Saving Sophia, page 10
“Yes, well, you were to take care of the Hidden Park Pack on their lands and not bring them here. So, I’ll take this treat back,” Drake growls out and pulls Sophia against him.
“They were already on their way here when my clan arrived. No matter, everyone is being taken care of.” Matteo turns toward Saoirse, his large body blocking Drake’s view of my sister. I see no fear in her face, just awe and love? What the ever-loving shit is going on!
“Bella Donna
“You can keep my daughter as originally agreed. Perhaps you can teach that useless whore some manners. However, due to the change of venue for this battle, I’m keeping this one. I can torture my son with her death.” Drake looks at me with a smug satisfaction as I glance over at Matteo, who’s livid.
“Let me explain something to you, stronzo
“You can leave now, Matteo, this whore is mine.” Drake sinks his teeth into Sophia’s neck. Not even a second passes, and I attack Drake. No compulsion will stop me from killing him.
I have Drake pinned to the wall behind him, my nails digging into his throat. “Release me,” Drake commands, rasping. I laugh in his face.
“You no longer have control over me. You broke that bond when you attacked my mate. You’ll die by the hand of your own blood,” I growl into his face.
“Scusami
With only a slight nod, Matteo and I work simultaneously to decapitate Drake, his blood sprays out coating both our faces. I hear twin gasps from behind us.
“Gross, Finn, now Sophia and I won’t touch either of you,” Saoirse says jokingly.
I rip off my shirt and wipe my face. Sophia’s eyes glint with lust as she checks out my naked torso.
“Speak for yourself, I’m not keeping my hands off him,” Sophia murmurs a second before she throws herself in my arms.
“I love you!” She gets out just before my mouth crashes into her, showing her how much I love her in one kiss.
“You’re my everything, mo grá
I hear voices behind me, so lost in my love’s eyes, I forgot my sister was there with Matteo, her mate. I turn around quickly, realizing she will be mated to a monster.
Matteo has with his arms wrapped around Saoirse, looking down at her murmuring words to her. Her face is alight with absolute joy. His giant guard is holding another witch, and Aria is here covered in blood with her three mates.
“Thank ye for helpin’ me mate and her family as well as my sister.” I want to tell him to get away from my sister, but I can’t insult the man who helped take Drake down.
“We need no thanks. We’re all famiglia
I look into Saoirse’s eyes and see happiness and love that has been missing her entire life, but I still have to ask, “This man is who you want, deirfiúr
Saoirse looks at me with only mild irritation because she knows I’ll always be protective of her.
“With all that I am.”
I nod my head and look down at Sophia. “Yes, with all that I am.” I lean down and kiss my mate.
“Soph, can you please stop sucking face, so your brothers and I can hug you. We barely got you back, and then you took off as soon as we got here. You scared the shit out of us!” Aria gripes at her, and Sophia pulls away from me to go to her family.
I give Aria an irritated growl for pulling her away from me, and her mates puff up. “Oye, like ye all aren’t the same with yer lass.”
They look at each and then at Aria and relax. One twin smirks. “Yeah, we can relate.”
Sophia is hugging Aria, then her brothers, reassuring them of her well-being. I step over to my sister and her mate.
“So ye are the famous Matteo Donati?” I ask, hoping not to offend him, and he laughs.
“Si, you would enjoy the story as I heard your mate did when Isabella here told her. I swear to you I’ll protect, love, and cherish your sister. She is my greatest tesoro
“I expect nothing less. Welcome to the family.” He shakes my hand with vigor, then Saoirse jumps into my arms for a hug.
“We get our happy ever after, Finny.” I squeeze her.
“Ye deserve nothing less, lass. Love ye.” She hugs me tight.
“Love you. She’s good for you. You deserve all the happiness.”
I look over to my girl and smile. I may not deserve her, but I’m going to spend my life ensuring she is loved and hope to be worthy of her.
Chapter 15
Sophia
What I can only describe as a tumultuous romance, Saoirse is off to Italy with Matteo and his clan. Finn, I can tell he is struggling a bit with letting his sister go, but since they haven’t lived together in a while, it’s easier, especially after he learned of Matteo and his family’s history. He knows Saoirse will be taken excellent care of.
We’re left with a mess of bodies and blood in the castle that is now under Finn’s command, much to his displeasure. He never saw himself as a leader, and now he only wants to get me alone and naked, which I’m all for. However, I know he needs to step into his leadership role.
“I don’t even like these feckers, why should I rule them?” he says, whining again.
“Finn, this is your home, your people need a leader, they need someone to guide them. We know your father…” He growls at that. “We know Drake didn’t lead, he ordered.” He hates when anyone calls Drake his father, which I can understand. All the vampires Drake sired now fall to Finn. We eliminated those who held loyalty to Drake—it was fun and bloody. Everyone else, we’ll have to see how they will fare. Finn doesn’t want to turn anyone against their will or force anyone into slavery under him. He discovered that Drake turned many people and then left them to fend for themselves. We’re working with Matteo’s clan to help organize cities and ensure that a rule such as Drake’s will never come to power again. Finn tried to get Matteo to take over, but he declined, saying he needs to be home with his mate. He’s helping Finn a lot with leadership but more so in guiding him and not taking over.
Aria, the twins, and Jonah are taking over for the Elemental Coven. Isabella and Aria are becoming fast friends as well since Aria learned they are both the same type of witch, which were becoming extinct because of men like Damien and Drake. However, together, they are bringing many witches closer and out of the shadows to work with both shifters and vampires.
“My home is anywhere ye are. I don’t want to live in this castle, love. I’d like a home just for our family. I plan to have ye pregnant soon.” Finn is nuzzling my neck, his erection pressing hard into my thigh as we’re trying to talk about what our next move is.
“Well, how about we build a house somewhere between here and Hidden Park, that way I can still work at my practice there, and you can check on your clan here? We can have this as a supernatural hotel. Those who may be new to our world or lost their families may need training or guidance. Not just vampires but witches and shifters. It could be the main house for the US vampire clan but also for wayward souls.” I had thought a lot about what we’d do with this castle because, like him, I want our own home, and I don’t want to live here, plus it’s way too large for us.
“This is why ye are me mate, you have the brains.” He gives me a slow, deep, and sensual kiss that has me melting.
“Now, lass, we ‘ave hosted yer family and Matteo’s for a few days. Everyone has left, and we’ve made our future plans. Enough talking, we have yet to be fully mated. No more teasing, lass. I’m ready to claim, mark, and lick every part of yer delectable body.” His voice is pitched low and deep, resonating deep into my core.
“Well, my sexy Irishman, what are you going to do about that?” I nip his ear and kiss down his neck.
“Woman…” he growls, then lifts me to his waist, and I wrap myself around him. Before I know it, we’re in his large bedroom, my back slammed against the door, and he’s devouring my mouth.
“I’ve wanted ye more and more since our one time together. It has been torture staying away. I can’t do it anymore. Yer mine. I need everyone to know it.” Finn kisses me with abandon, rips my shirt off me, the fabric biting into my skin painfully for a moment, then his mouth covers my nipple filling me with pure pleasure. I drop my legs from around his waist and rip his shirt off in the same fashion he did mine, and a small hiss escapes his lips.
“Git yer pants off before I rip those,” he growls at me as he shoves his jeans down, leaving him gloriously naked, his hard cock pointing at me as if reaching for me. I’m out of my pants and underwear in record time.
“Feck, yer gorgeous, lass. Yer mine, ye hear me. Mine.” He doesn’t give me a chance to respond as he slams his mouth to mine. I climb his body, needing to feel him over every inch of me.
“I need you, baby,” I whisper. He grabs my ass firmly pulling me up around him once more. I’m grinding against his hard length trying to get it in me.
“Yer going to make me come before we ever get started, love. I need ye, but first, I’m going to taste every inch of ye. I’ll satisfy yer ever’ need.” He drops me on the bed before I can even grab for him again, dives between my thighs, and locks his mouth on my aching clit.
“Oh, fuck, baby.” Gripping his hair as I grind my wet core against his mouth, he plunges his fingers deep in me as he coaxes an orgasm rapidly out of me.
“I’ll never get enough of yer sticky honey, love. I’ve waited too damn long for ye. It’s time to make you mine.” Finn slams deep into me in one hard thrust. I nearly pass out from the pleasure.
“Jeesuz, I nearly came already, lass. Please don’t think poorly of me if I don’ last long. I swear to ye I won’t stop until ye are thoroughly satisfied,” Finn mumbles into me, holding himself still.
“I’m already satisfied, Finn, but if you don’t fuck me now, I’ll force you to watch me make myself come and not get to touch me,” I moan into his ear.
“Watch it, girl.” He pulls out and slams into me again, swirling his hips eliciting a moan from both of us.
“Never deny yer body from me.” He pulls out and slides in again slowly, this time not stopping with his thrusts.
“Never. Damn, you feel so good.” I dig my heels into his thighs and ass pulling him deeper into me as I meet him thrust for thrust.
“That’s it, love, come for me. I love ye, lass, so fecking much.” His words and body cause me to ignite. I feel his love and ours as I reach my peak. I scream out as I fall over the ledge of blissfulness and latch onto his throat, marking him as my mate, clicking my connection to him in place, our tie pulling us deeper into each other.
“Holy fecking shite!” Finn grunts as I feel him throb inside me, filling me with his seed. He nuzzles and bites in my vein causing me to come again as he drinks from me, tasting and connecting himself to me.
“Oh my, yes, fuck, yes!” I scream as he ties me to him, now marking me as his. Our bond, love, and future binding into place as we are meant to be.
Chapter 16
Finn
Quite a few things utterly amaze me. First, is how I can’t get enough of my mate—her presence, her love, and her fucking body. I swear I’m like a wee lad who discovers his first nudie magazine. However, she’s just as randy with me so that evens things out. Second, is how happy I am. Not just happy for not being under the rule of my bastard father but just happy to have a proper family.
Since war ruined Christmas, we celebrated on New Year’s Eve along with Sophia’s twenty-third birthday. We spent her actual birthday in bed, where I asked her to marry me, which she enthusiastically accepted.
There are still many of her pack members who are leery of befriending vampires, but only time will tell how we’ll all transition to being a more cohesive group.
The last amazing thing is Saoirse’s and my relationship. We have never been close, we love each other, and I was fiercely protective of her, but we didn’t talk often. With Drake gone, we talk or text every single day. She’s so happy and in love, as I am. For the first time in our lives, we have a genuine family—she has Matteo and his family as well as Sophia’s family and me. To top it all off, we’re all having one huge wedding in the Spring—it seems Matteo didn’t wait to pop the question either. I don’t want to think about him doing all the things I’m doing to Sophia to Saoirse, but I’m glad they are happy.
Sophia’s brother, Tristan, and his mate originally planned their wedding for May. Then the rest of the family found their mates, and we all piggybacked on their wedding and decided to do it all together. Aria won’t even have graduated from high school, but they will marry her to her three mates, who proposed together tonight. I was all for tying Sophia to me in every way possible.
I’m watching my girl while she talks to Aria and her other friend, Dillan, while we’re visiting their packhouse. I can’t get over how stunning she is, and she’s all mine. She must feel me looking at her because she turns her head and locks eyes with me. The same heat and love I know in my eyes are reflected in hers. She smiles and breaks contact, turning back to her friends. I’m trying hard not to be jealous as she wraps her arms around her Dillan and hugs him. Aria is there holding his hand, and I can feel her mates next to me tense.
“You all are cavemen, seriously. Dillan isn’t a threat. Cole and Xav, you know that, and still every time either he touches Aria or she touches him, you act like he’s trying to steal her away. He has a mate, even if that mate doesn’t deserve him,” Aria’s witch mate, Jonah, says, and we all attempt to relax.
“He has a wanker, he’s a threat,” I mumble out.
“See, he understands,” one twin says.
“Speaking of mates, James is here.”
I watch where the other guys are looking and see another shifter come into the room and looks over to where Sophia and her friends are. He frowns, then turns and goes to the Alpha and talks with him for a minute, then leaves.
“Dillan and James are mates, and they don’t talk?” I have no issues with them being gay, I just wonder why they won’t even talk or be near each other. My mate is across the room, and it’s a struggle not to glue myself to her.
“It’s complicated. Short story. James knew Dillan was his mate when they were younger, kissed him, then turned his back on him when others picked on Dillan for being a gay shifter. Dillan has had a rough time all his life with hard asses picking on him. He’s a damn powerful fighter and a good kid. James admitted to being his mate, but Dillan doesn’t trust him nor want to pursue the mating,” Xavier, I think is the right twin, explains.
That sounds like a lot of drama and bullshit. I wouldn’t care what anyone said, my mate would be my priority.
“Well, he’s a fecking eejit. I need to be near me girl, it’s been too long,” I say, then walk over to Sophia and her friends. Aria’s harem follows.
“Missed ye, beautiful.” I pull her to me and kiss her.
“I’ve been across the room, weirdo.” She giggles at me.
“Still too far,” I grumble.
“I’m gonna head out. Too much lovey-dovey shit for me,” Dillan says, giving the girls hugs and fist bumps to the guys, then disappears without talking to anyone else.
“He’s still not giving James a chance?” Cole asks.
“They are talking. Dillan’s trying to be friendly to him and forgive him for how things were when he was a kid, but he still struggles with it,” Aria says sadly.
“Love, did ye invite him to come stay at the castle? Maybe he needs a break from the pack. No offense, ye all, but from what I have heard from ye, he hasn’t had the easiest time here,” I offer. I know what it’s like not to fit in. I may not have been picked on, but I know when you’re constantly put down. Drake was never the fatherly type.
“You know, babe, I think that might be a good idea. He has too many poor memories here, plus the people who cause the memories. It must be hard on him too to be around us all the time. We’re his only friends, and we’re all mated up. James is a great pack member and guard, but he hasn’t been the best mate toward Dillan. Dillan’s father was James’s mentor for many years. Tristan helped get him in with his aunt once he found out how he was treated, but Dillan is very wary of trusting him and others. I helped treat so many of his injuries. I was still in school but would help with his breaks and sprains when he was growing up. I thought he was the clumsiest kid around. I didn’t know it was his dad who was doing it to him,” Sophia explains. That I understand, Drake was just as evil.
“So, did ye Alpha kill his father?” I ask, wondering why this kid is an adult and still harbors bad feelings for his mate and hopefully, his dead father.
“Uh, no, we don’t kill needlessly,” Cole said gruffly.
“That kid was abused. That wouldn’t be needless killing. Drake was the same. If he abused his child, what would he do to another who wasn’t his?” I respond, feeling more kinship with the kid. They all look at each other concerned.
“Tristan will only execute when we all agree, and we bring the person to trial in the pack,” Sophia says quietly. I’m about to ask what happened at the trial when she continues. “They never brought him to trial. Tristan moved him to his aunt’s, and Dillan seemed better after that.” Sophia looks ready to cry, and I hate upsetting my mate, so I keep my mouth shut.
