CH 6

Marcus He couldn’t understand how both he and Gregory had no idea that Jessica had become so beautiful, she’d slimmed all the way down, and was now tiny, had lovely curves and her hair was long and lustrous. She was now much prettier than many of the she-wolves inside this pack. A part of him suddenly didn’t want her going out of the pack and to her human world job dressed like that. His parents had always been concerned about her being snatched by rogues due to the single fact that she was Luna Ranked. Both he and Gregory had laughed at that very comment, because she was wolf-less and no one wanted to snatch the wolf-less, they couldn’t take a beating or a lashing, or be tossed to other wolves. They’d get injured and likely die. They wouldn’t heal from any injuries sustained, so they were, in fact, useless to anyone bar their Mate. So, they’d dismissed the idea without so much as a thought, bar laughing about it, she wasn’t only wolf-less, but she was overweight and had no features that would attract a human man, let alone male rogues looking for something to snatch and sell. She wouldn’t sell at all; they’d actually joked about that very thing with their social group. None of their group thought a human man would touch her, so why the hell would a wolfen man do it? Wolves liked, pretty athletic or thin but curvy she-wolves. They also didn’t like wolves. That meant, unless they were one’s Mate then s*x for hours was off the cards. 90% of wolves weren’t a wham bam thank you ma'am. No, they liked to go at it for hours on end. She’d never be able to get a wolf to keep it up for that long, as far as not only he and Gregory were concerned but all the males in their social group as well. So, her being snatched? That was completely ridiculous to him and his twin. Gregory had once joked about shoving her at a few wolves from another pack, and telling them they could do as they pleased with her, for a whole night, just to prove none would touch the girl. Had, in fact, wanted to, but Marcus had pulled him into line, their parents would kill them, and they’d also get hit with the pains of betrayal. His brother was ignorant in so many ways, and if Marcus wasn’t there to remind him of certain things, they’d have likely lost their position as heirs, barely a few months after getting home from Alpha College. Now there was a part of him that felt possessive and jealous as he looked at her. He knew where she worked in an auction house, and though it was only out the back and not up front with the customers. He didn’t think right that minute that was going to be the case. With how she was dressed and looking, her boss was likely going to place her right out on the front line with Eve to make sure that nothing happened to her. There had been three girls once, but now it was just Eve. He'd not cared at all about the other two getting fired, but right this minute he did. Men were going to be looking at her, likely having indecent thoughts about her and a part of him didn’t like even just thinking that they would. Maybe it was time to have his mother start them Luna Lessons and make it full-time, so she was always here in the pack and never out there where what his mother and father had stated, was now likely a real possibility. She might be wolf-less, but now she was stunningly beautiful, and she did scent of being Luna Ranked because his venom ran in her veins. Now she was likely to fetch a good price. Maybe not for selling to a brothel but to just one Alpha Wolf that liked the look of her and thought she’d be something he could easily sate his needs in. She was, he had to admit to himself, something he was now attracted to, wouldn’t mind pulling her back to their bed and having her for hours on end, though he knew it wasn’t going to happen because those very words that came out of her mouth, even now why his parents were rounding on them, and he couldn’t for the life of him come up with the girl's birthday. Something all Mates did know and never forgot. Hell, he didn’t even recall the exact date of their Mate Bond anniversary, just knew it had been the full moon after they’d returned from Alpha College, but not the exact date. She was all happy to be putting them in their place with their parents right there as well. She had no one inside this pack to back her up on anything. Couldn’t run away, was wolf-less and wouldn’t get very far, let alone have anywhere to go. She was stuck with them, only now he didn’t think even Gregory would be willing to let her go, not with how she looked. Being their Mate her body was good for theirs, always sated them, but it had never been hours upon hours of it. Now he believed it was going to be all night long; s*x would be very different for them after seeing her like this. She might even actually truly enjoy it as well. He was looking at that smile on her lips as it lit up her whole damned face and there was full amusement in those dark grey eyes of hers, something he’d thought were just plain and boring. But now, as he looked at them, and they were all lit up and full of what he could only think was actual real happiness, because he’d never seen them like that before. Though admittedly, he didn’t really look at her at all. But framed by eyeliner and mascara, that was true black, they looked amazing. He could almost picture them looking up at him, smoldering up at him filled with desire and wanton need. As he looked down at her, as he took her and those pretty dark pink lips, he wanted to see them now smile at him in their bed, part in an Oh of pleasure. Not something he’d ever even once thought he wanted until right now, in this moment, seeing the real her for the very first time. He and Gregory were going to have to change the way they treated her, the way they spoke about her and start actually treating her right. She was, he thought, actually worthy of being on his arm right now. Again, not something he’d wanted previously but now did. She would look good in a long sleek dress, walking next to him and even being wolf-less it wouldn’t be an embarrassment. Her natural beauty now would eclipse that she was wolf-less. Other Alpha wolves would also see him as a good wolf for accepting a wolf-less she-wolf. They’d be praised and get more respect for accepting one such as herself. Also complimented on how beautiful she was as well; he liked all those things. Wanted all those things now. Though they’d been mated for three years and not once had he or his brother wanted that, and she knew it, so getting her to do it now might be a problem, she-wolves were stubborn at the best of times; Luna’s more so if they were disrespected. And that was all they’d ever done, dish out disrespect and treat her like a toy that belonged to them for their own personal use. With what she was saying out here now, and in front of their parents, who were, he could see; royally ticked off by what they were hearing. If they forced her into a dress and dragged her downstairs to stand between them, she’d likely tell his mother it was against her will and his mother, being a Luna who was also between two Mates, wouldn’t take kindly to it. Lunas had more rights than anyone else inside a pack, and they’d never given her any. She actually had the right to be ticked off about all that she’d not gotten. Had the right to leave them and move into the Luna Suite and, right now, as he watched her drive away after telling his parents to Alpha Order, the truth out of both him and Gregory of how they treated her, what the most disrespectful things they’d done or said about her. That was going to get them a full shaming and lashing as well. This, he knew, was her letting them see how she’d changed, and they’d not bothered to notice. They’d had their hands on her for three years and neither one of them had noticed that her ass wasn’t big and round, likely came from her losing weight over time. They’d just gotten used to it gradually getting less and less, without seeing it, therefore didn’t notice. She’d said she’d been thin for a year, and in that year, they’d still treated her exactly the same, as if she was just that fat frumpy Mate of no consequence to them. A wolf-less girl that they didn’t want to be mated to but were bound to because it was indeed hard to get one she-wolf between the two of them. Not even in Alpha college for a whole year, with lots of Alpha females, had they even found one that would agree with it. It wasn’t something most she-wovles wanted, to be between two wolves, let alone an Alpha and a Beta, who were bigger and more aggressive than other wolves in the sating of their needs. So, accepting her had been all they could do even when they didn’t want to, even when it was clear she didn’t want it. Now he felt regret welling up inside of him, because it was plainly clear to him that Jessica, his own Mate wanted to see him get punished. What Mate wanted that? None that he knew of. But his now did. Which told him that when she got home this evening there would be no pulling her into his bed because his own mother was going to veto it. Could well give Jessica a suite of her own and make it so she got to choose who she slept with, and when. That was the real problem. Jessica, from everything he’d just seen, would accept those rules and he and his brother would likely never be allowed to touch her again. She didn’t even go into heat, so they couldn’t even use that to bed her. Right, this very minute, as he was being hauled away with an unyielding grip on his arm by his own Alpha father, he knew there was right now a full possibility of them being forced to reject what the Goddess had granted them, because they’d never once respected their own Mate, and it was all about to come out. He also knew his mother was going to have them Alpha Ordered, she’d stayed out of their mate bond, because they’d managed to keep their disrespect under wraps, and never once had they physically harmed Jessica, never had there been a bruise on her. She had just gone about her life as she always had. Attended her degree and completed it, done a few internships with it and gotten that job right out of university, and started working. She was a contributing pack member. Hell, neither he nor Gregory were even contributing pack members at this point, still just students themselves and would be for another year.