“Jasper, get out here, or I’m coming in,” he warned.
“No.”
“I’m going to count to five.” It worked eons ago when his mother
said it to him. She didn’t get past one, and Zeus was scrambling to obey her. Hopefully it worked on his redhead.
“Ha, you may want to take your boots off for that.”
Zeus ran his hand down his face, pissed off beyond belief. His
mate had one smart-ass mouth, something Zeus was going to break
him of. “One.”
“Is for the brain cells you have.”
“Two.” He growled.
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“Is for the balls you’ll lose if you come in here.”
“Three.”
“Is for the many ways I can say piss off, go to hell, and stop
talking to me, damn it.”
Zeus stood, walking closer to the door. “Four.”
“Is for the centuries you’ll be sexless if you break this door
down.”
“Five,” he growled loudly at the door.
“Do it, and I’ll pop a cap in your ass, buddy.”
Zeus’s brows pulled together in a frown. What the hell was wrong
with the guy? He couldn’t understand for the life of him why his mate
was so disobedient. Placing his hand on the knob, Zeus tried to turn it slowly to see if it was locked.
“I’m a Timber wolf. I can hear that,” Jasper sang.
Zeus shoved his shoulder into the door, the hinges protesting as it
swung open and slammed against the wall. Jasper tried to run past
him, but Zeus pulled his squirming mate into his arms.
“Let me go,” Jasper shouted.
Zeus ignored him, taking him over to the bed and tossing him
down. Jasper bounced twice and then rolled to his knees. “Want some
of this, big boy?” he asked as he wiggled his ass at Zeus.
Every cell in him locked into place. If he gave in now, Jasper
would think he had won, always acting against Zeus’s wishes. No, he
couldn’t give his mate what he wanted, and it was killing him. He
watched that tight little ass sway back and forth, a big grin on that
gorgeous face that said, come fuck me.
With the strength of ten gods, Zeus took a step back. “Not until
you learn to obey.” Speak for yourself, his cock protested.
He took another step back and then turned. Being naked wasn’t
helping his cause. Zeus snagged a pair of jeans from the dresser,
yanking them on before finishing this discussion. He hated that his
clothes shredded when he shifted. It made for an expensive ass
clothing bill.
Jasper
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Safely tucked away, Zeus turned and damn near fell over. How
the hell did Jasper get naked so fast?
He had to get out of here. His resolve was five seconds, no, one
second away from crumbling. They could talk later.
Zeus walked casually to the door, trying his best to seem
unaffected as he pulled it open and closed it behind him. Walking
away from that spectacular view was the hardest thing he had ever
done.
He pressed the palm of his hand into his erection. It was pulsing to
be free and invade. Zeus wiped his brow as he walked downstairs,
feeling the need to run back upstairs and claim what was his, but the
little voice in the back of his head was reminding him why he was
walking away in the first place. He must learn to obey.
Zeus tapped his thumb on his thigh, pacing the halls manically. He
had to make his erection deflate before he gave in and raced back up
those steps and tackled his mate.
Jasper had a lethal mouth on him, something Zeus wasn’t used to.
They all obeyed, mostly. The three small men were a different story.
Why couldn’t his mate do as he was told? He didn’t make it
complicated. Just do as you’re told, and we’ll get along fine. How hard is that?
“What’s got you in a tizzy?” the soldier Avanti asked.
Zeus came out of thought, staring at Avanti as if he had just
appeared there out of thin air. “What?”
“I said, what’s got you in a tizzy?”
“Oh.” Zeus ran his hand over his bald head, wondering why he
was letting his mate get to him. He was strong, sure, and confident.
The Alpha of an entire town, and one little redhead was not going to make him lose his mind. “Just wondering what to do about the
vampire Eagle spotted.”
The soldier just stared at him a moment. Zeus couldn’t blame him.
He never wondered what to do. He just did it. This was out of
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character for him. All of this questioning himself was. The damn
redhead had him losing his mind.
“I would suggest you tighten up the guard watch.” Avanti didn’t
say it as a suggestion, more like he was coaxing it out of Zeus.
“Talk to Torem and have it set up.” Zeus waved him away. To