Desert Heat (Complete)
Desert Heat Chapter 80

{Allie’s P.O.V.}

“Allie, baby, wake up,” I felt someone gently shaking me. I turn over and see Dorian’s beautiful face. God, he was so f*****g gorgeous. I don’t think I could ever get tired of him.

“What time is it?” I ask him.

“It’s time to go home,”

“What?!” I sit up quickly and realize that I am still naked. “Did I sleep all night!?”

“Yeah,”

“Why didn’t you wake me for dinner, Dorian!?”

“I tried, baby,” I frowned, and he just laughed. “I know you’re hungry, take a shower and get ready. They’ve prepared a big breakfast for us,” I nod and go take a shower.

Once I’m clean, I come back out and see clothes are laid out on the bed for me my bag already packed. I get dressed, grab my phone, and my bag and head on down. I was met at the stairs by Lucas who greets me and takes my bag. He goes out to the car while I head to the dining room.

“Good morning Luna!” I hear a cheerful Lilian as the puts a plate down for me in front of Dorian. She already knew I was going to sit on his lap.

“Yum! Waffles!” I smile and promptly take my seat.

“Uh, what?” C.J. says and I just look at him.

“Ignore them, C.J. That’s how they are unless we’re in public. Dorian’s lap is her chair,” Leah says on my behalf. I just look at Dorian and smile.

“Do you two purposely try to make people jealous?” C.J. asks in a joking tone. I just give him a half frown half-smile. “Seeing you two like this really rubs salt in my wounds. Being a 25-year-old unmated Alpha really sucks,”

“I feel you, I really do,” Dorian says. “I didn’t replace Allie until last year, and I’m 28,”

“Wow, really? You two seem like you’ve been together for longer than that,” C.J. replies.

“Nope, it’s only been ten months, but I’d like to think that it seems longer because of how much we love each other. I was a broken human when I met Dorian, and he put me back together,” I tell him.

“You were human?”

“Oh, I thought you knew that?” I said to him.

“No, I honestly never would have guessed you were human,” he replied. “And what do you mean by broken?” he asked with concern in his voice. I proceed to tell him everything that I went through as a child and into adulthood. Being orphaned, raped at 18, running away, moving to Vegas, Devin replaceing me, all the things that he had done when he found me, and everything else in between that led up to his death.

“So yeah, I can honestly say that had Dorian not come into my life when he did, I think I would have killed myself,” the look on C.J.’s face was filled with hurt, sorrow, and sympathy.

“The day we brought Allie and Sin home with us, Allie as so distraught over everything, she even begged me to kill her,” Dorian said. C.J. just looked at us with shock in his eyes. “Hearing your mate beg you to end their life is a like million daggers through the heart,” he said while looking at me.

“You two truly are amazing. I hope my potential mate is just as amazing as you Allie,”

“Potential mate?” I ask confused. C.J. stared blankly at me and looks at Dorian, which makes me look at Dorian.

“Baby, remember you kept saying something about him was familiar?” I nod. “I think it’s because you were feeling his mate bond,”

“What?” he just looked at me and lifted a brow. “Ohhhh…That’s what that was! Why can’t I get the hang of this dammit!” I pouted. Everyone laughed.

“I think I may know who it is,” Dorian says.

“You do?”

“That’s why C.J. is coming home with us, so we can replace out if my hunch is right,”

“Are you going to share?” I ask. He shakes his head, indicating he wanted me to figure it out. I rolled my eyes and take a bite of my waffle.

I honestly couldn’t think of who it could be. I guess what they say about having ‘baby-brain’ is true. I honestly thought my memory issues when I was pregnant with Lavender, was an onetime thing, but the fact that my brain was not functioning this early on in my current pregnancy made me think otherwise.

{Unknown P.O.V.}

I was walking through the firm getting paperwork in order to give to the Gamma to sign. Our team had just come back from searching for Tucker Harold. Every time we thought we caught a break; the trail went cold. I was turning the corner, when saw something strange that made me turn back and hide. I peeked back around.

My team leader was at the door of the interrogation room where we were holding the rogue that had been stalking the Luna. I looked closely and saw that he was punching into the keypad. Every time he punched in a sequence of numbers; it would beep indicating it was the wrong code.

“What the hell?” I said to myself. Why was my team leader trying to get into the interrogation room?

“Look…” I heard him talking. “I’m out of codes today, but I’ll be back in a couple of days to try again. I know you can’t speak, but I know you can hear me. Just hang tight,” I saw him turning in my direction and I quickly hid in a nearby vacant office. I heard him pass by, thank the goddess my scent was still masked from having been out tracking earlier.

Why the hell was he trying to get into the room? Why did he say he would back try again and get the rogue out?

“What the f**k, can he be the mole?” I whispered to myself. Just then I received a mind link,

Amos, where the f**k are you? I thought you said you were on your way to my office?

Yes, Gamma! I just needed to stop by the toilet first. I’m on my way.

I wasn’t going to jump to conclusions just yet. Something told me that I needed to keep an eye on my team lead. If my hunch is correct, then he would have a lot of explaining to do.

{Mikey’s P.O.V.}

I was sitting in my office at the firm waiting for Amos to come by and drop off paperwork and their team’s report. He was late, per usual. This guy would never become a team lead if he didn’t start being more punctual. As I was waiting, I got a call from Brandon,

“Yo,”

“Mikey, we’re dropping off Leah and Sawyer at the house right now then, heading over to the firm,”

“Who’s we?”

“Dorian, Giz, Luc, C.J. and myself,”

“Wait, why is the Mojave Mountain Alpha with you guys?”

“Because his potential mate works at the office,”

“s**t, for real?”

“Yeah, looks like Giz did it again without even knowing. Though she apparently can’t figure out who it is yet, but the boss thinks he knows,”

“Shut up Brandon!” I hear Allie in the background and just laugh. “I can hear you laughing Mikey! Remember, my senses are stronger than yours!” She screams.

“Baby, stop screaming in my ear!” I hear Dorian also.

“Alright man, see you in a bit,” I tell him and hang up. Just then, Amos comes in.

“My apologies Gamma, I just really needed to use the restroom,” he says bowing his head.

“Just give me the report,” I tell him. He hands it over and I scan through it. “So, you had a lead in Tucson?”

“Yes sir. One of the feelers we put out said he witnessed someone matching Trevor Harold’s description, staying at a local hotel; however, by the time we received authorization from Hank to get out there, it was too late,”

“Why didn’t Hank just jump right on that?” I ask.

“He said he was looking into another lead in a closer vicinity that looked more promising,”

“Okay, that makes sense,” I say. Hank was one of the best trackers there was.

“Sir, there is another thing,”

“What’s that?” I ask.

“When we got to the hotel, we smelled a lot of the Luna would call burnt barbeque,”

“What?” I looked up at him.

“Sir, I believe that either they are recruiting rogues, or Tucker Harold’s so-called pack is now a pack of rogues,”

“That makes a lot of sense actually if the Big Bend pack is no longer in existence, and he has absorbed other smaller packs off the record, then they could be classified as a rogue pack,” I say. It was no wonder we couldn’t keep track of them. A rogue pack wouldn’t be as easy to replace as a normal pack, because they wouldn’t have an actual packhouse or pack territory. They would constantly be on the move or be hidden away to avoid scrutiny.

I looked up at Amos who looked he had something else he needed to tell me,

“Amos, is there anything else you need to add this report?”

“No sir,” he bowed his head and left. That was odd.

After he left, I figured I would check on the rogue, to see if he was alive or not. We hadn’t fed him or given him water for a few days now, and most of his injuries should have healed enough by now. Well, all of them except the severed leg that Eddie ripped off. After we got the rogue to the prison, he said something about tying Gizmo’s legs to her neck and f*****g her mid-air, and before Dorian could react, Brandon shifted into Eddie and bit the guy’s leg off.

I love Gizmo as much as anyone in the pack, more so because she’s the godmother to Allen, but her relationship with Brandon is something totally different. I personally think it has to do with the fact that Allie admitted to having feelings for Brandon before realizing she loved Dorian. That coupled with the fact Brandon admitted to me that he wished Allie was his mate and not Dorian’s when we first brought the girls home with us. I honestly believe that had Allie not be mated to Dorian, Brandon would have given up his virginity to Allie.

When I get to the interrogation room, something seemed off. If felt like someone had been here recently, but I brushed it off. I punched in the code, scanned my retina, and went in. Sure enough, the rogue was healed up but still unconscious. The smell of bodily fluid and waste made me want to vomit. I needed to get a cleaning crew in here to clean up and put a diaper on this fucker.

I took a scoop of the water we had in the corner and splashed him with it,

“Wakey, wakey, f**k face!” I said. He started coughing and breathing hard. “That’s better,”

“What do you want?” he asked incoherently.

“I want to know about the bomb,”

“What about it?”

“Who made it? And don’t tell me it was you or Tucker because you fuckers have beans for brains. No way in hell you either one of you could build it,” the rogue started to laugh maniacally. This guy was crazier than Tucker.

“You’re right Gamma,” he spat. “My Master and I are not skilled enough to build a bomb, that honor goes to our source,”

“WHAT SOURCE!?” he was talking about the mole.

“Gamma, have you heard the saying, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer?” he asked and laugh maniacally again. I lost my patience and beat him until he unconscious. I pumped him full of wolfsbane and left him to suffer for another few days. I locked the door and changed the combination. Every few days, Dorian had Brandon and I change it, just in case the mole would try and gain access. It honestly wouldn’t matter because of the retina scanner, but Dorian wanted to be cautious.

“Keep your friends close but enemies closer?” I say back to myself. Was the rogue saying that the mole was someone close to us? I was standing in the hallway when I got a mind link from Brandon,

Hey, we’re pulling in now. Meet us in the lobby.

I’m on my way down now.

I went down to the lobby and everyone was just walking in. I gave Brandon and Lucas our signature handshake, fist-bumped Dorian, and hugged Gizmo.

“C.J., this is Michael Rays, my Gamma, but everyone calls him Mikey,” Dorian introduced me.

“C.J. it’s a pleasure to meet you,” I shake his hand.

“So, you’re Cynthia’s mate?” he asks.

“You know Sin?” I ask in return.

“Sin used to come to the packhouse when she and Leah were in high school together,”

“Oh, that’s right, you would know her then huh?” I laugh.

“Mikey, go get the conference room ready,” Dorian tells me. I salute and head up to do that.

{C.J.’s P.O.V.}

After Mikey walked away, Dorian whispered something in Allie’s ear which made her react in shock, and immediately she took off to the elevators.

“What was that about?” I ask him

“I told her to go get the person we are here to see. It finally hit her why I wanted to come to the office,” he tells me. I nod my head and he leads me to the conference room on the tenth floor. I had to admit, his company we humungous, and it was in the middle of the Nevada desert. I could sense more than one kind of supernatural in his company in addition to humans.

We get to the conference room and we all take a seat. Dorian has me sit in the chair to his right, furthest away from the door,

“So, is this person a werewolf?” I ask

“Uh, no she’s not, actually,” he replies

“Human?”

“No,”

“Bear?” he shakes his head.

“Vampire?”

“Nope,”

“Then what the f**k is she?” I ask getting frustrated.

“She’s a hybrid,” Brandon says.

“What kind of hybrid?” I ask.

“She’s a witch-demon hybrid,” Dorian replies. I look at him and my eyes about to jump out of my head and my tongue gets stuck in the back of my throat.

“She’s what!?” I couldn’t have heard him right. This had to be a joke.

“Yeah, she is a witch-demon hybrid, but she doesn’t have powers. She had her mom bind them when she was little to suppress the demonic side, so she’s purely good. That’s what Gizmo says at least,” Brandon explained.

“I get Allie has powers and abilities, but how can she know that?” I ask.

“Allie can sense one’s soul. Good or evil. Allie just knows. Allie’s ability to sense souls is what allows her to feel the mate bond between mates who have yet to replace each other. She can even tell when a woman is pregnant when it’s still too early for a test,”

“She can what?” Allie was definitely one of a kind. Although I was excited to potentially meet my mate, I was a little apprehensive knowing she was part demon. Before anyone could answer me, I saw Dorian’s eye cloud over.

“Brandon, Allie says to crack open the door,” he tells him. Brandon gets up and does just that. I look at Dorian confused. I wait a minute, and then something makes me tense up.

I was hit the faintest smell of fresh citrus. It made my mouth water in the most amazing way. It was the kind of citrus scent that made you feel nice and clean. I could almost taste the scent on my tongue. It was like, fresh lemon sorbet with a hint of basil that made your lips pucker but made you want more.

{Brittany’s P.O.V.}

I was sitting at my desk playing on my phone. The office was pretty quiet today and since Mr. and Mrs. Shaw was out of the office, it was going to be a relatively easy day for me. I was nose deep into Candy Crush when I felt someone staring at me. I looked up and saw Mrs. Shaw,

“Ah! Mrs. Shaw!”

“Hi Britt!” she said with a huge smile on her face.

“I’m sorry about the phone, it was slow, and the phone hasn’t rung, and…”

“Calm down, I don’t care,” she said.

“Wait, why are you here? I thought you and Mr. Shaw were out of town?”

“We were, we just got back. I actually need to talk to you about something, come to my office,” she said and pulled me into her office and closed the door.

“Is everything okay?” I ask her.

“Yeah, everything is fine. Well, I’m hoping everything will be better than fine…”

“Okay…” She was acting strangely.

“So, Britt, remember the other day when I told you that anyone could potentially be mated to a wolf if the mother goddess so chooses?” I nod my head. “Well…I think that the mother goddess has chosen just that,”

“What?” I look at her confused

“Britt, I think you’re mated to a wolf,” I blink rapidly and stare at her a minute before I just start laughing.

“Wow, Mrs., I mean Allie, you almost had me there. That’s funny,”

“Uh, I wasn’t joking,” she says with a serious tone. I stop laughing and look at her.

“Allie, please don’t f**k with me about stuff like this, I really don’t appreciate it,” I was getting a little angry.

“Britt, does it sound like I’m f*****g with you?” she said crossing her arms.

“How would you even know I’m mated to a wolf, Allie?”

“Because I am what’s called a blessed wolf. I have powers and abilities, and one of those abilities allows me to sense a wolf’s mate, if and only if, I have a bond with both parties,” she explains with a straight face. She sounded insane, but she was telling me the truth.

“Wait, you have powers!?” I ask her and she nods.

“Britt, listen to me. The wolf I think you’re mated to is here right now in the conference room with Dorian, Brandon, Mikey, and Lucas.

“HE’S HERE!?” I shout.

“Yes, but I need to tell you something about him first,”

“What’s that? I ask.

“He’s an Alpha,”

Did she say Alpha?