Page 88 of My Unexpected Mate

“What’s the rush, boss?” I ask, knowing if I was in front of him, he would have ripped my throat out.

“Those pathetic humans are going to kill every supernatural being if I continue to let them believe they are running the show,” he said. “There will be no supernaturals left for me to lead and wipe the humans from the face of the Earth.”

My boss was a complete fucker. He had been letting humans kill our kind for a year now, letting them think they were ridding our world of the supernaturals. Again. Now he decided he has had enough. Not because our kind was suffering, but because soon there will be not enough of us left to use for his benefit.

I was no better, really. I didn’t care what happened to anyone as long as I got my promised prize. My little bird.

“How do we get her to show her powers, boss?” I asked him.

I hoped he would let me near her again. He didn’t know I approached her in the bakery. He would kill me if he knew.

“We will have to make her use them,” he said.

I got excited. “Does that mean I get to go near her?”

“Calvin, you little shit,” he growled. “If you fuck this up again, I will kill you this time.”

“I know, boss,” I said and rolled my eyes.

I was lucky he couldn’t see that. One more reason to end me. He hated disrespect.

“You will listen to me carefully,” he said slowly. “In the next few days, you will watch her and everyone around her. They will have to leave that fucking house at some point. You will find her weak spot. When you do, we will plan an attack. She will have to defend her weak spot and she will have to use her powers. Then I will know for sure if she is good enough.”

“And if she isn’t?”

“Then you can take her right then and there and do as you please,” he said.

Oh, how happy that made me. I kind of hoped she wasn’t good enough. It meant she would be mine sooner.

“Thank you, boss,” I said. “I will watch her carefully.”

“If you fuck up, there will be no place in this universe you could hide from me,” he threatened me.

“I know,” I said. “And I will not fuck up. I have a lot on the line as well.”

“You said that the last time as well, Calvin,” he growled.

“Last time was different.”

“Yes,” he agreed. “Last time you didn’t know how cruel I could be. Remember that, Calvin. Maybe my punishment could be taking your little bird away from you. Making her mine and making you watch. That sounds like an even better punishment than simply killing you.”

He was laughing and my hands started to shake. I clenched my phone in my hand and I heard a little crack.

I will kill that fucker. I will kill anyone who tried to take her from me.

“You fuc…” I started to say but he interrupted me before I could finish.

“I wouldn’t finish that if I were you, Calvin,” he said threateningly. “Remember who you are speaking to. Maybe this new punishment will be an even better motive for you to do as I say.”

I gritted my teeth together and gulped.

“There will be no mistakes this time, boss,” I said through my teeth.

I imagined his beating heart in my hands, me smiling above him while he looked at me in shock and pain. My little bird by my side.

“There better not be, Calvin,” he said, interrupting my fantasies.

He hung up before I could say anything more.