Lycan King Joaquin

Chapter 2

Several miles from Lycan King Joaquin’s kingdom, five women are singing and drinking margaritas while dancing around the room.

One woman sits down pouting. “Why did we move to this secluded area? I want to live close to town. It’s boring and not a handsome man in sight. I mean no man in sight. I’ll take an ugly man right now.”

“Here we go again. Starr is acting as if she’s in heat again.” Delilah shook her head.

Starr folds her arms. “Every woman wants a man. Well, besides Francemia. She's waiting for her handsome chivalrous hero to ride up on a white or black horse. Hell, any color of horse.”

Jenna chuckles, “We all can't be like Ms. Starr? Now are we going to Long Black Fang to finish getting our dance on.” She dances around Francemia “uh, uh oh yea.” Jenna twerking in front of her.

“You two are the reason we're living out here in the middle of nowhere land. Last drink before we hit the road.” Delilah refills their glasses. Darn, no more late-night barbecue delivers."

Francemia glances at Delilah, "I sort of miss that myself."

Phylicia walked to the middle of the room. “Remember don’t separate. We all come home together.” She points to Starr and looks at Francemia. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. For some strange reason, some heat went through my body." Francemia was looking out the window. “Let’s walk instead. Something is drawing me into the woods.”

"Her ass is having hot flashes at the age of twenty-two and still a virgin." Starr looked in the mirror, putting some lipstick on.

"It wasn't a hot flash. At least I don't believe it was." Francemia strapped a leather axed back holder on and holstered two Viking axes.

Jenna leans close to Phylicia and Delilah. “I love our girl. But I prefer to ride in a car any day. Even riding a horse will do."

"We all know Francemia is. It has to be something. Now put on your big girl's panties and start walking". Delilah looks at Jenna's three-inch-heeled shoes.

"But I'm not wearing any panties," Jenna mumbles something about panty lines.

Phylicia cut her eyes at her, "Pretend you are."

Delilah laughs "What are we going to do with this girl?"

"Ignore her, that's what I do," Starr shook her head and looked at Jenna. She's still talking about panties.

****

Back at Long Black Fang, Bryon is dancing with two women. Joaquin had turned down every woman who asked him to dance. For some reason he can’t explain, he keeps staring at the door as if he’s expecting someone. Romulus, his beast, isn't talking but Joaquin notices and feels something going on with him.

Bryon returns to the table and exhales, "I need to hurry up and find my mate before I'm too old to do a damn thing."

"We are both getting up in years. I refuse to accept I'm getting old. I prefer to think I'm getting better." Joaquin looked at Apex, looking at his watch. "I believe someone's ready for us to leave. Vex, Exu, and Blink snuck out through the back a few minutes ago. Those two clowns were left to throw off suspicions. Stupid asses.”

“One more drink before we hit the road.” Byron picks his glass up. “Here’s to killing people with intellectual disabilities.”

"Morons. You got that s**t right.” Joaquin smirks and turns his glass up until it's empty.

Apex and Crocell pretend to be in a deep conversation with two women but are watching the Lycan King and Beta through the mirror behind the bar.

Joaquin waves a waitress over to pay their tab and gives her his credit card. Romulus tells him to hurry up. Joaquin thinks his beast is in a hurry to kill some bastards and tells him to be patient. They'll have some fresh blood soon. But that didn't calm him down. He takes the credit card from the waitress. "Romulus is ready to kill their asses. Let’s not keep him waiting.”

As soon as Joaquin and Byron leave the bar, Apex texts Blink, Vex, and Exu to inform them the two men have left, and they'll wait a few minutes, then he and Crocell will leave.

****

Exu, Blink, and Vex are standing around in the path between Kinghaven and neutral territory. Blink keeps popping chewing gum and complaining about the King and Beta taking too long. Vex and Exu want to kill him. Neither man knew they had company.

Francemia and the other women are in the bushes watching them. They had started to continue to the bar when they overheard the three men talking about killing two men. She wants to know who the men are that the rogues are eager to kill. More importantly, if the two men needed help, why would it take five men?

Starr sits down frowning and rolling her eyes.

"Stop acting like that, I have taught you better than that," Francemia is watching the three men and fans her face because of the warmth that went through her face and then her entire body.

The other three women quietly laugh at Starr lying down looking at the stars.

"Bergamot, so masculine." Francemia closes her eyes, inhaling her mate's scent.

Delilah and Phylicia look at the three men, wondering which rogue is her mate.

In the opposite direction, Romulus and Balrog stop and shift to their human side. Joaquin sniffs, “Cherry and vanilla. I know one of those assholes hasn’t touched my mate. If so, I'll torture his ass and make them beg for mercy before I kill him.

Byron slides shorts on looking at Joaquin storming off and cussing. He jogs to catch up with Joaquin.

Vex looks in the direction of town, then smirks, looking at Joaquin and Byron. Joaquin looked around for his mate because her sweet scent was stronger. Byron is also looking for her and looks at Joaquin confused.

Behind a bush, Francemia stared at the handsome mate, fanning her face. Now she wants to know how good of a fighter the man that was designed for her is. So she sits down waiting for the battle. "That's one handsome man."

Joaquin's in a hurry to kill them so he can find his mate. He's looking at Exu, Vex, and Blink shifting into the wolves. He and Byron also shift.

Vex wolf jumps at Balrog and both wolves are on two legs biting and crawling at each other.

Blink and Exu's wolves circle and snap at Romulus. Romulus growls, swinging his large sharp claw at both wolves, knocking them to the ground and attacking both at the same time.

Crocell and Apex wolves arrive looking at the fights and are about to split up and jump in when they see a woman running toward them with two Viking axes in her hands. She jumps over the men who are fighting and lands in front of them on her feet.

Balrog sinks his teeth into Vex's wolf's neck. The wolf falls backward to the ground with Balrog's teeth still in his neck.

Blink's whining from the two holes in his chest. He looks over at Exu's head on the ground beside him and looks at Romulus, but all he sees is the darkest of his head inside the wolf's mouth.

Romulus and Balrog jump up looking at a beautiful 5'3' light skin, long black hair and brown eyes swinging an ax at Crocell's head and the head flying in the air. She kicks Apex's wolf in his forehead before chopping his head off. She turns to look at the two wolves staring at her strangely and noticed the large black one sniffing and looking at her confused. "Well, you two go on your way." Francemia looked at the three women walking from behind the bushes. "It was nice fighting with you. We don't want to embarrass either of you when you shift. So we'll be on our way."

Balrog looks at Romulus more confused than he was a few minutes ago. Romulus quickly changes to Joaquin, looking at Byron but pointing in the direction his mate left in "She's human. My mate is human. They're all humans. How is it she knew about shifters? Damn, she didn't have any fear when she killed those sons of bitches."

"Frankly, I'm still wondering about the axes." Byron looked at Joaquin jogging back toward neutral territory.