Page 55 of Rejected Mate's Baby for the Alpha King

“No you’re not. You’re lying. Tell me, does your skin itch?”

“What?”

“How long have you been on this land?”

My heart pounded in my chest. “Anna,” I said quietly. “I can feel my wolf. How fast can you shift?”

“Pretty quickly,” she said easily as she scrambled some eggs. “You like cheese in your eggs?”

“How powerful is your wolf?”

“I’m bonded with the most powerful alpha on this mountain. I can take you down if I need to. Was that a yes to the cheese?”

“Sure. Why not?” Crying out, I hit the ground on all fours.

Janelle put her hands on my shoulder, and I started to jerk back, but her touch warmed me. “How long have you been on Jax’s territory?”

“Ten hours, maybe? Eight?” I whispered. My wolf shuddered, but she stopped rising inside of me. “What are you doing?”

“Nothing,” Janelle said angrily. “She’s there, but I can’t reach her. You are not bonded to your alpha. You don’t have any bonds at all. Why did you come here? Why did the fae send you here?”

She moved back, and I took a deep breath. Maybe this was a mistake. I shouldn’t have come alone. My wolf was confused and scared. Even if Anna could put me down, I was still a danger to them.

The radio in my hand crackled. “Maya, where the fuck are you? I gave you one instruction. Take a guard. Did you do that? No. You went off on your own to a fucking witch’s den,” Rhyson growled.

His voice strangely grounded me, and I looked up apologetically. “He doesn’t mean offense. He’s just a little mad.”

“A little?” Irene echoed.

I put the radio up. “You know everyone can hear you, right?”

“I don’t give a fuck. Where are you? I’m coming to get you.”

“No. I think I can make some real progress here. I’m not in any danger, Rhyson, and I need to know what’s wrong with me. I’ll let you know when I’m done. Talk to Jax. Find out about the man who killed your brother. That’s what you’re here for, remember?”

My comment was met with silence, and I slowly put the radio down. “A wolf named Emerson killed his brother. He’s trying to find more information about him.”

“A wolf named Emerson,” Janelle said slowly. “Are you fucking with me?”

“Oh, yeah, I might have forgotten to mention that,” Anna said from the kitchen. “Janelle was Emerson’s witch.”

Standing, I looked at the women in the other room. “Did you set me up?” I demanded. “What do you know of Emerson?”

“Plenty, and I wasn’t lying, nor did I set you up. Elonso might have answers, and he really is kind of pissed at us right now, but Janelle might have answers as well. I brought you here to get you away from Rhyson. I came here to find out if you brought your man here to kill mine.”

The room crackled with energy, and I stilled. “Rhyson is not my man, and we’d never even heard of Jax until we got here looking for Emerson.”

“So you’re not from the mountain at all,” Anna said flatly. “You truly came here to find the man who killed Rhyson’s brother.”

“I didn’t,” I told her honestly. “I came to tell Rhyson that he had a child on the way. Instead of a hero, I found myself trapped on a mountain where everyone wants to either kill me or save me. You apparently haven’t decided what you need to do.”

Janelle’s head snapped up. “We have company.”

The door broke open, and Rhyson’s enormous wolf broke through.

He wasn’t alone. “Move,” Anna shouted, shoving me and the witches back into the living room just as a black wolf broke in after Rhyson.

Jax.

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