Desert Heat (Complete)
Desert Storm Chapter 57

{Aries’ P.O.V.}

It’s been two weeks since the bounty on Lacie was put out, and thankfully enough, the reputation between Mikey, Mikey’s old man, the four others, and me has been enough to keep bounty hunters from coming after her. As of right now, the best and most skilled have all backed off, which means only stupid and new hunters will try to come for her, which will be suicide for them. Dorian put a protective order on Lacie, and as her mate, I was forced into early into retirement. I didn’t care though, Lacie was my top priority.

Carter and Poseidon also retired early and were hired as her guards. Lacie does not go anywhere in public without the two of them, or me. Mikey has been working tirelessly trying to replace who put out the bounty, and as of right now, my money is still on Maya or Lacie’s ex, Shawn. When we told Allie our theory about him being potentially an accessory to her assault, and that it’s too late to do anything because of the statute of limitations, she wasn’t surprised. She said that Shawn’s parents were also high profile attorneys and that they probably were the ones who helped him avoid jail time.

Evelyn gave birth a few days ago, and the pups are perfectly healthy; although, a little small. Evelyn actually made Lacie one of the godmothers, along with Cianna, and Allie. Dorian was made the godfather to all three, and although he was honored, he was not happy, because that meant Allie was going to spoil these girls rotten with his bank account. I personally think Deacon was aiming for that.

“Hey, babe,” Lacie called out from the dressing room inside of Victoria’s Secret. Lacie and I were at Downtown Summerlin buying a gift for Allie’s birthday, and Lacie wanted to do some shopping for herself.

“Yes, Precious?”

“What do you think of this?” she asked as she opened the door. Lacie was wearing practically nothing. Whatever she was wearing basically covered her breasts and her p***y and the back of it was held together by straps and nothing more. I was instantly hard, and I pushed her back into the room and closed the door. “Oh my god, what are you doing?” she whispered. I pressed her against the wall and kissed her, and my hand immediately started to rub her down.

“Just so you know, Precious, there’s no point in buying something this sexy, because I’m just going to rip it off this perfect little body of yours,” I whispered back. I held my hand over her mouth, so she didn’t m**n too loud. I used my other hand to quickly undo my belt and jeans, moved the fabric of whatever she was wearing, and swiftly entered her. I picked her up by the back of her legs and made her wrap them around me.

“Aries, we can’t…ah!”

“Shhh…not so loud, Precious,” I chuckle as I give her hard, short, and deep thrusts.

“Mm…Mm…Mm…” she m****d with every thrust as she covered her own mouth. I felt her walls starting to tighten as she had an immediate o****m and her breathing became erratic.

“That’s it, Precious, c*m all over my d**k,” I kept pushing into her with hard and deep, for another few minutes, and I watched her eyes roll into the back of her head, and her legs started to quiver. She was about to scream from her o****m, but I crashed my lips into hers before she could, so I could muffle her screams. A few more thrusts and I bottomed out, cumming inside of her. I kept our lips together to muffle my own g****s. When I felt that we were both done, I pulled out and broke our k**s.

“You.are.insane,” she said to me as I put her down.

“And you are sexy, my precious mate,”

“Is this what everyone calls a quickie?” she asks.

“Sure is,” I reply and k**s her again. “Get changed,” she quickly changes back into her clothes, and we go to the checkout stand. I buy her everything she picked out, including the lingerie piece I just f****d her in.

“Can we go to Lush?” she asked.

“Why?”

“I want to get some bath bombs for Allie,”

“You just got her a $500 gift card to Sephora,”

“Sephora is for makeup, and Allie loves her bath bombs. Plus, I want to get a few for myself,” I just shrugged, and we went in. Lacie picked out twenty different kinds, ten for Allie and ten for herself. She also was sucked into buying a new body cream by the sales associate. Lacie was still so young and fell for these upsell sales tactics. It made me smile and shake my head at how innocent she still really was.

As we were getting ready to check out, I received a call from Brandon, I gave Lacie my card so she could finish paying and went outside to take the call,

“Hello?”

“Aries, where are you?”

“At the mall with Lacie, why?”

“Leah had a vision, Lacie is going to be attacked coming out of the store called Lush,”

“s**t, she’s inside of Lush right now,”

“Leah said that someone, a woman, is going to bump into her and stab her, be cautious,”

“Got it, thank you,” I quickly hang up, and run back inside as she is being handed her bags. “Precious, we have a problem,”

“What’s wrong?”

“Leah had a vision of you being attacked as we walk out of here, so I need you to stay close to me and do not let anyone come close to you,” she nods. I gauge the outside of the store and keep my senses up. The coast was clear, and we walked out. As soon as we did, a woman cleared the corner, and I quickly changed our direction to walk in the opposite direction.

“Aries, I’m scared,”

“I got you, Precious, we’re just going to take a detour,” I parked the car by Dillard’s and decided we would walk across through Macy’s and come out through the other side. I felt that someone was following us. I looked around at the reflective windows, and sure enough, the woman who had cleared the corner right outside of Lush was following us. “Lacie, I’m not going to let anything happen to you,”

“I trust you, babe,” we sped walk to the car, and I made sure Lacie got in first. I made her lock the door, and as soon as it did, the woman tried to jump me. I grabbed her by the throat, squeezing her trachea.

“You have some nerve coming after my mate,” I tell her.

“I…want…that…bounty,” she muttered while trying to break my grip.

“You must be new to the game,” I tell her and squeeze harder. “My name is Aries, Lacie is my mate, and she is off-limits. If you’ve never heard of me, then I suggest asking some of your peers. You know, the ones who have been smart enough to stay away,”

“I don’t care who you are, I will fulfill that bounty,”

“Wow, you must really new to the game. Tell you what, I’m going to let you live so you can do some research on me because I would hate to have to kill you right as you’re getting started,”

“f**k you,”

“No thanks, I have Lacie for that. It’s a shame, female bounty hunters are getting uglier and uglier. I doubt you will ever fulfill a bounty looking like you just crawled out of the sewer,” her face when I said that was priceless. I dropped her on the ground and walked away. She was too busy catching her breath to even do anything. I got in the car and drove away. Once we were back on the highway, I was finally able to breathe.

“Babe?” Lacie put her hand on my thigh. I took her hand and kissed the back of it.

“Are you alright, precious?” I asked her.

“I’m perfectly fine, are you okay?”

“As long as you’re okay, I’m good,” I k**s her hand again and held it the entire way back to the packhouse.

When we pulled into the garage and I parked the car, Lacie opened the door to get out, but I stopped her and pulled her into a hug,

“Babe, I’m okay,” she said reassuringly.

“I know, I just want to hold you, Precious,” she pulled away gently and gave me a k**s.

“You good?” she asked, and I nodded. We got out of the car and unloaded the shopping bags and went inside. We barely made into the house before everyone started to run towards us.

“Lacie! Are you okay!?” Allie asked and engulfed Lacie in a hug.

“Yes, I’m perfectly fine, I promise,”

“Aries, what happened?” Dorian asked.

“It was a female bounty hunter. She was definitely new to the game. She no idea who I was even when I said my name,” I tell him. I turn to Brandon. “Brandon, thanks for the heads up,” I say and give him a fist bump.

“Hey, I was just the messenger, Leah is the one with the powers,” he replies.

“Where is she?” I asked. “I’d like to thank her too,”

“She’s in the nursery,” I made an O shape with my mouth. I made a mental note to thank Leah later.

“I’m assuming those are for me,” Allie says and points to the shopping bag from Lush.

“Dammit, you weren’t supposed to see them,” Lacie says.

“Too late, now give me,” Allie says gesturing her hands.

“Allie, wait until dinner,” Dorian tells her. Allie pouts and scowls at him. Lacie and I laugh, and we head upstairs to our room. Lacie gets bath bombs and the Sephora gift card and puts them neatly in a small gift box. Once she was done wrapping it, she put it aside,

“I’m going to jump in the shower,” she said and started to undress. Just then, our little quickie inside of Victoria Secret came rushing back into my mind,

“I’m going to join you,”

—-

“Aries!”

“Argh! f**k!” our shower turned into thirty minutes of hardcore s*x. We were on the floor of the shower, and Lacie was riding me in reverse cowgirl. The water was already starting to get cold, and I was losing control. Lacie was a Rockstar in bed now, and when she wanted control, she took it.

“Ah! I’m going to c*m again!” she screamed. I reached from under her and started to stimulate her clit. “Yes! Keep doing that! I’m cumming!” Lacie started to convulse as her o****m tore through her. The more we had s*x, the more intense her climaxes were. When she was finished, she got off and turned herself around. I pushed myself up and held her close as she started to take control again. She rotated her h**s, ground against me, and licked my mark shooting sparks all over me. Lacie had me under her control and she knew it.

“Ugh, Precious, I’m going to c*m,”

“c*m for me, Aries,” she licked my mark and then bit me. I growled from the sudden pain, but the pleasure that came from it was so intense, I started to see white spots. Lacie bit me harder than she ever had before, and it was doing something crazy to my body, and in the most amazing way. I exploded inside of her, and I just held her has tight as I could.

“Holy f**k!” I shouted as my o****m hit me like a tsunami. “f**k! Ugh!” spurt after spurt, I filled up my precious mate. At the rate she and I were going, she bound to end up pregnant. She hasn’t had her heat again yet, and it’s been more than four months since her first one.

Lacie stood up when I was done, and I could see my c*m leaking out of her.

“Damn, that was a lot, babe,” she said and started to clean herself up. I was still on the floor of the shower because I had no energy to get up.

“I’m going to need a nap after this, precious, that took a lot out of me,” I told her and forced myself to my feet.

“Hahaha! Either I’m doing a good job, or you’re getting old,” she replied.

“Old!?” I look at her in shock. She just smiled and put her arms around my neck. “I’m not old, precious, just older,”

“And I love that you’re older,” she says and k****s me.

“Let’s get this shower over with and take a nap,” I reply. She smiled and nodded her head.

{Allie’s P.O.V.}

“…Happy birthday to Allie! Happy birthday to you!!” everyone sang happy birthday to me. I made my wish and blew out the twenty-five candles on the special birthday cake that Katie made for me. Triple-layer chocolate cake, with Andie’s mint chocolate cream in between the cake layers, and almond buttercream frosting.

“Alright Gizmo! Halfway to fifty!” Brandon shouted.

“Oooh! You’re so lucky all of the pups are here right now!” I shout back at him. Now that almost all of the pups, excluding Danica, are old enough to talk, all of us have been trying to watch what we say in front of them. Sin already messed that up when she said ‘f**k’ in front of Allen, and he has been repeating it ever since. Helena and Ethan were not happy about that either. Now every time he says it, Mikey has to growl at him.

“What did you wish for, Allie?” Dani asked.

“I can’t tell you, because then it won’t come true,” I replied as I cut up the cake.

“Sweetheart, let Hilary pass around the slices, and you start opening your gifts,” Eleanor said and took the cake away from me.

“Me first!” Sin shouted and put a bag in front of me. I took out the tissue paper and pulled out ten pairs of the Miami lashes from Lily Lashes.

“YES! I’ve been meaning to restock on these!” I said with a huge smile. “Thanks, Skan..ahhh…Sin!” I quickly corrected myself, and everyone laughed.

“Me next!” Leah said and put a very pretty wrapped box in front of me. I tore off the paper and opened the box, and inside were different lychee flavored candies, drinks, and snacks. I gave her a huge open-mouthed smile. “I know how much you love lychee flavored stuff, so I put a little care package together for you,”

“Thank you!” I say and open one of the bags of jelly candies and start to them.

“Here, this is from Andre and me,” Dani said and put a rectangular box in front of me.

“Those are shoes, aren’t they!?” Sin asked and Dani just shrugged. I opened the box and was met with a pair of Louis Vuitton black mules.

“YESSSS!!!” I shouted and held them in the air. “THESE ARE CUTE!!!”

“You like?” Dani asked.

“I love!”

“Our turn!” Sam said. Lucas brought around a very large box. I opened it and inside was a matching set of Vera Bradley black microfiber backpack, turn lock wallet, triple zip crossbody purse, large tote, baby bag, and laptop carrier.

“Oh my gosh! I love these! Thanks, you guys!”

“I guess that leaves us,” Lacie said. I already knew what she got me because I saw it earlier when she came home. She pushed a wrapped box towards me. I opened and found ten different kinds of bath bombs, which everyone knows that I love, and a gift card to Sephora.

“Oh, this gift card will come in handy,” I say with a big smile. “And one can never have too many bath bombs. Thank you, Lacie, thank you, Aries,”

“I think that’s everyone,” Sin said.

“Wait! Dorian didn’t give his gift yet,” Lacie said.

“He probably gave it to her this morning, like he does every year,” Brandon said.

“Actually,” I say c*****g my head. “Dorian didn’t give me his gift yet,” I say and look over at him. He just smirks and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a very small box that’s not even wrapped. “Well, I know that’s not a ring because the shape is wrong,”

“Open it,” I take the box and open it, and inside is a key fob. I hold it up and look at Dorian.

“Is this… a car key?” I ask him and he nods. It was a single key and it was old. I was confused and kept staring at Dorian, and he just kept smiling and then winked.

“No,” I said when a realization hit me.

“Yes,” he replied.

“NO!” I jumped out of my seat.

“It took a while, to replace one, but I did,” he said to me.

“Dorian, you didn’t!!” I squealed.

“It’s in the garage,” he didn’t have to say anything else. I ran from the dining room straight to the garage. I turned on the lights and there it was my dream car. My eyes were popping out of my head and drool was falling from my mouth as my jaw hung open. Dorian came up next to me and kissed my temple.

“Is it a 97 or 98?” I ask.

“98,”

“Manual transmission?”

“Yup, six-speed, twin-turbo manual transmission,”

“Six-speed?” I looked up at him

“The TT only comes in six-speed,”

“Oh, wow, I must have sounded really dumb when I told you wanted it in five-speed,”

“Hahaha, it’s okay, baby. I didn’t know either,” he put an arm around me and led me down the steps to the car. It was literally everything I had explained to Dorian. It was painted black pearl with emerald green detailing on the outside and had black leather seating with suede trimming on the inside.

“Are those the…”

“…17.5 Enkei Vulcan 45mm Anthracite rims,” he finishes before I can ask.

“DORIAN!!!!” I scream at the top of my lungs and jump on him.

“Happy birthday, baby,” I pull away and give him the biggest k**s I have ever given him.

“That’s a nice car!” I heard Sam say from the doorway.

“That s**t took forever to replace!” Mikey shouted.

“Yeah, and when we did replace it, it was in a junkyard collecting dust. We had to order parts from Japan,” Lucas added.

“Finding a body shop to do all the labor was the hardest part,” Brandon added.

“Wait, so all of you knew about this!?” I asked them, and they all nodded.

“Allie, this is a fully customized car, and it is yours,” Andre replied and tipped his hand. I looked at Dorian again and almost cried. I finally had my dream car. I started to jump up and down. I just could not contain my excitement.

“Hey, baby,”

“Yes?” I looked up at him.

“How about a race?” he raised his brows.

“Just us?”

“Of course not,” Andre said and got into this Audi.

“Don’t forget me,” Lucas replied getting into his Porsche.

“Hey, you’re not the only girl that knows how to drive,” Sam said and got into her Mercedes-AMG. Dorian got into his BMW and I jumped into my new car. I saw everyone else get into the Tahoe and the grandparents stayed behind to watch the pups. Dorian led the way and we drove out into the middle of the desert where we were literally the only cars. Brandon dropped off Mikey and then drove out a little further marking a quarter-mile.

Dorian, Lucas, Sam, Andre, and I were lined up perpendicular to each other and waited.

“Baby, I won’t go easy on you just because you’re my wife,” Dorian said from his BMW.

“Please, it is I, who won’t go easy on you,” I tell him and blow him a k**s. Mikey hails off to the left, and we wait for Brandon’s cue.

“Alright! This is a simple quarter-mile race! First, one to pass the finish line is the winner,” Mikey says.

“Ready!”

“Set!”

“GO!”

———-

“DAMMIT!” Dorian shouted.

“Hahaha! My car is faster!” I shouted at him.

“You still lost Allie,” Sam says.

“I beat Dorian and that’s all that matters,” I snub and stick out my tongue. I came in second place and Andre came in first.

“That was awesome!” Leah said. “Allie, I didn’t know you knew how to drive like that!”

“I’ve always been into cars, and Devin used to street race when we were in high school, so that’s how I got into it,” I tell her. Dorian picked me up and kissed me.

“I don’t know whether to be impressed with your driving skills or pissed off that I lost to you,”

“By far, the most fun I’ve had on my birthday,”

“I can’t wait for Dorian’s birthday!” Sin exclaimed.

“Oh, I know!!” Lacie agreed. “I’ve never been to the Maldives before!”

“It’s getting late, we should all head back home now,” Dorian said. We all nod and get back into the cars and drive home. When we get there, I park my new car next to Dorian’s. I sit inside of it for a few extra minutes just enjoying myself.

Even with all of the s**t going on in our lives, everyone still made my birthday special. Lacie is being hunted and we still don’t know by whom. Heather and Maya are still out there somewhere hiding after the s**t they pulled on New Year’s. For my birthday, I wished for all of the drama to end. I wanted peace back in my life, and peace back in my friends’ and family’s lives. No one should live with the fear of looking over their shoulder, especially good people like Lacie, Aries, Deacon, and Evelyn.

That’s my wish this year. I wish for Karma to work her magic and get back at those who have hurt us or are trying to hurt us.

{Unknown P.O.V.}

*ring ring ring*ring ring ring*

“Hello?”

“Sir, the bounty hunter failed,”

“WHAT!? HOW?!”

“She said that she was made before she could even make a move. By the time she reached the target, her mate made her,”

“Why didn’t she just kill the mate!?”

“He overpowered her, she has claw marks on her neck, and it’s bruised. Whoever he is, he is strong,”

“How can a low-level Omega be that strong!? Why is it so difficult to kill one she-wolf?!”

“Sir, the hunter said that she had a message to deliver,”

“What message?”

“Aries says hello,”

“Aries? Who the f**k is Aries?”

“I don’t know sir, and neither does the bounty hunter. My assumption is that that is the name of Lacie’s mate, but we don’t know any other significance behind it,”

“I have reached out to the other bounty hunters we have worked with in the past, but none are willing to take the contract. All of them are saying it is a suicide mission and won’t double-cross the target’s mate,”

“Double-cross him!? Are you telling me that the most skilled bounty hunters in the world are afraid of one lower-level Omega!?”

“It’s not even that sir, apparently Lacie is also protected by several others, that hunters and hitters alike won’t take the contract. Somehow, whoever these people are, the hunters are so afraid of them, they’re passing on a payday,”

“And who are these people!?”

“We don’t know. No one will answer any questions,”

“Raise the bounty to one million then! Someone should need that kind of money!”

“Sir, all of them have told us that no amount of money will change their minds,”

“WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING ALL THIS MONEY IF I CAN’T EVEN PAY SOMEONE TO TAKE OUT ONE SINGLE SHE-WOLF!?!”

“I have a suggestion,”

“What’s that?”

“Why not reach out to the best hunter in the world?”

“And who might that be?”

“My research says that he goes by the nickname Razor- real identity unknown, but he is currently retired; however, rumor has it that he never passes up a good payday,”

“So, you think if I pay him enough money, he will come out of retirement?”

“That’s the idea, sir,”

“Fine, change the bounty to closed, and contact this Razor, and offer him five million,”

“Yes, Sir,”