by Jana Leigh
Mob Moms’ Christmas
Drekinn Series
Book Two ½
Author: Jana Leigh
Editor: Rose Colton
Artwork by JK Publishing INC
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Mob Moms’ Christmas
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Table of Contents
~Prologue
~Chapter One
~Chapter Two
~Chapter Three
~Chapter Four
~Chapter Five
~Chapter Six
~Chapter Seven
~Books by Jana Leigh
~Excerpt from The Mating Call
~Excerpt from Healing Cherri
Prologue
Vivi looked around the corner and then waved to her friends the coast was clear. It was disgusting that they had to hide their weekly meetings from their children. Vivi laughed when her friends sauntered past her and walked into the room they designated as their meeting room. Their daughters had become too bossy, and they were going to take them down a peg or two pretty soon.
The room they commandeered was right next to the kitchen and had a connecting door. They could open it and get the treats they’d already made, and their tea, which should be done by now. Vivi, for one, was sick of her daughter Calli telling her what she could and could not do. Her daughter forgets that SHE was the female Alpha of their Pack before all this shit went down.
Really, like she was the child and Calli was the parent. Vivi taught her everything she knew, how to be a stone cold bitch and still be a leader. Jeeze, where is the respect? Now that things had gone to hell in a hand basket, they were all stuck in this old castle from the early 20th century. Which really wasn’t that bad, Vivi just liked to bitch about it. It was pretty cool, all made of stone and real wood. Plus, it was huge. They had hundreds of acres; places to build, to hide, no one would ever find them here. There were small buildings surrounding the castle, which they could turn into individual housing when they could get the material.
The only problem was there was a small grouping of homes right outside the boundaries of their new hiding spot. Kade, the Alpha, and his Betas’, Declan and Nick, all investigated the people. So far, they looked like they were just a group of nomads who settled there together. Apparently, they were shifters, although no one could really tell which kind since they masked their scent. However, there were at least six families living there.
Of course, the girls speculated and now had a pool going about who and what they were. Rissa thought they were a religious cult who kidnapped women to breed and increase their numbers. Cherri thought they were making illegal drugs for shifters, since normal human drugs did nothing for them. And Calli thought they were slave traders who were selling women to evil men for money to overthrow the government. All in all, it made for humorous discussions at the dinner table, although some of the Pack members thought they were nuts.
This place, given to them by the Drekinn Agency, well not so much given, more like Calli and Kade needed a place for their Pack when they were invaded by the Prentiss Agency, so Ms. Praton told them about this old place. They weren’t sure who used to own this place. Ms. Praton had been closed mouth about it. It was warded and hidden from prying eyes. The only way in was from underground, the old subway system. When their daughters called to tell them they were on the run from The Prentiss Agency, Vivi and her friends rallied.
They informed the people who needed to know, began to protest the Prentiss Agency, and then left. They made their position well known in the community. That was months ago. They’d been hiding in this castle for six months now.
Calli and Kade were regrouping. They were trying to get the information from the Drekinn, which wasn’t hard, since they brought the massive computer files with them. Moving those files to the new computers that were here was a task. Rissa was busy every day with the conversion. There was a lot of shit going on, but until they could pinpoint who their enemy was, they were in the dark. Cherri remembered the human president’s wife was somehow involved. But was she the leader? And why?
They were building a case against the Prentiss agency, which seemed to house roughnecks, for lack of a better word. A few of them were on the most wanted list until they gained employment with the Prentiss Agency. It made them wonder what the ultimate purpose of the Prentiss Agency was; surely, it was not for the regulation of magical laws.
The Drekinn Agency had been in charge of the regulation of the magical community. They had many branches to help the Magical people. Now the Prentiss Agency somehow won the contract they’d held for hundreds of years. It was crazy, and a sham. Vivi and her friends and family refused to reregister with the Prentiss Agency. A few of her friends had done that innocently enough and they’d been tagged because of their ancestors. Watched and followed all because they received the label of shifter. Now they were afraid to leave their homes. Hell, with their past ancestors, Vivi knew they’d be taken and held. So they left, as had their families, some had arrived, some were on their way. It was hard since they had to be in stealth mode.
Vivi and the rest of the families, of course, joined the Drekinn Pack, which were now on the most wanted list. She was so proud of her daughter for making the list; it made her a prime time outlaw. In their family, that was close to worshiping status.
“The meeting is called to order,” Vivi said as she sat down in the chair in the corner. She picked up her tea and sipped it. “So, we are going to discuss Christmas. I know everyone is all busy hiding from the assholes, but we can still celebrate. I mean, we did an awesome Thanksgiving with what we had. The only thing we missed was the cranberries.”
Shelly leaned forward, “We need to go shopping.”
“I got that covered. We can take the subway back to New York, we only have to change a few facial features, and they will never find us. Just like last time,” Vivi said confidently.
Brenda snorted, “Last time we got caught. Calli and Kade were pissed.”
“But they still ate everything we made,” Vivi said smugly. “They don’t understand that Christmas is our holiday. It is the Moms’ holiday, and I will not let her take this away from us. I wanna get my new son-in-law a gift. And my daughter, who is becoming too bossy, something she needs, like lingerie. All that black is depressing.”
Her best friends nodded at her words. “I agree, maybe we can bring back Rissa a mate,” Brenda said.
Vivi and Shelly looked at each other before speaking slowly, “You know she is going to have two, right?”
Brenda rolled her eyes
, "Yeah, I know, just thought we could get started with one. She has been acting strange lately. Have you seen her? I think she is cracking. I never thought I would say it, but my daughter seems to have the mating frenzy sickness. She is sniffing the hallways, and even some of the bedrooms. It's weird, when I ask her what's going on she laughs it off, but I can see her body tensing at weird times, too.”
Vivi frowned and thought back, Brenda was right, Rissa was acting strange, and she may have to check with Calli about that one, because maybe the girl did just need to get laid. Of course, she wouldn’t say it that way, her daughter would freak out, and her mother would have a heart attack. They all chose to believe their babies were virgins when they got married. She was pretty sure that Calli was anyway.
The whole destiny thing was becoming nuts. Ms. Praton, or as she was called now, Pilar, was telling them just enough for them to be confused. Each of the members of the Drekinn Pack hierarchy had a book from their ancestors. In there it contained the history of their families. Along with hidden powers and forgotten secrets. It also put a huge target on their children’s backs. The Prentiss Agency knew exactly who they were looking for, and none of them could figure out how they knew. The files were secure in the Drekinn Agency archives. Now it seemed someone had found them. The Prentiss Agency wanted the whole group of children who were ancestors of the Chosen.
Vivi was not gonna let that happen. However, first, they had to celebrate something; they all needed something to raise their spirits. That is why they were having a Drekinn Christmas.
Chapter One
Calli and the girls stood in the doorway looking at their mothers and shaking their heads. This was getting out of control, they were butt ass crazy, and Calli was going to put a stop to it. They were fugitives.
“Ma, seriously, Christmas?” Calli said.
“Young lady, it is the Christmas season and we will celebrate it. No matter if we are on the run or not. What better time to have it? We need a break and to regroup,” Vivi argued. Her daughter was going to agree to this.
The moms called their three daughters to their special room when they thought of all the arguments their daughters would think of.
“Ma, we can’t. Kade, Nick, and Declan are planning for the arrival of the rest of the Pack. We have to get all the rooms ready, figure out where they are all staying, and also, we have to figure out who we are missing from the Pack. You know as well as I do what the ancestors’ writings said. Just like them, until we seat our entire leadership, we will not be able to defeat the Bondi King, or the Ulfer. We have to. The President’s wife is leading the Prentiss Agency; do you know what that means? We are going to have a long road ahead of us to try to defeat them,” Calli said slowly so her mom would be able to understand what was at stake.
While Christmas was a nice thought really, and would completely be an awesome day they could take off, Calli could guarantee the Ulfer would not be taking the day off. They could even possibly attack.
Many years ago, the magical world ‘revealed’ themselves to the humans. The government viewed it as something they weren’t allowed to know and blocked the actual history on that. There was a battle, and the humans decided the Breyting needed regulated. Breyting was the name they gave the magical community. Ulfer was the name of the magical people who refused to be regulated.
For years, this is what the Drekinn Agency controlled. They fought the Ulfer, trying to make sure they wouldn’t draw attention to the shifters. It would only take one major incident for the humans to try to completely take over and arrest, detain, and cuff the magical people.
That was what they discovered just last week. They discovered that wrist cuff placed on a shifter would allow them to control the magical community. Of course, they would have to make the special cuff. Rissa broke into the computers of the human government, and found the diagram of the cuff.
Vivi shook her head, she knew all of this, her daughter refused to actually believe she was capable of making sure their mission was safe. “Young lady, you need to sit your ass down and listen. I am not your Pack member right now, I get you are in charge, but right now, I am your mother. Now all of you sit your asses down before I put my foot up them like I did when you broke into the human's sweet shop cause you wanted to get some fudge.”
The three girls looked at each other and rolled their eyes. “Viv, we didn’t break into the shop for fudge, hell, we broke in to beat the shit out of the kid who lived above the shop with his dad. Little asshole grabbed Calli’s ass the day before. We just took the fudge cause we could,” Rissa laughed and pulled out a chair next to her mom.
“Oh, really?” Shelly, Cherri’s mom, glared at her daughter who was slinking into her chair.
“Dammit, Rissa, the pact!” Cherri muttered.
“You three and the damn pact, I swear we need it written down, you guys have more shit hidden than the old mob,” Brenda snorted.
Rissa glared at her friend, “Shit, you know I can’t remember everything. You need to stop me when I open my mouth.”
“Like that's possible,” Calli snorted, grabbed a chair, sat backwards, and then whistled. The three had dogs that were presents from Calli’s mate, Kade. They were tiny, little, white dust mops that had been brought here before even the girls arrived. They were their babies, yep, sounded creepy, a shifter having a puppy, but they didn’t care. The three little dogs scampered around the corner, ran to their masters, and sat at their feet. Rissa bent down and picked up Billy B, her white, teacup puppy, and he snuggled in her neck.
“Aww, how is my baby today?” Rissa said in a disgustingly sweet tone.
Calli bent over and held up her hand and the little pup wagged its tail but sat down and waited. “Good, Wolfie. You see how well she's trained?”
Cherri cooed at Winks, her puppy, and pampered him with a bit of food from the table. They were all in love with their puppies, sad but true, Vivi thought.
Vivi glared at her daughter. She damn well knew how she felt about the dogs. Looking under the table and snarling at the white rats, “SIT!” The three little dogs just looked at her and then lay down, and yawned as if they were bored. Vivi threw up her hands and said, “Whatever, back to the Christmas thing. We are trying to say that we are going to plan Christmas. All we are asking for is one day, one day for us to celebrate the holiday, like things are normal.”
She threw in a slight waver to her voice, so she sounded like a pathetic old woman; of course, Brenda sniffed and hid her head, and Shelly pinched her sensitive skin until tears gathered in her eyes, and then she looked at her daughter Cherri.
“Honey, it's going to be the last time I will have you all together, you are mated now, soon you will have your own children, and then we will have Christmas at your house, it's like passing the torch.”
Brenda looked at Rissa who was totally buying this act. Vivi knew because she was the most soft-hearted of the bunch, Calli was the alpha, Cherri had too many issues about control, but Rissa, she was a lovely airhead, whose mother played her like a violin.
“Honey, your father and I have talked about this. We know you are going to find your mate soon. We just want to have this time with you, so we can celebrate the holiday’s right. With all this other stuff going on, I promise we won't get in the way. We are going to plan everything; you can keep searching for information. You won't have to lift a finger.”
Rissa looked at her mom and knew she was going to give in, no matter what she and her best friends had talked about on the way to this room. They had decided their moms needed to chill out, and let them get things organized. However, looking into her mom’s eyes was harder than she thought. And her friends were glaring at her, they knew she was gonna fold and then they would have to—it was the pact. One for all and all for one.
“Aww.…ma, shit, Calli? Cherri?” she looked at them pleadingly.
Calli rolled her eyes, “Fine, but seriously mom, nothing big. Dinner, with minimal decorations, and a tree. That's it. We will have
to arrange for you to be able to go back into the city for a few things. Besides, the Enforcers are already getting restless, this will give them something to do. But I swear on all that is holy, if you piss me off….”
Vivi smiled to herself, and then looked innocent, “I promise.”
Calli laughed because she knew she could talk to her mother until she was blue in the face, but she would totally ignore her and do what she wanted. Kade was gonna kill her. They already knew her mother was planning something. He warned her before she came here. Damn, she was gonna have to make this up to him, it sucked.
Teatime was over. They got what they wanted and now they were totally going to make this place a home. When they escaped the city for here, Vivi and the rest of the families had not been able to bring much; it wasn’t as if they could have moved their whole house here in a night.
Therefore, she left her large, tall house in the suburbs, only brought her special memorabilia. She couldn’t go back, but she could start over. They were going to be in the large, rambling compound for a long while. Vivi wasn’t stupid; finding the correct person who belonged in the leadership was going to take time. Vivi read the book Calli received. She knew how long this was going to take. There was the Chosen, the Senate, and even the children of the Chosen that could have the necessary power to become a leader here.
The main castle was huge. It held more than a hundred rooms the Pack could use, and that didn't count the small bungalows they found when they were exploring. They had the whole land warded, so they could finally let their animals run.