The Genius Delta

Logan can’t get upset with me for blocking the pack link. It’s not like he and the others don’t do the same damn thing. So I wasn’t going to apologize to him when I took him off mute. He knows why he was being blocked out and knows better than to expect an apology for it. I wasn’t sure what he wanted, but I didn’t expect him to drop bombs on me.

First, he told me that I’d got a week to be prepared to face three Alphas that have decided to pop in and check on Persephone and Delilah, mostly Persephone because of me. I could handle that. I’ve met André and Alec. Though I only met Alec briefly at Kurt’s wedding. And while he’s intimidating in a way even Logan isn’t, I’m not worried about it.

Honestly, I’m not concerned about the D’Amore family. I’m worried about Crista Fayte. Along with Delilah, she’s the only family Persephone has left, and being mated to me means leaving her sisters to move across the world. While I doubt she’d dare to interfere with the will of the Goddess, it doesn’t mean she has to make things easy on us.

Not to mention Persephone mentioned her sister is owed an apology basket, so she may want to interrupt our private time for payback. Either way, I can handle a visit from Persephone’s family.

The part I didn’t expect and am miffed about was Logan telling me we must wait a MONTH to complete our bond. I couldn’t think of a good reason to wait that long. She’s not a human like Sarael, so we don’t have to wait for a new moon. She’s not in imminent danger like Aurelia was, nor has human parents that didn’t like what marking would mean. Hell, if anything marking her sooner sounded logical to me as that would shut that girl from Demonclaw the fuck down.

But that was Logan’s strategy. He wants us to wait to mark for two reasons. The lesser reason is to let Persephone have a month in the internship program before she goes and misses days off, or I can make up some excuse of needing to work remotely that would be believable. His main reason, however, was the Demonclaw girl. After reviewing today’s security footage, he thinks if we want her to slip up, we need to give her a false sense of security.

He wants her to make a misstep and give away if she’s here for something other than simply being that enthusiastic about the bioengineering division of Silvercloud. He thinks if we wait, she will slip up, and if she doesn’t before the time frame, our marking will push her over that edge. Overall, he wants to give Azriel and Cillian time to uncover what she’s doing here.

“Logan wants to give time for what’s her name from Demonclaw to slip up. He figures a month would give time for her to either do that herself or for Azriel and Cillian to find something. If not, he figured when we mark each other, it will push her into revealing her reasons, if they were for anything other than a chance to work at my company.” I sighed.

Persephone’s brow furrowed, and I could practically hear the gears turning in her head as she thought it over. “I don’t like that plan. It means he wants to use you as bait.” She frowned.

“I am not bait.” I laughed, but she didn’t.

“I’m serious, Jonathan. Mila has made it clear she plans to claim you as a mate. She even told me so while you were talking to Shikoba.” She explained. “She needs to be put in her place. The longer she believes you’re unmated, the more likely I will break her limbs.”

“She said that?” I wrinkled my nose. “Yeah, I don’t like that. Granted, she will have more limited access to me once the new security protocols are in place to limit intern access to divisions they aren’t assigned.”

“You can tell your Alpha, Azriel, and Cillian that they have till after my family leaves. If they don’t find dirt on Mila in that time frame, it sucks to be their asses.” Persephone scoffed. “We are marking, and that bitch is going to be put in her place in the only way I can that doesn’t involve kicking her ass at work.”

“Don’t shoot the messenger, átawit.” I smiled as I held my hands up in surrender. “I’m on your side. Jaci is still sulking because we didn’t mark you topside.”

two weeks. That’s it.”

I nodded. “Now I have to tell them

called

Cillian was the first to answer and will probably be the only one to address me by rank.

Silvercloud?’ Azriel

Logan gruffly answered.

shit. You get two weeks. If you find nothing useful on the Demonclaw girl by the time her family

and she’s got your balls in her

Saddie and see where yours are.’ I

brogue. The accent is probably one of the reasons that he’s a popular guy with the unmated

think she gets to set the

get to set them?’ I countered. ‘The only person that set a time limit on you marking Aurelia was her parents. You aren’t Persephone’s father, nor are you a human getting accustomed to

Alpha. Who are we to put a strain on their bond like that?’ Azriel sighed.

to find out this girl’s underlying reason for being here? If there is one?’ Logan asked.

of us, we ought to easily find out why she’s here.’ Cillian

note, she told Persephone she has sights on making me

the girl is set on marking you sooner

than Persephone getting into a fight at work.’ I pointed

have our orders. Cillian is on his way to monitor her till morning, and I’ll take over after

this. Thanks, guys. Good luck.’ I closed

hard time?” Persephone asked. “I will have André give him hell if Azriel gave you grief. It wouldn’t take much

Azriel. It’s very adorable. “Only a little, but I put Azriel in his place with a reminder

should never forget that.” Persephone rolled her eyes. “So, should we get back to choosing who might be my guards and why that Rohan character is

made it to the list. It bothers me. And I don’t simply mean because he’s unmated. I’m not one of those guys that will get super territorial and worried an unmated male could make a move on my mate. Okay, so maybe, to an extent, I am. Every werewolf is like that. Persephone feels that way