Chapter 254
Quirin
“Did want to listen in?” I ask Warren when we hang up from the video call.
“I think it’s always good to be reminded of how truly vicious you can be, Quirin,” he says, just as the people in my life who have taken that
viciousness out of me knock on the door.
I stand and walk to the door. Before I reach it, it’s pushed open, and my gaggle of girls comes flooding into the office.
“DADDY!” they all say rushing toward me. I’ve learned from one of the best fathers out there how to manage a large group of children, so without breaking stride, I scoop down and pick up all four of my quads, as I continue walking toward the woman who has given me everything I’ve ever wanted in life and so much more.
I lean over the girls in my arms and my son in her arms and kiss my mate, drawing her into the kiss since I don’t have any arms to pull her to
- me.
When I pull back, I growl softly, letting her know that I’ll be finishing that later tonight. She gives me her sweet, naughty grin that sends desire straight to dick, making it swell painfully in my pants.
“It sounded like you were off the phone and the girls wanted to come say goodnight,” she says.
“We just finished,” I say, kissing the side of each girl’s head in my arms one at a time. Raif begins purring at all of them, knowing that it will help them to fall asleep.
“Did you take out the bad guy, Daddy?”
“I’m about to, Kaylee.”
“So, everything went well?” Kennedy asks as her father walks up with my twins in his arms.
“It did,” I say, kissing the tops of my twins‘ heads‘ once they’re close enough.
“Can you read us a story, Gwanpa?” Quinlee asks him.
“Grandpa is going to watch your Daddy take down the bad man, then I’ll come up and read you a story,” he says, kissing the heads of the four .girls in my arms while Arric purrs at the two in his.
“Can we watch?” Kaylee asks.
Tlook at Kennedy. She’s better at navigating these sorts of things than I am.
‘How bad will it be?‘ she asks in our mind link.
‘I’m sure there will be nasty words and threats, but I’m not going to war over the phone,‘ I tell her.
“Pwease, Mommy?” Kendra asks her. I know my pups are young still, but these Kendra and Kaylee are already so much like me that it’s scary. Scary in a good way, in a way that makes me/proud. Thankfully, I have family now who can help me make sure that they grow up being able to manage the fight and darkness inside them, unlike me.
“You will sit with your grandfather, and you will be quiet,” she says to my girls, just as Luna Yara walks up.
“Did I hear something about a story before bed?” she asks, smiling at her mate.
1/4
46%
Chapter 254
“Oh, can we hear the one about the wabbit doctor again, Gwanma?” Quilla asks. Those two twins are already growing up in the hospital with their mother and grandmother. I expect they’ll be just like both women when they grow up and it makes me so proud.
“I have a new one,” she says excitedly, taking Quiana and Kyla from Warren. “It’s about a grasshopper surgeon.”
“YAY!” Quinlee and Quilla say excitedly. I put my four girls down, kiss my son on the head, then kiss my mate with enough passion to let her know I want her naked in our bed when I get upstairs. Then I say goodnight one more time before closing the door and walking over to where Warren is already getting the girls settled on his lap across from my desk.
I crouch down in front of them, making sure I have their attention.
“Daddy is going to be talking to a bad man, someone who was trying to keep Uncle Yorick away from his mate,” I begin. Both my girls growl their cute little pup growls. Warren smiles and kisses the tops of their heads again.
“Daddy is going to yell and probably curse. Raif will probably growl and snarl, but I want you to know that none of that is aimed at the two of you. I don’t want you to be scared. If you get scared, grandpa is here. But just remember, who do I love more than anything else in this world?”
“Mommy,” they both say instantly.
“That is true. Who else?”
“Us,” Kendra says.
“Family,” Kaylee says.
“Exactly. Family is always first. So, no matter how mean Daddy seems, I still love you more than anything else in this world. Right?”
“Right.”
“And no repeating any bad words that Daddy says, or you won’t be allowed to listen in ever again, okay?”
“Okay, Daddy.”
I go to my desk and put my ear buds in. Warren will be able to hear both sides of the conversation, but my girls will only be able to hear mine.
I dial the number that I got from the Tech Team and when someone answers I ask for Alpha Christer.
“Who’s calling?”
“Alpha Quirin.”
“One moment please,” the person says, and I wait. While I wait, I wink at my daughters whose attention is completely focused on me.
“This is Alpha Christer.”
“Alpha Christer, my name is Alpha Quirin.”
“Alpha, what can I do for you?” he asks.
“I’m not sure if you’re aware, but I have purchased the loan that was previously funded by the loan shark named Sharky,” I tell him.
I get nothing but silence for several beats.
“Why would you buy out that loan?” he asks.
2/4
17:16 Tue, 12 Aug
Chapter 254
“I have my reasons. The point is, I’m calling the note,” I say.
“You can’t do that,” he growls,
“I assure you, I can.”
“And where am I supposed to get twenty million dollars?” he snarls.
“That is not my problem. It’s yours. You owe me twenty million dollars, minus the forty–eight thousand dollars that you previously paid Sharky, and I want it paid in full within three days,” I say, keeping my tone neutral.
“I don’t have that kind of money. If I did, I wouldn’t have needed the loan shark.”
“Again, not my problem.”
“And if I don’t come up with the money in three days?” he growls.
“Then I will take your pack, which you put up as collateral, instead.”
“You fucking piece of shit. I dare you to try to take my pack from me,” he snarls.
“Oh, Alpha Christer. You’ve never heard of me, have you?” I ask, my tone becoming menacing.
“Should I have?”
46%
“I am the most feared Alpha in the country. Any Alpha worth his title would know that. But since you’re the type of Alpha who uses his pack as collateral for a loan he can’t afford, I’d say you aren’t worthy of the title and I’ll be happy to take your pack off your hands.”
“How scary can you be if I’ve never heard of you?” he asks arrogantly.
“Look me up. Quirin Harris. I’ll wait,” I say.
I hear the keys on his computer keyboard typing. Then silence again.
“Why are you doing this?” he asks with less arrogance in his tone.
“Maybe I just like the idea of acquiring land from Alphas who don’t deserve their titles. You have three days, Alpha. On the third day, my warriors and I will be there to take what is owed to us. I’d prefer not to kill your pack members, that is needless killing. But it wouldn’t be the ⚫ first or last time I kill to get what I want,” I say, the last part coming out in a snarl.
“FUCK YOU!” he snarls.
“I have a mate for that, but thanks for the offer.”
“Maybe I’ll come for her then,” he snarls.
The darkness consumes me in an instant and everything around me goes black as I snarl, Raif’s claws sliding out of my knuckles.
“You just made the worst mistake possible, Alpha. You do not threaten what is mine. When I come for you, I will string you up and I will kill you slowly, painfully. I will make you suffer and I will put your suffering on display so everyone can see that no one, NO ONE, threatens what is mine. You just lost your window of opportunity because of your insolence. My money or your pack tomorrow,” I snarl, then disconnect the
phone.
I sit there fuming, remembering what Echo and Kennedy looked like after Jasper took them.
I smell her citrus and mint scent before I see her. I reach out to her blindly, pulling her into my lap.
3/4
1216 Tue, 12 AUG S
Chapter 254
“I’m right here. I’m safe. Your family is safe,” she says, holding my face in her hands.
“He threatened you,” I snarl.
“As if he could get to me. As if he could ever get past you, my love. He’s a fool, Quirin, a stupid, desperate fool.”
I pull her against me, feeling her inside my mind, pushing my darkness away. I wrap my arms around her tightly and breathe in her scent.
“Come on girls, let’s let your mommy calm your daddy down. We can go read that story before bed,” I hear Warren say. I don’t release Kennedy as 1 hear them get up and walk to the door.
“Our daddy’s a badass,” Kendra says.
“A big badass,” Kaylee agrees.
“Yeah, he is,” Warren says.
As soon as the door clicks closed, I shred my mate’s clothes, shoving everything off my desk before laying her on it, ripping off my own clothes, and thrusting inside her.
She wraps her body and her mind around me, the darkness inside me lifting with each orgasm I give her until I finally empty myself inside her, roaring my release as her bright, cheerful light blasts the last of my darkness away.
I collapse over her, pressing my forehead to hers. “He threatened you, Kennedy. He dies for that,” I growl.
“I know,” she says.
I lift my head and look at my sweet, beautiful mate. “You’re not going to fight me on that?”
“If he’s a threat to me, then he’s a threat to our pups as well. No one hurts our family, right?”
I don’t know how I got so lucky to have a woman like Kennedy as a mate, but I send a silent thank you up to the Moon Goddess before I take my mate again on the desk. Then I take her upstairs to our room where I take her several more times before falling into a calm, restful sleep.
Tomorrow, I fight, but tonight, I let my mate heal me in the way that only she can.
4/4
AD
Comment
Send gift
