Desert Heat (Complete)

{Brandon’s P.O.V.}

“Mmm…Come to daddy, Leah,”

“Brandon, why are you so horny?” she giggled and tried to push me away. “We’re supposed to be mourning the death of our friend,”

“Well, she’s technically not dead, she’s four doors down the hall and probably doing the same thing we’re about to do,” I tell her and k**s her neck while groping her breasts.

“Bran…oh…mmm…”

“That’s right sweetcheeks, give in to your desires, let me pleasure this beautiful body of yours,” I laid her down and kissed her all over. I sat up and took off my shirt. My d**k was up and raring to go. I took off her tank top and ripped off her panties.

“Dammit, stop doing that! I’m going to run out of underwear!”

“We can always go shopping. Now hush and let me eat this sweet p***y,” I got off the bed and pulled her to the edge. I pushed her legs back and started to devour her s*x like a hungry animal. As I was pleasuring Leah, I was interrupted with a mind link by Leroy.

Beta, I’m sorry for the late-night disturbance, but I can’t seem to reach the Gamma.

Sin is in heat, so he has a block up for another two days.

Then I need your assistance.

It can’t wait until morning!?

I’m afraid not sir, I do apologize.

What is it?!

We have guests.

This late at night!?

“Brandon! What the hell are you doing!?” Leah shouted. “Since when do you suck at eating p***y!?”

“f**k, I’m sorry, sweetcheeks, I’m being mind linked,”

“UGH!”

Beta, it is very important. They claim to have caught the fugitive.

Let them in! I’ll get Dorian and Lucas.

“Leah, I’m sorry, but someone is claiming to have caught Maya,”

“What are you still doing here?! Go!” I gave Leah a quick k**s and put my clothes on. I sent a quick mind link to both Dorian and Lucas,

Saddle up! I think Maya’s been caught!

As soon as I opened my bedroom door, Lucas came running out of his and we almost ran into each other,

“Oh s**t, watch where you’re going, man!” I shout at him. We both run towards the stairs, and we could hear Dorian’s door open and his feet running down as well.

“Too bad Aries has to pretend he’s out of it, and Mikey is too busy f*****g Sin,” Dorian said as we all skipped down the stairs. We ran out the front door, and as we did, a van pulled up. As it came to a stop, the passenger door opened, and a tall redhead came out.

“Which one of you is the Alpha?” she asked.

“That would be me,” Dorian said stepping forward.

“Very nice to meet you Alpha,” she bowed her head. “My name is Persephone, I believe we share a few mutual acquaintances,” as she said this, the back door opened, and man as tall as Dorian came out. “This is my husband, Sinbad,”

“You’re the two that Aries talked about,” I said. They both nodded.

“Alpha, is this fugitive?” Sinbad asked and removed a blanket. We looked and sure enough, it was Maya, but she looked dead.

“Is she dead?” Lucas asked.

“No, we had to knock her out a few times on the way here,” Persephone said. “The b***h wouldn’t shut up,”

“Alpha, we may have a problem,” Sinbad said.

“What kind of problem?” Dorian asked.

“She appears to know Razor’s real identity, and even tried to bribe us with the information. That was another reason why we had to keep knocking her out,” he replied.

“We also believe that if she knows this information, the baby Alpha of White Lake in Reno knows it as well,” Persephone added.

“s**t!” I shouted. “Dorian, we’re going to have to put a cork in this and fast, if that information gets out, then it can become a real threat,”

“Let’s deal with Maya first. Brandon, you, and Lucas take Maya down to the cellar. Place her isolation and chain her with silver,”

“Yes, Alpha,” Lucas threw Maya over his shoulders like a dead pig, and we took her down to the cellars. Isolation was a specific section of the cellar that had one window on the door and was fully soundproofed. There was a single vent in the floor that allowed for oxygen from the outside, but the tunnel was twenty feet under, and then a hundred feet out. Even if she wanted to scream the distance alone would drown it out before anyone could hear.

Once we chained her up, we made sure she only had enough slack for her to reach the toilet.

“Damn, those guys did a number on her face,” Lucas said.

“Who gives a f**k, the b***h tried to kill all of us, and almost succeeded in killing Gizmo and half-pint,” Lucas dropped her head like an old sack, and we locked her up. The cell was guarded by a ten-digit code, and retina scanner like the holding cells at Dorian’s company. We went back to the main house, and we were met with a pissed off Sam and Allie.

“Gizmo, Sam?”

“Babe, what are you doing up?”

“Is it true!? Maya has been caught!?” Allie asks.

“It’s true,” Lucas and I reply.

“Let me at her!!” Sam tried to push past us.

“Babe, she’s out cold, and she’s in the isolation cell. Plus, you’re technically pregnant,”

“I can still kick her a*s!”

“Not while carrying Lacie’s pup,” he whispers. “Go back to bed,”

“Wait, why is she in isolation?” Allie asks.

“Because, apparently she knows that Mikey is Razor,” I reply.

“How!?” they both ask.

“We’re not sure, but the people who caught her thinking the White Lake Alpha may know as well,”

“Oh my god, that’s not good,” Allie responds.

“Who caught her?” Sam asks.

“The hitters that Aries recommended, Sinbad and Persephone,” I reply.

“Are they still here?” Allie asks.

“Dorian is out front talking to them now,” Allie takes off running.

{Allie’s P.O.V.}

As soon as Brandon told me that the hitters who caught Maya were still here, I needed to speak with them. I ran out front as fast I could, and sure enough, they were speaking with Dorian,

“Baby, why are you up?” Dorian asks as I run up next to him nothing but a tank and shorts.

“You must be the Luna,” a man as tall as Dorian says.

“I am, my name is Allie, welcome,” I say with a smile and shake his hand.

“My name is Sinbad, and this is my wife Persephone,” I took one look at her, and my mouth dropped. She was drop-dead gorgeous. To think this chick was an assassin blew my mind.

“Wow, if I wasn’t married with two kids and straight, I’d so do you,” I tell her.

“Well, I will definitely take that as a compliment,” she said with a big smile. “You’re pretty sexy for a tiny wolf,” I gave a smug and prideful smile.

“I wanted to personally thank both of you and your team…” I say looking at the dozen or so individuals standing around the van. “…for catching Maya and bringing her back to us,”

“Please, for fifteen million dollars, and a debt to repay Aries, it was our pleasure,” Sinbad said.

“I need to know though, our Beta and our head trainer said that Maya knows the true identity of Razor, is that true?”

“Yes it is, she was attempting to bribe us with the information to let her go; however, all us before you have too much respect for him and would never do anything to get on his bad side,” Persephone replied.

“How would she know though?” I ask no one in particular.

“It’s possible that Brian had a dash cam on his car, or even caught a glimpse of him with the button camera he placed on the duffle bag,” Dorian says. “He could have shown Maya,”

“Dammit, that’s not good,” I mumble and bite the tip of my thumb.

“Do you two know the White Lake Alpha?” Sinbad asks.

“I do, unfortunately,” I grumble. “I’m still trying to decide if I need to go kick his a*s or not,”

“Well, I can tell you from dealing with him firsthand, he’s a very weak Alpha. The entire time we there attempting to capture Maya, we dealt with his father rather than him,” Sinbad explains. I look at him and furrow my brows. “I get the feeling that he had a s****l relationship with her, and had developed feelings,”

“What?” Dorian and I ask.

“I believe that my husband is correct,” Persephone added. “When the Alpha’s father allowed us to take her into custody, Brian, as you call him, became visibly upset, and Maya even called out for him to save her,”

“She had to have used s*x as a bargaining chip, that’s the only way she could have manipulated him into putting out the bounty,” I say out loud.

“We’re curious though, how does Razor play into all of this?” Sinbad asked.

“They hired him to take out a pack member,” Dorian replies.

“Oh, I think we saw that one, Lacie I think her name was,” Persephone replied, and we nodded.

“I wonder why she was so adamant about giving up his identity though,” she says.

“Razor is an associate of mine, and he came to me letting me know that they had contacted him,”

“Oh, he worked his magic and played the White Lake Alpha then,” Sinbad replied, and we just nodded again. “Typical. For someone is retired, that fucker gets to have all the fun,”

“This bounty wasn’t too bad, but I really would liked to have killed her,” Persephone replied.

“Wow, I like you, you’re cool!” I exclaim like a little kid.

“Aww, thanks Luna,” she said tapping my shoulder.

“Sinbad, Persephone, thank you for your hard work, if you send me your banking information, I can wire you the payment,”

“All the information in on this card,” Sinbad said handing Dorian a card.

“Give our regards to Aries and Razor when you see them,” Persephone said and waved goodbye. “Let’s go boys!” she shouted, and their team got into the van and they left. Dorian and I headed back inside where Brandon, Lucas, and Sam were waiting.

“They leave?” Brandon asked and we nodded.

“Is that b***h awake yet?” I asked.

“Allie!” Dorian scolded.

“What?! She almost killed us, Dorian!”

“I get that, but you’re too eager to kill her in return,”

“I don’t want to kill her, I want to beat the s**t out of her and get information on that other skank Heather, and figure out how the hell she met Brian and f****d up his life,”

“I think it would be best if we talked to him first,” I looked at him like he was crazy. “Allie, Maya is a pathological liar, and we can’t trust anything she says,”

“Fine,”

“Look, tomorrow is Sunday, and there’s no training. So, let’s all go back to bed, get some sleep, and then we can deal with Maya in the morning,” Dorian said. We all nodded and went back to our respective rooms.

“f**k, I hope Leah didn’t fall asleep,” Brandon mumbled.

“Aww, were you guys interrupted?” I asked in a teasing tone.

“Yes, and it sucks,” we all laughed at him. When we got to the second floor, those three went their way, and Dorian and I went back to our room.

The next morning after breakfast, I went to take breakfast to Aries and Lacie and to check on them. I knocked on their door letting Aries know it was me,

“Allie?”

“Hey, can I come in?” I asked with a sympathetic tone just in case anyone was watching or listening. He nodded and opened the door for me. As soon as he closed it. I saw Lacie lying in bed with a big smile on her face. “How are you holding up in here?”

“Not bad, Aries f***s the life out of me, but other than that, I’m good,” I rolled my eyes and shook my head.

“I brought you guys breakfast,” I say setting the tray on the nightstand.

“Hey, what was all the commotion last night?” Aries asked sitting next to Lacie.

“Huh? Oh, your hitter friends came through,”

“They found Maya!?”

“They didn’t just find her, they brought her back, she’s down in the isolation cell right now,”

“Oh my gosh! Finally, some good news!” Lacie exclaimed.

“The good news stops there,” I tell them. They both furrow their brows at me. “Maya knows that Mikey is Razor and tried to bribe Sinbad and Persephone with the information. And before you freak out, they didn’t take it because they’re too afraid of Mikey, but…”

“But if she knows, then your college buddy might know too,” Aries finishes my sentence.

“Exactly,”

“What are we going to do?” Lacie asks.

“Mikey just came up for air, so Dorian is speaking with him now. I’m going to see if I can get Brian and his dad on a video call in the conference room to try and save him because I think Maya used s*x to manipulate him,”

“s*x!?” they both ask in shock.

“According to Sinbad and Persephone, it was evident that Brian and Maya have been sleeping together, and that he actually may have cared about her. I need to see if that clouded his judgment in any kind of way,” they nodded and didn’t say anything. “Anyway, eat your breakfast, and just put the tray out in the hallway. I’ll send an Omega to get it in a little bit,” I left their room and made sure to put my sad face again. As I was leaving, I passed by Mikey would look absolutely outraged.

“Mikey?”

“Not now, Gizmo,”

“Okay,” I didn’t want to push him. I’m sure hearing that his identity was compromised pissed him off. I saw Dorian coming down the stairs.

“Hey baby, how did it go with Aries?” I just nodded my head letting him know that I informed Aries and Lacie of Maya’s capture. “Let’s get White Lake on the phone before Mikey decides to go kill the entire pack,”

“Yeah,” we go down the conference room, and I send Brian a text telling him to call the number, and that it’s important. We wait for about ten minutes, and the call comes through. Dorian answers it, and I see Brian, an older gentlemen that looks like him, and another older gentlemen and a woman, all of them seem to be Korean.

“Good morning,” I say to them

“Good morning,” they all reply, except for Brian. He just looks so defeated.

“I’m sure you all are wondering why I asked to speak with you today, but first, please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Allison Shaw, I am the Luna of the Desert Moon pack, and this is my husband, and Alpha, Dorian,”

“Good morning Alpha and Luna Shaw, my name is JungTae Cho, this is my wife, SunHee, and you know our son, Brian. This is our Beta, MinHyuk,”

“As much as I would like to speak in Korean with you all, given that my husband is joining, let’s keep this in English,” I tell them, and they nod. “Wonderful, now, first thing is first, Brian, I need you to tell me how you met Maya,” he closes his eyes and just stares at the table. “Brian! I asked you a question!” I shout.

“I met her in New York during spring break,”

“How?” I ask.

“She was a stripper at a club that my friends and I went to. I knew that she was a wolf, and I found her really attractive. We got to talking, and she automatically knew I was an Alpha,”

“So what? You just decided to bring her home with you?”

“Not at first. I was wary of her, but she seemed really nice, and she told me about how her mate rejected her, and then was given a second chance mate. She told me you decided she should be banished for getting into a fight with the new girl, and that she ran away to avoid banishment,”

“Is that all she told you?”

“In the beginning, yeah, but she eventually told me the other girl’s name, and asked if I could help her get revenge. I knew how Maya felt having someone betray you like that. My first mate when I turned 18 rejected me as well, and was immediately given a second chance mate, a Beta of another pack. So, I empathized with her,”

“So, your empathy is the reason why you put out a bounty on Lacie!?” they all looked at me. “Yes, I know it was you! The bounty hunter Razor caught you in his dashcam!”

“Razor? Shouldn’t you be calling him by his real name?”

“So, Maya did tell you?”

“She did. Imagine my surprise to find out that…”

“Don’t say it! Do not reveal his identity!” I growled in my Luna tone. “You are on thin ice right now, Brian. If you disclose that information, he won’t hesitate to go over there and kill you,”

“Tell me the truth Allie, is Lacie even dead?”

“No,”

“You all played me!”

“We didn’t do anything! You got yourself into this mess because you decided to help Maya!”

“I was helping someone in need! Someone I empathized with!”

“You were helping a lying, conniving, self-centered b***h!”

“What are you talking about?”

“Maya lied to you about everything! Nothing she said to you was true, well, except the fighting with Lacie part, that was true, but everything else was a lie!” Brian’s eyes popped out of his head and so did everyone else’s. “Brian, Maya is unmated and always has been. Aries was not her mate, he never was. Aries was a rogue bounty hunter who worked for Dorian for years and then joined our pack a little over a year and a half ago. Lacie is his one and only mate. She joined our pack after they found each other on Black Friday of last year. Which was two weeks AFTER Aries broke things off with Maya! Their relationship was purely s****l, nothing more. Maya attacked Lacie in the townhome she shared with Aries and put her in the hospital. Not only that, but we also have reason to believe that Maya set their house on fire!”

“Oh my god,” Brian’s mom gasped and covered her mouth in shock.

“In addition to that, Maya and Lacie’s sister attempted to poison Dorian, our Beta, our Gamma, our Delta, our high ranking officer, Aries, and the three Yellow Moon Alphas with Dimethylmercury on New Year’s Eve! But because our female Beta has the ability to see future events of imminent danger, she was able to stop it from happening; however, Lacie and I were inadvertently exposed to the poison and we both spent six weeks in a coma! The poison has no cure! Lacie and I were lucky to have survived!” All of their faces turned pale hearing that I almost died.

“Is that why you weren’t in school this past semester?”

“Yes, that’s exactly why. That’s also why we have a bounty out for Maya. She is an accessory to the attempted murder of nine ranked wolves between two packs. Her initial crime of attacking Lacie and the arson would have earned her banishment, but now, Maya will be executed,”

“You said nine ranked wolves, based on what you said, I only count eight,” the Beta said.

“Lacie is the daughter of an Alpha,” they all gasped. “My guess is that Maya told you Lacie was a low-level Omega,” Brian nodded. His face was still in shock.

“Luna Shaw, we are so sorry for inconvenience our son and his inability to see through Maya’s lies have cost you and your pack,” his father says.

“Brian, I called because I wanted you to know the truth. I know you’re not bad a kid, but the fact the matter is, Maya played you and manipulated you. I’m sorry that this happened to you Brian, I really am. I wish you would have called me first, then none of this would have happened,”

“AHHH!!! HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO STUPID!? THAT CONNIVING b***h!”

“Brian, getting mad about it now isn’t going to do anything,” I tell him.

“Luna Shaw, we want to thank you for clearing this matter up for us, but unfortunately, in light of the situation, Brian will be stripped of this title,” his father says.

“Please don’t do that,” I respond. They all look at me. “JungTaessi, Brian is a good kid, and I have no doubt he will make a fine Alpha with time and experience. He is young and naïve, and it’s not his fault that he was manipulated. Maya is just that good. She even lied to her own parents and best friend the same way she did to him,”

“Ohmonah! Wahnjun akma yah!” (Oh, my goodness, she is the devil!)

“What did she say?” Dorian asked.

“She called Maya the devil,” he made an O shape with his mouth. “Brian, I’m on your side, and I want you to keep your title, but I need you to keep the information about the bounty hunter to yourself. You cannot tell anyone what you know. You will literally put innocent lives in danger,”

“There’s a problem then,” he replied. “There was another person with us when Maya said who he is,”

“Who?!”

“Our butler, well, ex-butler. My father had him banished for helping me and Maya concoct the bounty,”

“s**t!!”

“Luna, do not worry, we will track him down. Hopefully, he has not told anyone,” the Beta says. “If you will excuse me,” he leaves the call.

“Allie, why are you trying to help me?” Brian asked.

“Because I know you thought you were doing the right thing, that’s because you’re a good person with a kind heart. And unfortunately, someone used that against you. Learn from this experience. Understand that, if someone is running because they are afraid of banishment, it typically means that they did something wrong. Don’t believe every sad story that you hear,”

“Thank you, and I’m sorry,”

“You’re going to get through this Brian, this is just one big learning experience, so learn from it,”

“I will, and please tell Aries and Lacie that I’m truly sorry for what I did,”

“I will,”

“Mr. Cho,” Dorian stands to his feet. “If you send me your accounting information, I will wire you back the ten million dollars. We never intended on keeping it,”

“Thank you, Alpha Shaw, that would be much appreciated. I will have Brian text the information to the Luna,”

“Also, Allie,”

“Yeah?”

“Give Maya my regards,” he smirked, and I smirked back. We end the call and as soon the screen goes black, Dorian and I both slump into the chair.

“Well, hopefully, we can keep Mikey’s secret identity a secret,” I say to Dorian.

“That Beta better find the ex-butler,” Dorian replies and I just nod. “Now that’s over with, how about we have a chat with Maya,”

“I think we should have Dani shimmer Lacie and Aries down there too, I would love to see Maya’s face when she’s Lacie alive and well,”

“She probably already knows Lacie is alive,”

“True, but I still want to see her face,” I tell him. Dorian just shakes his head at me.

Now that we have Maya in custody, we just had to pray that Lacie’s fake memorial service would bring Heather to us. Lacie got her rival, now it was time that I got mine.