Vegas Rules

by Jan Stryvant

  Ted shook his head, "My sister has a lot of contacts in the criminal underworld, she also employs a lot of lycans who've only recently been freed. She may be rude and crude at times, but she's effective."

  "Doesn't she have a boyfriend?" Peg asked, "With a body like that, you'd expect the guys to be swarming around her like flies."

  "Ryla takes after our father way too much. Part of why he gave her the bar before he died. Things like monogamy and manners just aren't in her skill set."

  "Well, that's her problem, not mine," Sean said and then raised his voice, "Okay, let's see what you've got for me, Ted." and grabbing Roxy and Peg he went to the foot of the table, opposite where Ted was, and sat down with the girls on either side of him.

  Ryla took a seat next to Peg, unsurprisingly steering clear of Roxy who was studiously ignoring her.

  "Okay," Ted began, "as I told you earlier today, we have six casinos that are our biggest problems right now. Once we've dealt with them, the next problem is keeping them from restocking. After that, we're left with dealing with visiting magic users."

  "So what's your plan for dealing with the casinos?" Sean asked him.

  "Well, like I said, that's our biggest problem. Anything we do, they'll just restock eventually. That's what they always do, when they're not using legal or magical means to keep us out of their buildings."

  Sean kept his face passive; he thought he'd asked for Ted to show up with a plan.

  'He wants you to tell them what to do,' the First said to Sean.

  'Why?'

  'Either he has no idea, or he doesn't think anyone will listen to him. Or maybe he just thinks his ideas are bad. You're the boss, you've made it clear to Ted, to his sister, and even Bill. It's time to be the boss.'

  'So what do I tell them?'

  'Tell them whatever you think will work, just remember one thing.'

  'What?'

  'To be brutal.'

  'What? But why?'

  'Because it will teach them not to ask you what to do, unless they really don't have a better idea. These people are supposed to be handling your problems for you, not asking for you to solve them. Best they learn that lesson now.'

  Taking the First's advice, it really wasn't hard to figure out what to do after the year he'd been having.

  "Burning them down works," Sean said in a clear voice. "Hard to restock if you're out of business."

  Ted and the others at the table all looked rather shocked.

  "You can't be serious? Burn their casino's down?"

  Sean nodded, "Sure, why not? We're not dealing with the councils here, who we don't want to get into a war with. We're dealing with six private businesses and what, a dozen or two individual owners?"

  "Sean," Bill said looking at his son-in-law in surprise, "if you burn that many places down, no matter how good you may be, they're going to know it's arson."

  Sean shrugged, "My next suggestion was we just kill all the people who own the casino's in question."

  "We can't do that either!"

  Sean looked at everyone around the table, "Why not?"

  "Because we can't!" Ted said.

  Leaning back in his chair, Sean sighed. "Look, I came here tonight because I wanted to hear what your plans are for dealing with these places. They're just six businesses, they're not compounds, they don't have a lot of soldiers, an army, dozens of armed mages looking to repel us.

  "So I sit down and expect to hear that you have some plan to deal with this. I have over four hundred soldiers back in Reno that report directly to me. I can get another three or four hundred if I ask. We're not playing games with these people. We are going to put an end to this, and we're going to do it now.

  "Look, I don't care how we do it, but you have to understand, burning their places to the ground and killing all of them is very much on the table. If you're worried about too much press, we burn down that one guy's place, who was it, Dolitt? We free all of his slaves, burn it down, kill him, maybe kill his son too. Then," Sean looked around at all of them, "you tell the others they have to turn over all of their lycan slaves now and let you search the entire building and grounds, or I'll be coming after them as well."

  All of them were looking back at him with various degrees of shock or surprise on their faces. Ted dropped back into his own chair looking thoughtful. Ryla was looking at him with undisguised lust.

  Then again, so was Roxy.

  "He's right, you know," Davy, a leader from one of the horse families said. "We've let them dictate the terms for so long now; we've let them get away with so much, that nothing short of an over the top display of violence and savagery is going to get them to listen to us."

  "We never had any other choice than to go along before," Anatoly said, nodding slowly. "No offense, Ted, Bill, you've done a lot with so little for so many years. But Sean's right, now that we have the power, we need to end this now, and if we take out the strongest of them, the others will fall into line."

  "I agree," Carlos spoke up next, looking around the table at the others. "They never cried when they spilled our blood, so we shouldn't cry when we spill theirs. Besides, if we can do this with only taking out Dolitt and his place, we'll have gotten away cheap."

  Sean watched as the others all slowly nodded. Some didn't look pleased, but they weren't protesting it either.

  Ted shook his head and sighed heavily, "I don't like it, but maybe that just goes to show you were right to call this meeting, Sean. I've grown too used to the way we've always done things. What do you think, Bill?"

  Sean looked at Bill, who was shaking his head, "I shouldn't like it, but I do. I've been tired of the shit we've had to put up with from Dolitt's and the Hi-Wire, and I've grown even more tired of the bodies we've found of lycans who they've gotten rid of because they became a 'problem.'" Bill growled then, "This is going to cause problems, I'm sure there'll be some backlash or other issues with the magical community or the mundanes who are aware of all of this, but I've been warning them for years that the judgment day was coming. Well, I guess it's finally here."

  Sean nodded and stood up, "Great, then it's decided. We'll attack Dolitt's, get the lycans out, torch the place, and kill this Dolitt guy." Sean smiled and looked around the room again. "Now all we need is a plan for the initial assault. If we need more people, I can call up as many as we need from back in Reno. Now, today's Monday. I want to see a plan this time tomorrow; I figure we'll hit them either Wednesday or Thursday, late, after midnight when the least amount of bystanders and tourists will be about."

  Sean turned to look at Bill, "How many police officers and firemen are lycans?"

  Bill started a moment not expecting that question, "I think about three hundred of my officers are," Bill turned to Carlos, "Carlos, how many lycans do you have in the fire department?"

  "Five hundred and twenty!" Carlos smiled, "Almost all of them!"

  Sean smiled, "Great! Make sure that all the cops on duty the night we strike, and all the firemen are lycans."

  "Why?" Bill asked.

  "Because they can make sure the 'fire' that gets them called in during the initial attack spreads when they're going inside to save everyone of course. Look, there's no way we can keep this quiet in the middle of the city, unless we hire a bunch of mages to come down here and erect one of their walls of silence.

  "But if it just looks like a normal accident, a regular fire, to the mundanes, then they'll expect to see the fire department and the police department responding. If we do in fact run this city, it's time to start taking advantage of it. The fire gets out of control, terrible code violations you see, and the place burns to the ground. The fire inspector dumps a ton of fines on Dolitt's, so the place never opens again." Sean turned to Carlos, "Is the fire inspector one of us?"

  Carlos grinned, "He's my cousin, Umberto. Don't worry, we can make it work."

  Sean smiled back at him, and then looked back at everyone else.

  "Ted, Bill, you know who and what resources are avail
able, and you know what we're up against going in there. I'll leave the planning all up to you two and don't be afraid to grab anyone you need to help you with it. If you need any suggestions, contact Chad, I'm sure he'll be happy to help.

  "Now, anything else?"

  Everyone looked around the table at each, other and then looking back at him; they shook their heads 'no.'

  "Excellent! Well, I'm gonna go out to the bar with the wives, have a few drinks and do a little dancing. Come get me, Bill, when it's time to go!"

  Standing up, Sean took Roxy and Peg by the hand and headed for the exit, remembering to shift just before they left the room.

  'So, brutal enough?'

  'You're learning!'

  Dreams

  Sean was seated in the back of the car on the ride back to Roxy's parent's house. Roxy was all but attached to his right side, and even Peg was pressing into him a bit more than usual. Sean had to admit that he liked it. Going in there and cracking the whip, telling the people who had run this town for decades how to do their jobs and having them accept it, was both scary and exhilarating.

  But having Roxy and Peg pressing against him after not just supporting him, but obviously approving of the way he handled everything meant a lot to him. Roxy especially. They were the foundation of his world, their approval and now apparent desire for him definitely made it worth the hassle of facing down the 'older and wiser' heads.

  As long as the First continued to advise him, Sean was starting to feel that he could, in fact, do this.

  Peg smiled and leaned into Sean as they got into the car. She still couldn't believe that her life had changed so much. She'd gone from a rich spoiled preppy kid with a powerful father and an attitude, to an outcast with nothing to live for, to married to the most powerful man in the state, maybe even the country.

  Seeing Sean just stand up to all of those people and lay down the law once again reminded her of how lucky she was. He loved her, Sheila loved her, Roxy, Jo, Daelyn, Roberta, even Cali, they all loved her too. She had more power now than she'd ever hoped to gain in her entire life, and she even had a reason to use it, because she loved Sean and the rest just as much as they loved her.

  Peg put her arm around Sean's and had to smile at Roxy, who was pressed up so hard against him, that it almost looked like she was trying to become a part of him. If someone had told her six months ago, that not only would she be sharing a husband with another, but that she'd be happy about it, she'd have laughed at them.

  But with Sean, with the others, it worked. Jolene had told her that Sean's chi had been increasing since he'd become a lion and that those forces had links to all of them, as they had joined with him and became his mates. That they felt like a part of him because in a way there were. Jolene had admitted that she was still both surprised and happy with this start of affairs because as a tantric witch, her powers were growing along with his.

  It was definitely a marriage with something for each of them, Peg had come to realize.

  Roxy ran her hand down between Sean's legs, she couldn't wait to get home, and if her father wasn't in the front seat of the car, she wouldn't be waiting at all! Her man, her mate, her lion, had just stood up before the people who had run her hometown, her life, for the last several decades and without flinching, without any second thought or hesitation at all, he'd read them the riot act in a calm reasonable voice and told them how it was going to be from now on, and they didn't even hesitate to toe the line.

  Even her own father had agreed with Sean! She knew her father was tough, and at times could be as vicious as the best of them, but Sean had just laid it out like he was ordering a pizza.

  And they'd all fallen into line.

  She purred and kissed him, pressing her body into his. Everyone used to tease her because she was always dumping guys for not being 'good enough' for not being 'strong enough.' Everyone always figured she'd never attract a mate because her standards were so 'impossibly high.'

  Well, they all finally got to see just what kind of a man lived up to her standards! And they all bowed before him.

  Oh yeah, Sean was going to get a lot of lovin' tonight, she was going to see if she couldn't love him right into a coma!

  "Well," Bill coughed and decided not to look in the mirror again, it looked like his daughter was all but ready to rape Sean in the back of the car, and Peg looked more than willing to help. "That wasn't so hard, Sean, was it?"

  Sean smiled and kissed Roxy, then Peg.

  "I just hope I didn't leave anyone with any hurt feelings or bruised egos. I don't like having to tell people their jobs, especially when I think they know more than I do. But," Sean shrugged his shoulders, "I didn't want to just spend the evening going round and round on half measures and trying to do things the same way as they'd always done them before.

  "And I hope I didn't offend you or bruise your ego any there as well, Dad," Sean added with a smile.

  "Son, you've already made it clear to me just who calls the shots, and while I'm not always pleased with it, you've proven yourself to me time and time again."

  "Thanks, I appreciate that."

  "I'll appreciate it even more if you can keep my daughter from putting on a show in the back seat," Bill laughed.

  Roxy snorted, "We're mates, Dad. I don't think you're going to see anything you haven't seen before."

  "Trust me, Roxy, there are things that no father wants to actually see, for all that he may know that they're going on."

  When they got back, they all piled out of the car and Roxy all but dragged Sean upstairs to her room, not that Sean really needed to be dragged, all of the attention that Roxy and Peg had been paying him in the car had him pretty excited as well.

  "I'll go tell your mom and the others what happened at the meeting," Bill chuckled as they went up the stairs to Roxy's room.

  Sean followed Roxy into the room, with Peg bringing up the rear. Wrapping his arms around Roxy and dropping to his knees he dragged her down, causing Roxy to fall forward onto the bed, her legs on the floor, but her nice tight ass was on the edge of the bed just inches before him.

  "Sean!" Roxy laughed as he heard Peg close the door.

  "Hmm?" Sean said as he grabbed the waistband of Roxy's Daisy Dukes, and giving them a hard yank he pulled them down past her thighs. Leaning forward and gave her ass a nip.

  "Eek!" Roxy laughed and squirmed as Sean started to grab and massage that lovely tight butt of hers with one hand, the other snaking around her hips to tease her sex as he continued to nip and bite those firm muscular globes.

  Sean wondered what Peg was up to, when suddenly he felt her hands undoing his pants and starting to work them down his hips. When she got to his knees, he started to move up Roxy's back with his tongue and his teeth, moving both hands around and under her, to start stroking at her belly as she sighed and purred beneath him.

  Peg got his pants off of him then and moved between his legs and reaching around started to fondle and tease Sean's erection, not that he needed much encouragement at this point. As Sean's licks and nibbles reached Roxy's shoulders, he moved his hands up to cup her breasts as his weight pushed her down onto the bed. At the same time, Peg deftly guided him into Roxy's sex, causing her to moan rather loudly and start trying to push back against him.

  "Pull her back a bit off the bed," Peg whispered behind him, and then she dropped to the floor beneath them. Sean wasn't sure what Peg was up to now, but he did as she directed, pulling Roxy back as she spread her legs to brace on the floor outside of his. Obviously, Peg had removed Roxy's shorts as well.

  Sean was just starting in on a nice easy rhythm, moving in and out of his love, when he felt Peg's tongue, and one of her hands stroking his sack. From the way Roxy suddenly shivered and started to moan, apparently Peg's other hand was teasing Roxy.

  Sean did the only thing he could think of, which was to start torturing Roxy's nipples with his fingers while he nibbled on the base of her neck with his teeth. The effect was interesting, as al
ways. Roxy hit her first peak then, and with a growl, Sean started to redouble his own efforts and pick up speed, as Peg's talented fingers and tongue were definitely driving him towards the heights as well.

  When Sean finally hit his own peak, several minutes later, he shivered and bucked against Roxy, holding her close and panting until his own moment had passed. Feeling Peg's hands tugging him backwards, he complied and then sighed rather happily as she subjected him to her talented tongue once more.

  Once he was no longer flagging, he moved back and Peg's legs moved to the outsides of his as he moved back to a kneeling position. Grabbing Peg's hips he lifted her up onto his lap, and leaning forward as he pulled her closer, Sean entered her, while Peg pulled Roxy down on top of her, turning the attentions of her talented tongue loose on Roxy, who ended up on her knees, straddling Peg.

  With Pegs legs now tightly wrapped around him, Sean's hands were free to tease both girls, causing Roxy to lean back closer to him, and turning her head to the side, Roxy and Sean kissed as Sean started moving his hips against Peg, who had her hands most definitely busy exploring Roxy.

  They changed positions several more times before Sean hit his peak a second time, though by that time Peg and Roxy had definitely outnumbered him in orgasms.

  They moved up onto the bed then and were well on their way through the next round when the rest of the girls joined them, and Sean was informed by Daelyn that lion-boy wasn't getting to sleep anytime before sunrise.

  Sean figured he'd just do his best and suffer in silence. Well, when he wasn't moaning, gasping, purring, or panting, at least.

  §

  Sean was on the side of the mountain where the lions all met, only there was no one else there this time, other than the First. That was when Sean realized that he was in his lion form, as was the First.

  "Where is everybody?" Sean asked, looking around.

  "I thought it would be better if there weren't others around to distract us," the First said. "Come, let's walk for a while."