped bleeding. She was still in disbelief that he’d done this to her. He was thinking with his dick and not his brain. “It looks fine. The bleeding has stopped and you’re mine now.” Jordan came up behind her and wrapped her in his arms. She could feel the warmth of his naked body press up against her back. Her body still wanted him, even though she was annoyed and angry with him. “What is it with you telling me over and over that I’m yours? What, now you’re stuck with me because I’m no longer in mint condition and you damaged the box? I feel you set me up. What are you going to do when reality sinks in and you have to deal with other people and the pressures, they force you to endure?” She watched his reaction in the mirror over the sink because if she turned around, Ellie was sure they’d be going at it on the counter before her. “First, you aren’t some action figure. You’re my mate. Second, have you every
“I’m glad you came, and I’m glad you’re taking the threat seriously.” Calvin said as he slipped back into his shirt. He stood just as tall and broad as Malcolm. The two could have been cousins with their dark hair and blue eyes. But Cal’s we’re closer to sapphire, while Malcolm’s were like icy, steel. “I thought you were the threat.” Malcolm held back his trust. They’d had issues before with clashing businesses and enterprises. Malcolm didn’t approve of some of Cal’s enterprises that bordered on the illegal. “No… I sent you the warning because there’s someone using my name and contacts to make headway into this city. I’ve had several incursions into my territory and several attempts to take over several of my more lucrative enterprises. Before you ask whoever, they are, they cover their tracks very well. All my people have is that they hired those doing the dirty work and they don’t know who hired them. Only that the money is great.” Cal wasn’t joking. He was serious
Ellie could finally call Melody. It felt like forever since they’d been able to speak frankly without observers or distractions. That was something that didn’t feel right about her. Little David was on the floor playing. At some point, he’d figured out how to crawl. Ellie felt like she’d been cheated on seeing that happen. Melody said there was still standing and walking. Which Ellie had to admit was true. “Mel hon, this is like a powder keg waiting to go off and they’ve pulled us into the middle of all of this. What are we going to do about this?” “What can we do? Malcolm has made bloody sure that he has a say in pretty much everything that happens with David and me. Jordan’s done the same thing to you. It’s heavy-handed, and it annoys me to no end. Look, I found a file from one of the firm’s investigators, and it’s about us and their hunt. They’ve been stalking us long before we even knew. Why did you not tell me that some guy was harassing you?” Melody
Jordan hated having to go into the firm’s offices for matters like this, but the truths was he also got a sick pleasure out of using the system against the true nasty creatures that stalked upper society. Malcolm had him coming into the offices for a meeting with several people from the board to the head of the HR department. Heck, he even spotted the firm’s head of PR, and several lawyers. This he hated because no one would believe what Malcolm and his father worked decades on to gain this advantage over them. It’d been more difficult over the years because of the laws changing and making this harder to pull off within the financial sector. But they’d done it. What Jordan hated was the entitled anger and assumptions that everyone owed them whatever they wanted. What these people didn’t know was he came carrying several loaded cannons. Malcolm and the pack’s advisory council had been maneuvering stocks and other legal actions to remove the CEO and COO from the boa
Malcolm was in his limo, returning home. All he could think about was the last time he was in it with Melody and knew she had work to do. Even the healer mentioned her needing to do kegel exercises. He was sure she hadn’t been doing them. Now he’d have a little fun getting her to look after herself. When he entered the condo, he looked in on the now sleeping David. He needed to spend some time with this bundle of energy. He wouldn’t be small forever. Malcolm found Melody setting out their dinner that must have just arrived. “Were you able to get some work done? While I was out?” Melody didn’t look up from what she was doing, and her tone was clipped. Malcolm’s back straightened in response to it, and he was in no mood for her acting bratty and childish. “I had to turn off my cellphone. I’m surprised you didn’t get any nasty phone calls. You can imagine my surprise when members of the board started calling me. Why didn’t you tell me you could take over overnigh
“Ellie, we’re staying in. Malcolm just postponed the meeting. Oh, he’ll call later to fill me in on his meeting and discuss the events at the board meeting. I guess that will have to do. So how was your day?” Ellie looked at Jordan with a flat stare. “It was a waste of my time, as you well know. We got nothing done and I now need to rework my entire website and setup a new unplanned store, train an entire staff I hadn’t planned for. All while finding myself trapped in a location under lock and key. Never mind military-like guard.” “It has to be. You’re no longer safe outside of here alone. You need to adjust to how your life has changed. It will be better in the end for everyone, I assure you. It’s a brief interruption before you’ll notice the improvements from the change. I’ll see if I can’t find someone to help you with the website who isn’t so unprofessional.” Jordan didn’t read out loud what Malcolm wrote to him, but there was something going on with Melody. But h