60| Why not choose one of them?

Grimes' POV

We went back to the sitting room, and Andrea seemed to have been waiting for Claudia.
"You were gone for long," she said.
Claudia placed her hands on her shoulders, standing in front of her. "Grimes had something important to tell me, and I had to be with him for a while."
She frowned. "And it was something important that I wasn't part of...."
Claudia laughed loudly, and she came to my side, making me part of the play she was having with her.
She sat on my thigh before I could say "don't", and made us appear as if posting a new picture as couples. "We were discussing our love testament." She directed my gaze on her. "Wasn't it so?"
I faked a smile. "Yes... that was it."
Andrea was satisfied by it. Claudia refused all my efforts to make her get off me, and I had to pretend that all was okay just so that Andrea would not notice. From sitting on my thighs, she moved her butt to sit between my legs, spreading my legs apart.
Greyson was gone by then, and I couldn't put up an excuse that I had something important to do with him.
"I love the way you both are together," Andrea said.
With some time, her voice was going low, and was weakening the conversation she was having with Claudia.
"My head aches," she said, placing her two hands on her head. "I need to take my medicine."
I slightly pushed Claudia off my thighs, escorting Andrea to her room for her to get some good rest. Claudia followed behind me.
Andrea laid on her bed, and I thought of going back to the sitting room without having to pretend.
"I want to have sex," Claudia said, startling me.
So quick? She had barely waited for an hour to pass before starting the deal of "constant sex"
I had to refuse.
"I can let her know at this very instance."
And then she was trying to threaten me with what she could do against me.
"You would keep shot!"
She got so close to me as if we were having a challenge in a wrestling match. "I won't keep shot if you don't fulfill your own part."
I had to agree with myself that she had lost respect for me. My status as the alpha of the pack was not something she was considering.
"You do not respect me."
She didn't back off, but changed her overly serious expression to make everything seem normal.
"I do." She placed her hands on her chest. "In the best way I can."
"But you are talking to me in this manner."
"Ooh...." She moved her hands down from my chest to my feet, and kissed them. "I'm really sorry that I have offended you."
I felt she was serious with her act, but when she got on her feet, she winked at me. It was all fake after all.
"It was a deal we had, wasn't it?" She touched my jaws.
"Isn't it too early to come to the start of it?"
The deal had become a stake against me, and I had to abide by it. For a mistress? She had worked herself to a higher level a mistress could not attain.
Her mouth got close to my ears, giving me a tickling sensation. "Let's just have a quickie. You aren't okay with normal sex at the moment."
So frustrating. How was I going to avoid her? I could not find a way, as telling Leah about her pregnancy was never an option.
"Why not give me a break?"
"It's just a quickie."
I sat on a sofa, and she was moving her hands all over my body. I stayed stiff, looking at her. The look of satisfaction appeared on her face, but then, the maids passed by, interrupting her.
"Ask them to leave. Just the same way you did for Leah."
The door opened before I could give her a response. Stephanie and Greyson walked in.
"Here comes Stephanie." Greyson said.
Her coming was out of the blue.
"Claudia. Leave us."
She couldn't make a protest to stay.
Stephanie didn't sit as Greyson had done, she was waiting for me to say something that was to be an apology. Her face carrying no expression told me that.
"You didn't bother to check on me."
I got close enough to hold her hands. "I'm sorry."
"You should have spared some time."
"Grimes?" Greyson called out.
Ooh.... I had forgotten that he was there with us.
"I just haven't seen her for a while." I tried to cover up.
He nodded, but was staring at us in a way that showed he was trying to uncover a secret.
Stephanie quickly had a seat, combing her plaited hair with her fingers.
Greyson cleared his throat. "Actually, she had come to discuss some of the issues we are having with the Moonlight pack."
Oh, I had forgotten to tell him I saw Emaus in the Greymoon pack, and what he said made me remember.
"Emaus was with Maggie," I said. "I had no idea why he was inside the palace."
"What could he be doing there?"
None of us could give an answer to that. Stephanie was supposed to give us her opinion as we relied mostly on her to give advice based on her views, but she was not speaking. Her eyes were fixed on me, and Greyson was fast to observe it.
"You went to visit Leah?" She asked.
"Yes."
"Okay."
She didn't ask more questions about it, and Greyson and I were trying to crack our brains. Why had she come? I noticed she was not interested in what we were saying. Soon, I was distracted by her eyes looking at me, and everything Greyson was saying did not get into my reasoning.
"Grimes?" He called back my attention.
"Greyson."
He noticed that I was distracted. Stephanie kept on licking her lips, maintaining eye contact with me. Our unfinished act came into my mind.
"Can I speak to you outside? Just for a minute."
I had been exposed.
We were outside, away from Stephanie, and he kept on shaking his head.
"Do you have something with Stephanie?"
"Noo..." I acted surprised at his question.
"Why not choose one of them?"