Force of Nature Series Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4) (62 page)

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Rich watched the house burn. He’d come back tonight to get the bitch, but found not only the house empty of them, but it seemed that others, wolves he’d not smelled before, had been here too.

He could smell death and smiled that he’d killed the babe. He wasn’t going to have another man’s cub come for him someday. He had been disappointed that he’d not been able to do more than beat the woman a little, but when a wolf had come out of nowhere and attacked him, he’d had to leave. Now he had another second and he was ready for the fucking wolf to come again. Then he’d found the stupid woman gone and her brats as well and he wasn’t happy about it.

“There’s no trace of them here. It’s like someone came back and marked the area so we couldn’t find them.”

Rich didn’t even glance at the man beside him. Moron, he already had figured that out.

“I’m sending pack out to see where she’s hiding.”

“No, don’t. She’s not within the…wait. Yes, go ahead. And though you won’t find her or any trace of her, make an example of a few of the others you come across simply because we can’t find her. Tell them we think she’s hiding with them. Tell them we can smell her on them and we know that they’re harboring her. Then burn down their homes.” He could feel the man hesitate, but he said that he would.

Rich didn’t just run a large pack of wolves like he was a leader. He ruled them because they were terrified of him. And none of the families in his pack would run because they knew that he’d hunt them down and kill them. So they stayed. But this bitch hadn’t. She’d run and he’d find her and kill her along with her cubs, as well as whoever had her. He looked to the north and wondered if she had gone that way to the little pack in Canada. Rich was going to have her and the rest of them by week’s end or else.

He shifted and ran back to his home. He had to bathe to try and get the stench of the hovel he’d just left off him before dinner. He let them have homes; the very least they could do was to keep them clean. He knew there was no electricity. He didn’t think it necessary for staying in a house long enough to eat, sleep, and fuck. There were other means of getting hot water when there was none in the house. Build a fucking fire and clean the place up.

He was in the shower when he heard someone in the outer room. Smiling, he waited for her to come to him. He’d left word at the house that he wanted a female and they knew better than to not do as he asked. When he opened the door to the shower, she stood there naked.

“Come here,” he commanded. She took small steps to get to him so he reached out and yanked her to him. When she fell into the shower, landing on her knees, he shoved his cock in her mouth. “Perfect.”

She wasn’t very good at blowing him, he discovered, or she just didn’t care to service her alpha. Grabbing a handful of her hair, he yanked her head up. “Do it or die. It’s up to you.”

After that, she started to do it correctly. And after a few minutes, she began to moan. Rich leaned back against the tile and watched her through hooded eyes. This was what he needed, a good blow job. Pumping into her mouth, she reached between her legs to service herself. He was too far gone to stop her. Normally, he didn’t allow it, but right now, he needed release more than he needed her to behave. When he came with a growl, she did as well and he nearly came again when she rammed her finger up his ass.

“Christ,” he hissed at her as she swallowed him down the back of her throat, and he fucked her harder. His balls tightened as she moved her finger in and out of him and before he could stop it, he came again.

He couldn’t move. He’d not had that kind of orgasm in years. He looked down at the bitch as she sat staring up at him. She had cum on her chin and the look of hunger in her eyes as she eyed his semi-hard cock.

“You want me again?” She nodded. “Go to the bedroom and lay there and wait for me. As soon as I get your smell off me, I’m going to fuck your ass until you bleed.”

She nodded again and stood. He backhanded her. “I didn’t tell you to go yet, did I?”

When he allowed her to leave, he finished his shower and got dressed. He would fuck her but on his terms, not hers. When he went into the bedroom, he nearly changed his mind. She was standing next to the bed with her legs wide and her pussy dripping with need. Walking up behind her, he slapped her ass and she moaned.

“I want you to be here when I return. Naked and waiting whenever I want to fuck you.” He ran his finger through her cream and took it to his mouth. “And when you fail to satisfy me even one time, you’ll die.”

He left the room and smiled. She’d be there when he returned, he had no doubt. And even if she had to work for hours, he knew that he’d never leave this room without being fully sated. Rich loved his life as an alpha.

Chapter 2

The mood around the compound made her nervous. It was necessary, but no less nerve-racking. Stacy moved along the fence, trying to avoid all the others, and watched for her mistress. She was supposed to meet her here in half an hour. She heard her coming, shifted to human, and dressed.

“I swear to you it’s a real pleasure some days to get out of the studio. Today being one of them.” Alexis moved with the grace of a queen and Stacy found herself wanting to try and emulate her. “I came when I got your message. Is it Dallas again?”

“No…yes. But not all. I need you to help me, mistress. There is a man in the pack that should not be here. He is…he is a sadist and has taken to hurting the females.” This was not the first time that she had gone to Alexis about a pack member. And probably would not be the last. “He is now as we speak with a woman that is not his.”

“Tell me where and I’ll have Gordon catch him.” Stacy told her and she knew when her mistress contacted her mate. “He’s on his way now. And not alone this time.”

A month ago, Gordon had gone where Stacy had told him when something almost as bad was going on. But that time, he had gone alone. He had been hurt badly, but the wolf he had gone after had died. Gordon was swift and final in his protection of his brother’s pack. It was the only reason she stayed. Well, that and Dallas, the stupid jerk.

“Dallas has said that he wants me. I do not know how to tell him again I am not worthy.”

Alexis snorted.

“I am without scent, my lady, and will not be a good mate to him.”

“The only person that cares you have no scent is you. Go to him. Let him mate with you. You couldn’t find a better man.” She paused. “Gordon is at the house. He said he would tell me later what happens. Austin is with him.”

This would not end well and she knew it. Austin was a very good alpha, but he demanded respect. Not just to him, but to his pack as well. Anyone caught hitting another without just cause was banned from the pack and if severe enough, he would kill them. The law had been around for centuries, but few followed it like Austin did.

“Tell me about Dallas. What makes you afraid of him?”

Stacy started to say she was not afraid of anyone, but Alexis continued.

“I know you are afraid of something about him. Tell me what it is, Stacy. The man practically drools when you’re in the same room as him.”

“He is just in need of release.” She flushed when she realized what she had said. “He is a man and has needs. I will not…I do not think I can…I am a woman who has had little experience with men.”

“You’ve had no experience with men except for the kind that beat you. Dallas would rather die than to harm you, or any person for that matter. I don’t understand why you don’t just speak to him about it.”

Because she was terrified he would take her out of pity. She would rather die than have a mate that felt sorry for her. She looked away when she felt Alexis probe her mind. “It will do you no good, my lady. You have not enough experience to get what you want and I am not giving you what I share with no one. Dallas is a good man and I will not allow him to be shunned because I wanted him to take me. If you would give me permission, I would leave your pack and join another.”

“You do that and I will hunt you down myself.”

Stacy looked at the woman who never even raised her voice to her children, but just had to her.

“I mean it. You leave me and I’ll have you hunted down and brought back. What kind of shame do you think you’d do to me? And my children would be hurt too.”

Stacy nodded. She loved the children that Alexis had brought to this pack. Even humans, as these were. They made her feel there was some good in the world. And she especially liked the younger boy Jake. He was a thinker and she loved him. “I will not leave, but you will please not bring up Dallas to me again. He is going to find a mate soon and things with him and me will no longer be an issue.” She put out her hand to shake on it. Alexis smiled and Stacy thought the woman had something else up her sleeve, but could not think what it would be.

“I will not bring Dallas up to you again. You will not hear another word from me about him unless you bring him up first. Deal?”

They shook, but Stacy thought she had missed something. But Alexis changed the subject.

“They have the man. Austin is taking him to the cells now. There will be a trial on the next moon phase.”

Alexis went back to her studio to make more of her pretty things for her shop. She envied the woman and her talent. Stacy could fight well and could do anything a man could do, but she could not be a girly girl. Alexis had been kind to her and she thought it was not because she felt sorry for her either. But Stacy still felt the best course of action was to leave. She shifted to wolf and followed her mistress just far enough back so as not to alarm her. Alexis thought no one would come after her and Stacy made sure no one did.

She thought about Dallas when she saw her mistress enter the building. He was a beautiful man. She wondered briefly if men were beautiful and decided it did not matter. To her, he was. His hair was dark as night and his eyes made her think things about him she had never thought before about a man. Things like his eyes looked like the summer sky. His skin, dark from working outdoors, made her want to touch him, run her fingers over him and taste at him.

When she had been in his bedroom that morning, she had been tempted to crawl into bed with him. But she had not because beyond that, she did not think she could please him. He would expect a woman in his bed to pleasure him and not be a novice like her. But her breasts still prickled when she thought of his voice this morn. Full of lust and need. It made her want to find him now and have him take her.

When he appeared in front of her suddenly, she thought she had called to him. But he had not seen her as yet, so she pressed low into the earth and stilled herself. He was stomping around the dirt and muttering to himself. He was saying things that made no sense to her, but she stayed where she was. Now would not be a good time for him to find her.

When he stopped suddenly, she felt the hair on her back rise. He’d seen her. “Show yourself or I’ll attack. I’m in the mood to have a go at just about anyone.”

She didn’t shift, but stood. He looked at her for a long time and she felt her hackles rise. If he wanted to fight, she was probably in the same frame of mind to take him on. When he started to strip down to his skin, she nearly bolted.

“You leave and I’ll chase you down. If you want to spar with me, I’ll have you know that I’m not going to go easy on you because you’re a female.”

She growled low, letting him know that she did not think he could best her anyway. When he was standing before her naked, she tried her best not to stare at his hard cock.

“We could spend our energy another way if you’d come to me in human form. Right now, the thought of burying myself into your heat has me seeing stars.”

She was glad she was wolf and that he could not see her blush.

“What’s it going to be Stacy?”

She lunged at him and thought to catch him off guard. She should have known better. He was an enforcer and prepared at all times to be attacked. His shift was quick and fluid. He was a human male one second and snarling wolf the next. She attacked again, showing him she was not afraid.

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Dallas didn’t think she’d go for sex over fighting. But one could hope, he supposed. He wanted her so badly right now that he almost wanted to command her to shift so that he could have her. She was keeping him up at nights, or at least thoughts of her were keeping him up at nights.

When she lunged at him, he nearly forgot to shift; she was so beautiful in motion. But he had shifted and was glad for it because it seemed she wasn’t holding back either. Her canines nearly missed his throat. The second attack had him thinking this was going to be fun. But when she came at him again, he thought he might be in trouble.

He would never hurt her, no matter what he said to her. She was a female and much smaller than him. But she had been trained to fight and she was fucking good at it. When he pinned her twice in a row, he nearly let her up, but he decided that he’d had enough fighting and wanted her just where he had her. He shifted, holding down her wolf for several seconds to see if she would as well.

“Shift. Now, Stacy.” She whimpered and tried to get away, but he held her down. “Shift.” He’d put as little command in his voice as he could, wanting her to shift because she wanted, not because he’d commanded her to. When her fur started to recess, he held himself off her slightly, but didn’t let her go.

“You cannot make me have sex with you.”

He was reasonably sure he could, but said nothing to the furious woman beneath him.

“Get off me Dallas. I am not your female.”

“You could be.”

She shook her head.

“I want you. I want to make love to you right now, Stacy, but I won’t take you against your will.” He nuzzled her throat and licked along her pounding pulse. “I want to taste you. Lick you over your entire body until you beg me to take you.”

“No. You cannot.”

He moved down to her hard nipple and licked it before taking it into his mouth and sucking.

“Please do not do this. You should be with someone else if you only wish to ease your need.”

He rocked into her soft folds and felt her wetness. He looked down at her again as he rocked harder. “You’re wet for me. Let me show you how much wetter I can make you. Or let me eat your pussy until you come. I want to taste you when you come down my throat.” She moaned when he rocked this time and he thought that he had won, but then he saw the tears in her eyes and he couldn’t do it. He rolled off her and onto his back.

He heard her roll away from him, but he didn’t look. He was afraid if he saw her nakedness, he’d forget that he was a gentleman and take her anyway. His cock ached for release and he didn’t think he’d ever be able to jerk off enough to ease this one.

“I can send another female to you if you’d like. I am sure there are many that would ease—”

“Don’t. Just go please and leave me to myself.” He closed his eyes and thought of her taste on his tongue. “You’re the one I want and no other will do.” He looked at her when he felt her shift. “You and I aren’t finished, Stacy. You will have to either tell me a good reason I can’t have you, or I will do just that. Something is between us and you feel it too.”

She took off through the woods without a sound. Dallas laid there for several more minutes before he felt if he stood up his cock wouldn’t hurt him. He laughed when he pulled on his pants. If this kept up, he was going to have to have himself neutered just to be around her. He doubt that would help.

He pulled on his boots and headed to the pack house. He wasn’t going to be fit to be around anyone for the rest of the day so he might go see if he could get Connor to fight with him. Probably. He was always up for a good run if not.

The woman, Georgia Reynolds, had awakened around six this morning. She’d been in his kitchen with his mom when he’d come down after going up to shower again. He’d been trying to help Alexis with a heavy crate to take to the shop when one of the bottles of bath oil had broken. She’d laughed at him for twenty minutes before he told her he’d send someone else to help. She was still laughing as he left her. Women. He neither understood them nor did he figure he ever would.

“She said that she has to do something to help out. I let her feed the children.” His mom shook her head when he started to ask why that would have been a problem.

“I’ve not had the pleasure of electric for some time, master. It is a great deal easier to cook when you’ve no need to build a fire.”

Dallas looked at his mom when Georgia said that.

“They aren’t allowed any luxuries at the other place because it is an unnecessary financial drain on the pack. She said only the alpha has running water and heat. He is allowed this because he cares for them.” His mom looked at the woman before she continued. “They don’t get paid for working either. If they grow a garden or have fruit trees on their property, they owe half of it to the pack and the alpha uses the money he gets from selling it as support to the pack as a whole.”

Dallas had a thousand questions run through his head. Most of which had to do with how to find this bastard. He tried to find a way to gently ask something while he tried to control his beast. “And when he killed your mate, did he give you a reason for that? I mean, how badly was he hurt that he felt justified the death of a family?” Dallas watched the woman stiffen then his mom pulled her to the table.

“Georgia, I swear to you, you’re safe here. Austin is a good pack leader and he’ll keep you safe. And he would never treat anyone as it looks like you’ve been treated.”

She took a tissue from his mom before she spoke. “My mate, Tim, hadn’t been his enforcer for long. They just don’t last long in that position with our alpha. And he’d been afraid from the beginning. When he and the others had gone with the alpha on a hunt, Tim had told me to hide until he returned and if he didn’t, I was to run with the children. We were packing up to do so when Lord Sterling returned.” She took the tissue and began to tear it into shreds. “We’d been in this pack for some years, but never…it was forbidden to leave, you see. He said…he would hunt the runners down and bring them back. I only saw it happen once. He would tie them to the ground and…” She stood then and went to the sink. “My sister and her family knew that things weren’t right there and decided they’d had enough. We all thought the same thing, but we had nowhere to go. When he tied them to the ground and then set fire to them, I thought I would die. I can still hear their screams in my dreams.”