Untamed Force (Force of Nature Series) (19 page)

His cock leaped to attention and he was
tempted to go back to the couch and show her just what she had done to him, but
he did have a meeting. A meeting that he wasn’t looking forward to.

“You do know that this council meeting
is in ten minutes, don’t you? I have to go and persuade some of these people to
let us kill off a rogue that has been terrorizing the area for many years.” She
sat up and let the blanket spill to her lap. “Will you behave? You’ve already
distracted me twice today.”

Four times if he counted before they got
out of the bed. Christ, but this woman was delicious. He wanted her again, but
only stood still while she dressed. He laughed when she held up a pair of
ruined panties.

“I will need to go and buy more of
these. Do you have any idea how much these suckers cost?”

He grinned more.

“It’s not funny, Phil. These things are
twenty bucks a pair and you’ve ruined three pair of them today.”

“I’ll be more than glad to purchase you
several hundred pair daily if you let me rip them from your body again.” He
watched her bend over to pick up her jeans and moaned. “Or better yet, simply
don’t wear them. I wouldn’t mind that.”

“No. Now tell me about this meeting. Why
can’t you just kill him and simply say you’re sorry? You know, ‘it’s better to
ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.’ Or so I’ve heard.” He was pretty
sure she used that one a great deal, but shook his head at her. “Why not? People
do it all the time. I might have used it on occasion myself.”

He didn’t comment on her usage, but
picked up the file he’d been looking for. He loved this house. He hadn’t, not
for a long time, but since Holly had moved in he’d been happier about a great
many things. The fireplace, desk, and the books lined up were the treasures of
this room, and then there were the pictures of the two of them together.

They’d taken a long honeymoon. And the
pictures there on the shelf were the only ones that they could publicly show. Holly
growled low when she turned to him. Damn it, she was fully dressed.

“Behave or you’ll not be going anywhere.”
He started to remove his tie. “No. Damn it. I have to go to work too. Go now
before we’re both in trouble.”

Sighing, he moved back to the door. “I
should be home soon. The council is meeting in the castle and then there’s this
do afterwards.” Phil nodded toward the outside. “I can see some of the pack out
there. Would you mind asking them to stop marking my yard? I can smell it all
through the house.”

She was still laughing when he shut the
door behind him. He really couldn’t smell it in the house; werewolf urine was
very lightly scented. But he loved to see her laugh. He had no doubt that when
he did get home she’d have had them pee on everything, including the front
door. Smiling, he walked outside. Life was good.

The meeting wasn’t going as well as he’d
hoped. Austin was yelling at them to simply get off their asses and do
something. There were others, ones that were only secondary to Austin and
himself, that had a great deal to say, but very little of it had anything to do
with what the fuck was going on. Finally he stood up and several of those members
took a step back. Smiling, and yes, he supposed showing a bit more fang than
necessary, he walked to around the table.

“You want to preserve weres. Okay, I can
understand that.” Phil turned to the wall beside them and raised a hand toward
it. “Well, good people, here is what the latest victim saw when this one moved
into her home and tried to murder her and her small children. Thanks to one of
my more…let’s just call it advanced abilities, I can show you just what she saw
through her viewpoint. Have a look at what she saw.”

The blank wall exploded in violence. First,
the door from Georgia’s point of view exploded inward and five large black
wolves bounded into the room. A small child, no more than a few months old, was
lying on the couch sleeping and Georgia looked as if she was going to move
toward him only to be stopped. When she looked down, two of the wolves were
tearing into her leg. Rich Sterling walked into the room and strolled over to
the couch.

“What do we have here? A babe, is it?” He
picked up the child and held it gently in his arms. “I hate children.”

The child sailed across the room and hit
the wall. His screams were abruptly cut off when one of the other wolves grabbed
him up in their jaws and bit through his tender belly. Georgia screamed and
screamed until Rich walked to her and slapped her. For several seconds, there was
nothing, then her eyes blinked open.

It was carnage. A little girl was being
stripped down and fondled. Another child, no more than six, was being treated
the same way. Then suddenly a large dark gray wolf entered the broken door and
tore into the wolves nearest the children. One was killed immediately, the
second one tossed across the room as if he wasn’t nearly four hundred pounds of
muscle and bone.

“Enough.”

Phil didn’t stop the rolling memory, but
put out his other hand and the man who stood was gagged. Phil would make them
watch if it was the last thing he did. The man struggled, but nothing more.

As the she-wolf that entered last moved
around the room Georgia was moving toward her youngest child. She watched the
female, but it was obvious that the child was more important. Then when she
cradled him in her arms, she looked up at the alpha and the female.

“You know who I am? It’s within my
rights to murder this family for what their sire did to my pants.” He lifted
his pant leg up and there was a small amount of mud on the cuff. “Just who is
going to clean this up?”

The she-wolf snarled and lunged. She didn’t
get a bite out of the wolf, but Georgia began to move toward her other
children. She was nearly to them when she looked back at the two fighting.

The she-wolf attacked the wolf to the
alpha’s left and ripped his throat out. Blood sprayed over the man standing
next to him and his white shirt was stained with it. She shook her head and
more blood and gore made their way to his face, body, and clothing. The alpha
started to move toward the she-wolf and she snarled at him, her hackles high
and her claws tearing into the dirt floor.

“You’ll pay for this. All of you will
pay for this with your lives.” He looked at the she-wolf before he moved toward
the door. “I’m your alpha and I deserve to be treated as a king no matter what
those fucktards on the council have to say about it. I rule here. I’m master to
you all and you’ll bow before me or die.”

As he moved out the door Georgia looked
around the room. Blood and carnage were everywhere. Her children, the girls, were
wrapping in blankets. The she-wolf, who was actually Stacy, shifted and Phil
stopped the memory.

“The babe was near death when he was
brought to the home of the enforcer of the Force pack. His lungs were damaged
as well as massive brain damage. Had I not been there he would have died within
the hour. The daughters, the two that the alpha had already said were going to
be mates to the two wolves that were there, were—”

“They were children. Not old enough to
be mated to a male of their size.”

Phil looked at the man and waited. It
seemed to occur to him slowly.

“He ordered it? He actually ordered
those men to take those children as mates?”

“Yes. And these two aren’t the only
ones. There are nearly fifty children like these that had been given…sold to
the highest bidder to have as their mates.” Phil snarled and his fangs dropped
lower in his anger. “Would you like to see what they looked like when those
same men finished with them?”

No one moved other than to shake their
heads. Several of them put their hands over their eyes. Phil moved to the table
again and sat down. He looked over at Austin who was wiping at his face. Phil
knew the man was thinking of his own child as well as the little ones now
staying at his and CJ’s home.

“You’ve given us…you’ve given us plenty
to think about, Sir Campbell,” Councilman Briggs said in a shaky voice. He
stood then sat down again. “We are giving you full rights to have him taken—”

“You can’t make that decision on your
own.”

Phil looked at the man standing next to
Briggs.

“You have to put it before a vote. Then
there need be a committee and rules governing them. If you send them out then
they’ll murder him in his sleep. Rich is my friend and—”

The room exploded in magic. The walls
seemed to expand and then settle again, but the woman in the room took all
their attention away. She was magnificent in all her glory and everyone bowed
before her. All except Phil.

“Mother, you do know how to make an
entrance.” She kissed his cheek then patted his head. “What brings you to this
meeting that you couldn’t make it to when I asked?”

“He did.” She turned to the man who had
tried to defend Sterling. “We sort of figured someone was feeding him
information as well as giving him the top skim of the monies owed to this
realm.”

“Stealing too, Dwayne?” Phil tisked and
reached for Austin’s shoulder to signal him to stand. “Shame on you. What
should we do with him, Sir Force? I’m thinking I’m very hungry.”

The man stood up and backed away. He was
pale and his eyes darted around the room quickly. Every being in the room could
smell his fear. He was stopped by Phil’s dad before he could get to the door.

“Why don’t you have a seat, asshole? I
think you might not be leaving anytime soon.” His dad sat Dwayne in the chair
and held him there. “You’ve interrupted a very lovely afternoon with my lady
wife because of your stupidly. Now, tell these nice people what you’ve been up
to and we’ll kill you and be about our business.”

~~~

Dallas watched the woman walking toward
him. He wanted her right now, but there were simply too many people around for
him to take her. Stacy seemed to sense what he was thinking and stopped moving
a good hundred feet from him. He reached for her through their link.

“You should see what I’m seeing. Your
breasts are moving in a way that makes my cock ache with need. The thought of
taking your nipples into my mouth has me salivating. I want to strip you naked
and lick every part of you, take your juices into my body and feast on you.”

“
Dallas, you know that there are many
people about. What will they think of you if you cannot keep your hands from my
body?”
She grinned at him and ran her hands over her full breasts.
“They
will think you a beast.”

His own beast stirred under his skin and
three people turned to look at him. Dallas was beyond caring. He didn’t move
toward her, not because he didn’t want to, but because he wasn’t sure he could
move. There was no blood in any part of his body but his groin.

“Come here, bitch, and let me show you
what you’ve unleashed.”
She shook her head at him and his wolf snarled.
“Come
here, Stacy. If I must chase you then you’ll be very sorry.”
He found he wanted
her to turn and run. Dallas wanted her to strip, shift, and have him chase her.
Christ, his wolf was nearly taking him and, when he growled low, several people
moved away. He wasn’t going to be able to control him much longer.

She turned around and looked at him over
her shoulder. Her smile said a great deal.
Come to me. Fuck me. Own me.
He was willing to do all three. When he stood up she moved away from him. When
she was at the clearing, still a good fifty feet from him, he watched her strip
down. Her naked ass was the last thing he saw before she shifted and took off. Dallas
could do no more than follow.

The second his wolf saw her he moved
with speed to get her. Her scent of arousal was strong, but his wolf didn’t
need it. He could see that she was ready the moment they came upon the small
pond. She was bent over the log in front of her and her ass ripe for him.

His wolf came up behind her and licked
her. Her juices were thick and he knew the moment he entered her they were both
going to come. Dallas covered her and entered her deep. His claws dug in the
ground as he fucked her hard. Leaning over her shoulder, he bit and bit hard. Her
cry of pain made his wolf happy and he threw back his head and howled.

He rolled off her and laid down. It took
him several minutes before he could move any more than that and he closed his
eyes. Stacy moved near him and curled her body over his. Still panting, he
licked her jaw. It wasn’t long before they were both sound asleep.

When Dallas woke, Stacy was still near him,
but they both had shifted back to human. He pulled her body over his and held
her to him. He concentrated on the forest surrounding them and tried to think
of what they had to do. Tonight, as a matter of fact.

“Will do you no good to dwell on what
cannot be changed. We will get through this and then he will be gone from our
lives.” She lifted her head up and watched him from her perch on his chest, her
chin resting on her hand. “He will die and things will be normal again. As
normal as we can make it.”

“But to have you do this…you’ve no idea
what this does to me. To know that he could harm you.” He could actually kill
her, but he refused to think about that. “I don’t want you to do this, but I
know that it is our only way.”