Desert Heat (Complete)
Desert Heat Chapter 69

{Dorian’s P.O.V.}

After our dance, Allie and I joined everyone in the seating area. Allie was on my lap and was leaving trails of k****s on my neck, jaw, lips, and then repeated. Allie wasn’t aroused though; this was just how she was telling me she loved me without using words.

“Seriously man, you have made everyone in the male species look like s**t with that stunt,” Mikey says with Sin on his lap.

“Awww, it’s okay honey,” she says to him. “But for real, Allie, you are one lucky b***h. Every human in this joint was swooning over Dorian and shooting daggers at you,”

“Not my problem,” Allie responds and then grabs my chin kissing my lips again. I was fighting the urge to finger her. It was dark enough in the lounge to get away with it, but I knew once I got started, I wouldn’t stop. I used to hate PDA, it made me sick. But then Allie came into my life, and now I don’t care who sees us. She pulls away and sits up straight.

“Why are you stopping?” I ask her in complete disapproval.

“I’m not stopping, I’m taking a break, I need water,” she says. I sit up and grab her glass of ice water. She takes it and sips through the straw. When she gives me the glass, I put it back on the table and lean back again. Allie grazes my mark with her canines making me hiss and grab her h**s.

“Don’t tease me, baby, I have no problem giving you pleasure in public,” she giggles in my ear. She starts her trails of k****s again along my jaw and reaches my mouth, she k****s me for about a second when my phone starts to go off. “f**k, hold on Gizmo,” I push her away and she pouts. I peck her on the lips before lifting her up to take the call.

I look at the caller ID and see that it’s a video call request from Andre, I step out of the lounge onto the casino floor where it’s quiet,

“Andre,”

“Bonjour Dorian, how is everything?”

“Amazing, I did what you suggested with the dance and Allie loved it. She hasn’t stopped kissing me since we got off the dance floor. I appreciate the idea,”

“Fantastique! I am so happy she loved it,”

“What’s up, man?”

“I am sorry to interrupt your evening with your beautiful bride on her birthday, but I have a visitor here who needs to speak with you urgently,”

“Who?” he passes over the phone, and I see someone I don’t recognize. “Who are you?”

“Alpha Shaw, my name is Charles Jefferies Jr., but I go by C.J.,”

“Oh, yes, I was told that you would be taking over as Alpha from your father,”

“Yes, it is a pleasure to meet you, though I do wish this was in person and not via FaceTime,”

“What can I do for you, Alpha Jefferies? Why are you in my home at this hour?”

“I wish this was more of a pleasant call, but it is not. I have an urgent matter that concerns the Murphy triplets,”

“What is this about?”

“Dorian?” I hear Allie come up behind me with the rest of the group.

“Is that your wife?” Alpha Jefferies asks seeing a glimpse of Allie on the phone.

“Yes, allow me to introduce you. Alpha Jefferies, my wife, and my Luna Allison Shaw. Baby, this is C.J. Jefferies,”

“Oh, hello, it’s a pleasure to meet you, though via FaceTime is a bit strange,”

“The pleasure is mine Luna,”

“Please, call me Allie,”

“Allie. As I was telling the Alpha just now, I have an urgent matter that has to do with the Murphy triplets,”

“HI! C.J.!” Leah yells into the phone

“Hey, Squirt! How’s the Beta and mom life treating you?”

“Love it!”

“Enough pleasantries,” I state and turn my attention back to the phone. “What is so urgent that you needed to go to my home at this hour and have my stand-in call me?”

“Well, it appears that triplet’s parents have made a terrible mistake several years ago, and now it’s coming to bite everyone in the a*s,”

“What might that be?” I ask.

“It has come to my attention that the triplets were promised to another pack when they were ten years old. They are called the Yellow Moon pack, they have just under 250 pack members, and the girls were promised to the Alpha’s sons, a set of triplets,”

“Whoa, did he just say triplet Alpha’s?” Brandon asks.

“Alpha Jefferies…”

“Please, C.J., Alpha Shaw,”

“C.J., please call me Dorian,” he nods. “C.J. this appears to be very important, let us get back to our room and I will call you back within twenty minutes through my laptop. I think this may need a round table,”

“Of course, I will be waiting,” I hang up and look at our group.

“Let’s go,” I take Allie’s hand and we go back to our rooms. Allie goes to the Bridge Suite with everyone else while I go and get my laptop and charger from our room. I head back so we could use the large dining room table to do a conference call. I text Andre to use the conference room’s video call system.

“Dorian,” Andre answers.

“Can you see all of us?”

“Yes, we can,” he replies. I see Andre and C.J. in the conference room.

“Dorian, I have Beta Johnathan and the triplet’s parents joining the call,” I nod, and we wait a few more seconds.

“Alpha Shaw, we are so sorry about this,” Mr. Murphy says.

“Mr. Murphy, before you apologize to me, I need you to explain what the hell is going here that concerns three members of my pack,” I am more than a little irritated. Not only did my evening with Allie get interrupted, but I have to officially be in Alpha mode.

“Alpha Shaw, my wife, and I made a terrible mistake when the girls were ten years old. A friend of mine who is a member of the Yellow Moon pack in Olympic Valley, California, just west of Lake Tahoe had informed my wife and me that their Alpha had a set of triplet sons that were five years older than the girls. When my friend made the introductions, we came to an agreement that if the Alpha’s sons didn’t find their mates by the time, they turned 25, then they would be betrothed to our girls,”

“The triplets just turned 20,” Allie says

“That would make those Alpha’s sons 25,” Brandon says.

“Dorian, the Alpha, and his sons came here last night looking for the girls to take them back with them, to Yellow Moon. But when we told them, that girls were no longer part of our pack, and had mates and were marked, they went into a rage. They gave me the signed contract, and that is where the big problem arises,” I was about to say something, but Allie cut in.

“Mr. and Mrs. Murphy! Do you realize how BAD this timing is!? Why didn’t you tell us this when we first met!? The girls are happily mated and marked. Katie just birth to your first grandchildren! What the hell is the matter with you two!?” Allie was now in full Luna mode.

“We understand Luna, but we signed with our b***d, and nothing in the contract states that it becomes void if the girls find their mates,” Mrs. Murphy says.

“What the hell does that mean!?” Leah angrily asks.

“Squirt, it means, that even though the girls are mated and marked, and Katie has children, they’ll be forced to reject their current mates, and Katie will need to abandon her children,” C.J. interjects.

“ARE YOU f*****g KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW!?!” Allie screams and stands to her feet slamming the table with her hands. Her Luna aura is on full blast, and I’m sure everyone on the other side of the computer can feel it. Damn, she was so f*****g sexy when she went full Luna. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy’s heads are down, and Mrs. Murphy is visibly crying. “I need you two to help me understand just what the f**k you were thinking when you decided to gamble the lives of your ten-year-old daughters like they were casino chips!”

“Luna, it’s my fault,” Mr. Murphy starts to say. Allie is staring directly into the computer. “Back then, we were not in our right minds, we…we didn’t want the girls to be mated to Omegas, because we wanted them to be able to live full and happy lives. We hoped that they wouldn’t find mates so they could be ranked members of the Yellow Moon pack,”

“So, you’re telling us that you f****d up your daughters’ lives because you wanted power and money!?” Sin shouted.

“Please understand, we only wanted what was best for our girls, but after a few years went by, we forgot about it. We figured that the three sons of Yellow Moon would find their mates by the time they turned 25, but they haven’t and now they want our girls. Even more, since they’ve seen their pictures, and find them physically attractive,” Mrs. Murphy says through her tears.

“What was best for them? Are you honestly going to tell me that right now Mrs. Murphy? Do you realize how INCOMPETENT the two of you look and sound right now? And you call yourself their parents!” Allie spat at them. She basically insinuated they were unfit parents. Which I had to totally agree on. “I could never understand how the two of you could care more about financial gain rather than the happiness of your children. Who cares if their mates turned out to be Omegas? As long those mates made them happy and loved them for who they were, that’s all that should have mattered to you. But it didn’t, you two used your children as bargaining chips for a chance at having Alpha b***d in your family’s lineage, and now your f**k up ten years ago is going to ruin their lives!” she steps back and starts to pace the floor, her heels making click sounds as she does.

“C.J., does the Yellow Moon Alpha know what the pack the girls belong to now?” Leah asks.

“No, they didn’t stick around long enough for me to tell them. Yellow Moon is a powerful pack, but not as powerful as yours, Dorian. I’m hoping that when they realize who the girls belong to now, they will nullify the contract on their own,” C.J. replies.

“Alpha Shaw, there is one other way to nullify this contract…” Beta Jonathan starts to speak, and I know where he is going with this…

“Beta Jonathan, we are not going to kill their parents. As stupid as they are, my wife would not allow that to happen, because it would devastate the triplets,”

“I cannot believe you were about to suggest that…” Allie says looking into the computer with her arms crossed.

“That is not where I was going with this,” I look back at the computer. “I was going to say that perhaps having the Luna use her abilities to help the Alpha’s sons find their mates,” Allie stops mid-pace and stares back at the computer. “The contract states right here…” he says while holding it up to the camera, “…the contract will be null and void if even one of the Alpha’s sons find their mate if even he chooses to reject him or her, no questions asked. If one them finds their mate, regardless if they accept them or not, all three of them will have to renounce their claim to the triplets,”

“One in three chance to find a mate, that seems doable,” Mikey says.

“Mikey, I can’t just go out and look for their potential mates. I have to build some sort of bond with both parties and I don’t know any more single women or any single men for that matter,” Allie starts to pace again. I know she is trying to think of a solution and so am I.

“Everyone needs to think, there has to be a way to nullify this contract. I will be damned if I see those girls be forced to reject their mates and Katie give up her children. I know them too well, they would rather commit suicide then give up the guys,” Leah says putting her face into her hands screaming into them in frustration. Allie stops mid-pace and faces the computer again,

“Do the girls know about this?” she asks.

“No, Luna. As we said before, we forgot about it ourselves until they showed up last night unannounced,” Mr. Murphy responds.

“f**k! How the hell am I supposed to do this when I don’t even know what kind of mate they’re supposed to have. Their mates could be human, wolf, witch, bear, vampire…Hell, it could be a chinchilla for all we know!” Allie grabs a couch cushion and screams into it. I mind link her,

Gizmo, you need to calm down. All this stress isn’t good for the baby. She lifts her face in realization. She takes a few deep breaths and calms down, rubbing her belly.

“What if we meet with the Alpha and his sons? Gizmo can build a bond with them; get a sense of who they are. Then, we can go to packs that we’re aligned with and see if she senses the same essence. it worked with Bryce and Siobhan,” Brandon says.

“Brandon, that could take forever! And I don’t want those guys anywhere near the triplets, let alone in my house!” Allie shouts.

“Dorian, I have a suggestion,” Andre chimed in. I forgot he was even there. “What if we can gather all of our allies in one place as well as the Yellow Moon Alpha and his sons? Then Allie would not have to travel from the pack to pack,”

“And how do you suggest we do that?” Brandon asks.

“Boss,” Sam speaks from behind the computer. “Your wedding,” we all look at her and Allie runs up to the table and stares at Sam.

“Come again?” Allie says

“Your wedding ceremony, what better place to gather a bunch of people and single people at that?” Sam continues.

“Sam is right,” Lucas says. Allie puts the computer and mute and turns it to face the wall cutting off the other side.

“I doubt that the Alpha and his sons are going to wait six months to claim the triplets,” Allie says. “And we can’t host several thousand werewolves, in our house, let alone other supernaturals, and humans that could potentially be their mates,”

“What if we just moved the wedding to a venue on the strip?” Sin suggested. “One big enough to hold all of the potential guests. All of the major hotels have large conference halls that could fit several thousand people comfortably,”

“Do you know how much money would go into that!?” Allie shouts

“Don’t worry about the money Allie, I will spend whatever I need to, to protect my pack,” I tell her. Her being frugal was the only flaw she really had.

“Is there even enough time to find a venue big enough?” she asks.

“My mother will handle that, baby. If we explain to her what’s going on, she will make it happen,”

“And what about the Yellow Moon Alpha and his sons, do you think they would be willing to wait that long?”

“Let me handle that baby,”

“f**k! First Tucker and now this?”

“Baby, stop,” I pull her into my lap. She’s had such a hard year, and it just keeps getting harder. “We will deal with Tucker, and then we will deal with this. We don’t have to do it all at the same time. Let me handle the Yellow Moon Alpha, okay,” I peck her lips. She sighs and nods. I grab the laptop and turn back it around taking it off mute.

“Dorian, what happened?” C.J. asks

“Apologies, my wife and I and our members needed to discuss something in private. A potential solution to the problem. C.J., do you think Yellow Moon would be willing to do sit down at your packhouse? I don’t think bringing them to us is a good idea. My wife won’t allow it, and honestly, we don’t them near the girls or my men,”

“I can make the call and schedule the meeting. Just give me a date,”

“We will back home in three days, so let’s set it a week from now,” he nods.

“Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, you will tell girls first thing tomorrow and you will tell them in person to their faces what you have done,”

“Luna, the girls will hate us,” Mrs. Murphy says

“And rightfully so! You two have a long penance ahead of you and you will start by showing your girls the respect that they deserve as grown women and tell them to their faces about your actions,” the parents bow their head in defeat. “C.J., you are more than welcome to stay in our home. We plenty of guest rooms for you to stay in. Please make sure that Mr. and Mrs. Murphy arrive at our packhouse tomorrow and they repent to their girls for they’ve done and are about to put them through,”

“Yes, Luna,” he bows his head and turns to me. “Dorian, I have to say, that’s a mighty fine Luna you have there. I hope one I day I can find my mate and her be as strong as yours,”

“My wife is of a kind, I doubt you will find anyone like her, but I’m sure that when you find your mate, she and you will make a fine pair,”

“Maybe your wife can help me out?” I laugh but that he is serious. Allie looks at him and smiles.

“No promises,” she says and winks.

“Good night everyone, and Allie, I know it’s past midnight over there, but I wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday,”

“Thank you, C.J., good night,” I close the laptop and Allie collapses in my arms.

“Can we catch a f*****g break?” Brandon says rubbing his face.

“I know right! What the f**k were those two thinking? Who bargains their kids like that?” Mikey states.

“I can’t believe those two!” Leah shouts. “My Grandpa is a Beta, and my mom was mated to a human and he didn’t care at all! How can Mr. and Mrs. Murphy do something like that?”

“You know what pisses me off the most about this situation…” Sin spoke. “They said that they did it because they wanted the triplets to have full and happy lives. Allie and I didn’t grow up with s**t, and we made our lives full and happy either way. We made our lives full and happy because we chose to make the most of what we had. We were grateful to be alive and have each other. Having Mikey and Dorian just made our lives fuller and happier. We didn’t need men with money and power to be happy,”

“You know the ironic thing about all of this?” Lucas spoke. “Simba, Nick, and Paxton are technically Omegas, high level, but still Omegas,” Lucas was right. The parents entered into this contract to avoid the triplets being mated to Omegas, but that’s what ended up happening either way.

“It’s late, get some rest,” I tell the group.

“I’m too f*****g wire now man, I’m not going to be able to sleep,” Brandon says

“Same,” Mikey replies

“Anyone up for a run?” Lucas asks. We all nod.

“Can we go too?” Leah asks.

“Seriously, I need to burn this adrenaline,” Sin says.

“Baby?” Allie asks

“You ladies can come, but stay with Sam, and you, my little Gizmo, will do a light job, no sprinting,” she nods immediately. “Alright, everyone change,” we all get up and go our separate ways for now.

As Allie and I are heading back to our room, she frowns and sighs. She’s frustrated, but I can tell she’s saddened by all of this,

“Talk to me,” I tell her

“I can’t even begin to imagine how the triplets are going to react to this babe. I mean, to be told your entire future with the love your life could come to an abrupt end because your parents were stupid…”

“I know baby, but we will figure out a way to stop this. The triplets are not leaving our pack. They are family, and we protect our family,” she nods and we head in to change.

I need to make sure that this Alpha of Yellow Moon knows who he’s dealing with. Now that the triplets are part of my pack, I won’t let them go without a fight.