Page 67 of Wolf Domination

“While Loki is the queen piece the Vile Queen is desperate to retrieve back instead of admitting checkmate,” Milo reasoned.

“I thought you’d compare him to a king piece.” Dimitris sounded amused with his sleepy voice.

“The king is a powerful piece in the game of chess, but let’s be realistic. It's the queen that everyone always focuses upon,” Milo admitted. “Loki was her trump card that she assumed no one would have the balls to steal from her. Think about it. The Phoenix family who has all the connections royal families do couldn’t retrieve their own knight in shining armor.”

“Yet, Willow unexpectedly saved the man who kidnapped her and was ordered to bring her to his Master,” Dimitris noted. “It really was a move the Vile Queen wouldn’t comprehend happening.”

“Won’t she be surprised by Arthur’s switch to our side?” Milo asked.

“If you want my honest opinion, no,” Dimitris answered and scooted just a bit so his front aligned with my back. “Arthur is a gambler. He makes his decisions not just on logic but also by chance. Plus, from the look of things, the Vile Queen didn’t want to use the same tactics with the magic collar she did with Loki for Arthur. On the outside, it may give off the impression she didn’t want to lose Arthur, but to me, it seems like she knew no one would take the burden of transferring ownership of a practical stranger.”

“Except for our princess.” Milo sounded pleased.

“She enjoys saving the endangered, doesn’t she?”

“Mhmm,” Milo agreed. “You okay? I feel like you don’t want to admit it, but your energy is low as fuck.”

“Still trying to balance ten pack members,” he admitted. “I’ll confess, I’m not used to having members joining the pack so quickly. Willow doesn’t realize it, but her bonds with some of us ease the heaviness of their energies or I doubt I’d be functioning very well.”

“Before my unexpected invite, you’d just accepted Willow and Onyx, didn’t you?”

“Ya.” He paused. “Then it was you and Viktor. Now, Arthur and Loki. Your energy is very contained. Calm like your personality.”

“While the others are chaotic?”

“More…or less.” Dimitris sounded like he was dozing off.

“You should sleep a bit more. You don’t want Willow worrying about you,” Milo urged. “I think we’ve got three hours, give or take.”

“So you noticed,” Dimitris muttered.

“Yup.”

“Hmm…”

“You don’t mind me chilling here?”

“In the bed?” Dimitris inquired back.

“Ya.”

“I don’t give a fuck.”

“Why do I feel that’s a bit of a lie?” Milo hummed quietly.

“I’m not threatened by your presence when we share a bed with Willow,” he confessed.

“Even if things get sexual?”

“Even if…that.” Poor guy was slipping back to sleep.

“The others intimidate you?”

“They overpower…me,” Dimitris disclosed. “Their love…is intense. Powerful. Consum…ing. You carry a balance. I can handle that.”

“Plus, we’re on similar power levels,” Milo concluded.

Dimitris didn’t answer.

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