Lying down, I rolled toward her, my hand resting on her naked hip, and she moved closer to me, following the pull of the mate bond when she put her face into my chest. I rolled over onto my back, pulling her on top of me, and she snuggled against me, pressing her face into my neck. Tyson also moved with her, chasing her in his sleep as he pressed to my side, tossing his arm over, his hand resting on her ass and back of her thigh.
I stifled a laugh. Payback was a bitch, and I had no intention of waking him and letting him know he was pressing his face into my armpit. Instead, I tucked him closer to really get his face in there while my other hand ran up and down her spine. I sighed, relaxing while drowning in her scent when I heard purring. I looked at my brother, disgusted. He was getting his kicks in his sleep about being tucked in my armpit, and I was about to shove him away when I realized the noise was coming from Lucy.
The sound vibrated against my chest. The purring noise was not her normal one, not a vampiric growl, which was menacing and usually induced by anger or hunger, but like a cat purring, only deeper. It wasn’t her vampire side reacting like that but her wolf. The wolf she apparently didn’t have, making me think of what Avery had said as I let sleep take me.
Chapter sixty-four
Josie
I waited at the meeting spot for hours for this idiot to show up. He was supposed to convince the border patrol he was meeting a friend. The sun was coming up, and I was becoming annoyed. Jamie called him hours ago, and he was supposed to be here by now.
Seeing a car coming up the deserted dirt road, I moved off to the side on alert in case it wasn’t him. The car stopped beside me, and I recognized the boy inside to be him. I had met him a couple of times with Lucy while on school holidays, but I didn’t like him much; he was always so greedy for her attention, and that used to irritate me.
He got out, popping the trunk and not saying a word to me, yet his jaw was clenched.
“Get in,” he finally said.
“I am not getting in the trunk,” I told him, and he growled at me.
“Stay here then. You can’t be spotted when I drive over, so the trunk or find your own way in,” he snapped at me. It was clear he thought very little of me. I glared at him before climbing in, and he slammed the lid down before I even lay down. The trunk door hit my head, and I punched it.
The car started moving, and this jerk wasn’t even gentle, driving like a maniac, when I felt the car move off the dirt and onto the road. The drive took half an hour, and I swear he deliberately took every corner too fast. Then the car came to a halting stop, tossing me against the rear seats.
The trunk opened, and he glared down at me.
“Now, get out,” he spat at me. I got out, glaring at him and wanting to rip the prick to pieces with the way he was acting. I looked around and realized he didn’t drop me anywhere near Tyson and Ace’s packhouse.
“You are supposed to drop me over there,” I told him.
“No, Jamie said to get you over the border. I fucking did that, now fuck off.”
“No, you are supposed to help me. What the fuck is your problem?” I demanded.
“Maybe I don’t like betraying my best friend. I did my part. Now, get. Before I decide to alert patrols of you being here.”
“Like you can talk, preaching about betraying friends,” I told him.
“What the fuck are you talking about? Besides helping you over, I haven’t done shit to Lucy, and I would never hurt her, not like you did.”
“So, you didn’t put pictures all over the school of her naked?” I taunted, and he growled.
“That wasn’t me that wasn’t me, that was the fucking janitor. I just gave him the phone. I didn’t know what was on it, you bitch. Now fuck off away from me. You are nothing but a vile, disgusting bitch, to take photos of her like that and not try to help her. What the fuck is wrong with you?”
“Don’t for one second think you know me, now help me get to Lucy, or I am calling Jamie. I don’t know what he has over you, but it must be something good for you to be going against her and helping him.” I watched as his expression shifted from anger to something else, something I couldn’t decipher. He looked almost pained before he masked it, looking away.
“I did my part. I won’t help you do whatever you were sent here to do,” he said, and I realized whatever Jamie had over him had him conflicted. I knew Lucy and Mitchell were close, but I wasn’t expecting him to be so defiant about Jamie’s orders.
“So, you aren’t going to help me?” He didn’t answer and just headed to the driver’s side door.
“I get caught because of you, I will tell them you were involved.”
“Go ahead, Josie. Lucy is my friend. No one will believe you, and if they did, so be it.”
“You really don’t care, Mitchell. What about Jamie?”
“Fuck Jamie. He has taken enough from me, and I now realize nothing I do for him is enough. He always wants more. I am out,” he said, getting in his car.
“You are best listening to him. When this all goes down, you want to be on the right side,” I yelled at him, and he tossed the door back open, standing and looking over the roof at me.