Series: Werewolves of Wall Street Series by Renee Rose
Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 66669 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 333(@200wpm)___ 267(@250wpm)___ 222(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 66669 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 333(@200wpm)___ 267(@250wpm)___ 222(@300wpm)
“Not you,” Brick snaps. He flicks his finger like he wants to left-swipe me right out the door. “Nickel.”
Nickel walks silently over to my side and extends his arm toward the door in a charitable gesture of showing me the door.
I stand on shaky legs. Stand and stare at Brick whose blazing eyes show only his wolf.
“Brick?” I try one more time. This time there are tears in my voice. I don't even care how much I’m humiliating myself. I want him to know I didn’t do this. I would never hurt him or Moon Co.
“Let's go, Madi,” Nickel says in his crisp English accent. He takes my elbow and leads me out the door. The first tears fall the moment we cross the threshold.
“Pack your desk,” Nickel clips.
“I don't want anything,” I mumble, only stopping to pick up my coat before heading straight for the elevator.
The tears continue to slide down my face in the elevator ride down to the first floor. I somehow manage to hold the sobs in and keep silent, but I can't breathe.
“Give me your employee badge.” Nickel holds out his hand.
I fumble in my purse and pull it out to hand to him.
“I didn't do it,” I croak when we reach the bottom.
“I don't care,” Nickel answers.
The elevator doors open, and he walks me all the way to the front door where he tells the doorman that I'm not allowed back in.
I stumble out on the sidewalk. Sleet hurls from the sky like further punishment.
Like God is saying, This is what happens when you let your guard down, Madi. When you trust a rich man.
This is what you get.
Brick
Rage storms through me with flashes of red and white. I’m surprised I didn’t already shift, but then, my wolf wouldn’t attack Madi. Not when he believes she’s his mate. I wanted to throw the conference room table through the windows when I found out, but my wolf wouldn't let me do that either. He wouldn't even let me hand her over to Billy, knowing how much he hates her.
Now I know how my father felt, to be mated to the enemy. It’s a wonder he survived as long as he did. The impossibility of my parents’ situation has struck me many times over the years but never more fully than now.
Every single time my father looked at my mother's face, he had to know she wished to betray him. She was the enemy, yet he still couldn't stop himself from seeing her. From claiming her. From taking her up to his bedroom every week when she visited.
Ultimately she destroyed him. And he accepted his death from her hand. He probably knew it would come one day. He probably expected it from the first night he claimed her.
Once Madi is gone, I overturn the giant mahogany table. I smash every chair against the wall, crumpling each one to the size of a cabbage.
Then I turn and face my team. “Get the breach under control,” I say. “We need to be back up and running today.”
“That may not be possible,” Vance says.
“Make it possible!” I rage. “And I want every detail about how this happened written up, so we can go over it.”
My friends eye me warily.
“Somebody get me a fucking helicopter right now.” I need to shift and run within the hour or somebody will end up bloodied on this floor.
“I’ll call Acker,” Jake offers.
“I'll tell Genevieve about the change in personnel,” Vance says.
“I don't want another assistant!” I shout. “No one–no human–ever steps on the top floor again.”
Chapter Seventeen
Brick
I may not survive this.
It’s that thought above all else that eventually forces me to turn back to my human form and get my ass back to Manhattan.
Vance insisted on coming with me to the Berkshires, despite the fact that I threatened to tear out his throat if he wouldn't leave me alone. I ran my wolf for thirteen hours straight there until I collapsed and Vance dragged me back into the cottage.
Liz and Dane were frantic, trying to feed me, get me in the shower, and make sure I didn't go back out to run. Nobody spoke a word about Madison Evans, and for that I have to be grateful.
They all fear I’ll go moon mad.
I fear it, too.
This situation was like a human getting a stage four cancer diagnosis. I’d met my mate, my wolf had chosen, and now he was being denied. A wolf with as much alpha power as I carry can’t survive such a blow. I don't know if I’ll even make it to the full moon. Not with this much rage and betrayal swimming around in my head.
Knowing my pack and company need my leadership right now, especially if I’m going to go feral by the full moon, I am in the office by morning in a suit and tie, ready to take heads.