Desert Heat (Complete)
Desert Heat Chapter 65

{Lucas’ P.O.V.}

Sam and I rested a bit after I f****d her brains out, then we back onto the deck, and found that the Alpha and the others were tying up our unwanted visitors.

“Uh, I thought these guys were in the water?” I said to no one in particular.

“Yeah, they were. While you and your wife were f*****g each other like horny animals, we fished them out. Allie suggested we tie them up and take them back with us so we can turn them in to the authorities,” Brandon replied.

“Oh wow, I didn’t even think of that. I was hoping sharks would eat them,” Sam said. These guys were pissed off, and rightfully so. They got their asses handed to them by a woman, while she was naked.

“We put our catch on ice. If we head back now, we can make it before sundown and turn these guys over to the police. I also want to see if the harbormaster would be willing to cut up the fish for us. I haven’t learned the artistry of filleting yet,” Allie said. I nodded my head and went to start up the boat. We had just enough fuel to get us back. Sam sat on my lap while I drove, and everyone else enjoyed the salty sea air.

I was falling in love all over again, and I honestly had the Luna to thank. Had she not come into our lives, I don’t think Sam and I would have found our way back to each other. The drive back only took about an hour and a half. When we pulled up, the harbormaster was already waiting for us at the dock.

“Well, I see you guys made it back before schedule,” he said

“Yeah, we had some unwanted visitors,” I told him.

“Ah, I see, you folks alright?”

“We are. They’re not,” I pointed to the back of the yacht. He walked over and saw the pirates beat up and tied up.

“Well, now what have we here? Did you fellas catch the pirates?”

“We didn’t, my wife did,” I said pointing to Sam who crossed her arms and smiled.

“You? By yourself?”

“Yes sir. I hold three different black belts and I am a trained MMA fighter, taking out five guys was no sweat,” Sam was cocky, and she had every right to be. She was the best-trained female fighter in the entire pack. She was fast, fierce, and powerful.

“Well now, I must say I am more than impressed, young lady. Give me a moment while I call the police, they will be quite pleased to finally have these men in custody,” he walked away to call the police, but not before tying the boat to the dock so we could disembark.

The ladies had packed up all of the remaining food since it was all paid for with our money. Mikey and Brandon unloaded the catch, while the Alpha and I took care of the pirates. About fifteen minutes later, a squad of police showed up,

“My name is Captain Arnold Boucher, are you the group that caught the pirates?” the police captain asked. We all nodded. “I cannot thank you for what you have done. We have been after these men for months. We can’t tell you how many innocents were hurt because of them, property stolen,” he said while shaking the hands of all us guys.

“Captain Boucher, we only did what was right,” Allie said.

“We can take them from here. You have all my sincerest gratitude; how can I repay you?”

“Well, do you know anyone that cut up our fish for us?” Allie asked and smiled sweetly. The captain laughed at Allie’s request and just smiled back.

“Don’t you worry about that sweet miss; I can take care of that for you. And as a token of my appreciation, and I will even cook them up for you on the grill with some rice and veggies, how does that sound?” said the harbormaster.

“YEAH!” we all shouted.

“Oh my gosh, thank you so much!” Allied jumped up and down like a child. You would never believe that she was a powerful Luna of a werewolf pack.

“Now that that is settled, we will take the pirates,”

“Wait,” Sam said. “This is the gun they pulled on us when they attempted to commandeer the boat. Unfortunately, I touched it with my bare hands, so my prints will be on it,” she said while handing the gun over in a zip-lock bag.

“I see. Thank you very much. If you don’t mind, would you give us a sample of your fingerprints so we can exclude you as a suspect, it is the protocol,”

“Of course,” she turned to face me. “I’ll be right back, babe,” she kissed me and went with the police captain. Allie came up to me and nudged me with her tiny shoulder.

“Yes, Luna?”

“I’m happy for you and Sam. As I said, I never would have known there were issues with you two. You both seemed solid. You two seemed to love each other a whole lot,”

“I’ve never stopped loving Sam, but I think I forgot TO love her, and that’s where the issues started to arise. I forgot that you had to put in the work to show someone how much you loved them. After the miscarriage, things took a turn for the worse, and instead of consoling her, I blamed her. That’s when we started to have problems, I pushed her away, even though she tried to stay close, but I started to feel suffocated. But when she stopped trying, I felt abandoned and blamed her for our issues and I think that’s when she started to resent me, but she never once blamed me. I realized that I was the problem and not her after you and she became close. You two would walk into the room together when we were playing poker, and I would get annoyed, but the Alpha would light up. You would sit on his lap, and Sam would sit on the couch. I started to get jealous, why did my wife not want to be near me?”

“You already answered that you dimwit. You pushed her away when she tried to be affectionate. You made her believe that you didn’t like affection or want her affection. And then you blamed her for something that was out her control. Miscarriages happen, and sometimes it can to someone who does everything right. Look at me, I did everything right, but my baby still died. Yes, she was technically murdered, but you weren’t the only one that lost their baby, Sam did too. But instead of mourning together, you blamed her. Imagine how much that hurt her. The one person that should have been there to support her blamed her. Then you pushed her away. So, in her mind, staying away from you is what made you happy, so that’s what she did,”

“But that’s not…” I looked at her and she put her hand up to stop me

“It may not have been your intentions Lucas, but that’s what happened. When you love someone, you do whatever it takes to make them happy. Take Dorian for example, I actually don’t like to sit on his lap all the time, and he knows it. But I do it because it makes him happy and he keeps him calm. I don’t know if you noticed or not, but when I’m not on his lap, I sit to his left. Why? It’s so that he can have his hand on my leg while he eats,” she was right. I hadn’t noticed that.

“Also, the other day when we were in the hummer coming to the marina. I wasn’t just on his lap kissing him because I wanted to, but he wanted me to, all because we didn’t have s*x the night before. I may have snapped at Sin for her comment about it, but it’s like I said, he is my husband, and as his wife, I will do whatever it takes to make him happy. If that means I have to sit on his lap when we eat or suck his face off in front of everyone, I’m going to do it. That is unless I REALLY don’t want to or it’s not appropriate. In return, Dorian takes me shopping because shopping makes me happy. I cook for Dorian because it makes me happy to see him happy when I do it. Sometimes, I don’t want to get f****d into oblivion, I want him to make hot, sweet, sensual, and passionate love to me. It can take hours, and we are hot sweaty messes, but that makes me happy, and he will gladly do it when I ask,” I didn’t know what to say to that. The Luna was doing everything she could to make the Alpha happy, and he was doing the same for her. I never knew that my actions would cause Sam to stop showing me affection. I didn’t realize that my actions caused my mate- my wife, pain.

“And when our baby died, Dorian mourned with me. He gave me space to mourn in my own way and stood up for me when his mother insinuated, I was taking too much time to mourn. Dorian didn’t blame me, and I didn’t blame him. Dorian cried with me almost every night, and the nights that he didn’t, he held me as tight as he could until I would fall asleep from crying,”

“Luna, I don’t know how to fix this,”

“You already are, but I think you two really need to sit down and talk about it. I also think you need to apologize to her. You were the a*****e, not her. She just did what you asked or what she thought you wanted. Don’t just make it about s*x. Yes, s*x is great, but tell her how much you love her, and mean it,” she said punching my arm. “You’re being given a second chance Lucas, don’t f**k it up,” she told me and walked away to go see the harbormaster about the fish. I watched her walk off into the distance, thinking about what she said. I was being given a second chance with the love of my life. A second chance I didn’t even know I needed.

“Hey, are you okay?” Sam asked me. I looked at her and just hugged her as tight as I could. “Lucas is everything okay,” she wasn’t hugging me back and it was hurting me, but I couldn’t blame her. I hadn’t hugged her like this for almost a year. We may have been having s*x again, but I never hugged her, kissed her with passion, or told her I loved her.

“I’m sorry Samantha,”

“Ok, you never call me that unless something is wrong,”

“Everything is wrong. And it’s my fault. I pushed you away when you were just trying to love me. I blamed you for our problems, but I was the problem, not you,” I hugged her tighter. “I’m sorry, baby. I’m so sorry for pushing you away. I’m sorry for making you think that you needed to keep your distance to make me happy. I’m sorry for blaming you for our pup dying. I should have been there for you, to support you, and console you, but I blamed you, not knowing that my actions were causing you pain and suffering that it would cause you to stop loving me,”

“Lucas, I never stopped loving you,”

“But it felt like you did, and it was killing me inside, but I never had the courage to tell you that. I thought I was losing you, and that our bond wasn’t strong anymore, I was afraid you were going to divorce me and then ultimately reject me, and I was scared. So, scared that I became angry and cold. But the truth is, I love you. I love you so much Sam, more than anyone on this planet, than in this galaxy,” I felt her arms move and she softly placed her hands on my back.

“Lucas,” she started sobbing. Sam hadn’t cried in front of me since the miscarriage. I hugged her even tighter and couldn’t stop my own tears.

“I love you; I love you so much. I love you, Sam. I will say it a million times over to prove it to you. Please forgive me, I’m sorry for hurting you,”

“Lucas,” she broke down in my arms. “I forgive you. I love you too,” with those words, I felt our bond become strong again.

{Allie’s P.O.V.}

I watched from afar as Lucas and Sam reconnected. I could tell that both of them were crying and it brought tears to my eyes.

“You okay, baby?” Dorian asked me

“Yeah, I’m just happy for them,”

“You know, even though Lucas and Sam were mates before you came, I believe that it was you that helped reconnect their bond. So, in a way, you helped them replace each other again,” I smiled at what he said, and he kissed me on the temple.

Thank you, Allie. I heard Sam’s voice in a mind link through her tears.

You’re welcome. I’m happy for you guys.

“Alright little miss, you want to learn how to cut these bad boys up?” the harbormaster asked.

“Oh my god yes!” I shouted. “Can you leave this part of the tuna in large steak sizes? I wanted to freeze it and make poke out of it,” I said pointing to the belly of the tuna.

“You like poke huh?”

“I love sushi and sashimi, so poke is right up my alley. Also, I want one steak of the barracuda and the mahi-mahi. I’m going to eat those as sashimi before I leave,” I smiled at the harbormaster.

“What about your friends?”

“Oh, they don’t eat the raw stuff, so more for me!” I squealed. He just laughed at me and showed me how to gut and fillet these bad boys.

“So, who caught what?”

“The mahi-mahi was caught by that guy right there…” I pointed at Brandon. “…The snapper by that guy…” I point at Mikey. “…The tuna by that guy over…” I pointed at Lucas who was still holding onto Sam. “ And I speared the Barracuda,”

“You caught the monster?” I nodded and smiled. “You tiny little thing caught this bad boy?” I smiled and nodded again.

“Spearing it was easy, but swimming and dragging it back to the boat was the hard part,” I said while laughing. He chuckled and continued to show me how to extenuate the b***d from the larger fishes, gut them, and then fillet them. He asked to keep the heads for his family, and I agreed. Though I wanted to the cheek meat, I let him have it since he was kind enough to do the labor for us.

Once everything was cut up and bagged, the harbormaster showed me his secret spice recipe for fish steaks and threw everything on the grill with the left-over veggies we had from the yacht. Sam and Lucas finally came to join us, their eyes were red and puffy. Lucas came directly to me and hugged me.

“Thank you, Allie. You saved my marriage and helped me rekindle my bond with my mate. I don’t know how to thank you,”

“You already have Lucas. Just be good to her from now on. Or I will kick your a*s,” we both laughed and returned the hug. After our hug, he kissed me on the forehead and went to Sam. He made her get up from her seat and sat her on his lap and buried his face in her neck. She was smiling ear to ear and so was I.

“Alrighty folks, let’s dig in!” the harbormaster said and brought over the food to the picnic table.

“Thank you so much again! We really appreciate this,” I said and took a bite of the food. One bite and I m****d so loud it sounded I was having an o****m. Everyone just laughed.

“Well I’m glad you like it!” he replied and laughed as well.

“Allie, tomorrow is your birthday, what’s on the itinerary?” Leah asked.

“Morning training, breakfast, shopping, VIP cabana on the beach, couples massage for Dorian and me, pizza for lunch, and then dinner at Nobu. Reservation is at eight,”

“More shopping? Do you even have enough room in your suitcase?” Sin asked.

“No, that’s why we’re going to have to buy another,” I just smiled at Dorian who shook his head at me.

“Birthday huh? How old are you turning little lady?” the harbormaster asked.

“23,”

“Wow, you are young,” he said

“She’s the youngest one here,” Sam said. I stuck my tongue at them.

“I also outrank every single one of you at work, so ha!” I spat. Work being code for the pack. They all rolled their eyes and the harbormaster just laughed.

After dinner, we thanked the harbormaster and Dorian called for the hummer limo. We packed up our stuff, and the harbormaster put my fish steaks into vacuum-sealed bags. We still had five days left in our trip, and I was determined to eat these. We ended up giving all of the left-over food and beer from the yacht to the harbormaster too as a thank you for his kindness and teaching me how to fillet fish.

I recorded his spice recipe on my phone so I could show it to Mrs. Johnson when we got home. It was now one of my new favorites. As everyone was getting into the hummer, I could sense the rogue nearby. He was probably waiting for us to come back from being out on the water. I doubt he could afford a rental of this magnitude to follow us.

Selene, can you hear me?

I can always hear you, child.

When you speak to us, can others see you?

Only if I allow them to.

So, the rogue that is following me…

Do not worry child, he does not know you are pregnant. I have made sure of it.

Thank you.

I told you, Allie, I will protect your baby.

I trust you.

“Let’s go, Allie!” Sin shouted from inside the hummer.

“Sorry, I was hallucinating,” lying out of my teeth.

“No s**t b***h,”

“Shut up, skank,”

“Will you hoes knock it off already?” Leah said.

“You, cunts are something else,” Sam said. We all looked at her.

“Seriously? Now Sam is doing it?” Brandon threw up his hands. Lucas was confused, and Dorian and Mikey just shook their heads.

“We need to teach Sam the game,” Leah suggested. I looked at her like she was insane.

“What game?” Sam asked.

“It’s called…”

“NO! Sam can kick all of our asses in that game! I will lose my winning streak to her!” I whined.

“What game!?” Sam asked again excited.

“It’s called Tap n’ Tickle,” Sin said and explained the rules to her. I was horrified.

“f**k, there goes my winning streak!” I said throwing up my arms.

“Allie is only ticklish on her feet,” Leah said so easily. I looked at her and my jaw dropped. Sin and Leah rolled over laughing.

“Where the f**k is the loyalty!?” I shouted.

“Sorry, not sorry Allie girl!” Sin and Leah said. I glared at both of them and looked at Sam. She had a mischievous look on her face. That was it, my winning streak was officially over, and Sam would be the new champion in a game I created. I pouted and everyone roared in laughter. Even Dorian.

“I hate everyone in this car right now,”