Sienna and Brody moved to the middle of a darkened hallway that was nothing more than a wall of chained doors on both sides. It didn’t take a genius to figure out this was where the women were being held.
“There are so many of them,” Sienna whispered, the heartbreak evident in her voice. Brody pressed a finger to her lip, but it was too late.
“Is someone there?” A voice behind the door closest to them cried out. Sienna’s eyes widened as more voices began crying out, shrieking for help. Their cover was blown and in no time, heavy footsteps started up the stairs they’d just come from.
“Fuck,” Brody bit, preparing to shift. He’d fight as long as he could to give Sienna a chance.
“No,” she grabbed his arm and darted down the hallway. Oh, sexy, smart girl. She had an alternate escape planned.
“God, your brain is sexy,” he whisper-yelled as they ran. Sure enough, there was a door with a fire exit at the far end of the hall. Brody and Sienna pushed through and noiselessly shut the door behind them just as flashlights danced down the dark hallway.
Sienna had to ditch her stilettos halfway down the rusted ladder, lest she stumble and fall four stories to the pavement below. Brody dropped to the street first and reached up to catch her when she let go. With Sienna in his arms, he checked her over once before stalking off toward his truck with her in his arms. She protested, but Brody would have none of it.
He was sure he wasn’t going to be able to draw a complete breath until he got her safe back at the hotel. Once inside the truck, he started the engine and tore away from the warehouse. He pulled out his phone and scrolled through his contacts, looking for something specific.
“Adams,” he said when a voice answered. “You got plans tomorrow morning at the ass crack of dawn? No? Good. I’ve got a war scheduled and I need you and your wolves.”
***
Brody hadn’t been lying about the ass crack of dawn part. The sun was hardly making a dent in the gray sky when she found herself back at the edge of the same neighborhood they’d found the women in the night before. She and Brody, who’d only managed to get a couple hours of good sleep thanks to all the planning, strategizing, and ally-building they’d had to do, waited on the Boulder and Aurora packs to arrive. They’d been driving all night and were probably itching for a fight.
The Sin City pack was already there, nearly 15 members strong.
“I hope Liesel’s in there,” Sienna said as she wrapped her arms around Brody’s waist. He nodded.
“I caught her scent,” he said grimly. “At least she’s alive. Probably gonna take her a while to recover, though.”
Sienna didn’t have an answer to that and only hummed an affirmation.
“I know this isn’t the best time or place,” Brody began. “But I want you to come back with me to Boulder. Be my mate. Be my wife. Help me keep my wild pack of hooligans under control with your shifty, smartass ways.”
Sienna could hardly hear over the roaring of her heart. Prior to meeting Brody, an offer like that, from an Alpha no less, would have sent her screaming for the hills. But after spending time with Brody, and with the prospect of being with Sage again, her heart pulled for her to accept him and his glorious offer.
“I’ll think about it,” she whispered and felt Brody stiffen.
“You’ll think about it—"he started to protest but stopped when she whispered in his ear again.
“I’ll think about the dirtiest, sexiest, naughtiest way to tell you that I’d follow you to the ends of the earth, Grumpy Wolf.”
She felt the rumble of his laugh against her chest and reluctantly disengaged when the Colorado wolves finally pulled into the parking lot of the abandoned bank they waited in.
Sage and Dane were out of the cars first and practically ran to them. Sage, in an unusual show of affection, scooped Sienna up in a crushing hug. Beside them, Brody’s wolf let loose a low, threatening growl.
“Oh my gods, Sienna,” Sage laughed. “You have his scent all over you. I never thought I’d see the day!”
Sienna brushed away the lewd comment and took in the Boulder pack as they surrounded them. They were all massive and brawny and smiling.
“Why is everyone happy?” She whispered as Sage set her down and Brody put a possessive arm around her waist. “You’d think you guys were headed to a theme park, not a brawl with a bunch of bears.”
Dane let out a whoop and gave Sienna a hug.
“We’re getting our pack member back and we get to beat some bear ass, too? It’s a win/win for us!”
Adams, the Sin City Alpha Brody called the night before approached the group with the phone on his ear.
“The bears are starting to move,” he told Brody. “My men posted as lookout called with an update. It’s time to go.”
Sienna followed Brody to his truck and as he helped her inside, he leaned across her body and stole a slow, sensuous kiss.
“Stay near me in the fight, you got it?”
She gave him a smirk but agreed. He leaned back for another kiss before whispering.
“After the fight, I’m going to want to fuck. And claim you,” he said as he nibbled her bottom lip. “You think you can handle that?”
“Hell yes, Broody Brody,” she teased. “Can you?”
Smirking, he closed the door and walked to the driver’s seat. Sienna watched as a small army of almost 50 shifters headed into battle to retrieve their own.
Chapter Seventeen
For all the buildup, the fight to get Liesel and the other missing women hadn’t been nearly as bloody or drawn out as Sienna expected. Much like Adams had planned, the wolves had taken the fifteen bears mostly by surprise and were easily able to flank the ones who had made it outside and incapacitate the ones still inside.
In all, it’d been done within an hour.
They’d held 18 women on the fourth floor and local law enforcement had come to help them find their ways back home and take statements.
Liesel had cried when Sage carried her outside and Sienna struggled not to cry, too. Brody made hasty introductions and promised Sienna she could meet the entire Boulder pack the correct way once they made it back to Colorado. With that, Brody sent Sage and the rest of the pack ahead of them back to pack territory.
They checked Sienna out of her room and carried her things back to Brody’s. Once inside his suite, Sienna watched him as he packed his things up and set the suitcases aside.
“Are we leaving tonight?” She asked. She told Brody she’d need a few days to untangle her condo and car business, but Brody made a quick call to his lawyer who was handling all the messy details for her, stating matter-of-factly that she was his to take care of now and if he wanted to waste money on obscenely expensive lawyers, it was his right as a mate to do that.
“Nearly mate,” Sienna corrected him.
“Only a matter of minutes, love,” he said with a wicked grin. “And to answer your earlier question, no, we’ll leave first thing in the morning. I have plans for that body of yours and they don’t include sitting all the way across from me in the passenger’s seat for the long ride home. The only riding you’ll be doing tonight is me.”
Her cheeks flamed at the desirous thoughts his words inspired in her. They were showered. They’d eaten. Nothing left to do now but to make it official—werewolf style.
“You do know we’ll need to do a mating ceremony back in Colorado, right?” Brody’s voice was just above a whisper as he walked to stand between Sienna’s legs as she perched on the edge of the couch. “The pack will want to formally welcome its Alpha female.”
“I’m not sure I’m going to make a great Alpha female,” Sienna said between kisses that Brody was raining down her neck. “What if I let them down?”
Brody growled in protest at her words and nipped harder as his mouth traveled south to the swell at the top of her breasts.
“What’s not to love? You’re fierce, you’re loyal, and you’re smart as hell,” he murmured as his claws shr
edded her tank top to ribbons, freeing her breasts to his hungry gaze.
Sienna shot her fingers through his hair as he leaned forward and pulled a taut nipple into his mouth and sucked. Hard. She gasped and pulled him harder against her before he moved to bestow the same treatment on the other one. His free hand was already ripping her running shorts off her bottom and Sienna laughed in protest.
“I’m not going to have any clothes by the time we’re done,” she said as her black shorts fell off her.
“Perfect,” Brody growled as he fell to his knees and threw Sienna’s legs over his shoulders. She had to reach behind her and grab the back of the couch to keep from falling off the arm her ass was perched on while Brody pried her apart and sought out the very center of her.
“Mine,” he growled as he plunged his tongue into her wet folds. She cried out immediately and tugged his head closer to her. “Say it, Sienna.”
She didn’t speak at first, so Brody backed off. Frustrated, she shimmied on her perch.
“Say whose this is, Sienna,” he repeated as one of his fingers stroked her opening.
“Yours, Brody, it’s yours,” she whispered as he plunged a finger inside her. “Fuck.”
Brody ravaged her sensitive center with his tongue on her clit and two fingers curving inside her until they found the magic spot. It wasn’t long before her orgasm shattered her and had her legs shaking on his shoulders.
The gleam she saw in Brody’s eyes told her that he was a man (and a wolf) on edge and he was ready to claim his mate. She felt a flutter in her stomach and realized she was suddenly nervous. And thrilled.
Brody gently pulled her from the couch arm down on the floor, but before she could lie on her back, he turned her so that she was on her hands and knees facing away from him. He placed a warm hand on the center of her back so that she lowered slightly, pushing her ass up for him to admire as he knelt behind her.
“I’m going to fuck you so good, Sienna, you’re never going to forget the moment I claimed you as mine,” he whispered as he rubbed the head of his cock against her wet entrance.
She couldn’t do anything but whimper as he slid in slowly, inch by agonizing inch until he was fully seated.
“Fucking. Mine.” Brody snarled behind her before gripping her hips and fucking her with a savage intensity. It was almost as if his wolf was taking over and the animal in him was calling to the animal in her. From her position, Sienna let her wolf come closer to the surface to experience the mating along with her.
She could tell Brody was getting close when he reached a hand down around her and his thick thumb found her clit again. He was pulling her along with him.
“I’m claiming you, now and forever Sienna McAllister,” he ground out as he pumped hard in and out of her. His right hand worked her clit as she was approaching her second orgasm and his left hand gently wrapped around the hair at the back of her head and pulled backwards, exposing her neck for him.
“Mine,” he snarled seconds before his teeth came down on the sensitive skin below her ear. When they broke the skin, Sienna felt something inside her chest snap into place as her orgasm exploded across her entire body. She felt like she was on fire and she felt complete and whole. Most of all, she could feel that Brody felt the exact same thing—one of the perks of a mating bond.
With his mouth attached to her claiming bite, Brody found his climax behind her, groaning and thrusting like a man possessed.
Spent, he collapsed to the side and pulled her down beside him on the plush carpeting without disengaging their bodies.
“I love you, Sienna,” he whispered as he licked over her claiming mark, loving the way it looked on her skin as it started to heal.
Against him, he felt Sienna laugh.
“I hope you’re ready for round two, Grumpy Wolf,” she said as she gracefully turned and straddled him. She knew he was the instant she felt him grow hard again inside her. “It’s my turn to mark you now.”
Brody let a sexy grin spread across his handsome features.
“Mark away, Sienna,” he said as his hands snaked up her back and he pulled her down for a searing kiss. “I’m all yours.”
*****
THE END
BETA'S DESTINY
Chapter One
Sage
It was weird being back on his old pack’s turf. Sage Blaine, Beta of the Boulder pack down in Colorado, had come to Wyoming as a favor. His brother, now Alpha of their old Tahoe pack had said it was an emergency. That he needed Sage’s help.
Samuel Blaine, the oldest of the four Blaine children, sat across from Sage and ran his hand through his long dirty blonde hair. It hung to his shoulders now and Sage noted how much older his brother looked. Being an Alpha had changed the surly, anti-social older brother Sage had known all those years ago into this cautious, quiet-speaking leader sitting a few feet from him.
Sitting back in the old Pack lodge he’d mostly grown up in was a strange experience. Samuel had redecorated and remodeled, so none of it really looked the same. More modern. More spacious. More cared for. But the vistas out of the large bay windows were the same ones he looked out as a young boy, wishing more than anything he could escape pack lands with his brothers and sister.
The Northeastern Wyoming landscape was rugged and rocky, full of pines and mountains—the same landscape he used to hide in with Sienna when their stepfather was drinking and in a rage. He wished he’d been there to watch his older brother rip his wolf’s throat out.
Samuel’s voice brought Sage back to the present. He shook his head a bit to clear the memories and focus on the now. It was how he’d survived those early years away from his family. Focus on the task ahead of him and take care of it. Step by step.
“How’s Sienna?” Samuel asked of Sage’s twin sister, younger by nearly two minutes. She was also now mated and married to the Boulder Pack’s Alpha, Brody McAllister. The very same half-feral Alpha that Sage served as Beta.
“Great, considering the morning sickness and the fact that she can’t decide if she wants to cry or murder us all in our sleep from moment to moment.” Sage was learning hormones were terrifying things and made his normally cool-headed sister borderline insane.
“Hard to imagine herself mated and an Alpha female,” Samuel mused to himself. Most likely, he remembered the battered, abused 17-year-old girl who’d fled from the Tahoe pack after one too many run-ins with the pack’s then-Alpha—their stepfather. A monster named Richard who Samuel had eventually challenged and killed to take the reins as Alpha.
By that point, Sienna was long gone and perfectly happy being a lone wolf. Sage had left, too, with his best friend Jai when nobody went after Sienna. Jai had an old friend from his days in juvie who was a powerful Alpha shifter who’d gathered a couple people in Northern Colorado. This old friend turned out to be Brody McAllister. The rest had been history.
Speaking of history, back on Tahoe lands was about the last place Sage ever planned to be. This was ancient history.
“You’ve got some sort of trouble you need help with you, don’t you?”
Sage cut straight to the point. He could feel the agitation roiling off his brother across from him. Instead of denying it or taking offense to Sage’s brusque manner, Samuel nodded.
“Former pack member with a serious gambling problem went off the grid a few months back, leaving his daughter here.”
Sage groaned.
“I don’t do well with kids, Samuel,” he said. “I’m barely coming to terms with the fact that I’m going to be an uncle to some overzealous pup.”
Samuel shook his head, stopping him.
“She’s in graduate school,” he said. “Turns 25 next month. This isn’t your typical babysitting job.”
This had Sage’s attention. He motioned for his brother to go on.
“Dad’s name is Hank Wilkins,” Samuel said. The name rang a bell, somewhere far off in Sage’s early memories of the adults who used to pal around with their stepfather. He cou
ldn’t place a face, but the name was familiar enough. “But this story isn’t about Hank. It’s about Emery Wilkins, a girl with a faith so strong and so blind in her father that’s she’d point the finger at one of Nevada’s worst syndicate bosses and get him locked up to spare her father.”
“Shifter?” Sage asked.
Samuel shook his head. Human, then.
“Eddie Cardoza,” he continued. “Runs most of Nevada and creeps into Colorado and Wyoming from time to time on the reservation casinos. Bad news all around. Hank got tangled up with him as a bookie, we think, and took off with a huge amount of money.”
“Sounds like a charming guy,” Sage said. He’d never heard of Eddie Cardoza, but the type of characters that the casinos attracted were never the highest caliber.
“Hank was on the run and the state of Nevada offered Emery a deal if she’d cooperate and hand over phone records, cash receipts, and computer passwords. Hank would serve a couple months somewhere local, far away from Eddie’s goons, while Cardoza himself went away for up to 10 years.”
Sage took a deep breath.
“She took it, didn’t she?”
Samuel nodded.
Stupid move, Sage thought. The girl should have kept her nose out of that entire business and let her father handle his own business like a grown man.
“What do you need from me?”
Samuel dug his cellphone out of his pocket and set it on the low table between them. Sage could tell his brother was stalling.
“I need you to hide her for a while,” he said. “Hide her in your pack for a while so that I can find a more permanent solution for her.”
Damn. There it was.
“I have a pretty anti-social Alpha who doesn’t trust outsiders,” Sage began. “He also has a pregnant mate. I don’t know that I could convince Brody to do this even if I agreed to do it.”
Samuel scrubbed a hand down his face and closed his eyes.
“Please,” he said simply. It jarred Sage a little to hear the note of desperation in his stoic brother’s voice. “She’s a special girl and I’m genuinely afraid for her with all of this. She’s smart and on a good path in life and if it weren’t for Hank, she’d be beyond all of this in some big city saving the world.”
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