The Genius Delta novel Chapter 21

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.”

“Then we agree? They get two weeks. That’s it.” Persephone nodded.

“Agreed.” I nodded. “Now I have to tell them that.” I sighed.

‘Logan. Azriel. Cillian.’ I called out through the link.

‘Yes, Delta Jonathan?’ Cillian was the first to answer and will probably be the only one to address me by rank.

‘What’s up, Silvercloud?’ Azriel answered.

‘What?’ Logan gruffly answered.

‘Discussed your plan with Persephone. She says tough shit. You get two weeks. If you find nothing useful on the Demonclaw girl by the time her family is gone, we move forward with our marking.’ I explained.

‘Not even marked, and she’s got your balls in her purse.’ Azriel taunted.

‘Let me link Saddie and see where yours are.’ I answered.

‘He has you there, Azriel.’ Cillian chuckled in his thick Irish brogue. The accent is probably one of the reasons that he’s a popular guy with the unmated she-wolves and humans he works with at Kinsley.

‘What makes your mate think she gets to set the time limits?’ Logan questioned.

‘What makes you think you 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 werewolf laws. Not to mention Persephone is eighteen.’ I reminded him.

‘He has a point, Alpha. Who are we to put a strain on their bond like that?’ Azriel sighed.