Pack Gems by Kuro Kusai, WhiteWolf Aura (free ereaders TXT) 📖

interesting stay.

She turned to look at Mason's smirking face before burying her face into her hands.

…Very interesting.

Chapter 21: Jest and Jealousy

 

.::. Kaden's POV .::.

"When am I gonna get pumped?" Kaden asked again; mostly because her body was acting up again, her veins were bulging, and her heart beat was speeding up like she'd been working out.

She'd been slowly draining Taylor's energy through the bond and she knew it would start affecting Taylor soon if the silver wasn't extracted.

Kaden didn't know if Taylor could feel it, but if it kept going like this, she would soon find out.

She thought she was going a little crazy, kept remembering things that she knew hadn't happened to her, but the memories felt so real. Kaden was sure as soon as the silver was gone, everything would be back to normal.

Brett, the young wolf that had been taken down by Taylor snorted,

"You're gonna have to wait a while, Andie's treating Gaby," He turned to Axel "Had another fit".

Axel sighed and looked over at Kaden, "Want a tour of the house?

Kaden, who was still fuming over the restrictions they had set on the girls, rolled her eyes at him and shrugged.

No going outside alone, or at all during the night.What did they think they were a couple of inexperienced pups? They'd been watching out for each other for years, who gave the Alphas the right to call them their property?This was very frustrating.

Taylor looked over at Kaden, "See?! If you hadn't said I needed protection too they wouldn't have put these ridiculous restrictions on us."

"Oh no, I would have found another way to keep you guarded." Mason looked Taylor straight in the eyes.

She scoffed, "Yeah we'll see 'bout that."

Axel went ahead and started with the tour of the house.It was elegant, but comfortable; decorated in beige and light browns, to give the place a nice flow of energy. On the first floor, the living room took up the whole entryway and there were two hallways on either side of it.

Kaden didn't want to miss out on useful information she could use to escape, so she set her surliness aside and perked an ear.

"The left hallway has a restroom, two holding rooms for injured wolves, and stairs that lead down to the basement holding cells for dangerous wolves. The right hallway has the kitchen, and a library-study room which you guys are more than welcome to. It's also got the room I will be sharing with Kaden." He said looking over at her.

Kaden turned away heading for the stairs, Axel at her heals with Mason, Taylor, Akira and Daren in tow. Axel's wolves, Brett and Aaron were flanking the crowd, making Mason's pack edgy.

Axel stepped ahead of Kaden to the first room on the left, "This is Gaby's room. She's currently in one of the injured wolf rooms. The room across is a guest room." He opened the door to reveal a room with a dresser, a queen sized bed and a built-in bathroom.Akira quickly stepped ahead and laid claim to the room.

They walked further down the hall, huge paintings of beautiful landscapes hung on either side. They stopped at another room which happened to be Mason and Taylor's.

Mason looked over at Taylor, his eyes glittering in mischief.Taylor ignored Mason and waited for Axel to proceed.

Axel continued down the hall; then pointed to the next door on the right, "This is a bathroom. This is pretty much the end of the tour unless you wanna go out to the porch. Anyways you guys hungry?"

As Taylor and Kaden jumped at the idea of eating, Daren protested, "Whoa dude. Where am I supposed to crash?" He lifted his luggage as if to show them that he was, indeed, not settled in.

"Oh, Daren, you're welcome to chose any of the other rooms in this floor, but not the one the where the hallway ends, it's off limits."

"Why?" Kaden asked.

"Who else is staying here?" Taylor added.

"It's you guys and part of my pack."

Taylor, who had started inching forward towards the forbidden room asked, "Well, who else?"

Yeah, it would have been smarter to tell her to stay in there if they wanted her away from it Kaden silently mused.

"Connor lives with me, Andie's the pack Doctor and Gaby—Well, she's my most precious wolf. I like to keep her close."

A small tremor of jealousy snaked through Kaden at Axel's declaration. Instead of acting on it, she went ahead next to Taylor to see whose room was next but mostly to see if she could get away from Axel and control her damn emotions.

"I don't think it's a good idea to-" Axel started.

"Just show us the room." Kaden snapped.

"If you insist..." He replied, opening the door.

~ Taylor's POV ~

"And this room—"

Taylor smelt it coming before her brain had even registered the owner of the room; over applied cologne and plasticky gel assaulting her senses.

"Ah, come to visit me, sweetheart?" A cocky voice cut through Axel's remaining tour.

She turned a narrowed stare in the direction of the noise.

Axel walked into the room and the group of her, Mason and Kaden followed.

It was a large room with what looked like a porch with sliding glass doors on the far side wall and what may have been a private bathroom opposite of that.

It was completely devoid of color, using only black and white tones through the furniture, walls and decorations. It was tasteful— in one of those "chic but modern" ways and if she hadn't known better, she'd have guessed it was a girl's room. But that also could have been largely to do with the fact that he was the only male so far with a floor she could actually see.

A shock of blonde hair caught her eye, stashed in the far corner of the room.

Connor was bent over a brushed chrome desk, slashing his pencil this way and that—not bothering to meet or greet his visitors. Taylor chose to stay silent and ignore his jabs, now completely recovered from her impaired judgment.

The silence made him look up and grin, "So, how long are they staying, boss man?"

"That…is a complicated question." Axel admitted reluctantly.

Connor gave a nod, not looking like he heard the answer to his question at all.

His eyes were on Taylor.

And Taylor stared spitefully right back.

"Well, hopefully they'll stay with us a while." His tone was well practiced and came off smooth and seductive.

It made her skin crawl.

She was about to tell the wolf to 'take a picture it would last longer' when Mason gripped her wrist.

It was subtle enough that only Connor had noticed—Taylor frowned.She could feel Mason's influence and power, willing her to just stay near him and be content, safe— So she took a step forward, wrenching her wrist out of his grip and putting her closer to her other nightmare.

"What are you drawing?" She managed to fake enthusiasm, directing her question gleefully to Connor.

He, at first, was taken back but quickly recovered and pushed the paper closer to the edge of the desk for all of them to see.

What Taylor saw, she wasn't expecting, "It's amazing."

On the large 16x20 paper in dark vine charcoal was a building plan, but it was the indepth details at the side of the page that grabbed her attention—a large backyard garden complimented with wall murals and art decos littering a glass-lined back porch.

"Well, it's not finished. That's just a rough draft…" he went on, finally losing his confident tone.

"That's cool, what's it for?" Kaden tilted the paper more toward her to get a better look.

"Ah…I don't know. Maybe I'll build it and live in it…or maybe I'll sell the design." He shrugged off-handedly, wiping the stray charcoal from his fingers.

Taylor let out a small laugh, "Maybe you'll live in it? What are you—rich?"

"Yes. Filthy, actually." Axel mused while turning to walk back out the door, "Yet he still stays here and bugs me on a regular basis."

"Starting to like me more now?" He wiggled his eyebrows at Taylor.

She sighed. And he was doing so well too."Do I really need to dignify that with a response?"

"I'm not hearing a no." He called as the group proceeded to follow Axel back out.

Taylor heard Kaden chuckle but she wasn't about to say anything smart when she could sense a very moody Mason beside her once more.

Chapter 22: Blanket Binding and Chicken Chomping

~Taylor's POV~

Worn out from patrolling the halls—because she wasn't allowed to go outside no matter how much bribing she did from the posted guards, she proceeded to find a secluded spot.

That was easier said than done considering since she'd been here there had been a constant flow of wolves wanting to meet the "rogues". Really, she didn't consider herself much of a rogue considering she hadn't yet killed a human or gone rabid in public. She thought if she hadn't been a female, she might have disappointed a few visitors too.

She walked into the spare injury room, the one next to the room housing the mysterious "special" wolf none of them had yet to meet.Leaving the door ajar she studied her surroundings, the room was sturdy and simple, painted in peaceful pastels.

The room smelled like medicine, even though she didn't see any on the counters but she expected there was at least some rubbing alchol in the small cabinet on the far wall.It was unpleasant to the senses but she was willing to bet it was to others too and they would stay away from the room.

She heard a faint scraping against the wall next door and her mind flickered with mild curiousity but she pushed the thought away.

She'd be free game when she got out of that room, until then she'd let the poor thing rest.Weres may heal fast but it still hurt and she definetly understood the 'let sleeping dogs lie' now.

Walking on the other side of the bed she sat down, hoping the bed would block the top of her head if someone decided they wanted to peek in.She sighed, letting her muscles relax.Taylor still wasn't use to having wolves around that weren't trying to kill her and her guard had been up all day.

Now that she could think in peace, she thought of Kaden.She had went into Axel's room with a some other women, a pack doctor apparently.

Against Taylor's protests, she still wasn't allowed in and it wasn't until Kaden said she'd be okay that she had backed off but she hadn't been happy about it.

Andie was her name…she thought.Taylor really hadn't been paying attention; she'd been instead, trying