The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

Vlad smiled and once more directed his attention to the beautiful creature on the deck with him. “Let everyone spread the word that the true Mother of all Vampires has returned to correct the Lie of Solomon. Tell every vampire that their ‘Blood Saint’ has decieved them for his own ends, and tell every mortal what Solomon intends to do.”

“That’ll start riots in the street Vlad,” Grom replied.

“No,” Sadie said, “I won’t allow that.” She looked at Grom. “Solomon will be holed up with Lord Frost. Send him a message. I demand punishment of my offspring for creating a rift between vampires and the mortal races. Where would be a good place to meet?” she asked.

It was the human Tommy who was first to respond. “How about Downlands Park? There’s a large field there, and it’s not in West End.”

“That sounds good,” she said.

He smiled. “I’ll talk to the media. My story should help win you support amongst the human population at the very least.”

Vlad nodded. “And you’ve already got the support of the wolves. We’ve taken enough crap from Solomon’s vampires that we’re more than willing to stand with you.”

This was the Vladimir Koloff that Sadie had longed to see. This Vlad had a power that was as potent and wild as an avalanche, and it was ready to be unloaded on those who opposed Sadie Hewitt.

Vlad wasn’t done. “Todd, go home so that you and my sister can start a calling spree. I want every pack leader you can find to know about this and I want them keeping an eye on the vampires. I don’t want them doing anything, but I don’t want the vamps coming to Solomon’s aid either.”

Mary seemed calmer now. “We will make sure that Solomon doesn’t flee,” she said, her voice filled with ghostly promise.

“Can your wraiths control your hunt for long?” Sadie asked.

“Yes. Your need for vengeance is so personal that we can bury our hunger for a time being, but we will see that justice is served. Solomon will face you because if he doesn’t, the wraiths will hound him for now until the end of time and from the gates of Heaven to the lowest of Hell’s realms.”

Vlad looked at Grom. “Captain, I advise a police presence at the entrance to Ms. Hewitt’s property for a while.” He turned to Frankie. “You think that you and your boys can patrol the area and discourage any unwelcome visitors.

Frankenstein grinned. “I think the boys might just have fun with that.”

“Then everybody get moving.”

As the crowd began to clear out, Sadie jumped down and caught up with Devlin. “Thank you,” she said. “The things you said . . . the things you did –”

“I was a fool before,” the young officer replied. “And you were right. I need to think about this a lot more now.”

She looked him in his big brown eyes and said, “When you are done searching your soul and if you decide you still want it, I would be proud to bring you over.”

Devlin blushed. “Letting you nibble on my neck? I’m not sure I’d survive.”

Sadie smiled. “I hear its not so bad once the mind-numbing orgasm starts.” She patted him on the cheek, then turned back to the porch only to find Tommy in her way. The handsome man looked at her with eyes as clear as a desert morning after a long rain. He hugged her and she let him. There were no more words to express what she had given him, and no need to tell him that she would do it all again.

Soon, all that was left was Sadie, Melissa, Mary, and Vlad. Everyone else faded into the woodwork to accomplish the tasks that the alpha wolf had laid out for them.

“I’ve made such a mess of this,” Sadie said, her eyes looking towards the moon and the darkness that surrounded it.

“This isn’t your fault,” Melissa replied. “You can’t –”

“I should’ve hunted that bastard down,” Sadie interrupted. “Hell, we both should’ have died on that cliff. The children of the Throne of Blood should never have walked the mortal world.” She ripped one of the boards off her deck railing and hurled it across the yard. It was a pointless gesture, but it gave her something to do. “I’m cursed, and my curse has spread.” She looked at Mel. “If not for me, you’re living a nice, normal life. No one is trying to kill you.”

“I don’t want a nice normal life,” Mel said, wringing her hands. “I don’t think I lived a day of my life until you showed up.”

Mary’s eyes cleared for a moment as she controlled her deadly thirst. “I would be alone.” She looked at Melissa with such hope-filled eyes that it pulled at Sadie’s heart to watch. Maybe something good would come out of all of this, assuming they lived.

“I’d be stuck in a dead end marriage,” Vlad added. “I wouldn’t be who I needed to be.”Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

“You couldn’t be anyone else,” Sadie replied. “You don’t have to be doing this.”

Vlad actually looked miffed. “Doing what? Guarding your ass? Actually, yeah I do.”

“Why?”

He rolled his eyes.

Melissa looked at Mary. “This might be a good time for me to go check on the cats.”

Mary smiled. “I’ll go see how the rest of the wraiths are doing. Solomon has some impressive set spells protecting him right now, so all we are doing is holding him.” She kissed Melissa and then vanished. Melissa hugged Sadie, drank in her mother’s presence and then vanished into the woods.

Sadie looked back to Vlad, who was staring at her and tapping his foot.

“Let’s start,” Vlad began, “with the fact that you’re defending all the mortal races, not just humans. That means the weres, which makes it my business. Let’s not forget that because of you, I’m free. You finally made me see that Teresa was an albatross that I kept around my own neck. YOU, in you own insanely frustrating and highly confusing manner, have made life more interesting than it has been . . . ever!” At this point, Vlad was waving his arms wildly.

“Interesting? Vlad, I lied to everyone! I’m in the process of screwing an entire race’s self image straight to hell, and I’m probably going to be put in jail afterward for lying to the Arbiter Bureau!”

Vlad raised one eyebrow. “See? Interesting.”

She threw her hands up in frustration. “I just wanted a place to hole up for forty years or so before moving on. I didn’t want this.”

Vlad stepped forward. “Want what? You think that if you weren’t here that Solomon wouldn’t have tried this? You being here is the only reason we may have headed off a vampire take over.”

“If I’d been a responsible parent, I would’ve taken charge of my children a long time ago. I never should’ve let it come to this.”

“You already said why you let it go, and I can’t say I would’ve made any different of a call. If you remember, I wasn’t exactly willing to take control of my charges either, and I didn’t have nearly as good a reason.”

“You’re pack had a good leader, just not as alpha as he should have been. The guy leading my race is a psychopath. And now, one of us has to die.”

“Can’t you just force him to admit what really happened? Make him back down?”

Sadie laughed a humorless laugh. “We are a proud people and Solomon knows this. If you just found out that the person providing moral and spiritual guidance to you for thousands of years was a liar and a crook, they won’t just let you walk away. He has to kill me to keep the Lie going, and even then he’ll have a small revolution on his hands. If I win, then people will be forced to accept my version of things. Besides, as long as I’m alive, the wraiths will keep after him. I’ve floating in a pool of vengeance for seven thousand plus years, and now they’ve all come to drink. I can’t call for if I’m dead. Right now, I just have to figure out how he’s coming for me. He won’t wait for a fair fight or challenge. It’s just not in his nature.”

Vlad stepped up behind her and put hands on his shoulders. “Which is one of many reasons that he never deserved you.”

She smiled a little. “A romantic sentiment from someone whose marriage I ruined.” She felt his strong hands on her shoulders, spinning her around so fast she almost slapped him the face with her wings.

“Teresa ruined my marriage, not you. You just finally gave me enough to see that I couldn’t ignore it anymore. Now, I feel more free and alive than I have in ten years.”

Sadie couldn’t deny how “alive” Vlad felt. This close to her, his scent was heavy and warm in her nostrils, and he practically glowed with his own power. Potent muscles rippling in his hands, his arms, and in that broad chest covered in a thin layer of flannel. She remembered what it had been like when she had fed off of him and how that entire body had been pressed against her. She had many a pleasant if somewhat embarrassing dream about that night.

Vlad hadn’t forgotten that night either. “Now,” he muttered in a deep, darkly-handsome voice, “I have something worth fighting for.”

Sadie willed her heart to beat, though it didn’t take much coaxing. If there was a chance that she might not live another night, then there was something she very badly wanted before this one was over. “So, are you just a fighter?” she asked, running her hands over that wonderful chest.

Vlad had resisted temptation for so long. Everything about Sadie Hewitt was perfect . . . not just physically, but for Vlad himself. She was wild, passionate, and wholly wonderful. Teresa had scoffed at his animal nature, while Sadie soaked it in and took comfort in it. Now, for the first time, there was no reason whatsoever to resist that temptation. He lifted her off her feet and kissed her like he’d wanted to for so long. He drove both of their bodies back into her trailer with a resounding thud, but Sadie hardly seemed put off. Rather, she wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck, kissing him back with a fever that he never would have imagined possible. Maybe for any woman less than Sadie, such heat wasn’t possible.