“Just as I thought. The human female commands you, and you go running.” Drayton is slow to anger but he knows that Wilder is upset, and it’s of his own making. Drayton takes it in stride and walks around Wilder to meet Adrienne, as Wilder watches with a smirk and a dark covetous stare.
When Adrienne and Drayton reaches the nursery, Robert is there giving the pups a checkup, and Mena is sitting rocking one of Adrienne’s six pups.
“Where is Lycell,” Robert asks. “Shouldn’t he pitch in and give you a hand. If not, you will need more nurses.”
“We can’t risk calling in nurses from outside of Samsaville it’s just too risky,” Drayton says taking one of the babies in his arms, and sitting in a nearby rocker facing the mountain range. “I’ll help Adrienne at night when the nurses leave.”
“Maybe that will be enough with everyone pitching in to help. Mena and I will do what we can, but she’s having our own children, and from what I can tell, she’s going to have at least four.”
“That’s what I wanted to discuss with you, Robert. I need to see you at the clinic tomorrow. I can’t discuss it now,” Drayton says in a low voice as he watches as Mena and Adrienne feed the small white pups.
“Tomorrow is a great time. Say about one o’clock. I have to take Mena into town for shopping.”
“I’ll take her,” Adrienne says beaming. “That will give us girls time to shop for baby clothes and maybe a dress or two.” Mena looked to Robert.
“Sure. Go. Is it ok with Drayton?”
“I come and go as I please,” Adrienne interrupted. “I don’t have to ask permission from Drayton or anyone else,” Adrienne says dismissing anything Wilder had said to her about going into town alone.
Wilder had said it would be best to have one of them accompany her because of the dangers of outside people finding their way into town, and that the Samsas are a rich family, and because of the errant werewolf packs upset over the loss of their Alpha, they could pose harm to her.
“You should have one of us with you at all times,” Wilder had previously cautioned Adrienne.
Wilder had discussed this with all of them at dinner. He revealed that one of the beta werewolves said that Bane’s Oregon pack heard how the Samsa brothers had impregnated a human female. The beta warned Wilder that they might try and kill her because she’s a human, and because she’s still young and fertile, and the Samsa pack may reach as many as twenty fighting males if Drayton manages to get her pregnant soon. That would ensure the Samsa brother’s dominance over all of North America and Europe for years.
“The human is indeed a threat to the Oregon pack and the Alaska pack,” the beta had said.
“I’ll take you,” Drayton said to Adrienne. His voice demanding.
“No you aren’t,” Adrienne said crossing her arms in defiance. Mena watched in amazement. She wasn’t used to the ways of human females. They were independent and free. She had lived under her father’s rules too long and the laws of being a werefemale.
Werefemales lived to serve the males in the pack. Their lives and existence depended on the goodness of the Alpha’s in their communes, and their worth was dependent on them giving birth to pups. Before, she did what she was told, and married whomever her father saw fit. Now all that has changed for the better, and she is relevant, and valued as the wife of Robert.
Mena’s Alpha father thought he was marrying her off to another more powerful Alpha, Drayton Samsa. But she fell in love with Robert, and Drayton fell in love with Adrienne. Robert wasn’t like the Alphas she had been promised to.
He wasn’t like any man she had met, but she hadn’t met many living in the wilderness of Alaska. The day he came to her pack she fell in love with him and she knew that she couldn’t be with anyone else. Her father saw how they looked at each other, he would have sent Robert away, but he needed Robert to care for his diminishing pack because all the females were sterile including Mena.
Instead of Robert trying to unravel the mystery of why the werefemales were sterile, instead he concentrated on developing a serum to counteract and reverse it. Now he had found a way to prevent the future females from becoming sterile. But Robert expected side effects, and he didn’t know in what form it would take. It was something new to him and to Mena. Mena was just happy to discover that she’s pregnant.
“I think it’s best that I drive you and Mena into town.” Drayton’s tone is a little more forceful than usual.
“No. I said no you will not, Drayton. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself and Mena isn’t an ordinary woman. If anything happens we can handle it. Do you think someone will rob us of our packages? I don’t think so. Not with the police force Wilder has contracted. Why there are more police than we have citizens. I could use a few more nurses, but then my wants aren’t at the top of Wilder’s priority list.”
“Mena’s pregnant she couldn’t help you if she wanted,” Robert adds.
“Pregnant women are tougher than you think,” Adrienne remarked to Robert. Mena watched at Adrienne still not comfortable with her new found independence.
“Wilder and Lycell would never let me live this down if anything happened to you. So that settles it, I’m your husband, and I’m taking you.”
“You may be my husband, but you’re not my lord and master. I will not be treated like a child. I have children and I’m an adult.”
“You are not acting like one now.” That was the first time Drayton exerted his position in Adrienne’s life. Before he was quiet and felt as if he didn’t have a say, but after he married her, he has been more dominating.
“That doesn’t settle anything,” she said walking away in a huff.
Drayton set the baby in the bed and took the other baby from Adrienne as she watched on. She was seeing him for the first time. She thought there was a difference between the three brothers, but clearly there wasn’t any difference when it came to her. He was beginning to act like Wilder and Lycell. They were bossy enough, but to be married and live with three bossy controlling werewolves was too much for Adrienne at this moment.
“We have to talk.” Drayton took her elbow and led her out of the room.
“What is it you want to say to me? I really don’t care to discuss anything with you, and I didn’t like that you spoke harsh to me in front of Mena and Robert.”
“I apologize to you if I did what you said, but I need to protect you for your own self and for the good of your children.”
Drayton walked close to Adrienne expecting to kiss her, she turned her head. “What is this?”
“It’s exactly what you think it is. You will not be sleeping with me tonight.” Adrienne turned and walked away from him. It was the night of the full moon and he thought that he wouldn’t have to endure the same torture that Wilder and Lycell must be going through. He wanted to finish what had started in the outdoor shed.
His thoughts were premature. And his orgasm would be premature if Adrienne had anything to do with it.
“You pride yourself in being in control. Let’s see how much control you have under this full moon.” Adrienne pulled the curtains aside and then she heard the cry of a werewolf in heat and agony. She knew now the difference in the sound of their voices. It was Lycell giving out a piercing fierce howl.
Adrienne sauntered down the hall and strutted into her room and slammed the door. At least Drayton had made his point, and there was no way she would go anywhere tomorrow, he thought. But Adrienne had made her point and it hit him hard especially when he lay down to rest that night. He couldn’t.
Chapter 5
Drayton roamed the grounds all night trying to control his insatiable desire for Adrienne. He paced around thinking about her. The dogs in the kennel became agitated and they barked and barked.
His need is great. His need is overwhelming. His first thought was to go to her and explain that maybe he couldn’t control his need to have sex with her. He had to have her. Drayton paced the length of the grounds trying to control the hunger
that was a few feet away from him. He was crazy with the smell of her. He was crazy with the need for her. He was crazy with the thought of how he felt when his penis entered her opening, and the peace and pleasure his body found inside her.
However, he knew how stubborn she is and if she denied him her body, he would not be able to control himself and he might take her and then she would never see him or want him the same way again. He decided to do what Wilder had suggested when found in the same circumstances.
He admired Wilder for his self-control and for sharing a woman as precious as Adrienne. He put value on her and that’s why he couldn’t take her as Lycell once suggested.
When the dawn approached Drayton found himself in bed and exhausted from the night. He lay down, and when he woke, the stars had disappeared and the sun was high in the sky. He sat up as if his body commanded him after he had had enough rest. He didn’t remember getting into bed, yet he was lying in his own bed. He thought he would find himself naked after shifting and lying in a cave, near a tree, or worst, on a mountain peak. The last he remembered was running foolishly around the ranch.
Looking at his bloody clothes lying in a pile on the floor, he recalled he was out hunting, and had used too much energy to change. He had chased down an elk bare foot. He was that fast in human form. If he had changed into a werewolf, it wouldn’t have been much sport.
He had brought down a large elk and moose that night. It is almost impossible to kill a moose while in human form, but he remembers doing just that. Drayton knew he was tired. He wanted it that way. Now he didn’t need to display to Adrienne that animalistic part of him, like Lycell, when it came to sex. He could control himself and he did. He was proud that he took Wilder’s advice—hunt something.
After a quick shower and dressing for breakfast, he would meet Adrienne in the dining room, and then they could talk about their future. Drayton walked out of his room smiling, tramping down the staircase, when he was greeted by their cook.
The cook a woman of sixty who had been with the family for many years. When he remembers her, she had dark hair, a tall woman with an ample body who favored him as a child because he wasn’t particular with food and he loved her cooking. Wilder was the demanding one. He couldn’t eat this or he couldn’t eat that but Drayton would eat everything. Lycell, when it came to food like women, he satisfied himself for what was on the menu, as long as it was raw.
“Mr. Samsa what do you want me to do with all that deer meat you placed in the freezer.”
“Nothing. I’m going to take it to Wilder and his son’s in the cave.” Drayton is standing in the dining room looking for Adrienne. “Where is everyone?”
“Mrs. Samsa and her friend, Mena, left about eleven o’clock for town. They ate early. And since you were tired from your hunting, Mrs. Samsa thought it best that you should get some needed rest. She said you didn’t get any rest your honeymoon,” she blushed when she mentioned the honeymoon, “and all that meat you brought home last night will be here for years,” she said thinking about how she can prepare all that fresh meat.
“That will be all.” The cook turned and wandered back into the kitchen. Drayton sat but was too upset to eat. He put his head down and pushed his plate away. Standing, he rushed upstairs to dress for the spring chill and thaw, which was a light tee shirt over jeans. He never felt the cold because of the thick hair.
His body was covered with an abundance of thick dark hair and when he shifted, that hair turned to thick grey fur. The werewolves that weren’t living in the cold didn’t have the amount of fur that Drayton and his brothers possessed. The Samsas lived in the mountains where it was cold year round. When Wilder shifts his fur is snow white. Lycell has black fur, and Drayton’s fur is grey with a mixture of white.
Lycell crossed his mind. Where is he?
Drayton picked up his phone and tried locating him, after first calling Adrienne. He knew she wouldn’t answer anyway. He didn’t want her to go alone. Adrienne was stubborn and her aim was to defy him. And so she did.
When he stepped at the foot of the stairs on his way out to the garage, Robert came in from the kitchen area. “Where is Mena?”
“She’s with Adrienne. Try calling Mena on her cell phone,” Drayton insisted. Robert called and then texted, and no one answered.
“Do you think something has happened to them?” Robert questioned looking at Drayton with a distressed look. He stared searching around in his mind trying to reassure himself that everything was ok with them.
“I don’t want to think about it. Throw on a coat, we can go look for them in town,” Drayton said walking quickly to the garage.
“Don’t you think you should contact Wilder first?”
“I don’t need Wilder to help me find my wife,” Drayton said confident as he walked around to the garage to get the Mercedes, but when he looked in the parking space it was gone. “They’re driving the Mercedes.” Instead Robert and Drayton hopped into the Range Rover. It was much better in the melting snow and for traveling in hilly terrain. Not that he expected to have to travel over dangerous ground. He was hoping as they were driving into town, they would either find them, or see them on their way home.
Drayton’s disappointment rose when they had driven two miles and didn’t see them. They didn’t see the car on the road and there were no signs of them anywhere. When they arrived in town, the usual delighted grateful townsfolk happy to see the Samsas showing their faces waved, and then men removed their hats in respect and gratitude. But Drayton wore a grim face. Robert tried to be positive.
“You know how women are. They will spend a whole day trying to decide on shoes, and baby clothes, then come home empty handed and go back tomorrow.” Robert turned to Drayton with a wide smile. But Drayton was in no mood for smiling. Now he was pissed with Adrienne for putting herself in unnecessary danger.
Drayton parked and jumped out of the car and rushed through the doors of the department store with Robert matching his stride. Drayton didn’t wait for the elevator he saw an escalator to the second floor where the baby furniture and clothes were. He ran up the escalator, rushing up to the checkout counter.
“Good day, Mr. Samsa,” a woman in her thirties said greeting him with a wide pleasant smile.
Breathing erratic, Drayton replied, “Have you seen my wife?”
“Mrs. Samsa and her friend came in and bought half the store. I get a good commission on that.” The woman crooned.
“When did she leave?”
“About an hour ago. Is something wrong?” Drayton didn’t say a word. There was indeed something wrong. Robert and Drayton glanced at each other with a drained look. Something had happened and they didn’t know what it was. Maybe they will be home when they get there. Drayton turned and Robert followed.
“Shouldn’t we alert the police?”
“First we need to get back and see if they have reached home. I will have to talk to Wilder and Lycell. If this is more and it involves werewolves, then the police can’t help us. The town’s people could be in danger if we involve the area police. They are no match for werewolves, only werewolves can bring down their kind, and it would take an Alpha to bring them under control. I don’t want to start a war where the people of Samsaville can be in danger.”
They entered the car and took off. There rest a grim look on both Robert’s and Drayton’s face, especially since they had been driving for miles, and was almost nearing the bend to Drayton’s home, and there was no sight of the Mercedes carrying the two women.
Drayton made an abrupt stop at the door to the ranch and dashed out. He bounded into the foyer and all he heard was the sound of babies crying. He shouted, “Adrienne,” before scaling the length of the stairs.
“Why are you shouting?” Lycell whispered with one of his sons wrapped in a blanket lying securely in his arms.
“Have you seen Adrienne and Mena?”
“The cook said that she had gone shopping with Mena early this morning.” There was panic written o
n Drayton’s face. “I thought we discussed that she shouldn’t go out alone. That one of us would go with her.”
“She didn’t want me to go with her.”
“It’s just as I had said. You listen to her. She has turned you into...”
“Don’t say it. Don’t say something we both will regret, Lycell.”
Lycell knew that he could never beat Drayton if he didn’t want him to. Although, Drayton was good natured when they were children, he was a fierce competitor. No challenge would go unmet. He had saved Lycell’s life once before when they were teens and learning how to hunt and defend their territories. Their father was grooming them to take his place and they were all to become Alphas, have their own pack, and control all of North America.
As triplets they were equal in skill and strength.
One day as Lycell guarded their father’s territory, a group of young werewolves crossed into their land leading to their ranch. They were part of the Oregon pack. They had no respect for Alphas, and they were bent on killing anyone and everyone that challenged them. One of the werewolves who kidnapped Adrienne was part of that pack that day when they came on Lycell. Lycell was just learning to change and didn’t know how to conserve his energy. The older brother, Bane, who is now the Alpha of the Oregon pack, pushed his brother to attack Lycell.
When Drayton came on Bane and the others, they had Lycell surrounded, and they were ready to rip his jugular.
“Show me who the Alpha is, bend to me you cur. You mongrel dog,” Bane had said.
“There is only one Alpha and that is my father. And when I become the Alpha over all these regions then you will bend to me,” Lycell had said in reply.
Lycell, as strong as he was as a young werewolf, couldn’t stave off the onslaught of four young rogue werewolves bent on killing everything and anything in sight.
Drayton took a stance on the high ground and watched over them, studying their weakness. Then he quickly shifted into to a grey wolf, and in a second, he pounced down on the largest of the four. With one bite on the unprotected neck, and his long claws extended, he made one sweep over three of them and killed two on the spot. The brothers retreated and was punished buy Drayton’s father, where they were sent out into the wilderness of Alaska until they were old enough and swore allegiance to the Samsa pack.
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