Dante's Dream (5 page)

“
What do you see,
” Brin
asked moving closer to her. 

“I see my father, fighting for his life, my mother, our
Pack
...” she whispered
and
leaned a little toward him
, h
er only
s
how
of
weakness.  It wasn’t really weakness
either;
it was more like she was looking f
o
r his support.  “For me.”

Brin
put
his arm around her slowly and held her as she poured out her pain and exhaustion.  He felt a bond with her.  Finally, she talked herself to sleep.  Brin sat there in an uncomfortable
position,
f
or as long as he
could,
before shifting and moving her into position.  He lifted her without ever waking her.

Taking her to the conference/bedroom, he laid her on the bed
and
stared at her.  Even
with
her face tear streaked and broken because of her
family’s
death, she looked strong and Alpha.  No one would
mistake
this woman for a shrinking violet, or a submissive mate.  No, she was all Alpha.

***

Dante
laid
his head back on the cushion in the car that was
taking
him to the office of the lawyer Orfeo had been working with.  Orfeo had spoken highly of him.  Explaining what he knew about the man
'
s past.  Really
,
they were a lot alike. 
Dante had been curious when he first heard
of
the man. 
Something about him seemed familiar.

The driver called back that they were arriving to meet the Vampires that had already arrived and surrounded the building.  When he got off the plane
,
they had reported that so far no one had paid much attention to the office they were guarding.  Vampires didn’t need much
sleep;
a few hours here and there would be good.  But he had
n’t been
able to rest since he found out he was coming here.

Not that he had much of a chance.  But the plane ride would have been a good place to catch some
zzz’s. 
Unfortunately
,
his brain was working overtime.  The vision
s
he was having were ever changing.
  He knew already what needed to be done.  But he had to arrange so many things before they would be able to leave.  The load was weighing on him.  He still couldn’t figure out why the hell the two people he was dreaming about would mean to him.  It was enough to drive the Vampire fucking nuts.

The car slowed
down,
and the
ten-hour
journey had finally come to an end.  Dante sighed and waited for his Guards to get out of the car and signal for the others that had been watching the office building
to
come out of hiding.  He saw the fir
s
t
one,
just as he emerged from the
car.  
  

P
utting his sun glasses on to blo
ck the bright rays
from
the sun, he
looked around. 
Damn it, why did he have to arrive i
n the middle of the fucking day?
  It
sucked.

“Sir, we have secured the surrounding area.  There are some shifters
that
have shown
up;
I think they are part of her Pack.  We have watched
them;
so
far,
they are waiting around
the
hotel not far from here.  There are about fifty of them
,
” T
rey, his Lead Guard
,
said.

Trey had worked for him for the last ten decades as his Lead Guard, it was a position he didn’t take lightly, neither of them
did
.  He would give his life for the
Clan; Trey
proved it
time and time again when they were
attacked. 
 

“I think they need a little
reassurance
, go and tell them who we are.  I will go inside and see how the human is holding up with all this.  He
'
s probably not real happy about being stuck in the middle of this war we have gotten ourselves into.  Make sure you are all on alert.  I don’t know if the Rogues have left yet, they may still try
to
capture the female Alpha
,
” Dante said and pulled his phone out of his
pocket. 
 

He
did not have
a chance to meet the lawyer
yet;
he assumed he was like most, pasty, overweight and greedy for money.  That was his experience at least.  The man was
probably
pissing his pants having to stay
inside
the room with an Alpha female for the last twenty hours. 
He should have asked Orfeo for a bio
,
that way he would know what the fuck he was getting into.

The voice that
answered
the phone was deep and masculine.  And much younger than he would have thought, great
,
a wet behind the ears
,
young buck
that
would need to have his hand held to get home.
“Hello?”

“This is Dante, Orfeo sent
me; I'm
outside, please let me in
,
” Dante said
smoothly
and tried to sound harmless
so
as not to scar
e
the shit out of the man.

He heard a
chuckle,
and Dante frowned and looked down a
t
the phone.  “I guessed
,
when
all the
dark cars pulled up and everyone around was wearing sunglasses that you have arrived.  Jax is sleeping still.  I
'
ll get her up and ready.  We
'
re on the third floor, the office suite in the east corner.”

“On my way,” Dante said briskly, not
liking
that the man had laughed at him.

Dan
t
e hung up and talked
with
his men for a minute.  They had to have the place secured and ready to go when he came out. 
Hopefully,
it wouldn
'
t be long
, the
lawyer needed to be dispatched of
,
and then they could take off.  Their plane was set to leave in a few
hours. 
 

Taking the
stairs
two at a time in his impatience
,
his long legs ate up the distance in
a
relatively
short time.  He found the door with little problem, the office door was non
-
descript.  At least he was smart, maybe he would stay alive for longer than the last attorney they had retained.

“
Mr. He
drick
,
open the door
,
” Dante said and knocked.  He
looked a
round but knew that no one was near.

“Well shit,” he heard a man say and a very distinctive growl came from
just
t
he
other side of the door.

“Is there a problem,
Mr.
He
drick
?
Y
ou need to open the door right now.”
Dante was about ready to call his men and have them up here breaking down the door in a second if the man didn’t open the fucking door.  Something was going
on; Dante
was just not sure what.

“Stand back,
” the
voice called and
Dante held his ground and got into a battle stance
,
ready for whatever was coming
through
the door.

“What the fuck?” 
Brin heard the Vampire say as he saw the large white wolf standing in the middle of the office. 
Shit, when she had
whispered
, “Vampire and mate
"
in the same
sentence
,
then shifted
,
he had no clue what the hell was going on.  Brin thought he was her mate, and she claimed the large man with very nice hair standing in the doorway was her mate. 

“Uh, not sure, she went
all
wolf on me when she sensed you in the hallway.  Have you ever seen a
White
Wolf
before?  As far as I knew
, Jo
or Josephine
,
the Old Council Alpha’s daughter
,
was the only White Wolf in existence
,
” Brin said
and
held out his ha
n
d to the very s
tunned Vampire.  “Sorry
,
Brin He
drick, I
'
m the counsel to the New Council and the Senate.  Come in so we can shut the door.”

The Vampire seemed to snap
out of it; he
was staring at the gorgeous animal that was snarling and snapping her teeth a
t
both of them.  Brin had no clue what was going on
either. 
 

“Dante Vibrine,”
t
he
Vampire
said and held out his hand.  Brin shook it and then jerked
at
the shock that ran through him. 
He was not sure what the fuck that was about, but the sensation didn’t hurt so much
,
as arouse him. 
What the hell?  He really wasn’t into men
.

“Uh, yeah, so this is Jax, I think maybe we may need to call someone and see what the fuck we
'
re supposed to do about her.”  The wolf cocked her head and whined. 
“What do
es that mean?”
Brin asked.

“I
don’t
really speak wolf, and although our King
'
s consort is one, I just haven’t really seen too
much
of him to learn the language.  So, I think we are on our own here
,
” Dante said dryly
,
which earned him a snap from the wolf.

“She
'
s huge,” Brin whispered with an awed tone.  Jax barked at him and turned around like she was pissed.  “No
, I
didn’t mean that in a bad way, I meant you were huge for a wolf, shit, you have to be the same size as Quin and Jaden.  And you
'
re white, your coat is stunning.”

Dante rolled his eyes at the human. 
He was praising a fucking wolf, seriously
?
W
hat the hell k
ind of shit had he stepped into
?
  “Call your
friends;
we need her to change back and fast.”

“Oh yea
h
, right,” Brin said
and
grabbed his phone
and
hit speed dial.  Quin was going to have kittens about this.

Dante leaned down and snapped his fingers
.
“Hey, shift
,
”
h
e ordered and Jax turned around and snapped at him, coming close to the fingers the Vampire had just used.  “Shit
,
"
he growled
and
leapt
back.  “
Watch
those teeth honey
,
unless you would like them
surgically
removed before we leave.”

Jax growled low in her chest and circled the Vampire.  “Just saying
,
you may want to hold of
f
on the insults until I have a chance to talk
to someone.
I would hate to have to clean up after you all leave.  Blood leaves stains
,
”
Brin said.

Dante snorted.
“Won
’
t be my blood
,
”
h
e said arrogantly and leaned against
Brin’s
desk and crossed his ankles in a completely
calm
manner.

“Quin, we have a problem,” Brin said into the phone when his friend finally answered.  “Did you know Jax was a White Wolf?”

“No, there is not
another pure white wolf
around but Jo.  I bet she has a mark somewhere,
” Quin
said smoothly.

Brin squinted his eyes and bent down to see if he could see any
other
markings
on her coat.  He turned several different ways but couldn’t see her underbelly.  “I
can’t
tell.”

“What,” Dante said in a commanding tone.

“Quin says there are no other White Wolves, she has to have markings somewhere
,
” Brin relayed.

Dante sighed and stood up and pushed the human to the side.  He was making himself dizzy.  “Hey, pup, come over here and roll over.”

“NO!!” Quin screamed
into
the
phone,
and Brin had enough time to drop the phone and grab the wolf around the neck as it lunged for the Vampire.

***

“What the hell?” Dante said and actually backed u
p.  He had never stepped back f
r
o
m a fight before
,
but this was a chick, and one he was supposed to be protecting. 
“You crazy bitch, what the fuck?
  Shift!” he
bellowed,
and the wolf continued barking and pulling the
human
behind her on her back as she tried to get to him.

Dante figure
d it was best to back off.
So
he stepped around the desk to put something in
between them.  At
least,
the she-
bitch was
too
large to move in such a small
space; she
seemed to take up the room.

Brin had been right though, he had never seen any wolf with such a gorgeous coat before.  He held up his hands and said, “Sorry, call
Fido
off,
and I
will sit back here and keep qui
e
t
.”

Brin was muttering in the damn wolf
's ear
trying to calm her down, but
every time
he opened his
mouth; he
seemed to piss her off.  Please, if she were this sensitive, she would never make it as an Alpha.  He
heard worse
from a lot of his friends.  They called the
shifters
a variety of
names. 
 

Finally
,
after wha
t seemed like a freaking hour
,
the wolf calmed down and began to pace away from him but never t
ook
her eyes off him.  Brin sighed and glared at him.  Dante yawned and put his hands behind his head and put his feet up on the desk. 
They needed to sort this shit out, and fast
.

“Quin, yeah, sorry.  I have it under control.  It
'
s okay,” Brin said and nodded.  “I kinda got that, never ask an Alpha to show you her underbelly.  Got it.  Shit, okay, at least I have an answer for you though.  While I was holding on for dear life
, I got a good look.  No, she has
no
markings; she's
all white.”

Dante looked at the wolf with
curiosity.  He could feel the air around them sizzle.  Her Alpha magic and his Vampire were flowing, connecting, and seeming to join. 
What the hell
?  Even the human seemed to notice it.  The wolf went to
Brin
and rubbed against his leg as if it were reassuring him of something.

“She won’t shift,” Brin said tightly into the phone and put his hand on her head and stroked.  Dante was suddenly a little jealous of the contact he was witnessing.  He wanted to be stroking the smooth head. 

“Really?  I
can’t
ask; she's
in wolf form!” Brin ground out.  “Fine.”

“Jax, can you shift or are you
choosing
not to?”
t
he human
asked,
and the wolf shook its head.

“She can
'
t,
” Brin
relayed and Dante rolled
his eyes; the
wolf growled at him again.  Then the human
turned
fast and glared at him.

He held up his
hands; everyone
was way to
o
fucking touchy
.  This would be funny if it were in any other situation. 
This was taking too long
.
H
e stood up and the wolf's hair
bristled,
and he held up his hands.

“
Brin
,
give me the phone
,
” Dante ordered and the human turned to him and raised an
eyebrow
at
him.  Dante sighed and motioned with his hand for him to give him the phone.

Finally, he handed it to
him,
and then the human knelt on the floor next to the wolf and
petted
her soothingly and whispered in her ear.

“Alpha, we seem to have a problem.  Tell me how to make her shift, we have a plane to catch and don’t really have the time for this
,
” Dante said with an exasperated tone. 

The Alpha chuckled in his
ear.
“I hate to tell you
,
if a wolf doesn’t want to shift
,
she won
'
t.  I
'
m calling Orfeo and talking to
him; I
have never heard of another White Wolf anywhere.  Either they were hiding the
fact,
or they didn’t know she was special.”

Dante ran a hand through his hair in frustration,
great
,
what the fuck was he going to do
?  The Alpha continued, “We have also heard some chatter about the
surviving
child of the Alpha trying to make it to Italy.  I don’t know if the Rogues are watching the airports or not.  I think you
'
re going to have to find another mode of transportation.”

“Shit, do you know how far
that
is from
here?
  It will take five days or more to make it back to the new compound.  W
e have to make it
on
the ferry
to
the mainland and then drive all the way to Italy?”  Dante yelled in the
phone,
and the wolf barked and Brin shook his head again at him.

“That will give us time to find out what the hell is
going on
,
” Quin said smoothly.

“Not a good answer,
” Dante
said and hung up the phone only to dial his Sire.

“Orfeo?”
h
e said into the phone briskly.  “We have an issue.”

It took about an hour on the phone with his Sire to make arrangements to drive to the compound.  Dante was
pissed;
he had a lot of stuff waiting for him back at home for him to do.  His Guards
needed his guidance. 
By the
time he hung up the
phone
,
his irritation
w
as
showing,
and he wasn
'
t really giving two shits about it.

“Listen here, you need to
shift. We
can’t
drive all the way to fucking Italy with a wolf in the back of our
car; it
would be a little
conspicuous
. 
Besides the fact
that
I would have to pay extra for all the wolf hair that you
'
re shedding.”

Brin stood up with his arms at his sides and his hands fisted and yelled, “Can you cut us some slack here?  She is obviously stressed for
some reason,
and you are not making this any
easier
with you
r
snide ass
comments.”