Desert Heat (Complete)

{Tucker’s P.O.V.}

Two and a half weeks ago

I was sitting in my office waiting for some news from our source at Desert Moon but had not heard anything in a while.

“Tucker!” I heard my brother Thomas as rushed into my office

“What is it?” I asked

“The source, he was made! He’s been arrested!”

“WHAT?! How do you know that!?” I shouted.

“He sent me the S.O.S. I called and was on speaker when it happened,” he explained. I roared in outrage. How could have they known Hank was my source. An entire year of planning wasted. “Tucker, do you think he will talk?”

“He’s probably already dead, so it doesn’t matter,”

“Tucker, we need to plan the attack. If the Alpha of Desert Moon finds out the source has been working with us…”

“We’re not ready yet! Half the men are still in the hospital from injuries sustained during training alone!!” I shouted. Just then, our other brother Trevor came in.

“What do you want?” I asked.

“You guys need to see this,” he turned on the news.

“…it is a sad day in the werewolf community. Desert Moon pack as announced that they have had a traitor amongst them. A prominent member of the pack was found to have been leaking information to a rival pack for almost a year. His name has not been released, but our sources are saying that this pack member’s family has been banished by the Luna as punishment for his crimes. Although news of his own punishment is yet unknown, sources are saying that Alpha Dorian Shaw is pushing for the death penalty…”

Trevor turned off the T.V. and both of my brothers looked at me.

“Tucker, what we do?” Trevor asked.

“Did the news say that his family as banished?” I asked making sure I heard the news correctly.

“It did,”

“Find her and his pups, bring them in. Maybe we can leverage her,” I tell them. Both of them leave and I lean back in my chair. Time was running out. If Hank was captured, then it was only a matter of time before Desert Moon found me.

Three days later

“Tucker!”

“WHAT!?” I was getting so annoyed by Thomas’ constant barging into my office.

“We found them!”

“Found who?”

“Hank’s wife and pups, we’ve brought them in,” I looked up, and in came this a small woman and two young pups.

“You must be Casey,”

“Who the hell are you? And why am I here?” she asked with a strong country accent. Cute but annoying.

“My name is Tucker Harold, I’m the Alpha of this pack,”

“Tucker Harold!? You’re the one Alpha Shaw has been looking for! You’re the one that tricked my husband into helping you!” she shouted backing away with her pups.

“Do not be afraid, I will not hurt you,” I tell her being as calm as possible.

“What do you want?” she asked

“I need your help,”

“With what?”

“Getting information on Desert Moon, Hank told me that you were friends with the Luna for a while,”

“I wouldn’t exactly she and I friends. She was a b***h who got angry because I couldn’t make time to hang out. I’m a full-time mother and housewife, I didn’t have time to go shopping, go out to lunch, or s**t like that,”

“So, you’re not friends with the Luna,” I wasn’t sure if this was a bad thing or good thing.

“No! f**k her! She banished my pups and me! All because of my husband’s crimes helping you! I don’t care how pissed someone is, you don’t do that young innocent pups!” she spat.

“You’re right, you don’t,”

“You’re one to talk! You killed the Luna’s unborn child!” she sneered. I was hoping she wouldn’t know that it was me.

“Well, technically, your husband built the device for me, and my men detonated it,” I tell her trying to clear my own conscience.

“Be that as it may, it was done on your order, so you’re just as guilty. So, why the f**k would I want to help you?”

“Revenge against the Luna for banishing you and your pups,”

“I’m a rogue werewolf now, what can you offer me in return?”

“Sanctuary, Casey, for you and your pups. If you haven’t noticed, my pack is a pack of rogues,”

“What?” she looks around confused. “How is that possible?”

“It’s a long story, one I will share later, but…”

“CASEY!?” I was interrupted by Hank who came charging in.

“Oh my god! Hank!?” I watched them embrace each other.

“How are you here, Casey? How did you find this place?” he asked her.

“I sent my brother’s to find her, Hank,” I tell him. He looks up at me while holding his oldest pup in his arms. “Why are you naked?” I ask

“I came here in wolf form,”

“Wait, I thought you were captured?”

“I was. I escaped,”

“Resourceful, I see,”

“There’s something you need to kn…”

“TUCKER!” I heard Trevor.

“NOW WHAT?!” I roared.

“You need to see this!” he said and turned on the T.V.

“It is a time of celebration in the werewolf community. Just three days ago, the Desert Moon pack announced that they had a traitor in their pack. Now, sources are telling us that, that same day, the Luna, Allison Shaw gave birth to twin Alpha pups…”

Trevor turned off the T.V.

“HANK! YOU SAID NOTHING ABOUT THE LUNA BEING PREGNANT!!” I was seething in anger.

“That’s what I was about to tell you, Tucker. The Alpha and Luna used magic to conceal the pregnancy for the last few months. They hid it from the entire pack. No one knew,” he tells me.

“How do you know all of this Hank?” Casey asked him.

“The two i***t guards that were assigned to watch me couldn’t keep their mouths shut. Allie is not the only one that gave birth, Sam and Lucas had their pup today too. Hearing that they were all happy and in love with their pups, while you were banished, and goddess only knew where you were outraged me. I did everything I could to escape. I was going to come to Tucker, and then try and find you,”

“Why did you do all this Hank? I deserve an explanation! Why did you betray our pack!? Your actions got us banished you, bastard!”

“Tucker offered me something in return for my allegiance,” he told her. I just sat back and watched. I wonder how she would handle what he was about to tell her.

“What did he offer you?” she asked him.

“After Tucker killed Dorian, he was going to give me the Desert Moon pack. I would have been the new Alpha and you would have been Luna,”

“WHAT THE f**k!?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR CORN FED MIND!?”

“Casey,” I interjected

“I understand your frustration and shock, but don’t you think that taking over Allie’s position would be the best way to get back her for banishing you and your pups? You can banish her and her pups in return,”

“What would that do for you?” she asks

“I get what I want,”

“And what’s that?”

“I get Allie to myself. You see, I had a mate, but she was a low-level omega, and was unattractive. I rejected her on sight, but she refused to accept the rejection. So, I drugged her and had another omega impregnate her. That allowed my father to banish her, forcing the mate bond to sever. The next day, my brothers and I went to Kane Beach Club which is where I met the Gamma female. But when I saw Allie. This itty bitty little Asian werewolf. I wanted her, but then I saw her mark. She was taken. I didn’t care though, because I always got what I wanted. But then her mate showed up, and she told me his name. I knew I was s**t out of luck. I thought that was it, but no. That fucker had to call my dad and arrange a meeting. My dad was weak and agreed to rescind our birthright. Alpha sons, being classified as Omegas all because I wanted to have fun with the Luna. So, I killed my father; therefore, voiding the contract he signed with Dorian Shaw, and took my place as Alpha,”

Hank and Casey just stood there staring at me. I expected them to be understanding, but what came out of Casey’s mouth was not what I expected

“You are one f****d up son of a b***h!! You ruined my life, the life of my family, and even Allie’s life when you sent a bomb to her gender reveal party last year, all because you weren’t happy with the mate you were given?”

“I told you, that as an Alpha’s son, I get what I want,”

“You’re perverse and I want nothing to do with you’re sick and twisted plans. Hank, we’re leaving,”

“Casey baby, stop,”

“HANK! WE ARE NOT GOING TO SIDE OURSELVES WITH THIS LUNATIC!!”

“If you walk out those doors, my men will not hesitate to kill you,” I tell them. “You know what I am capable of, Casey. I killed Allie’s pup before it was even born, do you think I won’t kill yours?” I smirk.

“STAY AWAY FROM MY FAMILY TUCKER!” Hank shouted.

“As long as you do what I say, Hank,” I see them look at each other and easily give in. I knew a mother would never put her pups in danger. Speaking of pups, I needed to kill these Alpha twins. The fact that they were even born makes me sick to my stomach.

“What do you want from me?” Hank asked.

“Train my men and get them ready for war. We attack the next full moon,”

“That’s in two weeks!”

“Then I suggest you get started, Hank. As long as you do what you are told, your family will not be harmed. They will be treated as members of my pack. Once Dorian Shaw is dead, I will take Allie as my own, and you can have Desert Moon as we agreed,” It was so easy to make him give in again. Hank was as hungry for power as any dominant male wolf. Casey had no choice but to give in if she wanted to keep her pups alive.

In two weeks, I would finally get what I have been working so hard for. A chance to finally have the perfect mate.

{Allie’s P.O.V.}

Present-day

“To call for help,” I said.

“Help what for?” Dorian asked me.

“Dorian, we have allies! Mojave Mountain is only two and a half hours away, we can call C.J. and ask him to spare some men to help us. We can have Brandon call Bryce and other werebears to help, he said that we could call anytime for his help remember. Yellow Moon would help us too. If we offer an alliance in return. They’re only five hours away. If we call Deacon now, they could get here just as the fight breaks out,”

“Leah said the fight started at sundown,”

“Dorian, I said that we have until sundown to prepare. Leah’s vision took place at night when the moon was already in the sky,” I told him. His eyes widened. “We can also ask the bounty hunters for help. If Hank escaped and went to Tucker, then he would be there during the battle right?” Dorian just shrugged.

“What if he isn’t?” he asked

“Then, maybe we can leverage the bounty hunters to help take out Tucker’s men. Offer payment for each kill,” I knew my idea sounded way off the wazoo, but I was desperate.

“I would have to check with the elders about that one, but I think you’re onto something baby,” he said. It was then I realized Dorian was still inside of me, and he was getting harder by the second.

“DORIAN, TAKE YOUR d**k OUT AND GO MAKE THOSE CALLS!!” I shouted. He immediately lifted me off of him and got dressed. He came back to the bed, kissed me hard, and ran out of the room.

{Dorian’s P.O.V.}

Allie was a f*****g genius. I had not even thought about asking for help from other packs and bounty hunters that were in the country looking for Hank. I mind linked Mikey, Brandon, and Lucas, and sent a text to Andre to get to my office. I felt bad knowing they were probably f*****g their mates, but this was urgent,

“Dude, you better have a good f*****g reason for this!” Brandon said as he walked in.

“Seriously, I was about to go into round three with Sin!”

“Dorian, my friend, Dani’s mouth was doing wonderful things to me, so this better be good,”

“Boss, I respect you, but Sam and I were just getting started after putting Keegan down,”

“Quit your f*****g bitching!” I shouted. “Brandon, call Bryce and see if he and some of his werebear friends will be willing to help us,”

“What? What do you mean call Bryce?”

“Bryce has an alliance with Allie remember!?!” I shouted.

“Oh s**t, that’s right!” Brandon pulled out his phone and started dialing.

“Lucas, call C.J. at Mojave Mountain and see if he can spare some of his men to help us,” Lucas nodded.

“What about us?” Mikey asked pointing to himself and Andre.

“Give me a minute on that, I have a call to make to Yellow Moon,” I tell them. They sit and wait.

The call to Yellow Moon went smoothly, and Deacon agreed to help us in exchange for a treaty and alliance with our pack. He spared no time in getting his men together and made their way to our packhouse. Based on Allie’s timeline, they would get here not too long after the battle starts. It would catch Tucker and his pack off guard. Yellow Moon was a pack of fighters just like ours. They weren’t as big, but they had more than enough to give us the upper hand.

I contacted the elders and pitched Allie’s idea of using bounty hunters to help kill Tucker’s men and offering payment for their kills. Luckily, because Tucker was a disgraced Alpha, the elders had already signed his death warrant after we figured it was he who killed our first pup. It was just a matter of finding him. The elder’s agreed that his entire pack needed to be wiped out and allowed us to use bounty hunters.

I had Mikey get on the wire about it and advertise that in addition to killing Hank, every hunter that came to help would receive $50,000 for every member of Tucker’s pack they killed. It didn’t take long before bounty hunters started to answer and start showing up at our territory. Some were hunters that my company had contracted out to before, so we had good professional relationships with them. Other’s I had never seen, but they knew Mikey and Ethan based on reputation.

I was sitting in my office with Allie, Brandon, and Mikey, while everyone else helped our guests get situated. We still had two hours before sundown. Allie was on my lap and I couldn’t keep my hands off of her,

“Dorian, stop,” she said while pushing me away.

“I can’t, you and that big brain of yours may give us the upper hand we need. Have I ever told you that your intelligence is f*****g a turn on, baby?”

“Dorian!” she giggled as I kissed her neck.

“Speaking of intelligence, it a took while Dorian, but I got that thing done you wanted me to do,” Mikey said.

“It’s done?” I asked. He nodded and handed me the file.

“What is that?” Allied asked. I smiled and handed it to her.

“It’s for you, baby. Open it,” She looked at Mikey and me and opened the file. I saw her eyes dart back and forth as she read the document. She looked at me with her eyes wide.

“Dorian is this…”

“It is,”

“But how? When?”

“On our flight to the Bahamas, when you were reading your book, Sin told us that you only had your high school diploma and that you never got to go to college because of Devin, even though you had a full ride. So, I had Mikey look into creating a scholarship using the company name. An engineering scholarship for underprivileged students. Based on GPA, they can receive up to a full ride to any University in the state of Nevada as long as their major is engineering. And you, my beautiful wife, are the first recipient of this said scholarship,” I could see tears forming in her eyes when she realized what this meant.

“Are you telling me that I can go back to school?”

“Yes baby, you can go back to school and not pay a penny for it. Full ride baby,” she put the papers down and hugged me as tight as she could.

“I want to jump your bones so badly right now Dorian,” she whispered in my ear.

“I would love nothing more than for you do that, but we need to win this war first,” I tell her, and she nodded her head. She got up from my lap and went to Mikey.

“Thank you so much Mikey!” she shouted, and she jumped into his arms.

“Oh, you’re welcome Giz,”

“Gizmo, I have a surprise for you too,” Brandon said. Allie let go of Mikey and looked at him. He pulled his sketch pad from the drawer in my office and flipped a few pages.

“OH MY GOD!!” Allied exclaimed. “Brandon, this is amazing!”

“Is this what you envisioned?” he asked

“That and more! The coloring is so perfect!!” she jumped up and hugged him too. “Thank you! Thank you so much!”

“You’re welcome, Gizmo,”

“What is it?” I asked. Brandon showed me the drawing. “Holy s**t, this is f*****g sick,”

“I told you, man, you were going to like it,” Brandon replied. The drawing was of Mercury and Bandit’s faces fused together to make one wolf’s head. But the eyes colors were inverted and the red desert moon behind them.

“When this is over, I want this on the empty space on my back Brandon,”

“You got it. Oh, before I forget, I got the names for Daisy and Demarco done too,” he tells Allie and shows her.

“Perfect!” she says while looking at them and then shows them to me.

“Where are you going to put those, baby?” I ask.

“Here,” she says and holds up her wrists. I smile and nod.

“Well, my wrists are full, so I’ll have to them on my ankles,” I tell her, and she smiles.

“Where did you want to put Lavender’s name?” she asked. That was a good question. My body was almost fully covered in tattoos, finding room would be hard. Allie’s body was a blank canvas, so it was easier for her. “Stand up,” she tells me and so I do. She grabs the hem of the shirt and lifts it up halfway and starts to examine my body.

“Allie, there’s not a lot of room,” I tell her as she keeps looking.

“Sorry babe, but I got to pull your pants down a little,” she says as she unbuttons my jeans. She pulls it down slightly and starts to focus on a spot on my h*p. “Brandon, do you think the smaller version would fit here?” Brandon walks over and looks too.

“Yeah, I’d have to shrink it a little more, but I think that will do,” he replies.

“Perfect,” Allie says and fixes my pants for me. She looked up and puckers her lips and I give her a k**s. I look over and Brandon’s eyes are clouded over.

“Dorian, Mojave Mountain has just arrived, and they brought a lot of people,” he said.

“How many is a lot?” Allie asked. We all looked at each other and went out front to see for ourselves. When we got out front, only one word came to mind at what we saw before us,

“Whoa,”