Desert Heat (Complete)
Desert Heat Chapter 77

{Dorian’s P.O.V.}

After my shower, I went down to meet the others for dinner. When I got to the dining room, Allie was sitting in my chair. She got up when she saw me, and promptly sat on my lap when I took my seat.

“You know I’m going to get you back, don’t you?” I tell her.

“As long you don’t do what you did, I’m all for it,” she replied.

I was the laughingstock of the entire dinner, Allie had told all of the girls, who in turn told all the of guys. Luckily, I wasn’t the only one who had made the mistake of playing with their mate’s n*****s, I was just the only one that was denied s*x because of it.

“Brandon, don’t forget we’re going to Mojave Mountain in three days,” I tell him.

“Yup,”

“Can I go with you?” Leah asked.

“Sweetcheeks, you want to come with us?” Brandon asked her.

“Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve been back, and my parents have not seen Sawyer since he was two months, so I think it’s overdue,” she said. Brandon looked at me for permission and I granted it. Allie tapped me on the shoulder and gave me a look.

“Baby, you want to come too?” I asked her

“Why not? I’m the Luna, aren’t I?” she says

“Giz, I don’t know if that’s a good idea. I mean we’re going to be meeting unmated Alpha triplets. Showing them Dorian’s tiny mate may spark some jealousy,” Brandon says.

“Yeah, but it will give me a chance to see who they really are. I mean, what if them knowing the ginger triplets belong to our pack isn’t enough to get them to change their minds about the contract. I’ll need to get a feel for them anyways right? I would rather get it over and done with,” Allie responded.

“Dorian, what do you think man? I mean Leah is understandable, that’s her family, but Gizmo? Having a Luna in the meeting could cause trouble,” Brandon said to me. I look at Allie and back at Brandon, and both have valid points.

“And what if they don’t grant the six-month continuance? What if they only give us one month or even two weeks? I need to be able to get a sense of who they are if I’m going to even attempt to try and find one of them a mate, right?” Allie continues.

“Giz, that’s only if they believe that you have powers,”

“Why wouldn’t they believe that I have powers or abilities?”

Brandon and Allie kept going back forth with the ‘what ifs’ and I eventually just looked at Mikey who shrugged his shoulders.

“Okay, enough,” I tell them both.

“Brandon, I understand your concerns, but Allie’s points are more valid,” I tell him, and Allie just smiles proudly. “I also don’t think Allie would be in any danger from Yellow Moon, from I what I have heard, their Alpha obeys our laws as strictly as I do, so they won’t harm Allie,” Brandon throws his hands in defeat and Allie k****s my cheek. “Allie, you are going to act like a Luna when we are there. No l**t projection, no PDA, and no tantrums understand?”

“Tantrums!? I don’t throw tantrums!” she whines and sulks.

“You are doing it right now,” I tell her, and everyone at the table laughs.

“Allie, babe, he’s right. You throw tantrums without even knowing it. You threw one at the bridal shop earlier today,” Sin said

“You try trying on 15 different wedding dresses and not finding one!” she whines and crosses her arms.

“You didn’t find a dress baby?” I ask her

“Hm? Oh no, I eventually did, but as I said, it took forever,”

“Are you going to show it to me?”

“WHAT?! Are you insane? You know the groom doesn’t get to see the bride’s dress until the actual ceremony,” she says.

“We’re already married,”

“Doesn’t matter, tradition is tradition. You will not see it until the ceremony and don’t even try to sneak a peek at it,”

“What if I did?”

“Then I won’t put out until the wedding,”

“Can you go that long without my d**k inside of you?” I ask her while grabbing her h**s firmly.

“Sure, I just have to control my l**t,” she smiled and I frowned.

“You know honestly, these conversations at the table used to bother me, but now that I’ve seen everyone naked, I’d be more surprised if we didn’t have conversations like this,” Leah said.

“What do you mean you have seen everyone naked?” Andre asks. We all look at him. Dani whispers in his ear and his eyes bulge out of his head and look straight at Allie. We all start laughing.

“Where have I been all this time? Why has no one invited us?” He asks.

“Don’t worry Andre, the Bahamas wasn’t the first time, and it sure won’t be the last,” Allie says. “Oh, before I forget, babe, can I go to the office tomorrow with you?”

“Why?” I gave her a stern look.

“It has nothing to do with the rogue, I don’t even care about that. I just want to see Brittany, and show her all the pictures we took,”

“Okay, that’s fine,”

After dinner, we all went our separate ways. Once I got Allie back to the room, I made good on my promise and got her back for earlier. I got her back with seven nonstop rounds and made her blackout again.

It was meant to be a punishment for denying me, but that ended up backfiring the next morning. When I came back from training, Allie had me take her for three rounds in the shower. By the time round three ended, I was exhausted, but Allie was full of energy and wanted round four, but we didn’t have time and I was emptied out. We got dressed, had breakfast, and then left for the office.

Allie tried to go down on me in the car, but I stopped her. I honestly had nothing left to give her. So, she pouted the entire ride to the office. Once we got there, Brittany was already awaiting our arrival, and Stephanie, well, she still stares daggers at Allie. I had a meeting with team leads for updates regarding their search for Tucker and his pack, and Allie didn’t want to join, so I gave her a k**s and we went in separate directions.

{Allie’s P.O.V.}

After Dorian went to his meeting with the team leads, Brittany and I went to our floor and hung out in my office. I showed her all of the pictures we took with my new phone and we swapped numbers. Brittany was a good soul, so I had no problems trusting her.

“Wow, this yacht is crazy big!” she says looking at the group photo we took before we had left for our two-day camping on the open water. “You guys looked like you had a lot of fun. Now I want to go,” she said.

“It was a blast. The water was so clean, and the air was so fresh. I honestly want to go back. I don’t think we’d go for nine days again, but we will definitely go again,” I tell her.

“That necklace is beautiful, by the way,” she points the necklace that Dorian bought for my birthday.

“Oh yeah, it’s a birthday gift from Dorian,”

“Mr. Shaw has amazing taste, honestly, I’m jealous of you Mrs. Shaw,”

“Allie, please. How many times have I told you to call me Allie when it’s just us?”

“Sorry, a force of habit…Allie,” she says and smiles. “But as I was saying, I’m super jealous of you. Not the way Stephanie is, but I envy the relationship you have with Mr. Shaw. You two seem so solid and never seem to argue,”

“Oh, we have our moments. Dorian has yelled at me, and I’ve yelled at him. Hell, I slapped him for the first time a few days ago,”

“Did you really?” she gasps in shock.

“I did. I’m sure you know what’s going on with the rogue he is holding prisoner, right?” she nods her head. I figured she would. Even if she didn’t have powers, she was still a supernatural and Dorian’s office assistant. “Well, that same night he was captured by Lucas’ team, Dorian and the guys didn’t come home until almost 3:30 the next morning. When they did, they were all covered in b***d,”

“Oh my gosh. I mean, I know Mr. Shaw can be merciless sometimes, but I didn’t think he could go that far,”

“The rogue deserves that and more. That wasn’t the issue I had though, the issue was that I felt Dorian cared more about getting information than being at home with me,”

“Mrs…I mean, Allie, that can’t be further from the truth. Mr. Shaw adores you, and trust me when I say you have changed him,”

“What do you mean?” I gave her a funny look.

“Well, before you came into Mr. Shaw’s life, he was the biggest dickhead around. He was cruel, rude, disrespectful, degrading, and just plain mean,” she replied. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I mean, I knew that Dorian had a temper when he got angry, but I could never picture him being mean or cruel.

“Are we talking about the same Dorian, Brittany, because the Dorian I know is anything but those things,” I tell her.

“Let me put it this way, had you not come along when you did, I would have turned in my resignation and taken my chances with a boss that was mortal,”

“What?” I was so dumbfounded.

“Mr. Shaw used to make me remake his coffee at least four times every morning he arrived if not more. His messages had to be in black ink and on the big yellow sticky notes, you know the rectangular ones, not the square ones. If I wore anything but black slacks, he would send me home to change and dock my pay. If I wasn’t in the office before he was, I was considered late, even if I was actually on time. I was never allowed to leave early or take a vacation. He never said please, thank you, good morning, or good night. He threatened to fire me all the time for being incompetent. This went on for almost three years…” I didn’t know what to say to her. I couldn’t believe Dorian was such a douche. Jake was an a*s, but not like this. “Then one day, he came into the office and he said, ‘good morning’ to me with the biggest smile on his face,”

“He did?!”

“Yeah. He greeted everyone that he saw that day, even Stephanie which she took for flirting of course, but that’s beside the point. When I gave him his morning coffee, he told me it was ‘perfect’ and to have a good day. I had run out of rectangular sticky notes, mid-day, and had no choice but to take his messages on the square ones, and he didn’t say anything. He said, ‘thank you’ and thanked me for my efforts. Then, when I was getting ready to leave for the day, he told me to have a wonderful evening and that he would see me in the morning,”

“So, wait, why the sudden change?” I asked her

“No one knew, it was strange and almost creepy. He did a complete 180 and everyone was freaked out. But then about a week later, when I brought him his morning coffee, I saw a picture on his desk by his computer. Mr. Shaw never had any personal effects in his office, ever. I took a quick glance, and it was a picture of you,”

“Of me?” I thought about it and I remember Dorian having gone to the office once within the first week Sin and I moved in, but it was only for half a day.

“Yes. I asked him about it, and he told me that you were his mate. I didn’t know what that meant, but he explained it to me, and I couldn’t believe it. The way he talked about you and what a wonderful human being you were, how beautiful, how kind, and caring, and all the good stuff in between. I was shocked. I had never heard him speak that sincerely and lovingly about anyone, let alone a woman,”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Mr. Shaw was the biggest a*****e when it came to women. Before I got here, he had played half the girls in the company. He would take them on dates, sleep with them, and then pretend they didn’t exist. If they even tried to acknowledge anything s****l or romantic happened between them, he would fire them, call them crazy, or call them lying stalkers,” she said. I knew Dorian had issues before he went celibate for almost four years, and I knew he was a player, but I didn’t know it reached outside of the packhouse.

“I know Dorian had issues in his early twenties, but wow,” I say to her.

“Yeah, it was pretty bad. When I got here, that had already stopped but he was still an a*s, but now, I don’t think I could ever leave the company. Mr. Shaw is kind and generous. He lets me dress comfortably, gives me time off when I ask, and even gave everyone a hefty raise,”

“I’m glad to know that things have gotten better over the last ten months,”

“There have been two instances when Mr. Shaw went back to his old self,” she says to me.

“When?”

“A few days after his personality changed, and when you lost your baby last year,”

“Oh, that first time I was beaten up by his ex-girlfriend and spent a week in a coma,”

“Oh my god! Please tell me she’s dead,”

“She is,” I smile.

“Whew, okay good. Had I known back then, I would have had my mom unbind my powers and I would have hunted her down and killed her myself for making my boss become a prick again,” I started to laugh at her. I liked Brittany. She was a good soul and a kind person. It may be because she has no demonic powers, but either way. I was drawn to her in more ways than one.

“So, you said that you’re envious of Dorian and me, why?”

“Oh, it’s because I’m single,”

“Really!? But you’re so gorgeous, how can you be single?” I was surprised. I assumed Brittany had a boyfriend or was at least dating someone. She was 5’6, in her mid-twenties, strawberry blonde hair, light brown eyes like mine, and was a natural beauty.

“Aww, thank you, that means a lot coming from you, you’re gorgeous too. And you have this whole Asian werewolf thing going for you,” I couldn’t help but laugh at her. “Honestly, I think you are super lucky being a werewolf. I mean, I heard that you were mortal once, right?” I nod my head. “Damn, being mortal and being mated to a wolf must have been awesome. When I see how Mr. Shaw treats you, or how Mr. Rays treats Ms. Perez, I get so envious. I wish male witches or demons treated their mates that way. Even humans can’t compare to a werewolf,”

“Would you ever consider dating a werewolf?” I ask her

“Is that even possible? I mean, I saw how Mr. Shaw treated the girls he dated that weren’t his mates, so I don’t know,”

“Well, it is possible, but I don’t know if would be the same to be quite honest. But I do know that anyone can be mated to a wolf, if the mother goddess of werewolves so chooses,”

“Mother goddess?” I explained to her about the moon goddess and how it is she who chooses who a wolf’s mate is and that it doesn’t have to be another wolf.

“So, you never know what may happen, Britt,”

“Wow, that’s so interesting. I mean, I wouldn’t mind being mated to a wolf after hearing all that, and seeing how Mr. Shaw treats you,”

“Oh girl, the romantic loving side is one thing, the s*x, is something else,” I tell her. Her eyes grow wide and her jaw drops hitting my desk.

“Will you please expand on that?” she asks.

“Well…”

—–

“Okay! Now I really want to be mated to a werewolf!! No wonder all those girls that Mr. Shaw played were so obsessed!!” she was fanning herself and I could sense that she was actually a little aroused. “Hell, I’ll take having a one-night stand if I could experience something like that,” I just smiled as she leaned back in the chair and continued to fan herself. Just then, I got a mind link from Dorian,

Hey, baby,

Hi babe,

What are you doing?

Hanging out with Brittany in my office,

Shouldn’t she be answering phone calls?

She has the cordless with her. It hasn’t rung at all.

Okay. What do you want for lunch?

Mmm…Wingstop, please.

Same flavors?

Yes, please. Oh, and the voodoo fries with extra veggies sticks and a big tub of the ranch.

I know baby. I’ll make a big order so we can share it with Mikey and the guys.

Thank you, baby. I love you, Muah!

I love you too.

I closed the link and saw Brittany staring at me.

“What was that?” she asked

“What was what?”

“Your eyes were like, white just now,”

“Oh, werewolves have an ability called mind linking and we can telepathically communicate with our mates, or other wolves in our pack when we are in proximity of each other. It only reaches so far,”

“Wow, so if I was mated to a wolf, could I do it?”

“Unfortunately, no. You have to be a full wolf or have stronger wolf genes if you were a hybrid like Andre. He’s half-wolf, but his wolf genes didn’t come with the ability to mind link,”

“Aww, that stinks. What if I was turned into one?”

“Turned into what? A werewolf?!”

“Yeah,”

“Brittany, I don’t think that’s possible since you’re technically a supernatural,”

“Oh, dammit,” she pouted and sulked. I just smiled and shook my head. Even though I had told her it potentially wasn’t possible, I wasn’t even sure what I was talking about. I had no idea if she could be turned into one or not. I would have to ask Dorian at lunch.

———

“Baby, I don’t know if that’s possible or not. I have never heard of another supernatural being turned before,” he says to me while I take a bite of voodoo fries.

“I have not either and I am a half-vampire,” Andre added as he stuffed a hot wing in his mouth.

“Gizmo, why are you asking this anyway?” Mikey asked taking a BBQ wing from the container.

“Because…” I started to say while pulling off some meat from my lemon pepper wing and drowning it in ranch. “Brittany was asking if she could be turned into one. I said it wasn’t possible, but I honestly don’t even know if that’s true or not, so I wanted to ask you guys,”

“I know that other shifters can’t be turned, that’s a fact,” Lucas said chewing on a carrot stick.

“Shifter?” I ask

“Yeah, like werewolves and werebears,” he responds. I make an O shape with my mouth and take stuff a celery stick in my mouth.

“Full vampires cannot be changed either, they would die,” Andre responds shoving a handful of regular fires in his mouth. “But that is all I know,” he continues with his mouthful.

“Why would Brittany even ask that Baby?” Dorian asked grabbing a garlic parmesan wing.

“She saw me mind linking you and thought it was cool. Plus, I kind of told her about our s*x life and how good werewolves are in bed, so she is hoping that she can be mated to wolf now,” I tell him stuffing mango habanero wing in my mouth.

“How do you eat that Gizmo!? That s**t is f*****g hot!” Brandon whined.

“I can eat the atomic wings, Brandon, this is nothing,” I tell him as I clean off the bone.

“Baby, you shared our s*x life with my office assistant!?” Dorian shouted.

“I shared everyone’s s*x life with Brittany,” I say taking a sip of my green tea.

“WHAT!?” all the guys shouted, and I just smiled and continued with my food.

“Gizmo, you did not!” Brandon said

“I did. It’s my way of getting back you guys for making all of your mates go to bed alone that one night,” I tell them, and they all throw their hands up in defeat. I went to grab the last lemon pepper wing in the container, but Brandon beat me to it,

“Mine,” he says.

“Brandon! You don’t even like lemon pepper!” I whined.

“Actually, it’s one of my favorites. I just let you have it all the time because I know how much you love it. But since you decided to share my s*x life with Brittany, I’m going to take it,”

“Brandon!” I whined and as he put it in his mouth and ate it. “I’m going to drop kick you!” I shouted.

“Giz, we’ve been through this. The only thing you’re tall enough to dropkick is a garden gnome,” he said while cleaning the bone. I stared daggers at him while leaned his chair back and balanced it on the hind legs. He just smiled at me. Unfortunately for him, he was right across from me,

“Oh f**k!” he shouts. I slouched down and kicked his chair from under the table making him fall backward. I send him a quick mind link,

What did I say about taking food from a pregnant woman?