Desert Heat (Complete)
Desert Heat Chapter 51

{Dorian’s P.O.V}

When we got back to our room, Allie and I took a shower together before having dinner sent to our room. She still wasn’t comfortable being in front of anyone. We stood under the water together while I washed her hair and her body for her. My hands traveled along her silky-smooth skin and she placed her hands over mine, interlocking our fingers from the top. She guided my right hand down between her legs.

“Baby, are you sure?” I asked. I was never against pleasuring, Allie, but I had to be sure she wanted it.

“Yes, please baby,” That was all I needed to hear before I started to rub her clit and slide my fingers up and down her opening. She was wet, and I could smell her arousal. I slid my middle finger in and began to slowly finger her and flick her g-spot. I kissed her mark and she m****d in pleasure.

“Do you want all of it?

“No, just this, I’m perfectly happy with this. Make me c*m Dorian,” she said to me. I wasn’t going to push it and I did as she asked. I made her c*m over and over again until she had enough. I turned her to face me and lifted her by legs. She kissed me deep and hard with passion.

“You feel better, baby?” I asked her while she ran fingers through my hair.

“I do, thank you for being patient with me. And I’m sorry, I know I haven’t been easy to deal with lately,”

“Never apologize for being who you are Allie. I love you with everything that I have. You’re basically my wife already and I vow to love you through the good times and the bad,” She smiled and kissed me again.

“You need a haircut Dorian, this is getting too long even for my liking,” I chuckled. I sat on the bench in the shower, and let Allie washed my hair and my body for me just as I did her.

“I think you need one too, babe. I love your long hair, but it’s starting to cover this sweet a*s of yours,” I said to her while giving her a small tap on her left cheek. “I’ll have my stylist come by tomorrow so we can both get a cut,” she smiled and nodded.

By the time we were dried off and dressed, dinner was delivered. Mrs. Johnson made steak and lobster casserole, especially for Allie. Allie didn’t each much over the last few weeks, so it was good to see her appetite coming back. We watched some TV after we ate dinner and then we went to bed. This was the first night Allie didn’t have to cry herself to sleep. I figured all the o*****s I had given her in the shower wore her out.

The next morning, after training, I found Allie in the nursery boxing up everything she had bought for Lavender.

“Allie, you okay?”

“I’m okay, baby. Don’t worry, I’m not throwing anything away. I’m going to have some stuff returned because they’re still in the boxes or have the tags on them. The blanket and the stuffed monkey I’m going to keep with me in our room as a small in-house memorial for her, and then everything else will be packed away and stored safely. I figured we can just keep the crib since it’ll eventually have a bouncing baby in it,”

I pulled her into a k**s. “You are so strong, baby,” I told her and kissed her again

“It’s like you said last night, it’s what Lavender would have wanted,” she softly kissed my lips and closed up the box. Allie had me put in on the top shelf in the nursery closet. I put it away and I received two back to back texts. One was from Alexandre saying it would be here in two hours and the other from the stylist.

“Come on, it’s time for our hair cut,” I took her hand and we closed the nursery door and locked it. Allie didn’t want anyone entering the nursery.

We got downstairs to see Paula and her assistant Greg.

“Alpha, Luna,” they bowed their heads. We both smiled and we all walked to the spa room in the packhouse. I did my usual cut where I got the sides of my head shaved and trimmed the rest of my hair to achieve the man bun that Allie loves so much. Allie let out a small growl when Paula was touching me. It was nice to know I wasn’t the only jealous one in our relationship.

“Luna, how would you like us to style your hair for you?” Greg asked her. He was running his hands through her natural curls. Normally, I would be jealous of a man touching my mate, but thankfully, Greg was gay and flamboyantly so.

“Um, I want to cut most of it off actually,”

“What?” I looked at her in shock. I loved her long hair, why would she want to cut it?

“How much Luna?”

“Depends. How much do I need to cut off in order to have it donated?”

“Six inches in the minimum, but given how long your hair is right now, you could get away with eight inches and still have your hair above your midback,”

“Dorian is that okay with you?” she asked me. I had to think about it.

“Greg, can you show me where it would end?” he nodded and tied Allie’s hair into a straight ponytail and measured out the eight inches.

“Alpha, it would end about right here after we cut it, clean up the ends, and style it with loose curls,” he said pointing just above her mid-back. I tried to picture it, and it seemed okay.

“Baby, it’s just hair, it will grow back to the length you like it,” She said looking up at me. I gave her a small k**s and nodded my head.

“Alpha, did you want to wait, or did you want to step out? The Luna’s cut will take about an hour,”

“I will step out, but first let me pay you,”

“Oh, no Alpha, our services will be on-the-house today. I think you both deserve to be pampered after what you went through,”

“Then take this as your tip for the day,” I said handing two hundred-dollar bills. She smiled and gave one of the bills to Greg. He smiled and then went to work on Allie.

I waited in the sitting area of the spa and answered some emails. Alexandre had landed earlier than planned but would still take about 45 minutes to get the packhouse from the airport.

Paxton.

Yes, Alpha

Alexandre will be arriving in less an hour. Let him in as soon as he arrives and tell Nick to have a guest room ready for his arrival.

Yes, Sir.

I waited for about another 30 minutes before Allie came out. Her hair was layered and framed her beautiful face and had soft waves in it. It was shorter than I wanted it to be, but she looked sexy as f**k.

“What do you think, babe?” she asked and moved her hair around.

“You look sexy, baby,” she smiled.

“I’m glad to hear that,” Greg said shaking off his shoulders. Allie giggled. “Luna, where did you want us to send your donation?”

“Any place that doesn’t charge for the wigs,” she smiled.

“You got it doll,” Paula said.

Sir, Alexandre has arrived

Thank you, Paxton,

“Paula, Greg, thank you, but we need to go now, we have a guest arriving,” I told them. I took Allie’s hand and left.

“So, who is this associate?” Allie asked.

“His name is Alexandre, he is French, and as I said last night, he is a vampire-wolf hybrid,”

“Oh,” she smirked and raised a brow.

“Allie, no flirting,”

“That’s not what I meant, baby,” she said stopping in her tracks. She pulled me into a deep k**s and sucked on my tongue. f**k, I loved it when she did that. “I only have eyes for you,” she said and licked my bottom l*p.

“You’re back to your old self pretty quick,” I told her grabbing her a*s and lifting her up.

“My heart will always mourn for Lavender, but I need to get back into the swing of things. It’s been over two weeks now and I’ll be okay, baby. I love you,”

“I love you,” she kissed me softly and I put her down. We made it out front just as Alexandre pulled up.

“Nice car,” Allie said looking at Alexandre’s rental, which was an Audi e-Tron GT.

“Bonjour Dorian!” he said and gave me a firm shake. “Bonté divine, this must be your fiancé,” he said looking down at Allie

“Bonjour Alexandre, je m’appelle Allie, comment ca va?” (Hello Alexandre, my name is Allie, how are you?”

“Vous pouvez parler français?!” (You can speak French!?)

“Just a smidge. I took French in high school as part of my second language course since Korean was not an option,” she said

“Well, that was still very impressive,” he says taking her left hand and kissing the back of it. f*****g French men. “Oh, well what have we here! Did you pick this out?” he asked her, looking at her engagement ring.

“Actually, no. He did it himself,” She replied, her smile radiating.

“Good job my friend, on the girl and the ring,” he said punching my arm. “Now, how about we get to work huh?”

“Wait,” Allie said. “You just arrived, and you must be tired. How about you go to your guest room and get settled in and join us for dinner. At least have some time to relax before starting work,” she smiled at him.

“Well, if you insist Allie. I will gladly accept,” he said and bowed to her.

“Nick, will you please grab his bags and escort him to his room?” Allie asked.

“I can handle my own bags, but please lead the way,” he said to Nick. Nick nodded once and led Alexandre to his room.

“You sure you want to wait? Andre won’t mind getting to work right away,”

“I’m sure, baby. Even if he’s here to work, he is still our guest and we should treat him as such. I can sense he has a good soul too, so I’m not worried,”

“You are an amazing woman Allison Park. I can’t believe how lucky I am to call you mine,” I said picking her up by her a*s again. I couldn’t seem to keep my hands off of her. It probably had to do with the fact I had not touched her in weeks. “I honestly thought I would have to wait longer for you to heal,”

“I’m still healing baby, but so are you. I didn’t just lose her, you did too. Everyone lost her,” she said while she played with newly cut hair. She buried her face into the crook my neck, and I did the same to her. We just inhaled each other’s scents.

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“Dorian, why is your fiancé on your lap?” Andre asked seeing Allie eating dinner while in my lap.

“This is just how we eat our meals. Besides, this is the first time in weeks Allie has eaten dinner with everyone. I want to keep her close, at all times,” I said and k****s Allie’s neck.

“I am green with envy my friend, how I wish I had a mate,” Andre responded.

“You don’t have a mate? But you’re so gorgeous! And that French accent,” Sin said fanning herself. Mikey growled.

“Stop! It’s the hormones! Leave me alone. Besides, I’m a sucker for accents,” Sin said staring at Andre.

“I have to agree, that accent is sexy as hell,” Leah said. Brandon growled and Leah elbowed him the gut.

“Mikey, you and Brandon also have very beautiful mates, and congratulations on the babies,”

“Thanks, Andre, it is good to see you, even if my mate is drooling because of you,”

“What can I say? Ladies love me,”

“It’s the accent,” Allie said

“Cheers to that,” Sin and Leah agreed.

“f*****g French men,” All three of us guys muttered. The girls started to laugh, and Andre held up his wine glass and took a drink. Dinner was getting along nicely, and Allie was laughing and smiling, and it wasn’t forced. Out of nowhere, Mikey stopped laughing and his eyes clouded over.

“Mikey?” I asked him

“Dorian, Hank, and Lucas are asking to enter,” I nodded, and a few seconds later, Hank and Lucas came in.

“Alpha, Luna” hey both bowed their heads. “Betas, Gammas, we have some news, but we’re not sure if it is connected to the bombing,”

“What is it?” I asked them. Allie is staring and grabs a hold of my hand.

“Sir, while we were out scouring for clues, my team found that two of smaller packs down south have been dismantled,” Hank says

“Which ones?” Mikey asks.

“Gamma, it was the Lake Mead and Lake Las Vegas packs,” Hank responds. “It appears that they have been absorbed,”

“Absorbed?” Allie and Sin ask at the same time.

“Yes, Luna, Gamma” Lucas replies

“I don’t get it, what does that mean?” Allie asked.

“Packs can be absorbed into another pack, essentially blending them together to make one larger pack,” Brandon explains

“Okay…”

“Baby, the process of packs being absorbed is straight forward but also complicated. One, the Alpha commits a crime so heinous that they are forced out of their own pack and sentenced to death, typically that crime is found out by another pack who then reports it. Two, an Alpha is challenged for their title and is killed or banished as an outcome of said challenge,” I explain to her.

“Alpha, it appears that the latter of the two is the reason why these two smaller packs have been absorbed,” Lucas says

“Which pack absorbed them?” I asked them

“That in lies the problem Alpha, we don’t know. Once the packs were dismantled, their pack houses were destroyed and their packs were moved somewhere, and the challenges are not on record. It is apparent whoever challenged them, did so illegally and is keeping everything off the books,” Hank explains

“We did look into Big Bend for the bombing, but that also led to a dead-end,” Lucas says

“What do you mean?”

“Sir, Big Bend doesn’t appear to exist anymore,”

“What do you mean Big Bend doesn’t exist anymore?!”

“Alpha, their packhouse still stands, but it has been abandoned,” Lucas says. Allie looks at me confused.

“That doesn’t make sense! How does a pack of 100 werewolves just up and disappear?” Brandon exclaims.

“It has to be them,” Allie says and then looks me in the eyes. “It had to be Tucker! Who else do we know that breaks our laws, is pissed off at us, and is obsessed with me?”

“Allie is right, the Harold brothers are the only ones that make sense,” Mikey said

“But what reason would they have to kill my unborn child?” I asked to no one particular.

“Jealousy,” Andre added. We all looked at him.

“Hey, Andre, I didn’t even see you there,” Lucas said.

“Lucas, it is a pleasure old friend, but back on topic. Dorian, you say this man is angry with your pack and is obsessed with Allie?”

“Yeah, he tried to rape her a few months ago,” I tell him. We explain the incident that occurred between Big Bend and Desert Moon to him.

“I see, so it appears that my assumption of jealousy is correct. Dorian, look at what you have. A successful business, the biggest pack in the state, your best friends, skilled hunters and fighters who are loyal and a beautiful fiancé,”

“What’s your point, Andre?”

“Dorian, if this Tucker fellow is as low level as you say, he wants what you have, but instead of working for it the way you have, he is taking the easy way and illegal way out,”

“You still haven’t explained why Tucker would kill our unborn baby,” Allie said venom in her voice.

“Allie, it is because your baby was Dorian’s and not Tucker’s”

“What the f**k?” Brandon said. By this point, Lucas and Hank had sat down and was listening closely to Andre.

“All of you men have mates yes?” We all nod. “Think if you didn’t, and there was a woman you wanted so much, you would break the laws to have her, but find out she is pregnant with another man’s baby, how would you feel?”

“Hypothetically, I’d probably kill the competition, but I’m not psychotic,” Lucas says.

“But what if you were too weak to do that?” Andre asked

“I’d get rid of the baby,” Hank said. “If I was psychotic and unstable, I would want the woman for myself, and I wouldn’t want her carrying another man’s child,” We all look at Hank and realize that Andre is on a roll.

“But Big Bend has disappeared and have probably assumed a new pack name that is off the record. They could even be in a different state right now,” Mikey says.

“Hold on, what would Tucker gain by combining two other packs with his?” Allies ask me.

“More men,” Leah said. We all look at her. “Absorbing another pack would allow Tucker to have more men in his pack. More men to train. I think Tucker is taking on smaller packs to increase his numbers,”

“Leah, did you see something sweet cheeks?” Brandon asks

“No, but it’s the only scenario that makes sense,” Leah said.

“I agree, Tucker is preparing for war,” I say to everyone. “But we all know how well our men and women are trained,” Lucas and Hank nod their heads. “And training anyone to be even half as competent as our teams would take several months. Tucker may be crazy, but he is not stupid,”

“I think Tucker killed his father so he could take over,” Allie said. We look at her.

“Baby, what did you say?”

“I think Tucker and his brothers killed their father so Tucker could be the Alpha. He knew that if his father died before the 60 days written in the treaty that Paul signed, it would become void. So, he killed him and dumped him in Lake Mead,”

“Even if that is the case, is Tucker smart enough to build an explosive device?” Mikey asked.

“I don’t think he is, which means someone is helping him,” I reply. “Andre, you up for some training?”

“Of course,”

“Good. 5:00 A.M. sharp, then we’ll leave for the office at 9:00 A.M. The bomb fragments are in my safe,” he holds his wine glass to me. I look at Allie who is on the verge of tears.

“Hey, hey, what’s wrong?”

“Tucker killed our baby, Dorian,” she looks at me with the tears streaming down her face. Her eyes are filled with anger. “I want him dead,” I lean Allie’s head on my chest, and look at the men around the table.

“Mikey, contact the team leads and have them in the office tomorrow, 11:00 A.M. sharp,”

“You got it,”

“And you,” I look at Allie. “You’re coming with us, tomorrow,”

“Why?”

“Because you are my Luna and my fiancé, you have every right to sit in on the briefing,” she smiled and nodded.