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Things went to a whole new level of awkward.
Jake cleared his throat and shrugged one shoulder. "Yep."
“Okay.” Cooper nodded, his brow creased slightly. “If you hadn’t, the Dagens would have. I told him he was gonna get in too much shit someday. He wouldn't listen. I even told him he should come to you for help."
He looked regretful. "They threatened him, I guess."
"That sounds like Dagen," I said. And me. Threats were a part of the job. "And now you have enough money to pay Dagen off. I don't expect anything in return."
No, that wasn't exactly true. I didn't expect him to fuck me just because we won the auction. When it came to sex, I was all about consent. I would call on him for a favour in return for us helping him out of the shit, but he didn’t need to know that yet.
"I think I have a few hundred thousand left after I pay them off." Cooper smiled slowly. "Was that, like, some sort of record? What you paid, I mean."
Jake chuckled.
"It was high, but the record is higher," I said gently.
"Oh." Cooper's face fell. "What is the record?"
I took a few beats before I responded. "It's one point six million. Held by me."
Silence fell for a moment before Cooper broke it. "Oh," he said again. His eyebrows shot up. "You…"
"Sold my virginity for one point six million dollars, yes," I said. "One point two is a lot higher than most." I don't know who else was bidding, but I suspected they were bidding on behalf of Alistair Dagen. The moment anyone was aware of Jake's bidding, they would have wanted to push up the price, just to piss me off. Whatever, that amount of money was spare change.
"Okay," Cooper said. He looked from me to Jake and back again. "You two are… Together?"
I glanced at Jake as his expression tightened slightly. I would have missed it if I wasn’t watching.
I looked back at Cooper. "No, not exactly," I said. "Just once, before we worked together." Before I drew that line.
Jake unscrewed the lid of the jar, pulled out a cherry and popped it in his mouth. "Best one point six million I ever spent."
That clearly took Cooper by surprise. "You bought… You paid… I…"
"It was a long time ago," I said quickly. I would never stop being grateful to Jake for making that winning bid. It was Alistair Dagen's father he bid against. If Dagen won, the night I lost my virginity would have been the last night I lived. I knew that with absolute certainty. What better way to finalise the conquest of the Ivory Claw Pack than the rape and murder of the daughter of the last Alphas on the tenth anniversary of their death? Even if I survived that night, they would have married me off to Alistair or someone equally horrible.
"Do you want to run your uncle's garage?" Jake asked bluntly. "Ivory owns it now, but maybe you could make some kind of arrangement."
Cooper shook his head. "Gods no. You're welcome to the place. I don't want any part of it. I would rather work for you."
Now I was the one taken by surprise. "For us? You know what we do, right?"
Cooper looked like he was ready to jump up and down in his seat. "I know you don't take shit from anyone. I know no one dares to cross you. You're also smoking hot."
Jake tossed a cherry up in the air and caught it in his mouth. "Thank you." He chewed and wiggled his eyebrows.
Cooper grinned. "I mean, you are too, but I meant her." He nodded towards me.
"Of course you did," Jake said around his mouthful. "You're right, she is."
The smell of testosterone in the room was next level. It was sweeter than a drug.
"I would kill for you," Cooper told me softly.
His tone gave me a delicious chill down my spine. Call it an asset or a flaw, but us white wolves loved to kill. He was a white wolf too, I could smell it on him the moment I saw him. Nothing was more sensual. If I could bottle it and sell it like perfume, I’d be more ridiculously rich than I already was.
"I'm sure we can find an opening somewhere," I said. "I could always use more bodyguards when Jake goes all nursemaid on me."
