“I tried to bite one of them when they were…that’s why they bit me, it was payback.” She sniffled loudly. “I’m sorry.” She wiped her nose with the back of her hand. “I should go. My being here must be torture for you. I’m sure you have better things to do besides take care of me.”
“No, not really.” He smiled down at her. “I’m going to fix us something to eat. Do you think you can get some more soup down?” She nodded and moved out of his lap. “I’ll be back in a few minutes. Don’t try to get up.”
“Okay. Can I have something to put on?” He got a tee shirt out of a drawer and tossed it to her then left the room.
Lettie tried her legs and they held. She was getting better then, right? She went to the mirror and lifted her shirt. Wow. He must’ve been hard up to want to have sex with her. She was a mess, running her fingers through what looked like a troll doll’s hair, she braided it quickly.
“I thought you promised not to get up.” He said bringing a tray in and setting it down. She grinned.
“I needed to look at the marks. I just needed to see.” Lettie climbed up into the bed and sat against the headboard. “I feel better, when can I go home?” He sighed and put the tray in her lap.
“I’d like you to stay, permanently.” Her head shook. “Lettie I know that we had problems but I think that we can work through them. I love you. I’ve always loved you. I want to be with you again.” He sat on the edge of the bed. “I even have a job here for you, the pack needs a bookkeeper, and there’s nobody better at that than you are.” Lettie dipped her spoon into the tomato soup and sipped it.
“So you want me to come back for the pack.” She watched him intently over her soup looking for the lies. In the last few years of their marriage, Lettie found one general rule good to remember. If his mouth was moving then he was probably lying.
“No, I want you to come back for us, for me. Whether you do or not, I want you to do the books regardless. Once you get going with them, I don’t think it will take very long each week to do them. You know I suck at that stuff. I wanted to thank you for keeping the bank account like you did. I needed the money to pay pack bills, they were all over due, and well, there isn’t much left.” She sipped and listened. “That’s what I meant when I said that you weren’t a productive member of the pack. What I wanted to say was that we needed your skills as a bookkeeper.” He took a drink of water from the bottle on her tray. “When you do go home, take the SUV, it has air. I don’t need it anymore because I’m not driving all the way to Lennox.” Her eyes snapped up to his. “When I said that you should give the old truck to me, you didn’t wait for me to explain, you just ran off.” He could see she was starting to get angry and backed it up a notch. He dropped his head. “I know most of what happened between us was my fault. But I swear Lettie that I’d do anything to put it all right again.” She set the spoon down on the tray. Her soup bowl was empty. He took the tray and put it aside.
“Anything?” She asked softly. He nodded. “Give up your alpha position, go back to work in Lennox and move back to the bungalow.” He stared at her for the longest time. Jordan got up and carried the tray from the room. “Yeah that’s what I thought.” She whispered. “It’s still more important than I am.”
“It’s not.” He said coming back into the room. “It’s not more important than you are.” He was angry.
“It is Jordan.” His head shook.
“Done. I will announce it tomorrow at the pack meeting that they need to find a new alpha, that my mate wants me all to herself.” He grinned and climbed onto the bed and sat across from her. “If that’s what you want.”
“If I was going to stay, I would want to be more important to you than anything else, like I used to be. I’m not saying that I will just that if I were. I still need to think about that.”
“You always were Lettie. I wanted to be the alpha so that we could have the biggest house, so that we would be the most important pack members, so that I could stay home with you instead of driving for hours after spending all day away from you.” Her brows knitted. “You didn’t think of all of that huh?” She shook her head. That was the original idea but I think I forgot the reasoning behind the idea somewhere along the way. I’m remembering though.” The corner of his mouth lifted.
“I thought that you just wanted to be in charge.” He smirked. She had the most beautiful smart mouth.