Filed to story: Luna Lovette and Alpha Kodak Story
A growl escaped Lovette which had Brodie jumping in surprise. “Frankly I couldn’t give a shit what you think, but disputing my claim to Kodak – that I won’t tolerate.” Her wolf was in full agreement.
“Won’t tolerate?” said Brodie, sounding amused. “What’re you going to do? Insult me to death?”
“Too slow a method. Challenge me to a woman-to-woman fight, Brodie, I dare you.”
“You don’t know what you’re asking, latent. How about I give you a taste of what you’re dealing with.” She flung her alpha vibes at Lovette, intending for them to oppress and intimidate her. Instead of lowering her gaze submissively, Lovette retaliated by clotting the air with her own.
As Lovette’s alpha vibes smothered them all like humidity in summertime, Kodak realized something. That night when she had hit his grandmother with them, she had held back. All she’d been doing was giving Greta a small demonstration of her strength just to shut the woman up. This demonstration here and now was different. She was unleashing the full force of her wolf’s alpha strength on Brodie, making it perfectly clear that although she couldn’t shift, her dominance, strength, speed, and power exceeded that of Brodie’s. In a woman-to-woman fight, Brodie would be overpowered within seconds. Shit if Kodak wasn’t hard as a rock right now at her display of dominance.
“Come on, Brodie, challenge me,” urged Lovette. “You’ve always liked an audience. Shall I kick your ass in front of one?” The terribly fake female let loose a low whine as she ducked her head, averting her gaze as a gesture of submission. “No? Then it might be best if you back the fuck off and scarper, don’t you think?” Lovette’s wolf was extremely disappointed when Brodie did exactly that.
Kodak kissed her temple and ran his hand through her hair, hoping to soothe her wolf. “I’m surprised you didn’t throw her at the wall like you did Selma.”
Reining in her alpha vibes, she smiled at Kodak. “Brodie isn’t one of your mistakes so she gets to walk away without a cracked skull.”
“How did I miss it?” asked Lance.
Lovette arched a brow. “You mean the fact that the female you’ve been sleeping with is about as smart as your toenail?”
He cast an annoyed look in Brodie’s direction, obviously unhappy about her making their sex life common knowledge. “How did I miss how strong your wolf is? Or I suppose a better question would be…why did you hide it?”
“I didn’t hide it, I just didn’t care to show you.” He seemed genuinely confused that she hadn’t wanted to impress him. “I’m not interested in having the approval of people I don’t respect. And I’ll never beg for scraps from anyone’s table. You just never got that.”
For the first time ever, there was an element of respect in Lance’s eyes as he regarded her. “But you’re not going to fight this alliance?”
“This here and now isn’t about making friends or building bridges. This is politics, pure and simple. Us being related by blood has no relevance because, as unfortunate as it is, there’s just no emotional bond there.” It was a sad, simple truth delivered with a shrug. It hurt more than she would ever admit or ever let him see.
“I underestimated you quite a bit, it seems. Both of you suit well. You make a good Alpha pair.” After a heavy sigh he asked irritably, “Okay, Coleman, what exactly are you willing to agree to?”
“Like I said, if there’s a situation that requires you to call on your alliances then you’ll have my support. In other words, I don’t mind being part of a solution to your problems, but I won’t have you doing your name-dropping thing and using me as a deterrent to the beginning of any problems. And there’ll be no using Lovette.”
“Out of curiosity, if you didn’t consider me such an awful protector where Lovette’s concerned…?”
“Then we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. My allegiance would be automatic and have no limits.” And Kodak sincerely meant that.
Maybe it was petty of Lovette to be enjoying that, for just once in her life, her dad was regretting his treatment of her. Not because he cared about her, true, but because it had cost him in a political sense – something more important to Lance Warner than anything else. “How’s that Karma tasting, Daddy Dearest? A little sour, I’ll bet.”
Lance simple gave her an impatient look. “I’ll agree to your terms,” he said to Kodak, albeit a little begrudgingly.
Kodak looked at Lovette. “All of that okay with you, baby?” He knew he’d surprised her by asking for her input, but she didn’t let it show on her face.
“One last thing,” she said to Lance. “Because of your attitude toward me growing up, a lot of people saw it as their right to target me just for fun. Don’t think that if, like Brodie, they decide to do it again I’ll back down just because of the alliance. They shouldn’t challenge me unless they’re damn positive they can take me. I’m an Alpha female of a pack, which means any attack on me is an attack on the pack and I won’t ignore one.”
Lance gave her a sharp nod. “I’ll make sure the pack understands this.”
“Good.” After draining the last of the coffee from her cup, Lovette said, “Shall we go then, Kodak?”
“Sure, baby.” They all rose and then Kodak took the hand that Lance extended and shook it once. “Until we next meet…”
“Oh wait.” He gave Perry a subtle signal and the enforcer then dug a bulging sports bag from under the table and handed it to Lovette. She didn’t take it, just raised a brow at Lance hoping for an explanation. “You know what your mother was like for saving money. She began a fund for you to be given to you when you mated to give you a kick start. Obviously there would have been more in it had she not died.”
Tentatively she took the bag. “There’s money in here?”
“Twenty-five thousand dollars.”
“Twenty-five thousand dollars,” she echoed quietly, more than a little stunned. It struck her that he could have just kept the money for himself, knowing she’d be none the wiser. “Why are you giving me this?” It sure wasn’t because he cared for her.
“I’d never ignore the wishes of my mate.”
“Come on, baby.” Giving a slight nod to Lance, Kodak draped his arm over her shoulder and kept her close to him as they walked side by side her from the diner with Dante and his enforcers trailing behind them.
Kodak kept her just as close when they slid into the backseat of the Toyota, sensing that she was feeling a little off-kilter due to the bag that she was staring at as if it was a ticking bomb. He gave her the comfort she needed and would probably never have asked for – running the tips of his fingers along her bare upper arm and rubbing his jaw along her temple.
“Well, does it feel good to finally have the alliance you’ve been wanting so badly?” she asked, forcing her gaze away from the bag. She wouldn’t have thought being given a gift from her mom would have made her feel anything but incredibly happy, but this particular gift had had a purpose. Her mom had been starting a fund for her so that when Lovette and Joey were ready to begin their life together they would have some money to help them along. And that was why Lovette was – as unreasonable as it might be – feeling guilty for taking it.
Her mom hadn’t scrimped and saved this large amount of money to help Lovette along with a fake mating while she declared to all who’d listen that Joey hadn’t been her true mate. The woman had been a hopeless romantic and wouldn’t have seen Lovette’s mating with Kodak as resourceful. She would have viewed a mating based around a deal that brought mutual benefit to both parties as a mockery of what mating was all about. She would have been right.
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