Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 45092 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 225(@200wpm)___ 180(@250wpm)___ 150(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45092 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 225(@200wpm)___ 180(@250wpm)___ 150(@300wpm)
“Come inside, Little ones,” Arion ordered.
Brock set a hand on Suzette’s back and ushered her forward.
They all shuffled into the house, and Jez threaded her fingers with Suzette’s as she dragged her in farther. There were at least eight men in the house already. All of them enormous and clearly Alphas. They were standing around in the great room talking and sipping coffee.
Suzette knew most of them from the other day when they came to Daddy’s house, but there were a few she’d never met. Those few were older and more serious. She suspected they were among the elders Daddy often spoke of.
“Can we go to my nursery, Daddy?” Jez asked, bouncing on her feet.
Arion took her chin in his fingers and held her gaze. “You need to be polite, greet her Daddy, and ask his permission, Little one.”
“Yes, Sir.” She turned toward Brock. “Nice to see you, Sir. Can Suzette come to my nursery with me?”
He reached out and ran a hand down her blond braid. “Yes, Little one.”
Suzette found it startling that he knew her so well, well enough to have such familiarity with her. But she’d been here two months while Brock had been waiting for Suzette to turn of age.
Brock lifted Suzette’s chin. “Make good choices. Same rules apply here as at home. Obey anyone who tells you to do something. Every male in the pack has the same authority as I do when it comes to your safety, understood?”
“Yes, Sir.” She shivered at the thought of other men commanding her to do something. So far, she’d only taken orders from her Daddy.
Jez grabbed Suzette’s hand again and skipped down the hallway, away from the intensity of the ten large men. Suzette was relieved when they got out of that room. She hadn’t minded sitting on her Daddy’s lap and listening in the time several of them had visited her Daddy’s house, but the atmosphere in the great room today was far more intense and foreboding. She’d rather escape.
“I can’t believe you were kidnapped,” Jez said as soon as they were in her nursery. She spun around and walked backward, continuing to drag Suzette deeper into the room until she reached a plush rug on the floor and dropped down to sit on it. “Tell me everything.”
Suzette giggled as she sat cross legged in front of her friend, their knees touching. They’d sat like this a million times when they’d been toddlers, but they were grown women now. They hadn’t done anything this childish in fifteen years. Now it came naturally.
Jez was wearing a frilly, pink, satin dress with a sheer tulle over the front. It was very delicate and pretty and suited her friend perfectly. It was also a similar length with equally flouncy short sleeves and a low, round neckline. When Suzette glanced at her friend’s chest, she realized the tulle was hiding her nipples.
Suzette’s dress didn’t have layers today. The front lay flat across her breasts and then flared out. If she got too excited, no one could overlook her nipples.
Jez clasped both her hands and shook off her first question to ask another. “It’s so weird, isn’t it?”
Suzette nodded, unable to smile at her friend’s excitement. “Very.”
“Are you getting used to it? Your new life, I mean?”
“I think so. I was shocked at first, but it’s getting easier. Being here with you is surreal.”
“Isn’t it?” Jez responded. “I’ve been waiting for you forever.”
Suzette giggled. “More like two months.”
“And four days. Don’t leave off the four days. They were very long. Do you know how many times my Daddy spanked me in the past four days because I couldn’t stop asking about you?”
Suzette’s cheeks heated. “That part is the weirdest. Who knew we would be expected to submit to our mates so deeply and end up with sore bottoms nearly every day.”
Jez giggled. “Right? I never would have believed anyone if they’d told me about this life I was Fated to live.”
“Maybe that’s why no one told us. We were only taught to obey. That part was grilled into our heads, but we couldn’t have begun to imagine how seriously that would be taken.”
“Or,” Jez proposed, “no one in the valley is even aware of how submissive women are expected to be in the mountains among the Alpha Protectors.”
“You’re probably right.”
“Now tell me what happened. Don’t leave out a single detail.”
Chapter Seventeen
“We’re expecting two members of the Grelian pack to come here?” Brock asked as he glanced toward the hallway where his mate had disappeared with her friend.
Arion nodded. “The elders discussed this situation at length. It was decided that you needed to be present for this meeting, and everyone realized there was no way you would agree to separate from your mate this early in your union.”
That was for damn sure, but Brock was still concerned for Suzette’s safety.