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“Blonde, ” Jax said and glared at Dante. “Not that anyone gives a shit , but I do know how to stay under the radar. I was trained by my father to avoid capture if I had too.”
“Why would a father train his daughter to avoid capture?” Brin asked.
“You didn’t know my father, from the time I was born, he had everything planned out when they discovered I was an Alpha female. Sure there are some Alpha females who are born also, but I was told my Aura was that of a Pack leader. Since I was an only child, I was the next in line , ” Jax said.
“Yeah, the only female Pack leader , ” Brin said wit h a proud tone in his voice. He didn’t know her that well , but they had begun to form a bond. One Brin could not explain or define, but he felt. Hopefully, it meant that they were developing the mating bond. Quin and Jaden had explained it to him when they were younger.
“ That’s right,” Jax said. “You know, sometimes I hated that I was in training so much. I mean day in and day out, work, study, train, fight , a ll to be the next Alpha of the Pack. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t change a thing, my parent’s were awesome, supportive , you kno w .”
Brin nodded and wanted to keep her talking. He felt Dante paying attention too , although he was still typing on the computer. Brin bet if he actually looked at what the man was working on it would be gibberish right about now. His attention was solely on Jax.
“Why was it so important that you take over? Didn’t your father have brothers?” Brin asked , knowing that her uncle could have taken the Pack if she had one.
“Nope, no brothers or sisters, nothing . It was only the three of us. My father’s family had been huge in the past. His father was one of seven children. Most of them have moved to the States or created their own Pack . My father’s bloodline was too strong to be anything other than the Alpha of a Pack. But they are too far away, and I didn’t want to draw any attention to them by going there. I need to get my Pack to safety. It ' s what my father would have wanted me to do , ” Jax said and looked out the window.
Brin looked at Dante, who had paused even typing because he could feel the sorrow coming from the back seat. Brin wanted to pull the car over and hug her, g ive her comfort , but it was impossible. And he wasn’t sure that it would help. Jax suffered a great loss. He knew when his parents we killed , it took months for him to come out of his depression. It was different, since he was a child and had no one to take care of him. Thank goodness that Quin’s parents took him in. Even though she seemed to be holding up, Brin thought that at some point she was going to let loose.
“When I ran from the assholes who kept me, I knew that my natural hair would be like a fucking beacon . It ' s white blonde like my wolf coat. My mother used to say it was a good thing we didn’t live close to a mountain; I would have gotten lost in the snow. She would have been pissed that I colored it. I was going to cut it too… ” she said.
“NO, ” Both men shouted and interrupted.
“Uh, okay, so I won ’ t do that , ” Jax said startled by the yelling.
“What we mean is, that your hair is gorgeous the way it is. I would hate for you to cut it and then hate it. My friend who lives next door to me did that and was pissed afterward , ” Brin said, and he heard Jax growl in the back seat. There she went again with the growling. What the hell was up with that ? “What?”
“Nothing, I ' m tired, ” Jax said, closed her eyes and laid her head back as if the conversation was over. Brin looked at Dante, who shrugged and then went back to work. Okay, the conversation w as over .
***
Shit, why did she have to keep growling when Brin mentioned the neighbor ? It had come out of the blue like before, and she was jealous. B ut how did she tell
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