Force of Nature Series Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4) (65 page)

“Baby, I can’t hurt you anymore, but if you move like that again, I won’t be able to be a gentleman and pull out.”

“You pull from my body now, Dallas Force, and I will hurt you.” She moved again and he couldn’t help moving too. “More. Please give me more.”

He tried to be slow, but she wouldn’t have it. When she nuzzled his neck and licked his vein, he nearly let go. But he needed to feel her come again. When he leaned down and took her breast into his mouth, she moved her lips over his throat. Suddenly, she nipped at him he felt his climax race through him. He did the only thing he could do, he bit her. And her biting him had him fall over the edge.

He dropped his weight down onto her. She giggled and he looked up at her. She was the most beautiful person he’d ever seen and she was his.

“Giggling is not kind, love. You should know that wolves take lovemaking very seriously and a giggling female isn’t very nice.” He kissed her quickly before he turned to his back, taking her with him. She sat up over him and his cock surged to life again.

“You are not finished, are you? Oh Dallas, that was so much fun that we have to do it again.” She rolled her body over his until her pussy was over his hardening cock. “Show me how to pleasure you the way you did me with my mouth. I loved that.”

His cock went from semi-hard to straining to be where she wanted it in seconds. He thought he could reason with her about taking her virginity and being sore. But she scooted down his body and took him into her mouth.

“Christ,” he bellowed. Her mouth was hot and wet and he nearly came again when she gagged around him. Guiding her to where she couldn’t hurt either of them, he told her what he needed. “Lick me from the root to the tip. That’s it. When you take me into your mouth, you should—Christ, Stacy, that’s it.”

She pulled him deep in her throat and swallowed. His cock surged up and he felt her touch his balls. His climax was close again and he came when she cupped his balls into her hot hand. It was over much too quickly, but he was sure he’d have died if she had much more in the way of lessons. Pulling her up to his chest, he flipped her to her back and settled between her thighs.

“You look like you could eat me alive.” Her voice was rough and sexy. “Are you going to, Dallas?”

“Yes. Then I’m going to mark you again. This time, I want to taste your blood. I want us bonded as well as mated before you leave this room.” She nodded to him. “Will you bond with me, Stacy? Be mine forever?”

“Yes. Tell me what to do. I know that I must draw blood, but…when do I do it?”

“When we climax together.” He nearly came when she smiled again. “When we climax together, we’ll bite together. You bite my throat and I’ll bite you. Understand?” She nodded. “This is forever, baby. I’m never letting you go.”

She touched her finger to his cheek. “I know. And I’m ready.”

He entered her slowly, knowing she’d be sore. But he couldn’t do that pace for long. Moving in and out of her was amazing and he found that she was meeting him stroke for stroke when he felt her wolf stir against his.

When she let her wolf go a little, he felt his own wolf respond. Her canines were sharp and Dallas couldn’t wait to feel them sink into his flesh. As soon as she came, he came again. They let their wolves mark each other as their human selves marked as well. The second her blood entered his mouth and his into hers, he knew they were one. Stacy Force was his mate.

Chapter 5

Rich called again and received the same message. “I can’t come to my phone right now, but if you leave a message, I’ll get back with you as soon as I can.” He threw the fucking phone across the room. Where the fuck was his butler?

He’d gone back outside to let him retire for the night and couldn’t find him. Rich had actually forgotten about Harvey until he’d been about to go to bed. And other than the door to his car being open, there was no sign of him anywhere. Rich had shouted for him for nearly an hour before he’d gone up to bed thinking he’d simply gotten high again and wandered off. But this morning, the limo was still in the drive and the door still hung open. And there was no sign of Harvey ever being there, only the faint scent of heroin in the car. It was as if he’d vanished.

Trying to remember where his brother lived proved futile. All he knew was he showed up every day and left every day. And Rich wasn’t going to go out and ask anyone where he lived. Not for any amount of money. He did, however, call to see if anyone from the tight group his brother had hung around with had seen him.

“No, sir. I can go to his home and see if…well, if maybe he’s taken too much this time. The man never knew his limit.”

That was true and Rich laughed. Of course few knew that he gave him the drugs, or that he was his brother, but that was neither here nor there. “You do that. And send me someone to take over his duties until we know for sure. I need someone to drive me to the meeting in town.” He heard the hesitation, but the man finally said he’d send someone over. Rich knew that he’d have a hard time of it and found that he didn’t care. Soon, someone would be here and he’d have his breakfast made and things would be back to normal.

The phone ringing had him jump and when he could get his heart back under control, he picked it up. There wasn’t any time for him to say even his name before someone began to speak.

“They know the conditions you keep your wolves in and the council is coming to investigate. If I were you, I’d leave now and avoid being put into prison. It’s not a place for you.” The line went dead and he laid it gently back into the cradle.

He sat there for several more seconds before he stood up and looked around.
Now what?
his mind screamed at him. He had to leave, but to where? No one would take him in and he doubted very much he’d want to live in any of the “houses” he had provided for them. He went to his safe and opened it.

He would need money. Lots of it too. Taking out the three large bags, he set them on the floor, went to the safe on the other side of the room, and took out what was there as well. He was taking the second load to the car when he realized that the battery was dead. Going to the garage, he opened the trunk to the first car he saw and started putting his bags into it. That’s when he heard the car pull up. He hid behind the car and watched as they looked into the last bag he’d yet to bring with him.

“He’s bolting. Maybe he’s still in the house and we’ll be able to bring him in.”

Rich didn’t know these two, but was willing to bet that they were not his replacement enforcer. The men went inside as another car pulled up.

The larger man came out of the house and shook hands with the other three new arrivals. “He’s not inside, but he’s not been gone long. He left some of his ill-gotten gains behind.” The newcomers walked to the money and kicked the bag. Rich found himself nearly going out to them to kick them when he realized he’d never come out the victor with these men. They were well taken care of.

He sniffed the air, wondering if it were possible to get their scent. He nearly screamed out when he smelled vampire, and the other man was an alpha too. He tightened in to where he hid and waited. He knew that the new council that was forming to take care of both weres and vampire had one of each on the board. He wondered if these two knew who they were.

This was an ambush. Someone wanted his territory and this was how they were going to get it. It never occurred to him that he’d done the same to get the one he was in, but that didn’t seem relative right now. These men were on his property. But he wasn’t going to confront them just yet. He was desperate, but not stupid.

“I say we gather up all we can here and see if we can get some of his pack to come with us. They can’t be happy here and if he’s abandoned his position, I’m well within my rights to take it.”

One of the newcomers agreed. “You should call them to you. I’ve a report that says he’s only got about sixty left. Shame, too, this was a very large pack at one time. Too bad the younger wolves have no pride in their responsibilities.”

Rich knew that voice. It was the man he’d spoken to earlier in the week.

“You call them to you and while I’m here I’ll witness their coming to you.”

Rich knew that not one person would leave him. He’d been threatening them enough with death that they’d be terrified out of their minds to leave. He sat down to wait for the first of them to tell this person that they’d rather stay here.

When the bell rang for the meeting place, it only took them several minutes to come. Rich had trained them on that as well. Promptness was all he would tolerate. He was surprised at how few came and realized that the pompous ass had been right. There were very few people in his pack.

“I’m Austin Force, alpha of the Force pack. I’ve seen how you’re living and have come to offer you refuge in my pack. You will pledge to me now and I’ll make sure that your living conditions change immediately.”

No one moved just as he’d expected. But the alpha wasn’t finished, it seemed. Rich wasn’t worried. These people would be stupid to leave and some of them had seen what he would do.

“I believe your alpha has left you. The council is here to arrest and him and take him into custody for crimes against our kind. I am well within my rights to simply take you under my protection, but I would rather you came of your own free will.”

“What of our families? Will you murder them if we do not do as you say?”

Rich almost popped his head up to see who had spoken, but didn’t at the last minute. He’d find the prick and burn him alive.

“I wouldn’t do that even if you yourself had committed the most heinous crime. Family is all we have and I never hurt them. My mother would skin me alive.” There was a small laugh from the group and more questions were asked. The man was a sap if even half of what he was saying was true.

“Yes, there are houses. Not enough if you all come now, but we’ll figure something out in the meantime. But we’ve plenty of food. Each house is yours so long as you want and your families are only required to give what you can. And I never take more than we can use.”

“How do we know what you say is true?”

Take that
, Rich thought.

“How do we know that once you get us to where you say you’re taking us, you don’t kill us?”

“If we wanted you dead, you’d be there already.” This was from the vampire. “Austin Force is my brother-in-law and friend. As a vampire, I will have you know that if he wanted you dead, I would have killed you all before the first of you fell to the earth.”

There were some mummers of voices, but nothing Rich could make out. Then he heard something large pull into the drive. He looked over the trunk of his car and saw two large city buses sitting there. What the hell was this?

“If you want to come with me, this is the only time I will bring you a ride. After this, you’ll have to get to me on your own. I have two doctors on each bus and they will tend to your needs. If at any time you want to leave my pack, then you are more than free to go. But again, you leave on your own.”

Rich laughed to himself. The man really was a sap. Providing transportation, doctors, and that stupid speech was enough to make him sick. The man would be lucky if one person got on either bus. He pulled out his cell phone and listened to his music with his headphones he had in his pocket to drown out the insidious noise of the idiots. He knew without a doubt that this man was wasting his time. He’d not been easy on these people and there was no way they’d make a break for it now.

After an hour, his battery died. He heard the engines start and then the crunch of the gravel just as he was putting the now dead phone in his pocket. Any minute now, he’d go out and see his pack standing like sheep waiting for him to tell them to go home. Rich straightened his clothes and stood up. Time to tell the sheep to leave.

The drive was empty. The limo was there, of course, but there were no people. Even his bag of money was missing. He thought maybe they’d gone home already, left the alpha to stand there alone with his big rides, but he didn’t know. He was about to go back to his car when he saw the paper waving under the wiper blade. He took it off and read it.

“That’s how a real alpha treats his subjects. He doesn’t do it by hiding in the garage crouched behind a car like a small child afraid of his own shadow. Signed, Austin Force.”
The post script had him snarling.
“By the way, I have Georgia and her cubs.”

He tore the note up and then shifted, tearing his clothes from his body. He was going to kill someone and he didn’t care who. The first person he saw had better have their things in order because they were as good as dead.

~~~

Dallas stood outside the studio and tried to think how to do this. He knew Alexis had heard about him hitting Stacy, but he didn’t know how she’d take it. He also knew that she and Stacy were good friends despite being alpha to a pack. He didn’t knock, but walked in.

The slap startled him. It was hard and drew blood to his lip. Before he could reach up to wipe off the blood, Alexis started in on him. Dallas was too stunned at first to do more than stand there.

“How could you? How could you hit a woman?” He started to speak, but she snarled at him. “Don’t you dare try to justify it. I know what happened. You hit her and knocked her out. Do you know what’s it like to lose a connection like that? To not know what happened to the person you can no longer hear?”

He stood there for several seconds, wondering if she was finished, his own anger nasty and hot. When she turned to him, she drew back her hand to hit him again. He grabbed it before she could connect.

“Once was quite enough. I hit her, yes, but she walked into a fist that was meant for another.” She started to speak and he held up his hand. “When you injure a man for no reason, he gets to—”

“No reason,” she shouted at him. “I suppose you find it all right to hit someone that’s much smaller than you.”

“No, I don’t. But had she not then, I wouldn’t have bonded with her nor become her mate.” She took a step back. “In my family, we ask before judging. I’m sorry you have so little faith in me that you’d…that you’d hit then not ask questions.” He turned to leave.

“Don’t, Dallas. I didn’t know. I—”

“No, you didn’t. Nor did you ask.” He walked out the door, shutting it quietly behind him. He was nearly naked by the time the door opened and he was almost to the forest line when she came out of the building.

By the time he’d been out for nearly three hours, he knew that he’d have to apologize to her. He’d been wrong to walk away from her. Males didn’t treat the females in their family like he’d done. He moved along the perimeter of the land to the furthest part and sat down near a spring and closed his eyes. He felt a small touch of someone trying to contact him and ignored it. Right now, he didn’t want to speak to anyone.

He had a mate. Not just any mate either, but Stacy O’Brien. She was everything he’d hoped for in a mate and then some. And she was all his. He smiled as his wolf stretched. Both their beasts were happy as well.

“How long you going to be out there before you come back home?”

He could ignore everyone else, including his mate, but not his alpha.
“I might not. I think I’ll collect my mate and live as a wolf for the rest of our days.”
He heard his brother laugh.
“I’m not kidding, Austin. I’m not in the mood for your lecture. When I’ve cooled off enough, I’ll do my duty and apologize to her, but I’m not even close to making it sincere right now.”

“What if I told you she is crying because she feels she hurt you? What if—”

“I don’t care and she did hurt me. Leave it be, please. I don’t want to talk about it or her.”
Dallas stood up and stretched and then walked to the water’s edge.

“Dallas, it’s not the way you think it is. Gordon is upset with her and Stacy won’t even speak to her. Everyone is pissed at her, not you.”

He snorted at his brother.

“
I’m not lying to you. She’s been crying since she came to me over two hours ago and is as we speak telling anyone who will listen that she is a monster that hits without thinking.”

He wanted that to feel good, but he felt horrible about it. He started back toward the pack house without speaking to his brother. It didn’t seem to matter to him. Austin seemed to be in a talkative mood.

“Mom isn’t happy either, but I can’t tell if she’s just mad at the whole thing, you, or Alexis. She’s baking.”

That stopped him in his tracks.

She’s made more cookies and cupcakes than I think we’ll be able to eat in the next five moon phases.”

“I didn’t hit Stacy on purpose. And she and I mated and bonded last night.”
He started moving again when he had to stop again.
“Austin, have you been in the south fields this week?”