Page 20 of Big Bad Wolf: B.B.W

One of the girls raised her hand. I wasn’t sure whether she was the one that Pops said thought she would be his mate. When they arrived here on their bullshit, they were in their wolf forms.

“Please, we will leave.”

Dyami just stared at me. Before I said anything, two cars pulled up.

Without looking at Dyami, I spoke. “Not sure who these folks are, but make sure you tell them to stand down.” I lifted my gun to show him what I was working with. “This switch right here is not what they want. This is my no-shift-needed baby.”

I moved toward the cars. An older man stepped out of the passenger seat of the first car that was driven by a woman. The man resembled Dyami, so I assumed it was his father. I wonder if he is as much of a bitch as his son.

From the corner of my eye, I saw Pops, Ma Mary, and Elodie come down the steps. In the second SUV, two men and a woman got out. I changed my course to move toward my family. I stood next to Pops as the older woman and man approached with the other three men on their heels.

“Chogan, what’s the meaning of all of this?” the older man asked. “I have never known you to have issues with our pack.”

His tone was harder than I preferred.

“Chief Ahiga, I hold the same sentiments, which is why I am surprised that your son came here today with the goal to disrespect my daughter’s mate. Let me ask you this. What would you do to protect your mate?”

Pops’s eyes looked toward the woman that stood next to the chief.

Like it was the first time that the chief realized I was there, he glared at me. He sized me up for a beat before he spoke.

“Are you the horse beast?”

“Respectfully, it doesn’t matter what I am. What matters is that Elodie is my mate, and your son thought it was alright to come here and disrespect our union. I tried to warn him about his disrespect yesterday, but he seems to be a little stupid.”

When the woman whom I assumed was the Chief’s mate asked if my gun was necessary, I tittered.

“I don’t know y’all, and based on the actions of your son, I don’t trust y’all.”

All of our eyes shifted to the right of us where the two naked females held up a naked Dyami as they walked toward us.

The chief’s wife told the woman to get the robes out of the car.

The girl rushed off. We all stood there in silence and waited.

It didn’t take long for the girl to get back, hand the robes to the three naked idiots, and for them to cover themselves.

Someone must have asked where the other person that came with them was because everyone’s head snapped in the direction where he lay lifeless.

“You killed Chunta!” one of the men roared in my direction. I wasn’t sure why it was assumed that I killed his ass.

Pops put his hand up. “My son did no such thing. I killed him because he attacked my mate.” There was a short pause. “I will not apologize for protecting my mate.”

Chief Ahiga turned toward his son. “What is the meaning of this, Dyami? I am trying to understand what could be so detrimental that you come here to disturb the harmony on this land.”

He cowered under the words of his father. That was interesting to me.

“Father, I . . . I came over here to speak to Elodie. Yes, I knew she had a mate, but he is not worthy. He is a horse beast!”

When Elodie stepped toward Dyami, so did I.

I wrapped my arm around her from behind and pulled her to my chest. She didn’t need to be near him to talk to him.

It was times like this that I did wish I had the ability to mind speak with her.

Her eyes lifted to meet mine. They said the words that my mouth wanted to.

She nodded before she looked back at Dyami.

“See, there is this funny concept called minding your damn business, Dyami. When you saw me in the hospital and I introduced you to my mate, your head at that point should have said, ‘Do my job and go the hell home.’ The only reason that you came to know about my mate’s beast was because he had to protect me.

He is not a danger to anyone who is not a danger to him.

” She paused for a second before she chuckled softly.

“While you’re worried about me, your mate looks like she wants to throw herself off a cliff from you embarrassing her. ”

“She is not my mate,” Dyami said sternly. From the look on just about everyone in their party’s faces, it looked like that was a surprise to them. Daphne got no respect.

Daphne moved her body that held him up from under his arm.

“Dyami, how can you say that when I have your son? Our son is six months old.”

“Daphne, having a child with someone does not make you their mate. I told you that when we started messing around, when you told me you were pregnant, and when you had the baby. I have no interest in mating with you,” he said with no concern for her feelings.

“The baby?” his mother asked. “Is that how you speak of your son? You’ve come over here with disrespect and involved the pack. Now Chunta is dead because of your mindlessness.” Tears cascaded down her cheeks. “Elodie is mated. It’s over!”

Chief Ahiga’s head fell before he looked at his son with a look of either shame or sympathy. I wasn’t sure which one, but Pops probably knew.

“Chogan, my deepest apologies for my son’s disrespect.” His sight focused on me. “I have heard of your kind in a pack in Washington. Do you belong with that pack?”

“They are my cousins. No, I belong to a pack on the Southeast Coast,” I responded. “My mate and I are here to check on our parents.”

He gave a faint smile. “Very well. From what I have been told, your kind is of no threat to our kind, and we will not be a threat to yours. Elodie, my son will not bother you again.”

The chief began to give out instructions regarding Chunta’s body. I felt sort of bad that someone lost their life over bullshit. I hoped they reevaluated Dyami’s placement as the pack leader. He put his pack in danger for his own selfish purpose, and that wasn’t how it was supposed to go.

Ma Mary escorted Pops back to his seat on the porch and sat next to him.

I sat on the step, although there was another lounging sofa on the porch.

I felt Elodie move behind me on the steps before she pulled my shoulder back so that I could lean against her.

She put her hands in my locs and massaged my scalp. She knew that I loved that shit.

“What did Thaddeus and Farad say?” she asked quietly as we all watched the two men that came with the chief gather the body of their pack member.

If she continued to massage my scalp, I would fall asleep right on this damn step.

It was the most relaxing thing ever. I leaned my head back to see her beautiful face.

“They want to meet them like I knew they would, so they will travel back with us. I don’t think it will be a problem. We even figured out a living arrangement.” I shifted my body to look at her chin. “That bitch bruised your chin.”

She touched her chin. “I know.” Her eyes rolled. “I’m so excited. I never wanted to be around my parents ever in my life as much as I do now.”

“I know, baby. How about we all rest today and talk about this tomorrow?”

After she nodded with approval, I requested a kiss. She never denied me.

“Elodie, let’s get the food warmed up. I know we are all famished. Your father and I haven’t shifted in years, so we need rest,” Ma Mary said after she tapped her shoulder.

My baby glanced up at her mother. “Yes, Mommy. I’m coming right now.”

After she leaned down to kiss my lips, I said, “I can’t wait to hear our children call you mommy.” Her blushing cheeks brought a smile to my face. “I’ll stay out here with Pops until he’s ready to come inside.”

The women went inside. I got up to sit next to Pops.

“Well, that was eventful.”

His neck snapped in my direction before he laughed.

“Son, I haven’t shifted in almost four years. I’m too old for this fighting shit.” We both laughed. “Yeah, I think it’s best we make our plans to move to North Carolina. Chief Ahiga was forgiving, but Dyami not so much.”

“You think he’s going to come back with some bullshit? I would really hate to kill him.”

It would be a travesty if that had to happen. I gave him grace today by not turning him into compost.

Pops sat quietly. “I’m not sure if seeing Elodie triggered something in him.

He suddenly has the compulsion to show her that he’s worth mating.

When they were together, I couldn’t see past his potential to see who he really was.

Ego is a dangerous thing as you can see.

There’s a lot of anger in him. What was your chief’s decision about us potentially joining the pack? ”

“He wants to meet you, but based on our conversation, I don’t think it will be an issue. If it was going to be an issue, I don’t think he would have suggested a living arrangement already,” I told him.

Pops smiled with a sigh. “That’s good to hear. I don’t think we need to wait until the end of the week to head back. If it’s alright with you and Elodie, we can leave as soon as tomorrow afternoon or evening.”

“That sounds like a plan. When you move, I can hire a company to pack you up and move your things,” I offered. “Whatever you’d like to do.”

He told me that we could make those decisions when we got to them.

I wasn’t sure what Dyami had on his mind, but I could tell whatever it was, Pops didn’t want to deal with it.

If dude knew what I knew, he would drop the Elodie infatuation and learn to love his newest child’s mother.

There was nothing over here for him but death.

A Very Little While Later . . .

Lumberton, North Carolina

“I love you so fucking much,” I professed as I slow stroked Elodie’s pleasure core. “You’re mine and I’m yours. My person, my love, my mate.”

We’d been back from Sedona for a few days.

I couldn’t keep my hands off her. It didn’t matter where we were.

We went in the office yesterday, and it was a waste of damn time, because in between the meetings on her calendar and focus periods, I scheduled meetings with her so that I could get in that pussy.

I remembered that she actually was an exceptional asset to my firm, and I needed to let her do her job.

My baby got mad at me the last time that we were in my office and only sucked my dick. I didn’t like that shit.

Elodie’s sensual moans drove me completely crazy. What drove me completely insane was when I was in that pussy good and her fangs grew. I almost lost my mind the first time that I saw it. That was a new pleasure unlocked.

“Orion, I love you so much. Right there! I’m about to cum again.”

Seconds later, my pelvis got soaked. We had just changed these sheets earlier today.

I loved when we fucked, but there was something transcending about when we made love.

Every time we did, it was another lock on the soul tie that we were making.

Sex wasn’t the only form of intimacy that we use to add locks.

It was in our talks, patience, grace, and understanding of each other.

One of the strongest soul ties that she made with me was in her intimate act of her protection of me.

My woman was everything that I looked for in a wife, mother, love, and best friend.

More importantly, she was everything that I wanted in a beast. I never thought that I would fall in love with a woman who possessed a beast because I decided years ago that I didn’t want to be with a centauride.

I settled in my mind that my wife would be a human.

The gods saw it differently. They knew that I needed a woman that matched my flow.

A woman whose personality was as big and confident as mine.

A woman that knew how to behave when it called for it but also knew how to show her ass when it was needed.

In her words, she was a bad bitch. Lastly, the gods knew I needed my own beast, a beast that possessed an elegance that surpassed understanding, a level of perfection that only Elodie’s wolf could give me.

I appreciated the gods, because at the end of the day, they knew that I needed a big bad wolf.