A Mate's Bite(46)

Fury fired through her, filling every cell with disgust. Her sister- no, not her sister, the woman who’d shared a womb with her was nothing more than a bottom feeder. A materialistic bitch who cared about nothing but what she could get. “You’d put us in danger? With no regard to the fact one of us could get hurt? Killed even? How long has it been going on?”

Kass smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “Since I got here and you said you wouldn’t pay me. I met some guys on the way into town who offered to pay me if I got them some information. I didn’t call them up on their offer until you said you wouldn’t give me money.”

“You evil bitch!” Karla gasped.

She shrugged in her tiny top. “I told you I needed money.”

“I’m going to kill her,” Karla growled, ready to fling herself at her lowlife of a sister.

Jordan pulled her back before she could reach the sofa, hugging Karla to her. “Calm down. You’re not violent, remember?”

“Fuck that! She sent those people to attack you. To hurt us. She needs a reality check!”

Jordan nodded and smiled. “I agree. But since you’re indisposed, I’ll take care of any beat downs,” she joked.

Karla knew Jordan was trying to make light of the situation so she’d calm down. Her entire body shook with loathing for her sister.

“You came to my house and put me and my friends in danger.” She curled her nails into her hands, digging them deep into her palms and tried to calm the revulsion racing through her. Her sister had gone too far. People had been hurt because of her.

“Stop acting all mighty. Even your man tried to get his hands on me one night.”

“Liar!” Karla’s temper snapped. She swung a hand in a blur. She didn’t even feel the sting of it hitting Kass’s cheek.

“It’s true! He wanted me. I turned him away,” Kass taunted, rubbing her hand over the fingerprints Karla left on her face.

“Karla—” Jordan moved forward to get between them.

“She’s lying,” Karla said confidently. “I know she is. Nate isn’t like the men in your life, Kass. He’s not like the men Mom dated it. He is honorable.”

Kass snorted with an evil glow in her eyes. “Whatever. He’s looking for some pussy just like all guys.”

She wanted to hit the woman again. Hard. To punch her for trying to destroy the life she’d built when neither she nor their mother had been there for Karla.

“Nate loves me.”

Kass rolled her eyes and sucked her teeth. “Big deal.”

“I feel sorry for you, Kass. For so long I was afraid to open myself to love that I almost passed up on the only man who’s cared enough to try.” She lowered her voice, seeing her sister in a new light. In the light of those who had nothing. “You’ll never see past the money a man has. And that’s sad. It means you’ll never know how much they can love you just for being you.”

“Love is cheap. And it doesn’t pay the bills.” Kass turned away to go.

“Where were you supposed to deliver Jordan?” She asked.

Kass turned to her, a greedy smile on her lips. “Pay me and I’ll tell you. I’m sick of this town and want to go home.”

Jordan let her barely restrained anger loose. She grabbed the other woman by the throat again, lifting her high up in the air this time. Though they were about the same height, Jordan’ shifter power came through at that moment.

Kass slapped at Jordan’s inflexible hand.

“You tell me what we want to know, or I will send you home with two broken legs. Karla can’t scent the disgusting reality of your feelings for her, but I can. And I will be damned if I let you anywhere near her again. You start talking or you will regret it.”

Karla watched Kass grip Jordan’s hand, tugging it to let loose. Guilt nagged her. Kass had brought danger into the Wolfe’s lives. Into Jordan’s life.

“This isn’t your fault, Karla,” Jordan said gently.

“Yes, it is.” She swallowed at the knot in her throat. “She’s my sister.”

Jordan shook Kass in her grip and growled. “She’s a poor excuse for a human being. And you’re not responsible for her actions. Now stop feeling guilty because I can scent your distress, and it’s making me want to rip holes into her face.”

Kass tried to jerk out of Jordan’s hold.

“Tell us what you know, Kass. And Jordan will let you go.”

Kass’s fulminating look did nothing to garner Karla’s sympathy. The things she’d said had two effects on Karla. She realized she’d been an idiot waiting so long to open herself up to the man who loved her. And she was grateful Nate’s family and her friends were such wonderful people. The type of people she’d always wanted in her life.