Force of Nature Series Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4) (69 page)

He could smell her need and was pretty sure that both men could as well. A low growl made Myles leave the room, but Harvey could not. He looked up at her as he sealed the tiny wounds. “I’ll expect you back later. I have a need to make you mine again.” He sent her thoughts and visuals of just what he planned to do to her. “And that’s not even half of it.”

She left him there to go to her brother after a long and very unsatisfying kiss from her. He looked over at Harvey. What to do with him now, he wondered. He was pretty sure that he’d not reach for his brother the alpha, but wasn’t sure if the idiot could reach for Harvey. He decided to leave him here for now but make things a bit more comfortable for him. He was very glad that Myles had also forbidden him to kill himself or harm himself in any way. Phil was proud of the man for thinking of it.

Chapter 9

Dallas went to the area and looked around. It was pretty much as Holly had told him it would be, but nothing too out of place. The large dead tree was just where he’d been told and went there to see if the thing was as full as he’d been told it would be.

It was.

The bags, back packs, briefcases, as well as trash bags were all there. He pulled them out and set them on the ground beside him. He heard the Jeep pull up and only stopped long enough to see that it was his mate before he pulled out the last four bags.

“That’s all the money?”

He shrugged before picking up the first bag and opening it.

“Holy shit. What the fuck was he doing saving it if he didn’t use it for his pack? How much would you guess is there?”

Dallas didn’t know, but he’d bet his last nickel it was more than even Harvey had thought. He tossed the bags in the back of the Jeep and pulled her into his arms. He’d not seen her much today and needed her badly. “I want you to get naked and lay down. I want to eat you. I didn’t get to last night and I so want to play.” She grinned at him, but didn’t move. “Or I can strip you down to your skin and have you standing up.”

She still didn’t move and he took a step with her to back her against the car. When he reached out to take her shirt into his hands, he watched her eyes darken with need. Tearing her shirt from her, he heard her sigh. When she reached up, unclasped her bra, began to cup her own breasts and play with her nipples, he dropped down in front of her.

The jeans didn’t fare any better than her shirt. But he had her now where he wanted her. Putting his hands into the sides of her panties and pulling them from her, he watched her breasts tighten.

“Please, Dallas. I want to feel your tongue inside of me. Please?” She opened her legs and leaned back against the Jeep. “Please?”

He kissed her mound and then licked her clit that was peeking out from her tender folds. When she moaned low, he teased her with his tongue before taking the little nubbin into his mouth and suckling.

Wet heat filled his mouth and he needed more. Lifting her leg up and resting it on his shoulder, he opened her wider for him. Now he could take her harder, deeper into his mouth.

Her first climax was a surprise. When she cried out, she wound her fingers into his hair and held him to her as she flooded his mouth. Sliding his finger into her sheath, he felt her tighten around him and before he could go much further, she came again. As he laid her down, she was begging him to take her.

“Not yet,” he said to her as he guided her to the ground. “I need my fun. You’ve come so fast that I’ve gotten a good taste, but I want the climax that you’ve been holding back for me.”

“Holding back? Are you nuts? I’ve come so hard that I don’t think I can move after that.” He moved between her legs and settled in. “Dallas, please? I want you to fuck me. Please?”

“Not yet. And you do have one. I promise you. When you come, you’ll see what I mean.” He slid his fingers inside of her and watched her eyes close. “Watch me, love. I want to look up and see your eyes when you’re ready for me.”

He wanted to take her now. He wanted not just to fuck her, but to pound into her deep, fill her with his cock and then his seed. Moving slowly to her pussy, he marveled again that she was finally his.

When he took her juices into him this time, he let a little of his beast go. Not enough to shift, but enough that his wolf could taste her. He felt his tongue lengthen and stretch so that she could feed him.

His wolf stirred then growled low his satisfaction at the treat he was getting. Dallas reached down and unsnapped his pants to free his painful cock and drank more from her. He watched her face, looking for the moment she was at her peak again.

“Dallas, Dallas, Dallas, Dallas, Dallas, Dallas,” she said his name over and over. When he felt her getting close, he sat up and nearly went back to dining on the best meal he’d ever had when she whimpered.

His clothes were off and he was settled at her entrance. Dallas slid in slowly; his cock filled her and his wolf snarled at him. He was going to have her faint from this encounter and when she did, he was going to crow like a fool.

Her legs wrapped around him and her body rose up to meet him, trying to encourage him to deepen himself into her. But he only stopped. When she whimpered again and laid back, he moved slowly into her. In and out, he took his time. He wanted this to last, and it would even if it nearly killed him.

When he was as far as he could go, his balls at her warm, wet ass, he started to roll into her, looking for the moment when he touched her sweet spot. Every time he touched it, she tightened. When she did, he’d purposely miss it a few times until she was under control again. Dallas felt the sweat roll off his back.

His cock was full and he could feel his balls tighten against his body. He was so ready that he knew if he waited much longer, he was going to hurt when he did finally come. When he nuzzled her neck, finding the pulse beating hard enough to nearly hear, he touched her inside once then a second time. She was tightening around him so much now that he was having trouble fucking her around it.

His cock lurched in her. Knowing that he’d reached even his limits, he surged again. This time, he felt her come; her entire body tensed for several seconds before she started to scream. Dallas bit her, sank his canines deep, and then bit harder still. Her strangled scream this time told him what his body already knew.

She was his.

Their climax went on. And when she bit him in the shoulder, he held his teeth into her flesh. His own body was trying to give her its all and he nearly blacked out twice when she screamed again. After her body and his settled, he released her throat. Then licked the blood clean and sealed the wound. There was a mark there this time, a scar already forming so that anyone looking at her would know she belonged to someone, belonged to him. He lifted his eyes to hers and looked down at her sleeping form.

Blood still stained her own mouth. Her lips were swollen from biting him. Dallas couldn’t help but stare at her, knowing that for as long as they lived, this memory, this picture of her in his mind, would be the one that stayed with him through death. He kissed her gently on the mouth and left her body.

Standing up, Dallas walked to the Jeep. There were clothes there, a bag that was now in each car they had, as well as hidden in a few places in the forest. And there on the seat was a set of clothes for Stacy. He grinned when he looked back at her. She’d planned to seduce him, the little vixen. Dressing quickly, he picked her up and put her in the back seat. She didn’t even stir. Getting into the Jeep, he found himself whistling all the way back to his house. Dallas was in love and didn’t care who knew it.

~~~

Connor looked over the bags lying on the floor then at the money stacked up on the table. Well, in this case, tables. He’d never seen so much money that wasn’t directly attached to a drug bust. He decided he should say something, but for the life of him couldn’t think what it would be but, “
wow
.”

“What do you think he did to get so much of this? I mean, there is over ninety million dollars here. Even if he collected monies annually like Georgia said, that’s a shit ton of money to amass over twenty years.” Myles picked up a stack of fifties. “She said they had to pay an annual fee of what? Half their income? What the hell were these people doing that paid so fucking well?”

“There were a lot more of them when the pack was with his predecessor.” Stacy moved in the room slowly and with grace, as she did everything, he’d noticed. Then he saw her scar, looked to his brother, and smiled as she continued. “The pack was huge, nearly ten thousand strong. Then over the years, the numbers began to…lower. I think now it had more to do with deaths than people moving on.”

“We’ve come across several more mass graves. All of them with the driver’s licenses in a steel box and when they were young, too young to do more than be a body count, there were certificates of birth.” Myles nodded toward several large boxes grimly. “Most of those we have found over the past few days and according to your uncle, there are a great many more. Do you think Sterling knows about that money? Do you think it’s possible that Harvey put it there in hopes of getting away on his own?”

Connor shook his head at Myles’ questions.

“Then why save it that way? Why not…I don’t know, bank it?”

“My uncle said that he and his mate had decided to leave earlier the morning she was murdered. He said that he had made the mistake of going to my father and telling him that they were not happy and that they would like to go out to find another pack, maybe become the alpha after a few years.” She reached for Dallas’ hand and held it as she continued. “He told me that he had been assigned another duty, this one that took him out to the far reaches of the territory. He would be gone for two days. Before he had gotten halfway to the place he was to be, he felt his mate’s cry. By the time he had gotten back, it was too late.”

“So your father killed his own brother’s mate and child.” Austin stood up to pace. He’d been so quiet all morning that Connor had forgotten he was even there. “Then what, he started to give him drugs to make him do all the dirty work that his alpha needed?”

It wasn’t a question, but Stacy answered anyway. “Yes. He said that he had started off giving him something to sleep. Then something more to keep him awake during the day. Uncle Harvey said that by then, he had not cared. He wanted to forget.” Stacy looked at Dallas, and Connor knew that whatever was said next wasn’t easy for the girl. “My father had him dispose, that is what he called it
dispose,
of his own wife and unborn child. He told me that he’d never felt such anguish. His daughter had died in the womb, but his wife had not been dead when he’d made it back to his home. She died in his arms, loving him for being there for her. I believe that alone has made him what he is.”

“Mother fuck,” Austin exploded, then took several deep breaths. When his wolf started to surface, all of them felt him. It was a powerful emotion to bring a wolf to front for an alpha. “Stacy, do you know if Harvey remembers where she’s buried?”

“Yes. She and his daughter are not in the mass graves as my father thinks, but in one that he dug on his own. He said that they are on your property and that he visits them when he can.” She looked up at Austin. “You will not move them, will you, alpha? That is all that keeps him from joining them, knowing that they are close and not with the others.”

“Of course not. And as soon as this mess is over, we’ll erect a marker in their honor. But we have to take care of this man. Do we have any idea where he is? I thought by now he would have taken the bait and come here for what he considers his property.” Stacy didn’t answer and no one else knew either.

“What about all of this? I’m honestly not sure how I feel about this. The money belongs to the pack and the pack is now yours. I’m sure that’s how it works, right?” All of them nodded at Myles’ question. “Then I guess our next question should be, how do you use it?”

“Buildings first and foremost. I have some construction companies working on that now. And I’ve just been informed that a large section of land to the south of us came to the pack this morning.” Austin looked pointedly at Stacy. “It seems that someone donated it as a member of the pack.”

“It belonged to me to use as I saw fit. I do not have to explain myself to you. Should you not want it then I am sure that there are any number of packs or businesses that would—”

“Simmer down. I was kidding you. Yes, I want it…we want it. There are several hundred acres there that we can use.” Austin kissed Stacy’s cheek then frowned at Dallas when he growled. “Sorry. I was only happy is all. Anyway—”

The phone ringing startled them all. His mom walked into the room and reached for it just as it rang a second time. She was smiling when she answered and it suddenly turned to a frown. She looked at him when she handed him the phone.

“The house and building are gone, Mrs. Force. All of it.” Connor couldn’t understand what was going on, but he did recognize the voice, one of the officers that he’d worked for with the police. “Been trying to contact Connor all morning and he ain’t answering his phone. His house is a’burning right now.”

Connor calmed the man then hung up a few minutes later. He looked at his family. “My house is gone. Someone set it to flames about an hour ago, it seems, and then most of the studio went up as well.”

“Ah, Connor, I’m so sorry.” Austin pulled him into a hug, but all he felt was numbness. Everything he had, owned, and things he’d never replace, were gone.

He looked at his family. “What am I supposed to do now?” No one answered because they didn’t know either. “I’m homeless. I didn’t much care for my house, but the things in it? Things that were Dad’s and our grandparents’ are all gone.” He moved to the yard to go home, to see what was there or not there, and was nearly in the car when he felt someone pushing him to the passenger’s side. His family piled into the big SUV and helped him buckle. All he wanted to do was go alone, but was suddenly glad they were going too.

It was a mess. The fire department had done a good job of keeping it out of the forest surrounding his home, but it had been a total loss on his house. The studio, where he made molds for things and did some art when he had time, was mostly destroyed, but the back and the basement were still there. Very little, however, escaped the smoke damage and water. He stood back and watched as the last wall in his home fell.