Force of Nature Series Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4) (76 page)

“But to have you do this…you’ve no idea what this does to me. To know that he could harm you.” He could actually kill her, but he refused to think about that. “I don’t want you to do this, but I know that it is our only way.”

She was to contact her sire. Stacy knew that he had wanted her killed when her mother had been and they hoped that he hadn’t changed his mind. Harvey had set it up so that his brother knew she was alive and that she was with a Force. He’d made no bones about the fact that he hated them all more than anything.

“I will be safe. He cannot smell me, and with you nearby, there is no way that he can harm me. Phil has told me that he will be close at hand as well. I cannot lose you anymore than you can me.” He held her tighter to him and she smiled. “You would like for me to be barefoot and whelping all the time, I believe.”

“Hell yes. As soon as you hit your cycle then we will never leave our bed.” He ran his hands down her back to cup her ass. “We should try and practice a bit before that time comes, don’t you think?”

She sat up over him and settled her legs on either side of his hips. His cock was straining from his body. Stacy wrapped her hands around him and milked him. “You are so hard. And at the same time, very smooth.” Dallas didn’t move as she moved up and down his shaft. “I love the way you feel when you take me. You are thick enough within me that you fill me completely.”

“Stacy, baby, please. I need to fill you now.” She shook her head and continued what she was doing. “Then take me into your mouth. I want to fuck your pretty mouth.”

“No. I think I would like to watch you come this way. I want to see how hard you spray within me.” She leaned down and licked the pre-cum that was dripping from the tiny eye. “When you come, Dallas, I will rub your juices on me and know that you’ve marked me whenever I touch myself. Would you like that?”

“Christ, yes.”

She moved so that she was over his thigh now, and her knee very close to his balls. She started to ride him as she pumped him and he leaned up on his elbows to watch her.

Mesmerized, he watched her face and her hand. She was enjoying herself so much so that he tried to hold back. His cock was burning with the need to come and he reached out his hand to slow her. She moved his hand away and brought it to her pussy.

“Help me, Dallas. Help me to come.” He slid his finger into her heat and she tightened her hand over his cock. When she started to ride him harder, Dallas knew he was going to come with her. Pinching her clit, she tightened around him again and he came.

Heavy cream shot from him. As it covered her breast, chin, and belly, he continued to come. Every downward stroke had her gathering his come and making the slide quick. Putting his hand over hers, he helped her milk him even as her pussy clenched around his fingers. He needed more and rolled her to her back and spread her legs.

“Christ, you’re beautiful. I need to taste you.” Leaning down, he sucked her clit into his mouth and put his finger into her sheath. Her fingers in his hair held him tightly to her. When she came again, then again, he sat up. His cock was hard again.

He moved over her, her legs still wide, and slowly entered her just to his tip. She bucked up, but he held her down by her knees. He wanted this his way now. Watching her pussy take him and soak him, he moved in and out of her slowly. Dallas moved his hand down to just where her shoulders where and took her nipple into his mouth.

“Dallas, please do not tease me. I need this very badly.” He looked up at her and could see that she did. “Please, give me all of you.”

Dallas took her mouth as he buried himself to his balls. As her legs wrapped around his hips, he moved them until she moaned, then he reached down and cupped her ass. He slid his finger into her ass and moved in and out of her as he fucked her, devoured her. When she came this time, he moved his head for her. He wanted her bite; he wanted her to mark him as her own. As soon as her canines broke his skin, he jettisoned into her and roared with his release.

Dallas was a marked wolf.

Chapter 16

Rich moved along the people in the mall and knew that they were staring at him. He wanted to simply go in, get some clothes, and then leave. He’d found the old woman’s stash of money just this morning and was going to get something to wear other than the smelly pants he’d tried to wash yesterday.

He started the machine and was reading the bottle of detergent when he realized that there wasn’t enough water in the machine. He tried to figure out the controls, but ended up breaking one of the knobs off when it wouldn’t turn. Rich realized that he was to push it only after tossing the stupid thing across the room.

Then he’d put in too much of the powder. Way too much, as it turned out. There were soap bubbles pouring out of the thing when he’d turned from the upper levels and even now the kitchen floor was slippery and slimy in places. And he couldn’t get the soap out of his pants no matter how many times he’d taken them to the yard to spray off. He had had to hang them over the line in the backyard and let them drip dry while he wandered around the house in a woman’s shirt and towel.

“I tried to tell you.”
He ignored Poor. He hadn’t spoken to him since yesterday when he’d laughed at his attempts to get into the Force compound. He shivered when he thought about how close he’d come to being caught with his pants down and his ass showing. Who knew that the stupid thing was electrified and would shoot him across the forest like a rocket?

“You never listen to me even though you invented me. Why is that, you think? Are you not speaking because you know that I’m so much smarter than you?

“You are not.” He looked around the store he’d gone into when everyone stared at him. He kept forgetting to speak to this other self via mind thing. He grinned when one woman grabbed her kid and took off out the door. “I’m not going to be good for business.”

“I told you that the fence smelled funny. You don’t listen to me. How is it that you expect me to help you when you don’t listen?”
Rich moved to the rack of men’s pants.
“You keep getting any fatter and we’ll need to shop in the tent department.”

“I’m under a lot of stress. How am I supposed to take my pack back without clothes?”
Rich wasn’t even sure he’d be able to do it with a suit and tie on
. “That man, Force, has a great deal to answer for.”

“Yes, he does, and one of them is fucking your only child.”
Rich tried to shy away from that. The thought of his child being old enough to have sex, much less having it with a Force, made his skin crawl.
“You know that that alone is enough to get him killed. And where is that man at on the council? Wasn’t he supposed to call you back with what happened at that meeting the other day?”

Dwayne Hopewell was a man he didn’t care for. But like most that Rich kept around him, he served a purpose. His purpose was to provide him with cash and information. The council wouldn’t be able to sneak into his land without him knowing about it for weeks. And the cash? Well, that was because Mr. Hopewell had a nasty little habit of liking his sex a little rough. Actually, very rough.

“I don’t know why he’s not called back. I made sure he had my new number three times before I provided him with his merchandise.”
That was another thing. Where was his money?
“I should hear back from his soon. He still owes me for that bit of fluff I gave him for his pleasure.”

Rich shivered as he looked over the different pants. Pleasure was only one-sided usually when it came to sadist Dwayne. And he’d only gotten rougher as the years had gone by. Too many times he’d had to send Harvey in to pick up what was left of the person he’d sent to the were. And usually, it would take Harvey burning down the shacks Dwayne had them in to get rid of the evidence.

Rich flared his nose. There was a scent there, one he’d smelled before. He moved to the front of the store only to be stopped by a man in a uniform. He nodded toward the clothes in Rich’s hands before he spoke.

“You gonna pay for them before you leave here?” The man crossed his massive arms over his chest and moved every time Rich did. “You stunk them up so bad now that you’re gonna buy them. So be a good boy and go on over to the counter and pay up.”

Rich let a little of his beast go to try and scare the man, but the guard only smiled and let his go as well. Rich whimpered. He hated cats and this weretiger was fucking huge. His canines were nearly as big as Rich’s thumb.

“Like I said, you go on over to the counter and pay for those things before I gotta wipe the floor up with your nasty self.” Rich thought about tossing them in his face for all of a second then the tiger raised his brow. “Go ahead. I’ve not had dog stew for months. Mighty tough, but I’ll still kill you.”

Rich moved to the counter and the guard followed. Rich paid nearly half of his cash for three pair of pants and a shirt he wasn’t sure was going to fit him. After the cashier handed him his bag, the guard stepped back and escorted him out of the shop. Rich was so pissed by the time he was in the main concourse that he wadded up the bag of clothes and walked to the trashcan.

“Yeah, that’ll be smart. Throw away our only clothes. I love being seen in these pants that are stained with your food and so many bleach spots that I can’t stand it.”
Rich snarled at Poor.
“Are you pissed because you lost the scent we found, or is it something else? Like the big, bad tiger who made you look bad?”

“He did no such thing.”
Rich smelled the air around him and found the scent.
“See, I can still find her.”

The smell was almost gone, but he kept putting his nose in the air and following the little bit that he could get. As soon as he saw the couple, he nearly turned back, but the little girl, the little wolf with them, smelled like someone he knew. And he was pretty sure it was the man who’d bloodied him.

Rich couldn’t remember all the details, but what he could involved a little girl, a baby, and some pants. He rubbed his head, trying to remember. Pain nearly made him whimper, but he had to press on. It wasn’t until they entered the toy store that something popped into his head. His enforcer.

“He’s the one that made you lose face when you tried to speak to his family. You went to his home because…because…”
He tried to help Poor, but there was nothing more there.
“Never mind. You were injured. Let’s just focus on that.”

“But I want her, right? There is a reason that I want her and you think it’s because I lost something.”
He felt rather than heard Poor’s answer.
“Yes. I’ll snatch her and some of the pack will come back to us if not all.”

He moved to the store and watched them. The male was wolf, but Rich was pretty sure he could get the child without the male knowing it. The female he couldn’t get a scent from and was again reminded of something. But it too skittered away. Rich was about to move into the store when the male turned to look at him.

Everything in him froze. His breath, his heart. Rich was pretty sure that even the blood flowing through his veins stopped moving along his limbs in that split second. But then he turned away, dismissed him seemingly. For some reason, or lots of reasons, Rich couldn’t tell, that pissed him off.

“You should kill him. Take out that gun you have in your pocket and shoot him right in the head. It will be messy, but it will show everyone that you are something to reckon with.”
Rich nodded at Poor.
“You should take the female too. The little one. Selling her would give us enough money to buy a one-way ticket out of this stupid town.”

They came out of the store and the little girl had a bag. The older female did as well, and the man was holding her hand. Rich followed them out of the mall and into the parking lot. He was nearly on them when the woman suddenly ran back inside the mall. It was now or never.

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Stacy sat on the curb and watched the people come and go. She was waiting for Austin, as well as her own alpha. Stacy figured she had only a few more minutes before she was going to be killed. A car pulling up beside her didn’t even faze her. But the man who lifted her off the ground did.

“Are you all right?” He seemed to touch her everywhere. “Stacy, are you all right?”

His voice commanded she answer, but she had no strength. She nodded then shook her head and he held her to him. She knew it was Austin and knew it was only a matter of minutes before he snapped her neck.

“I am sorry, alpha. I did not mean to let him be…do you think that he is going to come back?” She wiped at the tears and looked at the bloodied stain near the car they’d come here in. “I only went back to get the gift for the little boy. Something that I thought would make him smile.”

“You listen to me, he’s going to be fine. Dallas is going to be just fine.” Austin let her go and she was engulfed in arms again. This time, it was Alexis.

“Are you going to kill me now or may I have a few minutes to say goodbye to the children?” Alexis gave her with a strange look. “I know that I have failed you. It is within your rights as my alpha to do what needs to be done.”

“No one is going to kill you. Good Christ, woman, we know that you would never do anything that would let Dallas be hurt. At least you were able to save Luna.”

She looked from Austin to the little girl. She was no longer crying, but she was bruised. Her sire had hit her twice when she’d tried to bite him. And he’d dropped the gun when she had. Luna had done more to save her mate than she had.

“He was going to take her as well. He said that he could sell her.” Stacy sat down again, her legs no longer strong enough to hold her up. “I believe he is mad. He spoke with someone else, someone that was not here. They…it seemed as if they argued.”

Connor was suddenly beside her. He looked at her and then pulled her head to his shoulder. “You did exactly what you needed to do. Now we have the backing of the council. We can take his cowardly ass out.”

“I did nothing to save him.” Connor pulled her head up and then brushed his fingers over her temple. She flinched at the pain and closed her eyes when he showed her the blood there.

“You were injured badly, Stacy. Yet you still managed to save Luna, call to your alpha, and get close enough to Rich so that we have a scent to go on.” He gave her the bag that the ambulance driver handed him. “Put this on your head and hush up. We have the prick now and he’s fucked with the wrong family.”

Austin came back to where they were and sat on the other side of her. She looked down, subservient. He was still her mate’s alpha, no matter that she hadn’t pledged to him. He lifted her chin and looked into her eyes.

“The doc said that he needs to look at your head.” She started to shake her head. “There are humans here and we have to play nicely. Let him look at it before you heal more. Then I will have Alexis take you back to the house. Holly needs your help. Have you reached for Dallas? Gordon has, as have I, and we’re not having any luck.”

“I have tried, but he is not responding to me. It is as if he is in a cell as my uncle was. Do you think that he has taken him somewhere like that?” Stacy watched as the men around them walked through what she thought of as evidence.

“That or a cave. If the stone is thick enough and if Dallas were weak enough, then maybe. I think it’s a cave. Where else would he be staying if not a hidey hole?” Austin put his arm around her. “We’ll get him back, Stacy. Then when we do, I get to kick his ass first.”

The medic wanted to take her to the hospital and have x-rays, but she declined. He had assumed that she was distraught over her husband and had tried to soothe her when she tried to move away from his touch.

“Come on, honey. Let me tape this together at least. That way when that husband of yours is found, you won’t have to try and outdo him in battle scars.”

She didn’t know who called the police. She thought maybe it was someone in the crowd that was milling around them. But because Connor was once on the force, as well as Myles, she was given the okay to leave when the medic said she was good to go. Before she left, Myles came to talk to her.

“You’re very lucky and brave. If you don’t mind, I’d like to ask you a few more questions. Questions that the other police won’t…they won’t know to ask.” She nodded at him. “Did you bite him?”

“No, but Luna did. I think her too young to shift but she had his arm in her mouth tightly.” She looked at the little girl. Then pulled her hand out of her pocket. “I have this, as well as his scent.”

The gun was filled with silver. She wasn’t sure why she didn’t give it to the police when they asked, but she handed it to the big vampire easily. She watched as he sniffed the barrel. He took it and put it into a baggie he took from his own pocket. Then she handed him the bloodied shirt sleeve she had in her hand when she woke up.

He grinned as he took it. “You’re very smart. The police would have put this in a little box and put it away. I’m going to give it to the most powerful noses I can think of.”

Myles motioned for Austin and handed him the sleeve. He immediately put it to his nose and then handed it to Connor who did the same. Each man that walked up to them put the blood to their noses and smiled. Stacy almost felt sorry for her sire. He wasn’t going to go down quickly. These men were going to kill him.