A week has passed since my mating ritual. Things have gone back to normal. Normal in the sense that Georgiana and Raul are on a trip to a winery in California. Callum is meeting his business partners at Esme's for the day. They told him they have something to tell him. There is absolute quiet in the Silvern household. Thank the Sun god.

"Uncle Rafe, I need your help," Freddy stalks into my office. I spoke too soon.

"I need a lift to Crimson River Pack."

"You have been going to Salim's pack a lot lately, what's going on?"

"Nothing. Just visiting friends."

"I hope you've put a stop to your other activity?"

"I told you just one more, and I'm done."

"I don't want to incur your mother's wrath so be careful. The plane is at your disposal. Have fun. Have you seen Julian around?"

"No, but his car is here. Glad I'm leaving if he's here," she sneers.

"Why this constant animosity towards your uncle?"

"He's not my uncle, second cousin, not uncle. Thank the Sun god."

"He's as close as one, so..."

"Hello Rafe," Julian walks in.

"Julian, just in time. We need to talk about 'nightwalker' issue. I have some updates."

"Good, the sooner we solve this, the sooner the Originals can get off your back, right? Hello Freddy."

"Julian. Bye, Uncle Rafe, I should be back in a week or so."

"A week? Does your mom know?"

"Nah, what she doesn't know won't hurt her," she sings.

"I could tell her," Julian jokes.

"You do, and you will regret it, second cousin Julian," Freddy glares at him and leaves.

"Scary, like mother like daughter," Julian laughs.

"I won't have it any other way. Anyway, to bring you up to speed, I found out that the mastermind is settling down in Nebraska with his rogues and nightwalkers. The midway point between our clan and Tobias clan. I notified Darric, Salim and Tobias. With 'were' involvement, we'll need every help we can get."

"Smart! How did you find out the location of the group? And why don't we just go there and wipe out the whole lot of them?"

"That'll be a temporary fix. If we don't find the ones involved, they'll just move somewhere else and start over." Roman's involvement is something only Tobias and I know and wish to keep a secret.

"True."

The day went by as we handle more family business. Julian left after a few hours.

"What am I going to do Rafe?" Callum rushes into my office, walking up and down, agitated in tears.

I stop him, holding his shoulders. "What's wrong?"

"They don't want to be my partners anymore. They said I can handle Wood Inc., all by myself. They said they want to do their own thing. They said..."

"Slow down." I hug him to calm him down. I lead him to the sofa and sit beside him.

"Now, let's start from the beginning. What happened?"

"Well I got to Esme's and after we checked in with the Johnsons, by the way, we are invited to their wedding. It's in a month."

"Got it. What happened after you checked in with the Johnsons?"

"Raven, Roland, and Serena said they wanted to talk to me. Raven said due to her school work she'll no longer be working at the company. Serena said her work at the daycare also is pulling her away and Roland added that working in construction is doing the same to him. They all said they want out and I should take over."

"They want out? It doesn't sound like your friends that you started the company with. Okay, tell me exactly what they said."

That doesn't sound like his friends, Callum probably heard what he wanted to hear in the heat of the moment.

"Raven said that she has a lot of classes right now, and with volunteering in the clinic, she's very busy. She wants to know if they can be silent partners. They want to be silent versus operative partners. They said they will not be able to handle the day to day operation of the company and want to step down. They want to give me back half of their individual stakes in the company. Roland and Serena said pretty much the same thing."

"Sounds reasonable to me."

"Reasonable? They will no longer be part of what we started. They're leaving me to run the company alone, Rafe."

"Sounds to me that your friends are indeed involved in things that you said makes them happy. You said you've never seen them that happy. They know they will not be able to help you as much as they did when you four were in your old pack. And you're happy for them, right?"

"Of course I am, we all deserve to be happy but..."

"And they also did the right thing by giving up half of their shares, they didn't sell it back to you but gave them back to you. That is not done on business circles, believe me."

"I know," he replies calmly.

"Silent partners are still partners. You can still run ideas by them. But they trust you enough to know that you will do what's best for the company or they wouldn't step back as they've done."

"Goddess, what have I done?"

"What?"

"I was so mean to them. I yelled at them and ran out of Esme's store."

"Only one way to fix this. Apologize."

I walk over to my phone, put it on speaker and dial the man that can help.

"Salim, how are you?"

"Fine. I just have three sad Omegas on my hand."

"I have one sad Omega here too."

"Will you please put them on the phone so they can all talk this out?"

"Sounds good. They'll be here in a minute. Is Cal okay?"

"Sad, shaken and feeling sorry right now,"

"Hello, Alpha Salim."

"Cal, how are you?"

"Fine sir."

"Here they are, I'll leave you all alone. Talk to you soon, Rafe"

"Same here, I'll be in our bedroom when you're done."

"Okay, and Rafe, thanks." He kisses me.

"Anytime."

I leave my office and give them some privacy.

"Bring our dinner to our suite, Jeffery. I think my mate is too tired to eat at the dinner table tonight."

"Yes, my Lord."

I walk into our suite and make my way to the bathroom. I turn on the tub, add some bath salt, set it to the desired temperature and wait for my mate.

I hear Jeffery in the room set up our dinner and I change into my robe. We've settled into a nightly routine of relaxing in the tub since he moved in. I know he will need to relax tonight. Callum walks in as I turn on the news.

"You're smiling, I can guess how the conversation went."

"Great. I apologized, they apologized. I think I was just frazzled when all I heard was 'step down' and went berserk. We're good now."

"Good. Dinner is here."

"Nice, I'm famished."

"Fighting unnecessarily with your best friends will do that to anyone," I laugh.

He grabs a plate, loads it with a heaping portion of steak, and moves to sit by me on the sofa. He eats as if ravenous, and I make myself a plate. We sit in companionable silence as we have our dinner.

"Now do you want to tell me what has been bothering you since the mating?"

"Nothing," I lied.

He looks at me for several seconds, "Okay. I'm here whenever you're ready to talk."

I sigh in relief, not ready to tell my mates about Jeffery and the timeline.

We get into the tub, close my eyes and lean my head back in bliss. Callum and I sit on opposite sides of the tub. My body slowly unwinds as the stress of the past weeks melt away.

I hear him get out of the tub and enter the shower. Next, he will rinse off, wrap himself in a towel, dash into the bedroom, and tell me 'shower is yours'. Always bashful. I smile.

"Rafe, you want to join me in the shower?"

My head snapped up, I look towards the shower, "excuse me?"

He pops his head out of the shower stall, and ask again, "do you want to join me in the shower?"

I make haste to the shower, walk in and close the door behind me. He is gloriously naked, under the shower, glistening. Soap suds are cascading down his body. I reach for the body wash and lather up. He bends down slowly rinsing his legs and gives me a bird's eye view of his pink hole. What is my little mate up to? Whatever it is, I am definitely playing along.

"Rafe, wash my back please, I can't reach."

Unh, unh! I lather my hands and massage his shoulders, and down his lower back repeating the process over and over. I trail my hands down his back to his ass and rub those two globes softly. He puts his hands on the bathroom wall and pushes his ass into my ready hands. I massage that ass harder, faster.

"That feels good."

I move closer to him and wrap my hands around his chest pulling him away from the wall, resting his ass on my dick. My head falls in the grove of his neck and I see my mate's beautiful cock is hard. I press small kisses along his neck, ears, everywhere my mouth can reach on his face.

Now I touch him everywhere except his cock. I lather up his chest, pulling and plumping his nipples. I hear and feel his heartbeat racing. I run my hands all over his pecs, enjoying his slippery wet torso. I run my hand down his side, touching and massaging his hips. My other hand joins the one on his hip and I pull him even closer to me, sandwiching my hard cock between his ass. I run my hands slowly all over his hips, thighs, and chest. His cock twitches uncontrollably but I don't touch that beautiful dick. I run my soapy hand around his dick, his inner thighs but I do not touch his cock.

"Touch me, please," he groans.

"Tsk, tsk, good things come to those who wait, my love."

"Oh yeah? Payback is a bitch."

He reaches around and grabs my dick, strokes it slowly from base to tip and back again a few times. My cock is on fire. He then stands on tippy toes and inserts my hard cock in between his ass. He clamps his butt firmly on my dick and starts to slide his butt back and forth on my cock. I grasp his hips tightly and slide my cock between his butt, under his balls and hitting his dick. Back and forth.

"Oh god yes," I whisper.

I am hard and throbbing. Our wet fuck goes faster and faster. My hold on him gets tighter. He wet rides my cock faster.

"I'm gonna, oh god, I'm gonna ahhhhhh!!!!!"

I cum all over his legs and I finally touch his cock as he also yells out. He falls forward on the wall and I lean on him, breathing hard.

"Something warm just ran down my ass, did you just cum?" He turns to face me.

"Umm! Yes?"

"What a waste. Next time cum inside not outside," he winks at me.

Shit! Who's this man? What the hell happened to my mate? I am not complaining one bit. I rinse him off, I rinse myself off.

He moves closer to me, puts his hands on my face, looks me dead in the eyes, and says, "make love to me?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, now."

I carry him out of the shower. I let him slide down my body and his cock rubs against mine. I grab the towel off the rack and dry him from hair to toe, making sure to gently dry his butt and cock. I stand up and dry myself hurriedly.

"Are you sure that you're ready to make love with me?"

"Yes, I've waited so long for you, for this."

That's all I need to hear. I slam my mouth on his lips, kissing him hard. I lift him and wrap his legs around my waist. He wraps his hands around my neck, kissing me back. I grab his ass as I walk us to our bed. I lay him on our bed, I lie down beside him and caress his face.

"Cal, I'm going to make love with you, not to you. I am a selfish and selfless lover. Selfless while making love to you, body and soul. I will love you intensely, penetrate you deeply, absorb you soulfully. I am also selfish because my love, I will wreck you beautifully."

Shit! I grab my dick. What are my mates up to? Goddess please not tonight! I'm in a meeting with my team. We have also seen a resurgence of rogue attacks.

I feel hot, hard and in heat, literally. My mates are doing something sexual that I should be a part of and I am feeling every bit of it.

I shot up from my seat and hurriedly sit back down to cover my hard dick.

'Let's finish this tomorrow," I tell my team.

"Are you okay Darric," asks Cole.

"Yes, I'm fine. I just remember I need to be somewhere important now."

"Okay," he gives me a puzzled look and they all leave my office.

I run to my suite, walk into my bedroom, take off all my clothes, and grab my aching dick. I start to stroke it. Hard and fast, looking for relief. Goddess, I need relief. I need relief now! I stroke faster.

Oh, goddess, this is soo...achingly good... ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!

I fall back on my bed. OMG, I hope they're done.

I touch all over his body and stroke his dick, he squirms on the bed. I kiss my way down his body, and I kiss his belly button, blowing air on it.

"Remember my promise to you when we met in Salim's office?" I whisper.

"I don't remember," he moans, clutching the bedsheets.

"Let me remind you."

I look him in the eye and swallow his cock deep down my throat from the tip to the base.

Holy Shittttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Author's Note: I think I should stop torturing Darric, right 😊

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