Wesley [Resistant Omegas 7] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour ManLove) (13 page)

“Several,” he sighed.

“It’s what friends do, buddy. I’m better at tracking energy than you are. Just let me handle this for you. Relax and play with the pups before you return home to your men who need you more than air.” He nodded and gave me a tight hug.

“You get hurt and I’m going to be pissed to the ninth degree, dude,” he whispered in my ear.

“Ninth degree, huh?” I snickered, shaking my head as he let me go.

“Yeah, it seemed about right.” He gave me a wink, trying to hide his nerves but they were there.

“We got this,” Bay assured Tristan before we all shifted. Levey and Tristan had to jump into action because the moment we were wolves the pups assumed it was playtime. I gave them a bark to tell them no and they settled down, whimpering a bit, but staying. They were such good pups, even when they were misbehaving. Weird, I know, but they were mischievous, not evil or mean.

It was harder for me to sense energy in this form, the only reason I had before was it was so dark with rage that even my wolf had caught it. Granted, he’d been afraid something would hurt the pups, but it was the rage that woke the powers in me nonetheless so I could get a reading. Bay and Harkin let me lead, racing to where I felt the energy last. Then I shifted back and closed my eyes.

“I’m focusing to pick up the signature and energy trail. Given how dark her intentions are they leave a residue on normal energy. It’s hard to explain and I’m sure I’m not making any sense.” Bay’s head bumped my hip as if telling me it was okay and they trusted me. “Thanks.”

I picked up on her trail right away, racing off in that direction. Then after the fifth rock I stepped on that hurt, I changed into my wolf and kept going. It amazed me how we were so much more fragile in human form sometimes. We ended back at that service road where I had found the pup’s mother weeks ago, but a few miles down.

That road was just cursed it seemed.

She was sitting in her car and when she saw us approaching she reached in the backseat. I put on a burst of speed and then shifted when she got out.

“Which one of you killed my mate?” she screeched as she focused on Bay and Harkin who were still in wolf form, assuming one was Tristan. I laughed when I saw the gun she was raising, using my power to wrench it from her fingers before she could even aim it.

“Silly woman.” I clucked my tongue in a condescending way. “He’s not here. You have me to deal with instead.”

“You’re just a little boy,” she sneered.

“Who just took your little
gun
away with his mind. You’ve got thirty seconds to make your peace with whatever god or gods you believe in, lady. No one threatens Tristan.”

“You can’t kill me. Even I could best a whelp like you!” Her eyes were wild. Someone had to have a long discussion with the High Council that humans could go bat shit crazy when their mates were killed. It was known to happen to wolves, but I think they assumed humans wouldn’t feel the bond breaking.

They were wrong, and kinda stupid to assume that.

“Bitch, I could give you an aneurism before you blinked,” I drawled, looking bored. “I’m being nice and letting you ask forgiveness for your sins. Think of it like last rites. Take the opportunity or I’ll just kill you now.”

She gave a horrid scream and rushed me. I rolled my eyes, focused my energy, and made one of the blood vessels in her brain pop. She instantly went down, dead before she hit the ground.

“You’re a little scary sometimes, you know that?” Bay asked quietly after they shifted back.

“No one fucks with the people I care about. If that makes me scary for protecting the ones I love, I’m okay with that.”

“We’re just glad you’re on our side, baby,” Harkin said as he hugged me from behind. Bay joined in on the group hug and the only thing that was missing was Levey. I was where I was supposed to be, surrounded by men who loved me, and right then I felt a sense of peace I’d never known before.

I could get used to feeling like that.

* * * *

That night after we got rid of any evidence of bitchzilla, we all booked our flights. Tristan was going home and I was heading to my place of birth to get a few of the Omega books out of their hiding spot. It was time that those who had been oppressed and abused learned about their rich history.

Bay, Harkin, and Levey wouldn’t hear of letting me go alone. So after we talked Adam and Susie into watching the pups, making sure they had a few deer to feed them, we packed. I wouldn’t have let them leave to do something potentially dangerous on their own either so there was no point in trying to argue with them about me doing it.

Oh, and the Sheriff called. That car we’d sensed in the bottom of the lake wasn’t anything nefarious. It had been from a guy whose car got dragged under because he was an idiot and had a boat too big hitched up and when he tried to set it in the water… Things hadn’t gone as planned. But they were glad to have an exact location because it had sunk in a different spot than they had thought and they didn’t have funding to drag the whole lake for it.

The next day we all drove to Spokane, Tristan catching his flight back to Denver and us to New York. We had a layover in Chicago and Carson agreed to meet us at the airport with his inner circle so we could have dinner. It meant having to go back through security, but since we had a three-hour layover, I was cool with it.

He was awesome. So was his inner circle. They loved each other so much it was almost like a living, breathing thing I could almost reach out and touch. I wanted that. I wanted it more than I could put into words.

I wished we’d had more time to spend with them, but Carson promised they’d schedule some time to rent a cabin soon and take a vacation. I could tell from his excitement, along with his men’s, that they needed a break. I just bet they did. Rescuing Omegas and dealing with the High Council had to be exhausting and a job I wouldn’t ever want.

The flight to New York was no big thing, but by then I was tired. It was a long day of travel that I wasn’t used to. I’d been spending so much time in wolf form helping the pups that dealing with human things again wore me out.

“Wake up, sleepy head,” Bay purred as he kissed me. I loved that they always woke me tenderly, and even better, I didn’t
need
kisses to see them or anyone anymore. It was freeing. I kissed them because I wanted to and as often as I could. It wasn’t my curse anymore.

“Can’t you wake me up with cock too?” I asked, being cheeky. He coughed to keep in the laugh and I opened my eyes only to meet a pair of very pissed-off ones from a man across the aisle. “Oh get over it. Just because your wife doesn’t want to be woken up that way doesn’t mean you should hate us because I love him more than she does you.”

I heard Bay’s gasp and I wanted to groan. I leaned my head back against the headrest as the plane touched down and closed my eyes. Seeing Bay’s confusion and hope right then was too much when I was just waking up. And besides, right then wasn’t the time to admit how I felt.

It took another hour to get off the plane, grab our stuff, and sign everything with the rental car. Everyone was silent, having heard what I’d said since Harkin and Levey had been in the row in front of me. It made me nervous. By the time we pulled up at the hotel Bay had made reservations at, I was a wreck. Partially because he’d gotten us into some swank place that I was sure the manager wouldn’t let the likes of me stay at.

“How late is the hiding place open?” Bay asked me. “Do we need to do this in the morning?”

“It’s a military-grade storage security place that’s biometrically locked. It’s twenty-four hours though.” I’d only been to the place once as a kid to have all my data put into their systems. I’d seen my mother get the books in there and then pay an astounding amount of money in cash to have a lifetime contract for the unit under an alias if anyone ever inquired if I had unit there. She hadn’t even told my aunt and uncle about it and I never went back there.

But where it was located was forever burned in my brain. It was where I had spent my last moments with my mother before she had died and joined my father in the afterlife. At least, I assumed they were together.

“Okay, let’s get checked in, our bags up to the room, investigate the hidey hole, and then come back to crash and order room service,” Harkin suggested. We all agreed it was the best plan and hopped to it.

Bay and I checked in while Harkin and Levey unloaded the bags. Then we handed them the keys to take everything up and went back to the rental car. There was no point in valet parking it when we were just leaving again. Once we were inside and had it running while we waited for them, I took Bay’s hand in mine.

“I do love you, all of you. I wasn’t sure until you immediately insisted in coming with me here. We both know it wasn’t for my protection only. You guys were worried that it would be emotionally taxing on me and didn’t want me to have to handle it alone.”

“Gorgeous and smart,” he chuckled as he kissed my hand. “I love you too, Wes. Thank you for giving us another chance to show you we were worthy of your love.”

“I’m just sorry it took me so long to get past something so little when you look at it in the grand scheme of things,” I admitted, finally saying the words out loud.

“We do the best we can given the situation. I can’t say I would have done things any differently or even as well as you did after all you’ve been through. We broke your trust and no matter on what scale the break is at, it’s hard for anyone to get over that.”

“Thank you for understanding,” I whispered as I leaned against him. Harkin and Levey hopped in the car then.

“You guys okay?” Harkin asked gently as I sat back up. I turned around to smile at him.

“Yes, just telling Bay that I’ve fallen in love with all you big dopes.”

“Sweet talker,” he grumbled as he leaned in for a kiss. “Love you too.”

“And me?” Levey gave me a wink as I moved in my seat, giggling when Bay pulled out of the valet station and I was
so
not where I was supposed to be for safety reasons. The kiss was brief but held the promise later for so much more.

My favorite kind.

“Yes, you as well. I love you, Levey Fergus. You’re a sweetie and I see you as one of the pups’ daddies since you’ve basically raised them with me. Even when you weren’t happy with me and hurt, you couldn’t do anything but love them. I should have said thank you for that earlier and I’m sorry I didn’t.”

“It was a good thing you were doing, saving them. I wanted to be a part of it and even if we weren’t cool, we were doing something together. I wanted to spend time with you.”

“And I thought it was better to give you space,” Harkin admitted with a sigh.

“Well, while he was awake,” Bay teased. I caught his gaze and gave him a questioning look. He didn’t answer right away, getting instructions to where we were going first. “Harkin watched you sleep most nights. I found him out cold in the doorway most of the time.”

“Why?” I asked Harkin, swallowing loudly because I was nervous and not sure what to make of this development.

“I was worried that us claiming you wouldn’t make things better and we all had to claim each other for you to be able to wake up and know who everyone was. I didn’t want you to wake in wolf form, which is draining to stay in that long, and be scared. You were upset enough. I didn’t want you to wake up afraid and stressed.”

“That’s really sweet.” I reached behind my seat and took his hand, smiling when he gave it a squeeze.

“You ready for this?” Bay asked about ten minutes later as we pulled up to the building. I shook my head, not sure if he could see it. I felt ready to toss my cookies. The face of the building had changed in the twelve years since I’d been there, but the security level hadn’t.

“Name?” a guard asked as we pulled to the checkpoint. He had a sidearm but the guy in the booth had a really big fucking gun.

“Wesley Orson,” I answered, leaning over so he could see me. “I’m not sure what to do. I was fifteen when my mother set this up for me.”

“And she’s not here to take you in,” he surmised, giving me a soft smile. Then he typed something in on his tablet and nodded. “You’re on the list but please step out of the car, Mr. Orson.”

“Why?” Bay growled, moving his hand in front of my chest when I undid my seat belt.

“Because his contract includes something I need to discuss with him in private,” the guard said darkly as the other one stepped out of the booth.

“He wants to make sure you’re not bringing me here under duress, Bay,” I whispered quietly as I opened the door.

“Okay.” He didn’t sound happy about it but he let me out.

I walked over to the booth and realized something else… They weren’t human. “I’ve never met vampires before.”

“You did when your mom set this up because the company has always belonged to our coven. You were probably just too young to know it,” the guy replied with a toothy smile. “Omega?”

“Yes. You heard me tell them what you were thinking.”

“Yeah, just wanted to make sure. There’s a clause in the contract your mom paid for that gives instant sanctuary with the coven should you need it. You’re cool with these guys?”

“They’re my inner circle. They love me. They’d never hurt me. I got away from the bad one I’d been with,” I rambled, realizing my men could be in danger.