Page 58 of The Wolf She Shouldn't Desire

“I can accept that,” I respond.

“You better tell Danny, though, to move his ass. I can’t hold back the wolves from attacking Zander and his coven for long, and if this business regarding you being forced to marry him isn’t resolved soon, I’m going to be right there with them.”

“I’ll talk to him and try to get a better idea of when he plans to do whatever he is doing. I would think soon as his plan seemed to bank on my father announcing the engagement, which he did tonight.”

“Your father announced it tonight?”

“Yeah, he held a party where he invited a bunch of our allies and well renowned vampires and made the announcement. I don’t know what he was hoping for, but it was a terrible idea.”

“Why?”

“Because there was a lot of unhappy people in that room after he announced I was to marry Zander.”

“Zander not very popular amongst the vampires either?”

“I’m sure that’s the case with a lot of them, but I think it’s more that a lot of powerful and not so powerful covens have been hoping for my hand in marriage to secure a solid alliance withmy coven since I’m the heir, and they think that a woman won’t be able to lead.”

He snorts. “They obviously haven’t been at the end of one of your knives then.”

I smile widely at him. “They definitely haven’t.”

“Well, hopefully if Danny doesn’t kill him, then some other vampire will.”

“They may do so to open up my availability to be married to someone else again.”

“Do you want to be married to someone else?”

“I don’t want to be married, in general. Like I said, all of them just want my status as heir to the most powerful coven and will think they can sit me in a corner, pat me on the head, and tell me to let the men handle everything.” My brows furrow and my hands fall from combing through my hair to clench in my lap as I grumble, “Fucking pigs.”

“Fair enough,” he replies.

The room fills with silence for a moment as we both lose ourselves in our own thoughts. I meant what I said and don’t want to be tied to a man who is just going to designate me to some pretty arm piece and title so he can step up in importance in the eyes of my kind. I won’t be used that way and will have my own power that I won’t share with someone seeking it for their twisted power move.

“So, what about you and me?” Jordan breaks the silence.

“Getting married?!” My eyes are wide with surprise.

“No, no,” he chuckles. “I just mean now after…” He goes silent again.

Images of us together in this bed an hour ago flash in my mind and heat my blood with reignited desire.

A low growl comes from Jordan. “Whatever you are thinking, stop it before I come over there when I want to have this conversation first.”

“What?” I ask innocently.

“I can smell you getting turned on, sweetheart. Focus.”

My cheeks flush. Of course he can smell it.

“What do you want to happen with you and me?”

“Oh, I know what I want, but I want to hear from you since you’re the one who kept running away from me until recently. You said you wanted me, but what does that entail?”

I want to argue that I didn’t run from him, but then I would be lying to him and myself. So, I let it go and think of what I want to say that I haven’t already said to him.

“I want to see where this goes between you and me. Getting to know each other more, a few dates, and the occasional round of hot, mind blowing sex like we had an hour ago.” I smirk.

“I like the sound of that, but the sex has to be more than just occasionally.”

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