It Took a Beast to Tame Her 3

by Neicy P.

  “It will be an honor.” Maxi said to her and stood to his feet. He stood in front of Xavier with his arms out. “May I.” He asked

  “Good choice.” Xavier said and passed Xoe to him. The rest of the family stood and waited, as Maxi walked Xoey over to them.

  “What was all that about?” I asked him.

  “She asked if Maxi would be her Godfather.” Xavier answered. I smiled and thought the same thing as Xavier. It wasn’t like she had a bunch of lames to pick from. Maxi may have had the title, but all of the men in that room were going to have a part in raising her. I glanced over to Mom and Aunt Lurita. They were quiet and seemed a little off. They looked…older. And weak. They didn’t look like the same vibrant women that came in the beginning.

  “Mom,” I called out to her. The concern in my voice made everyone turn towards them. Dom and Josh started walking towards her and she held her hand up to stop them.

  “It’s alright, Babies. Mommy is alright.” She said leaning on to Papi. “I just need a little rest.” Aunt Lurita was leaning on Mimi. She smiled at me weakly and winked her eye. “I knew that you would be the one to do the unthinkable.” She said.

  I hated when she talked like that. It was always riddles and ‘guess what’ with her. The shit was aggravating. Before I could say anything, she waved at me and started fading. I sat up quickly, thinking that something was wrong.

  “No, Angel. She is fine. Like your mother, she needs rest.” Mimi told me. I looked back at Mom and she was fading too. “I’ll be back, Babies. Watch over the Princess.” She said to us and vanished completely.

  “What the hell, Mimi? Why did they look like that? What is going on?” I let out the questions.

  “They are fine, Angel. Don’t worry. Let’s focus on Xoey.” She said. Maxi brought Xoey back to me and placed her in my arms. He leaned down and gave her the sweetest kiss on her cheek. It was gentle and comforting.

  “Sleep well, my favorite girl.” He whispered to her. She smiled at him and closed her eyes. Cam and Treasure began to clean the room with the other women. Noel came and placed a kiss on her forehead.

  “I will have my time with you, Baby Girl. It looks like I am going to have to fight Maxi for it. But you know that Nanny is down for whatever.” Nanny said. We both smiled at that. Xavier help me stand, as my family cleaned the room and switched out the mattresses. They were quick and through. I passed Xoey to her father, while Cam and Treasure helped me in the shower.

  “You did well, Sis. I mean…it was amazing. The energy and the magic that we felt in the room was so surreal.” Treasure said to me. The magic that was done in the room must have affected everyone in the room. I was going to ask Mimi about that when I got the chance.

  “I know Patience. Everything that I was worried about before is gone. No worries. No stress. I just want to go running.” Cam said. Treasure nodded her head. They were smiling with shinning eyes and shit.

  “Are you sure that you guys are feeling alright?” I asked suspiciously. They asses were up in here too happy. I’ve seen muthafuckers happy like this after smoking that good shit. Cam and Treasure asses looked like they had some of it.

  “Patience, we are good.” Treasure said and helped me out of the shower.

  “Hey, where is D-Max?” I asked Cam.

  “Girl, he is with Nevaeh. You know that young lady that we met at the doctor the other day. She loves kids and Dominick loves him some Nevaeh. She is babysitting him at the house.” She responded. I put on one of Xavier’s shirts. They always made me feel comfortable. They walked me back into the room with my Alpha and Princess. They were already in the bed sleeping. I crawled in the bed next to them, while my sisters left the room. Xavier’s arm opened for me to lay on the left side of his chest. Xoey was tucked on the right. I reached over and grabbed her hand.

  “I love you.” I said, right before I went to sleep.

  Chapter 8

  Xavier

  I was a father. I was really someone’s father. Baby girl had everybody crying in the room, including me. I held on to my favorite girls all through the night. I was scared to blink, thinking that I was going to miss something. When I fell asleep the first time, I woke up quickly thinking that I had already missed a year of her life. But I didn’t. My precious baby was sleeping under me with her hand clenching to her mother’s finger.

  I knew that Queen was exhausted. The energy that Xoey told me that she used from her mother to get out was enough to put her under for a couple of days. Xoey saw how tired she was and transferred energy back into her mother. She told me that she was happy to see me and the family. I smelled food cooking downstairs and knew that my mother was on her way in here to feed us. Queen haven’t been eating like she used to. Hopefully, she got her appetite back, because Lord knows I like it when my Queen was thick.

  I heard them coming up the stairs before the knock came. I leaned over to Queen and kissed her on the head. “Wake up, Baby. Ma and Maxi is at the door. They have food and want to check to see how you are doing. Well, everyone wants to see how you and Xoey doing.” I added.

  I felt the anxiety levels of the rest of the family downstairs. Queen mumbled about them going away and rolled over. I pulled my arm from under her and smacked her on the ass.

  “Get yo ass up Queen. You gotta eat, Baby.” I told her.

  Her silly ass moaned and poked out her ass for another slap. I couldn’t do anything but smile. I was hoping that she found a way to heal quicker, because I wanted her in the worst way. I was so proud of her. She was the reason for my Princess. I owed her my life. I rubbed her on the ass and smacked her harder than before. I grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her body back to me. “Anything, you want, Queen. But I need you to eat.” I told her. She opened up her pretty brown eyes and smiled at me.

  “Ok, Alpha.” She whispered. I didn’t have it in me to resist the moist lips. I took her lips in mine, as the knocks on the door continued.

  “Ayye, fool. You know I can hear all that smacking and shit. Let my sister up for air nigga and open the door.” Maxi yelled. Xoey stirred hearing her Godfather yelling through our door.

  I pulled back from Queen and stared at eyes that were identical to mine. “Hey Princess. Are you hungry?” I asked her.

  “Yes, Daddy.” She answered and yawned. I sat up with her and passed her to Queen. I got up to open the door to let our impatient guests in. Maxi pushed past me with a tray full of fruit, pancakes, bacon, grits, and juice.

  “Hey, my favorite girl…what the hell, Lil Bit. You couldn’t warned me.” Maxi said, turned and grilled me. I smiled and knew what he was walking into. He mouthed “Bitch” to me and walked to the window.

  “Nobody told yo ass to be walking in here without asking if it was ok.” I told him and leaned down to kiss my mother. She walked over to assist Patience. This was her first time breastfeeding Xoey. I didn’t know nothing about how Xoey was supposed to latch on to the nipple or how Queen should hold her.

  “Yo dumb ass knew that she was about to do that. You shouldn’t have opened the door.” Maxi told me.

  I did. I just wanted to get him back for knocking on the door the way he had. I walked over and watched Xoey pull the milk from her mother’s breast. “There you go, Xoe.” She whispered to her. I didn’t know how Queen was doing that shit. That shit looked like it hurt. Xoey’s cheeks were sucked in the entire time that she was on her breast. Queen rocked her and placed her hand on her breast. She was squeezing it lightly to help Xoe out. It was amazing to watch.

  After Xoey was finished, Ma grabbed her to burp and change her. I placed the tray of food on Queen’s lap. She blessed her food and picked up her food to start eating. Ginell walked in with Matteo with a cup in her hand. She walked towards Queen and handed it to her. “Drink this first, Angel. It’s a healing serum that I created.” She told her. Queen drunk it with no hesitation and began to eat her food.

  “Can I hold the Princess?” Matteo asked my mother.
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br />   “I just got her, Matteo. Give me a minute with her.” Ma told him without looking at him. I looked at Queen and knew that it was going to be a problem. It was going to be hard to share Xoey with everyone, knowing that she would be growing at a fast rate. “How about we get dressed and we will come down with Xoey.” I told them.

  “No, we can carry Xoey downstairs. It is fine you two. We don’t need to be supervised with Xoey. We are all grown and understand what is going on.” Ginell turned towards my mom. “Noel, can you please carry Xoey downstairs?” Ginell asked and turned to walk out the door. “Maxwell and Matteo, bring y’all asses on here. Noel don’t need help carrying a seven-pound baby.”

  Maxi kept his eyes covered and walked out the room with a pissed off Matteo. Queen stood up and placed the empty tray on the table. “I know, Alpha. But, Mimi is right. We will figure this out.” She said and walked into the closet. I shook my head and walked to the bathroom. I took a shower and took care of the rest of my hygiene. When I came out of the bathroom, I had a towel wrapped around my waist and my dreads hanging down my back. Queen was in a black maxi dress with her slippers on and her golden hair pulled up in a messy bun. The extra weight that she had was placed in right spots. Her ass, hips, and breasts were thicker. Her stomach had a small pouch to it, but that was fine with me. Queen was still the sexiest woman that God had placed on this earth for me. I felt my man rise and ready to get to work.

  “Not yet, King. I need a couple of days to recuperate.” She said with a smile on her face. I almost bit my bottom lip off.

  “Queen,” I called out her name. She shook her head and walked towards me. She wrapped her arms around me and squeezed me tight.

  “I miss her, Alpha.” She whispered. The need in her voice pushed me into action. I gave her a kiss and threw some clothes on. We were downstairs in the matter of seconds. Matteo was holding Xoey now. He was smiling and two-stepping with her.

  “You gotta know how to move like your Papi, Xoey. Nobody in this room got moves like this. All that new shit don’t have nothing on this.” He was telling her. Xoey was smiling with her toothless smile. It was amazing how everyone was connecting with her. D-Max was smiling at them as well.

  “Man, what you talking about? You not the only one that have moves.” Xavion said and pulled Loreen up to dance. They were getting it too. “Yo, old ass always be trying to outdo somebody.”

  “I know this lil nigga didn’t try to come for me.” Matteo said and stop dancing with Xoey. He handed Xoey off to Maxi and grabbed Ginell. “Let’s show these chaps how we really get down.” He said and swung Ginell around the room with everyone cheering them on. Nico and Robin started dancing, along with Josh and Cam. They all had moves. But I knew for a fact that they were two people in the room that could top them all. I looked over to Nick and Ma. Xander smiled over at them and shook his head. He got up and moved the furniture back to make room for them. Nick kissed Treasure’s hand and stood from his seat. He walked to my Mom and bowed his head. “May I,” he asked her.

  “You may, Son.” She said and placed her hand in his opened one. He took her around the room and danced with so much grace. Nick came to Mom one day and asked her to teach him how to dance. He wanted to take Treasure somewhere different from his other dates. When Treasure asked him to go dancing, he kept making excuses or changed the subject. When he was good and ready, he took Treasure out and danced the night away. He told Treasure of Ma skills. Treasure and Cam came to Ma for some lessons as well. Laughter and joy was heard throughout the house. Those were the type of memories that we were trying to make. Not all this war and destruction shit.

  I leaned on the wall and pulled Queen to me. I knew with everything that we were facing, we needed this. Queen and I swayed to the music and watched our family get along. It was picture perfect.

  I heard my cell phone ringing and didn’t want to answer. I didn’t want to ruin the moment. It stopped ringing and began to ring again. I grabbed it from the table and answered, “Alpha.”

  “They are visitors here for the vampire chick. He said that he is her brother.” Errol said.

  “How many with him?” I asked.

  “Nine,” he responded.

  “Hold them at the line. We will meet them there.” I said and hung up the phone. “Aye, we got guests.” I yelled out. Nick stopped dancing and looked over to me.

  “Who is it?”

  “Maxwell’s in-laws.” I said and pushed off the wall. Nylah got up and was about to walk to the door.

  “Don’t even think about it.” Maxwell growled out without looking up. He was staring down at Xoey. He gave her a kiss and walked over to Queen. “I’ll be right back, Princess.” He told her. He walked over to Nylah and reached out his hand. She looked down at it and thought about it for a second, before grabbing it. They walked out the door together, with me and Nick following him.

  We all jumped in the truck and headed to where they were. Maxi was calmer than we thought he would be. He was sitting in the backseat with Nylah. “Whatever you want to do, Maxi? We got your back.” Nick told him.

  “Thanks,” He said.

  “Maxwell that is my brother out there.” Nylah told him.

  “And that will be the only reason why he would be walking away. I could drag his ass back to his Covenant.” He told her.

  “Don’t start another war, Maxwell. We don’t have time to be fighting each other when we should be sticking together to find Lord Odom and Ma’vere.” She said.

  “Tell that shit to Blade. His ass is the one with the bullshit.” Max replied. We pulled up and saw three SUV’s parked behind one another on the side of the road. We got out and walked over to Errol and a few more members in both of our packs. Sentury was over Nick’s first guards. Sentury looked like he was lifting trees for weights. He had a dark complexion and was about 6’4. He weighed a solid 260 and sported a bald head. Errol and Sentury could have been twins. Errol was a cocoa complexion, though. Sentury was standing next to Errol waiting for the ok to flip the SUV’s over.

  We waited for them to get out of their black SUV’s. It was daylight. We didn’t know how many of them were immune to the sun but was prepared to rip off the roofs off their SUV’s. The passenger door opened and Nylah’s brother stepped out. He was dressed down in some jeans with a red t-shirt and some nice ass red and black Air Jordan 2 Retro. He had his hair slicked in a ponytail and some shades on. He walked up to the porch and removed his glasses. He saw her holding hands with Maxi and frowned. He let out a deep breath and flashed a fake smile at her.

  “I see you are doing better, Nylah. Don’t you think that you should come home now?” He asked.

  “She is already home.” Maxwell spoke before Nylah could say anything.

  “I wasn’t talking to you Scooby.” He said to Maxwell. Maxwell smiled and took a step forward.

  “It’s Maxwell, Man. And you are?” He asked, surprising me and Nick. Maxwell hated the dog jokes that other beings called us.

  “You don’t need to know who I am. All you need to know is that my sister is coming home and will not return here. She will be getting married to a pure-blooded vampire.” He said a little louder. Maxwell moved his head from side to side. He was trying to stay calm.

  “Naw, my Nigga. You got it wrong. You see, your sister is my mate. Meaning, she isn’t a visitor here. This is her home. Wherever you think she is going, she will return here. If I gotta go through you, the nigga that you think she is marrying, and ya bitches in the car.” Maxi growled. The neck cracking technique didn’t do anything but piss him off even more. Nylah stepped in when her brother took a step towards them.

  “Cut it out Nyles. Why are you here?” Nylah said.

  “We got word that Lord Odom went back to his place up North. We are gathering everyone to attack him there. All six covenants. You need to be with us.” He told her.

  “I don’t think that is a good idea.” Maxi said. “No one in your Covenant will be able to def
eat Lord Odom. You all will be killed.”

  “I didn’t ask you for your opinion.” Nyles snapped at Maxwell. “Nylah, we have to go, now. They are all meeting up at sunset.” He said to Nylah.

  “I agree with Maxwell. We should wait until Queen is healed before going there. She is our only chance with surviving this.” Nylah told him.

  “There is no Queen. That shit is a myth. You need to stop chasing that shit and face reality. We will have to deal with this on our own.” Nyles hissed.

  “My Queen is real.” I spoke. He looked over to me for the first time and smirked.

  “Your Queen?” He asked me.

  “She is my mate.” I told him.

  “Yeah fucking right. There is no way that the Queen would settle with some dirty ass dog from the Bayou.” Nyles said. I moved so quick that I scared myself. I grabbed Nyles by his neck and held him up. The car doors opened and his crew jumped out. Errol and Sentury half changed and waited for them to make a move. They were going to die from the sun, which had their skin sizzling or from the hands of those two big muthafuckers.

  “You will not disrespect me, Nyles. Keep it up and you will die by this dirty ass dog from the Bayou. Try me, Bitch.” I told him. He was shocked, looking into my white eyes.

  “What the fuck are you?” Nyles barely asked.

  “Wouldn’t you want to know?” I snarled. I didn’t want to kill this fool because I knew it would start something with me and Maxwell. He was the one that was supposed to take lead on this. I looked over to him and he shrugged his shoulders. Nylah punched him on the arm and hissed at him. He looked down at her and growled.

  “Put him down, X.” He mumbled. I dropped Nyles down and he landed on his feet with a blade in his hand.