Desert Heat (Complete)
Desert Heat Chapter 61

{Dorian’s P.O.V.}

The next morning at training, Allie kept up surprisingly well. She ran the ten miles without having to rest, did 75 pushups, and 125 sit-ups. While we men were sparring, she and Sam decided to do squats and lunges along the beach. Her endurance was insane, I finally understood why she was so fit and tiny.

Allie made sure that we didn’t get too carried away with the sparring. She was as adamant about it, so we did more wrestling and graveling in the sand. Allie was showing Sam some yoga positions and stretches. I knew Allie was flexible, but some of the stuff she was doing was making my d**k twitch. I would have to have her do some of the moves I saw while in bed.

We were finishing and decided to stay on the beach and hang out for a bit before going to breakfast. Leah and Sin were still asleep, so there was no need to wake them. Allie and Sam laid out on the sand while the guys and I went into the water to cool down. While we were in the water, I looked back and saw a group of guys harassing Allie and Sam. They were touching them and attempting to grab their arms. The girls were trying to avoid them, but these guys were persistent.

“Lucas,” I pointed to the girls. He growled and so did I. Mikey and Brandon what was going on, and instantly went into protection mode. But I knew these guys were human, so we had to stand back and let Sam it. If we interfered, our strength as wolves could kill them. We couldn’t afford that to happen.

{Allie’s P.O.V.}

Dorian and guys went for a swim, while Sam and I laid out on the beach to take in some sun. After about ten minutes, we got up to go into the water, when we were approached by a group of four guys.

“Hey ladies, would you two like some company?” One of them asked. I looked at them. If I were human and single, I would say they were good looking, but they were definitely the jock types and cocky too.

“Not really,” I answered.

“Oh, come on, you ladies look lonely,” another guy touched Sam’s arm. She hit it away. “Damn, you’re feisty, I like that in woman,” he said trying to touch her again.

“Touch me again, and I will break your arm,” Sam threatened.

“What about you baby, you like it rough?” another asked me, trying to grab my arm.

“Don’t touch me!” I said while swatting his hand away.

“Oh, come on now, I just want to have some fun with you,” he said trying to grab me again.

“We’re married! Get the f**k away from us!” I said pushing him away.

“I don’t see your husbands around,” another said.

“They’re over there in the water,” I said pointing towards the guys. They turned and looked, and then laughed.

“Seriously? You two hotties, are married to those wannabe gangsters? They look like they belong in prison,” one said. My jaw dropped. This fucker just insulted our husbands and friends. “You girls can do so much better,”

“I hope you’re not referring to yourself,” I said pushing past him to go to Dorian, but as I did, he grabbed my arm really hard.

“Ow!! Let go of me!” I shouted. That put Sam in protection mode, and she punched the guy that grabbed me. Another guy tackled Sam to the ground and ripped one of the straps to her sports bra. She kicked the guy in the back of the head which made him get off of her. Sam got up and pulled me behind her and as luck would have it, Dorian was right behind me.

The guys didn’t fight though. They just protected me and left Sam to fend for herself. Because these idiots were human, if the guys hit them, they would probably kill them from just one punch, so Sam had to handle it. Even though she was also a wolf, she wasn’t as strong as a male wolf, so she would only cause some damage.

“Seriously guys, I hold three different black belts and am trained in MMA. I have no problem with kicking your asses,” Sam said getting into a fighting stance. “So, unless you four, feel like getting beat up by a girl, I suggest you walk away,” She gave them a good and proper warning, but instead of listening, they decided to get their asses kicked.

It took all of a minute before she beat the s**t out of them, and they all ran away. Spectators applauded her.

“Dammit, Allie! Why can’t I take you anywhere!?” Dorian shouted. Before I could respond, he threw me over his shoulder and walked towards the water. He walked until it was about waist deep and threw me into an oncoming wave. When I tried to stand up, I got hit with another wave that made me face plant the water. I finally stood up, my hair was everywhere, and I could barely see. I moved my hair out of my face and was shocked at what just happened.

“DORIAN! What the hell was that for!?”

“I figured if you look like seaweed men will stop hitting you,” he said ever so seriously. I was appalled. I looked back towards the group and they were hunched over laughing at me. Assholes.

After the incident at the beach, we went back to the room to shower and eat breakfast. Today was a free day for everyone, so the guys decided to go the casino to gamble, and the ladies and I went for a spa day. I decided to wear both my rings since we weren’t going to be in the water anytime throughout the day. While we were getting pedicures, I told Sin and Leah what happened at the beach and how Dorian threw me into the ocean.

They applauded Sam, and her kick-a*s ways, but also laughed at me. Even the ladies giving us the pedicures were laughing at me. There was no loyalty. I decided that I also wanted to get a full set to accent my rings and it had been an awhile since I had acrylic nails. All the others just did manicures, while I had to be extra. After we were all done, we went to go find the guys in the casino.

We found Mikey and Brandon at a roulette table, while Lucas and Dorian were playing three-card poker. I looked at the table and saw that the minimum bet was $5,000. I looked at Dorian’s stack of chips and saw he was max betting at $30,000. Having worked in the casino business for four years helped me understand a lot of what was going on. Poor Sam was lost. I tried to explain it to her, but she just shook her head and gave up. I laughed and we watched the guys play for a little bit.

After a few more hands, Dorian and Lucas were winning against the house, which is odd and rare. Table games are basically rigged for the house to win but Dorian was getting really lucky. Then somehow, by a sheer stroke of luck, Dorian hit the table jackpot with the highest hand in poker. Royal straight flush. The jackpot was set at $1.6 million dollars, so even after taxes were withheld, Dorian was still going to walk with close to a million dollars. Lucas was up by roughly $150,000, so that was not too bad, but nothing compared to Dorian.

The table games manager along with the cage manager came over to congratulate Dorian and to fill out paperwork. Dorian asked that $250,000 be given to him in form of a cage issued check, $25,000 in cash, and the rest to be placed into safekeeping so he could gamble some more later.

“Nice,” I said to him. He picked me up.

“I was losing until you came. I think you were my good luck charm, baby,” He kissed me tenderly.

“Mr. Shaw, here is your check, cash, and receipt for the safekeeping deposit,”

“Wait, don’t you need a player’s card to do a safekeeping deposit?” I asked him. He nodded and showed me his card. “You opened a player’s account?” I just looked at him.

“Come on, let’s play some slots,” he said and pulled into the high roller slot machine area. He put his player’s card into the machine and loaded up the cash.

“Is this why you asked for cash?” he nodded and pulled me onto his lap. He put all $25,000 into the machine. I looked at the denomination, and it was $50 per spin, and again, he was max betting which was $500 a spin.

We took turns hitting the button. We were doing a lot of back and forth, but we were still up. Dorian and I were having a lucky day. Even slot machines are notorious for making you lose your money, but every so often, you can get lucky. I hit the button and it landed on the bonus game. This allowed me to randomly pick pots of gold, and they would have either have free spins, money, jackpots, or nothing. I had 10 chances. I started to pick randomly, got 15 free spins, $3,000, and hit a minor jackpot which was worth a little over $4,000 at the time.

As we were waiting for the free spins to run their course, we were winning more and more with the occasional bust, then the second to last spin hit the grand jackpot which was worth just under 2 million. The machine alarm started to go off alerting the slot attendant to know of the jackpot.

“Dammit,” I said

“What? Why aren’t you happy?”

“I have to open a damn player’s account now,” I told him. He looked at me confused. The slot attendant came over with the slot manager and cage manager again. He was surprised to see Dorian and me for a second time that day.

“Wow, you two are very lucky people,” he says. “Since it appears you two were playing together, who hit the button that landed on the jackpot?”

“I hit the button that landed on the bonus which allowed free spins that landed on the jackpot,” I explained. He laughed. “Okay, Mrs. Shaw, you will need to fill out the tax documents and open a player’s account to get paid,” I nodded my head. Dorian was confused and I explained to him why it had to be done this way, and he finally understood.

The cage manager was surprised how much I knew about the casino industry and I told him we were from Vegas and that I worked in the casinos for a few years. I asked for $25,000 in cash and the rest to be placed on deposit so it could be wired to my account. We waited for him to come back with the receipt and my cash. I handed the cash over to Dorian.

“What’s this for?”

“It’s the $25,000 you initially put into the machine,”

“Baby, it was for you,”

“And now I’m giving it back to you,” I smiled.

“Put in your purse baby, that’s not going to fit my wallet,” I laughed after seeing the stack of cash in my hand. I put it in my purse. Luckily, all I had was my passport and my phone, so putting the money away was easy.

We found the rest of the gang and the guys decided to play craps together. Us ladies played penny slots on nearby machines. I gave the ladies each $100 bucks and Sin was teaching Leah the rules of slot play. Sam was used to slots, so we played together. Sin, Leah, and Sam all lost their money after about an hour, and I ended up walking away with another $1,000 on top of the $100 I put in.

“Lucky b***h,” Leah pouted

“Allie has always been lucky,” Sin said. I still hadn’t told them about the 1.3 million dollars I won after taxes. They only knew about Dorian’s jackpot.

We were just sitting and talking when we heard the guys shouting. We ran over to the table. We were all lost. Sin and I never learned to play this particular game, but what I did know was that someone just rolled a seven, which means, someone won. I watched the dealer clear the betting table and count off the stack of chips. He used his staff and pushed the chips to Dorian.

“What in the actual f**k?” I said out loud. My man was seriously on a roll. I looked at the chip stack and saw the top chip said $1,000 and it was black. There were four stacks of black chips, ten in each stack, and other smaller denomination chips below it. Dorian just won over $40,000 at craps.

Dorian cashed out and let the guys have their turn to win some money. He walked over to me with his rack of chips and just smiled big. I had nothing to say to him. I had never seen anything like this in all of my days working in the casino industry. Two major jackpots and a large win at craps.

“Let’s go cash your chips babe,” I told him, and we walked to the cage together and the cashier’s cashed him out. He asked for a cage check again.

We waited for the guys to finish so we could all go eat dinner. I had no reservations planned for this evening, so we opted for the hotel’s buffet. As promised, Brandon paid. We got there before the dinner rush, so we were able to get seated fairly quickly even though we had a larger group. The buffet selection was off the chain. It had everything from western, Caribbean, Mexican, Asian, and this amazing dessert bar.

We ordered a couple of bottles of champagne, and I wasn’t carded for once. Dinner was so chill and relaxing. We ate until we couldn’t eat anymore. I was going to be in a food coma for the rest of the night, so I told Dorian I would skip training tomorrow. He was okay with it. Tomorrow was the yacht rental and we were going to have it for the next two days, so everyone was excited to camp out on the open water.

“Wait, do we get seasick?” Sin asked. Her reference to ‘we’ was us being werewolves.

“No, we don’t,” Lucas responded.

“I’m bringing seasick patches just in case,” I said. Everyone laughed at me.

Dinner ended early, and everyone went their separate ways to spend the rest of the evening. Although this sounds cliché, Dorian and I took a romantic walk on the beach. We had our shoes in our hands and just waded across the tiny waves that came upon the shore.

“Are you having a good time, baby?” he asked me.

“I’m having an amazing time, what about you?”

“As long as I am with you, I am always having a good time,”

“Good answer,” he leaned down to k**s me and I was about to reciprocate, but then something hit me senses and I gasped softly.

“What’s wrong?” I looked up at him and decided to mind link him just in case.

I can sense him. The rogue is watching us.

It’s okay, baby, I’m right here. I nodded and we continued with our k**s.

{Unknown P.O.V.}

Two days ago.

I finally landed in Nassau. Following the Luna was becoming more and more difficult. Luckily, it was easy to bribe the airport employee in Vegas to tell me where they went. People who would anything for $1,000 in cash.

I had been keeping a close eye on the Luna and her friends. They were always together, or at least someone was with the Luna at all times. The first night ended in a bust. The Luna never came out of her room. I cased the hotel outside and was able to find a good vantage point of their hotel room window and balcony.

The next morning, I woke up early and made my way to my hiding spot. I was hoping the Luna would come out to the balcony, but instead, it was the Alpha, nude. I didn’t need to see that. But I had to maintain my professionalism. I waited, and sure enough, about fifteen minutes later, the Luna showed herself, nude. This was going to be perfect. The master would enjoy photos of the Luna in all her glory. I planned on keeping copies for myself. I snapped as many photos as I could in full zoom.

The Luna was sexy as f**k. I wanted to bury my d**k inside of her from the moment I saw her at the Alpha’s company. She smelled divine and I wanted to taste her. Sadly, my fantasy was cut short when he carried her back into their room. I figured they would be going to get breakfast, so I waited in the hotel lobby. I sensed other wolves and supernaturals in the hotel, but luckily, I was masking my scent, and no one knew the difference. To everyone, I was just a tourist with a camera.

I caught a glimpse of the Luna walking through the lobby with the Alpha. She seemed to only have her wedding band on. When I found they had gotten married, I immediately reported to the master. He was furious and wanted the Alpha dead, but his men still weren’t strong enough to attack. He had absorbed two more packs in Arizona and now had the equivalent number to that of Desert Moon. But still needed his men trained.

I was ordered to continue to follow her, but most of her days were spent at the Alpha’s company, which I could no longer go to. My source indicated that there was an internal investigation seeking to find who gave me the pass to get in. I had to tread carefully and only follow Luna when she was out in public.

I watched as she ate breakfast with her group, loving on the Alpha and smiling without a care in the world. They were clueless, and soon, when the master was ready, he would attack.

I followed her everywhere, maintaining my distance. I got images of her trying on swimwear, oh I wanted to rip them off with my teeth. They swam with dolphins, went sightseeing, took dozens of their own photos. That’s when I saw that the Luna had a new phone of her own. I would have to clone it later. Later that evening, they went to dinner and I wasn’t able to follow. So, I went back to my room and waited for the next day.

I found that the Luna had gone running with the men and her female guard. I was not going to try and follow them; I didn’t have the kind of endurance they did. When they returned to the beach is when I started to take pictures and watch her. She kept up with her mate, proving how strong she was. She would make a fine mate to the master. She and her guard were laying in the sand doing stretches, so I snapped as many photos as I could.

Then, she was being harassed by humans. This was nothing to take pictures of, so I just observed from afar. Once the humans were chased away, the Alpha threw her over his shoulders and tossed her into the ocean. She was furious, but this made for great images. I snapped a few and then we about my way.

Her and lady friends went to get pampered, and I was unable to get any photos from where she was in the salon. So, I waited. When they appeared from the salon, I kept my distance following her. She went into the casino and straight to the Alpha. I snapped a few shots here and there and drank at the bar and just watched her every move. The Alpha won a great deal of money, at the tables. Lucky bastard. He already had all this money, and now he just added to it.

I ended up with an amazing photo op when he picked up the Luna in a hug. I snapped some photos of her smiling. These always seemed to please the master. Her smiles were radiant, and the master would stare them for hours. I followed them to the high limit slot area, but they were hidden behind a machine, so no photos could be taken. An hour later, I heard an alarm go off, and it turned out the Luna won a jackpot herself.

I decided that enough was enough. I was growing angry seeing these rich sons of bitches get even richer by the hour. I left the casino and waited. I waited for a few hours before I finally saw them coming back through the main lobby. Everyone went their separate ways. I followed the Alpha and the Luna. They took a walk on the beach, how cliché. I took as many pictures as I could without using the flash.

She kissed him again, again, and again. She never seemed to stop kissing him. He never stopped kissing her. They were always in each other’s faces. How could they not be tired of each other? I remembered my mate was so clingy. All she wanted was affection and s*x. She was needy and didn’t know how to please a man. So, I killed her and was banished; therefore, being classified as a rogue. I didn’t care. I hated my pack. They eventually were dismantled because my Alpha died with no heir.

This is what the master was planning on to happen to Desert Moon. He wanted their Alpha dead and the Luna for himself before they can conceive another heir. It was only a matter of time before Desert Moon fell into oblivion.