Kianna and Her Three Alpha Wolves [Featherstone Pack] (Siren Publishing Ménage and More) (22 page)

“Ray’s been telling them what a little wimp you are and that, once the bosses here, now how did that one guy put it, Duke?” Tony asked sarcastically.

“Um, he said that…” Holding up his hands to Teaghen, Duncan, and Alex, he said, “Now these aren’t my words, boss, so don’t go all furry on me. He said that his sister was such a whore, she was sleeping with three men so she would be more than able to satisfy them before he shipped her off overseas.”

Duncan wasn’t surprised how hard he had to fight his wolf from getting free, and he wasn’t shocked when he noticed both his brothers having the same difficulty. What did come as a bolt from out of the blue and helped to calm all their wolves was the peal of laughter emanating from their mate as well as his men.

“What the hell is so fucking funny?” he yelled. “Ray and his cronies want to kidnap and hurt your alphas’ mate, and you all think he is just talking out his ass for shits and giggles? He wants to hurt Kia, do you understand this.” Duncan pulled Kianna onto his lap and nuzzled her neck. He needed to calm his wolf, and her scent was a sure way to do it.

As Kianna stroked along the side of his face, he could still feel her giggling.

“Kianna, I want you to take this seriously,” he whispered.

Quickly, the smile he saw on her face lowered, and a frown replaced it as she looked him straight in the eye and said, “I do take my brother very seriously, Duncan. Remember I’m the one he used as a punching bag as a kid.”

Just the thought of her having to go through that again made his stomach turn.

“I told you I knew how to deal with Ray, but it’s going to depend on how much the three of you trust me.” Kianna stood and held out her hand to Teaghen.

“The four of us need to go into the gardens, and you all need to listen, and I mean really listen, to my suggestions. I know my brother, and even though I haven’t been around him in fifteen years, he hasn’t changed a bit.”

Taking her hands, Teaghen and Duncan followed their mate into the back gardens with Alex walking slowly behind her, his eyes on her ass the whole way.

Chapter 13

Kianna walked with her men in silence until she came to one of her favorite areas of the garden.

She’d always loved the gardens growing up and had come out here many times when she was playing hide and seek with the three brothers. It was one place that she remembered feeling the safest as a little girl.

The bench that she finally stopped at faced a large pond with a small fountain in the center of it. The small animals that gathered there had always fascinated her when she was younger.

“I want you all to sit and hear me out. You’re not going to like what I have to say, but it’s the best way to stop Ray in his tracks.” She stood and turned to face the three men who now sat on the bench.

“Okay, Kia, we’re listening,” Teaghen said.

“Since I was a child, Ray has always been the meanest of my brothers. They were all mean, in varying degrees, but Ray was pure evil. There is something broken inside him and he isn’t going to stop until he gets what he wants or we put him in prison,” she said, nervously pacing back and forth in front of the men.

“We know he’s sick, baby, that’s why we don’t want you anywhere near him.” Alex stood and tried to pull her into his arms, but she pushed him back and told him to sit down.

“That’s our
in
, though. He sees me as his weak willed, weak minded little sister still. He’s so caught up in what I was, he can’t see what I’ve become, and that is
his
weakness. He was raised to see women as things, as nothing more than property to do what he pleases with. Because my mom got away from Bubba and I was raised by Jeff and Sammy, I was able to grow into a strong and independent woman. My two dads gave me the skills to protect myself. Not just physically, but emotionally as well. Ray can’t hurt me anymore. Physically, I could kill him with one hit. Emotionally, the only way he can hurt me is to take you away from me.” She had to turn away from them so they wouldn’t see the tears forming, but before she could wipe them away, they all stood around her, enclosing her in their love and protection.

“Kitten, please don’t cry. We aren’t going anywhere. Don’t you know how much we love you?” Alex said softly in her ear.

“I know how much you love me,” she sniffed. “It’s probably just as much as I love you, and that’s our strength, Alex!” Pushing away from them so that she would be able to keep her thoughts straight, Kianna continued to pace.

“Ray thinks I’m your fuck-toy and that’s it. He doesn’t comprehend love, in any form. He’s never had it shown to him, so how the hell would he know what it was? I’ve known love. Love of my mom, my dads, and now the love of three wonderful men. That’s how we’ll trap him. Since he thinks I’m nothing but a good lay for the three of you, let’s let him believe that.”

Two of the three men tried to voice their opinions at once. “No way, Kia,” came from Duncan.

“I don’t fucking think so,” came from Alex, but Teaghen just went and sat back on the bench in silence.

“Will you tell her what a crazy idea this is, Teag?” Duncan practically yelled at the top of his lungs.

“I can’t do that, Duncan, because I think she’s right,” he said calmly.

“Have you lost your fucking mind, brother? This is our mate. We protect what is ours, always,” Duncan yelled at him.

“We can’t protect her if we’re dead now can we. And we can’t protect her if she’s dead. Let her finish telling us her idea, and then we can go from there. Our mate isn’t stupid, you know that. She wouldn’t be our mate if she was.” He smiled at Kianna.

“Thank you, baby,” she said and leaned over and kissed him gently on the lips.

“Have you both gone insane?” Alex asked.

“No, Alex, this may be our only way to stop Ray without anyone getting seriously hurt.” Kianna turned and walked to Alex. Putting her arms around his waist, she rested her head against his chest and said, “I want you to sit down and let me finish.”

Alex gave her a quick kiss and a pained look and sat down again.

Duncan still stood, arms crossed angrily over his chest, staring at her with utter astonishment.

“Duncan, please just listen for a few more minutes,” she begged.

She heard him sigh as he, too, sat down on the bench again.

“Okay, Ray needs to think that you three are finished with me and that you are leaving me unprotected on the ranch.” Before any of them could say anything, she put her hand up to stop them. “He doesn’t know you’re shape-shifters, so as long as we can get you or some of the security team into the ranch house without Ray seeing them, everything will work out. Ray will make his move fairly quickly because he won’t want to take the chance of the three of you changing your minds, but we need to make your break with me in front of Ray and his cronies so they are sure that you’re through with me. The best place for that to happen is at the diner. Ray frequents there often with his business associates I hear, so if we go there and you all publicly break up with me, then he’ll come for me.”

She waited for all three of them to jump up and start telling her that it was a crazy idea and that there was no way they were going to let her put herself in danger, but nothing happened. They just sat there and stared at her as if she’d grown another head.

“Go on, Kia, finish with your idea,” Duncan said, smiling at her.

“I figured the pack has to have some pretty good security to be able to keep your secret for so long, so we’re going to have to use some of them as well. We’ll need to set up video/audio surveillance in the ranch house so that we can have a record of everything. We just have to make everyone aware of the positions of the cameras so none of you are caught shifting on tape. Tony, Duke, and the guys will help me while you take Ray and his cronies down. Just remember that we want them alive so that he can spend the rest of his life in prison.”

* * * *

Teaghen leaned back against the bench and smiled at his mate. The fates had chosen well for them. She was not only beautiful and passionate, but strong and extremely intelligent, too. Her plan was a good one. They would need to work out a few details with the security team, but the best way to get to Ray was to use her as bait. And whether his brothers liked it or not, they would have to agree that her plan had merit.

“So brothers, what do you think of our mate’s idea?” he asked.

Duncan was the first to speak. “I think it’s dangerous and risky, and I don’t like the fact that our mate is put in so much danger.”

“Duncan, I can take care of myself, and with Tony and Duke close by, I’ll be well protected,” she said as she walked to him and sat on his lap, wrapping her arm behind his neck.

“You’ll still be in danger, kitten,” Alex said as he lifted her legs to lie across his lap.

“Yes, I will be in some danger, but I’ll never be safe, and neither will any of you if we don’t put him away.”

Teaghen got up and came around to stand in front of them. Taking her hand, he pulled her up off of his brother’s lap and into his arms.

“We’ll go along with your plan as long as you allow us to be in charge of your protection. We are your mates, and without you, we are soulless. You are our hearts, and to lose you would kill us.” He brought his mouth down hard on hers before she had a chance to respond.

The clearing of someone’s voice broke their kiss, and he turned to see Tony and Duke standing there.

“Oh, this had better be good boys, or I see long patrols in your future.” Alex smiled as he walked past them, patting them on the shoulder.

“Sorry to interrupt, boss, but Jeff and Sammy are in the kitchen and aren’t very happy that we wouldn’t let them see Kianna. They said if we didn’t go and get her, they would tear us apart,” Tony said a bit nervously. “Not that they could, but they’re Kia’s dads, and we wouldn’t want to hurt them.”

Teaghen burst out laughing and, placing an arm around her waist, led Kia back through the garden to the house. Looking back over his shoulder, he said to the two security men behind him, “You wouldn’t stand a chance. They may look like a couple of out-of-shape city boys, but those two men are the best of the best and would tear you both apart if they had a mind to do it. Don’t ever take it for granted that because someone doesn’t look like they could hurt you that they couldn’t. Trust me, I would bet everything I own on Jeff and Sammy in a fight. Especially when it comes to protecting their daughter.”

Tony and Duke looked stunned by their alpha’s words. “They’ve been away from the pack for a long time, Teag. How do you know they’re still in such great shape?” Duke asked.

“Just because they didn’t live here didn’t mean that they weren’t part of the pack. Jeff and Sammy watched over our mate and raised her to be the strong and independent woman she is today. Do you honestly think that weak wolves could raise such a beauty?”

Both Tony and Duke still looked rather confused by the whole idea of that the two older men sitting in the kitchen demanding to see their daughter could actually do any serious harm to them.

Once they were all back in the kitchen Jeff and Sammy seemed to settle down some until Teaghen explained Kianna’s plan on how to stop Ray and his buddies.

“Have you three lost your ever-loving minds?” Jeff snapped at Teaghen.

Both Tony and Duke were on their feet ready to defend their alpha.

“I suggest you sit down, young pup, or I might have to show just how easy it would be for me to break you,” Jeff snarled at them.

Teaghen knew that Jeff had every right to be upset with them. They had let Kianna come home because they thought she would be safe with them, and now they were telling them that they wanted to use her as bait to trap her brother and his mobster business partners. Shit, he was surprised one of them hadn’t already kicked their asses.

“You really don’t want to make my dads mad, Tony. They tend to break things when they are.” Kianna gave him a big smile.