Chapter 16
Chapter
Sixteen
ATLAS
I’ve been waiting for Willow and Jude to come by the club. Jude has a shift and Willow has the night off so she’s going to hang around and watch like she often does.
Briar has to work late tonight, so she sadly won’t be coming by. But when I think about it, that might be best for what I have planned.
It’s a bizarre, out there plan, but if anyone would be my sidekick and be on board with it, it would be my incredibly sexy alpha.
“Could you be anymore lovestruck?” Lacy asks with a laugh.
“What?” I blink, pulling my eyes away from the front door where they’ve been glued on and off for the past half hour.
Lacy smiles, shaking her head, “You’ve been watching that door as if your life depended on it. Let me guess, Jude is working tonight?”
“Maybe,” I mumble.
“Careful big guy, you’re coming off as a bit of a stalker.”
“Maybe he likes that,” I throw back with a cheeky smile.
“I don’t doubt that he would,” she laughs.
“Who would what?” Jude’s voice makes me jump, my head snapping to the side to see Willow and Jude standing behind Lacy.
“Damn it!” I sigh. “You distracted me,” I blame Lacy.
“He’s your problem now,” Lacy says, before shaking her head and walking away.
“Everything okay?” Willow asks, looking between me and where Lacy left.
“It’s fine. I was just waiting for you, and Lacy called me out,” I grin.
“Ah, you mean the stalking,” Jude grins.
“See. I knew you would like it,” I chuckle.
Jude leans up and over the bartop and I meet him half way, giving him a heated kiss that earns us a few wolf whistles. “Hi, my Little Ballerina,” I murmur against his lips.
“Hi, Alpha,” he purrs before pulling back. “I’m going to go get changed now.” He kisses Willow before leaving.
I’m making my way from around the bar and over to Willow in seconds, grabbing her hand and pulling her towards my office.
She laughs at my eagerness. “I’m down for some office sex, but not even a hello first?” she asks as I pull her into my office.
Shutting the door, I push her up against it before pressing my lips to hers in a searing kiss.
“Hi, Hummingbird. I love you.”
“I love you too,” she sighs happily against my lips before kissing me again.
“Okay, so I didn’t exactly bring you in here for sex,” I admit.
She gives me this adorable pout, “Why not?”
“Hear me out. I think it’s better than sex.”
“What could be better than sex?” she asks, raising a brow.
“Ah, murder?” I ask.
Her eyes light up. “I mean, depending on who it is, it could be.”
“How about Briar’s stepfathers?”
Her brows furrow. “Wait, what?”
“After Briar told us about her past and everything that happened with her sack of shit stepbrother, may his soul burn in hell,” I snarl, the thought of what that monster did to her filling me with anger.
“It had me wondering, what about her stepdads?” Her stepbrother might be dead, but as far as we knew, they weren't.
“Huh,” Willow says, blinking. “Why didn’t I think of that? They should be put down just like their piece of shit son.”
“I was hoping you’d say that.” My smile curves into a big grin. “Because I might have looked them up.”
“Might have?” She raises an amused brow.
“Okay, so I did,” I laugh.
“And?”
“They’re still breathing,” I mutter. “But, if you agree to my crazy idea, they won’t be for long.”
She smiles, crossing her arms. “I’m listening.”
“Field trip. You and me. We go get those bastards and give them the fate they deserve. It would take about two days to get there, get them and come back. You in?”
“I want to say yes, but, what about our omegas? Do we tell them, or is this a surprise kind of deal? Because I don’t like going behind Jude or Briar's back.”
“We tell Jude, drop him off to hang out with Briar for a few days. We tell Briar we’re leaving, because I don’t want to lie to anyone, but we don’t tell her the full truth. Tell her it’s a surprise, to trust us and we’ll be back soon.”
“Okay. That I can get on board with.”
“So you're in?” I ask excitedly.
“Fuck yeah I’m in.” The smile that takes over her face has my heart racing. “Like I’d say no to making those sick fuckers pay for the parts they played in Briar’s trauma.”
“You’re so perfect,” I growl, cupping the back of her head and kissing her roughly.
“Are we really not going to fuck in here?” Willow asks when we come up for air.
“No, we are,” I grin. “Get that sexy ass bent over my desk.”
She lets out an excited giggle as she rushes to do as I ask.
I am in such a good mood. Tonight is going better than I could ask.
“Why do you two look like naughty kids up to no good?” Jude asks, looking at us in one of the dressing room mirrors. He turns around, raising a brow.
“Us? Up to no good?” Willow scoffs. “Never.”
“Okay, spill.” Jude crosses his arms, eyes flicking between the two of us.
“Anyone else in here?” Willow asks.
“No,” I shake my head. I am so excited, I feel as if I’m high. The excitement is intoxicating, and it's difficult to keep it together.
“Good.” She closes the door then comes over to me. “How would you like to help us give Briar closure and security from her past?”
“I’m in,” Jude says without hesitation. “What do you need me to do?”
I turn to look at Willow, only to find that both of us are grinning. Perfect.
“Come with us, and we’ll explain everything,” I promise.
As we drive to Briar’s workplace, we fill Jude in on our plan. We plan on driving to Idaho, grab the three bastards and bring them back here. Jude agreed he’d be happy to stay with Briar until we got back. I don’t like the idea of either of them being alone while we’re so far away.
It’s a good thing my truck has a tonneau cover. As long as we keep them sedated, we should be able to get them back here without anyone suspecting otherwise.
When we get to Widows Peak, we stop by Club 21 to grab Briar.
“Hey.” She grins wide when we walk into the club. “I wasn’t expecting you all.”
She gives us each a hug and kiss before stepping back. Her brows furrow. “Is something going on?”
“Are you done with work?” Willow asks.
“Yes,” she drawls slowly. Shit, she’s suspicious. None of us are acting right, which explains why she’s confused. “I was just about to clock out. Why?”
“Go do that, then we’ll talk,” I tell her, kissing her on the forehead.
“I don’t like this.” She narrows her eyes. “Did something bad happen?”
“No,” Willow laughs. “Everyone is fine, no one is hurt.”
“Okay then.” She doesn’t sound convinced. “Just give me a second.”
Her fingers quickly punch across the computer screen as she clocks out, and then she’s turning towards us again.
“Okay, so out with it. I hate letting my mind think a million different things and get me worked up for nothing.”
“It’s not bad, I promise. It’s actually kind of exciting,” I grin.
“Exicting. I can do that,” she smiles. “So what's going on?”
“We can’t tell you,” Willow says, leaning forward to kiss her hello.
“Why not?” she laughs, looking between the three of us.
“Let’s go home first,” I tell her. “It’s a conversation better had where people can’t hear.”
“What’s with all the secrecy?” she asks Jude as we get into my truck.
“It’s nothing bad,” Jude promises as I pull out of the parking lot and head towards Briar’s place. “We’ll tell you, if you really want us to. But we would like it to be a surprise.”
“Is the surprise at home?” she asks.
“Not yet,” Willow says. “But soon.”
“If it’s not here, then why mention it? That's just mean,” she laughs.
“Because.” Willow turns in her seat. “It involves me and Atlas leaving for a few days.”
“Leaving?” Briar asks. “Where?”
“Can’t say,” Willow says, knowing if we told her she would catch on.
“You’re going on a road trip without us for a surprise?” she asks.
“Yes,” I answer, trying not to grin.
“Jude, are you going?”
“Nope. We’re having a weekend sleepover,” Jude says happily.
Briar’s eyes clear as she listens to this and she shrugs finally.
“You know what. I trust you both. So, whatever you have planned, do it. I get my omega for two whole days. That's two days of hot mind-blowing sex. Just the two of us. I don’t think you’re going to get a complaint from me.”
“Fuck,” I groan, my cock stiffening at the thought of my omegas together. “That’s just mean, Little Rose.”
“We are going to have the best weekend ever,” Jude groans. My eyes flick up to the rearview mirror to see Jude and Briar making out in the back seat.
“You sure we gotta go this weekend?” Willow shifts in her seat, this whole truck now smelling like slick and pheromones.
Jude rips his lips from Briar’s. “Nope, you’re going,” Jude pants heavily. “I’m sure Briar will thank you in the same way we plan on spending our weekend when you get back. My omega,” he growls before kissing Briar again.
“Can you at least videotape it?” Willow asks.
“Maybe,” Briar giggles breathlessly before kissing Jude again.
“Don’t worry, Briar has cameras all over her place apart from the bathrooms. Unless they have shower sex, we’ll be able to go back and watch later on,” I whisper over to Willow.
She shoots me back a big grin. “Perfect.”
“Next time, I vote we go on an actual road trip with our omegas. Camping, hiking, all of that,” Willow groans, stretching out her arms over her head as we stop at a gas station.
We’re almost to our destination. Only an hour left to go.
“I think Briar would love that. She’s supposed to start her heat soon, so maybe after that we can all take some time off?”
“Sounds perfect.”
We head inside to grab some snacks before getting back into the truck.
After we told Briar vaguely about our plans, we spent the night together as a pack. It was already late by the time Briar was done with work, so we opted to get some sleep and go back to Willow’s apartment to grab anything she might need.
After lots of kisses and promising to check in a lot, we headed out. It was over a fifteen hour drive there, so we made sure to stop into a hotel last night to get some sleep knowing that we didn’t want to make any unneeded stops on our way back. We didn’t want to risk anyone poking around.