At the airport Stephen watched as Jayson drove right onto the back of the plane. He said "This is the clan's plane so I can take my jeep with us, but Esme has her Land Rover." Stephen look up at Heaven in the front seat, she looked back at him. Heaven said " It was a gift for when I came back but my sister has been driving it, so I'm making my dad take us to Rio when we get there so I can get a new car." At that Jennifer laughed " Didn't you tell Cataleya not to touch your car." Heaven noded "Ya and I also told her to stay out my closet but she keeps wearing my pumps."Stephen shook his head and grabbed Heaven around the waist and finished walking on the plane. "Hey, babe put me down now!" Stephen turned to Jayson "Yo, man lead the way" Jayson laughed picked up Jennifer and walked to the front of the plane. At the front of the plane Daniel was pacing the guys came through the door with the girls on their shoulder. "It took you guys long enough, we have to be there by tonight or we will have a very big problem. Damn, Jay you know this now sit so we can go."Daniel said. Stephen throw Heaven in the sit next to him in the back. Heaven went to get up, but Stephen belted her in along with her hands. "Steph, I can't move my hand."Steph laughed "So" Heaven started at him dumbfounded. The plane began to taxi down the runway and Heaven began to panic. "Stephen, Plz I need you to pull my hands free before we get in the air. If I try and rain in my cat before that there will be a very big problem." Heaven said between shallow breaths. Stephen took a deep breath and pulled her hands. "Ok, their free." He got up and sat in the front with Daniel. Heaven couldn't stop the punishing sadness from over taking her. She curled up in the chair. then out of nowhere a set of arms picked her up and dropped her. The plane dipped as if it was falling. Heaven jumped up and turned to see Daniel was the one who dropped her and Stephen was now back in his seat next to the window. Heaven went to go sit next to him but Daniel pushed her into Stephens lap. "Wtf, Sal stop" Heaven yelled She sat down in her chair facing away from Stephen. Daniel picked her up and sat her on Stephen lap, Stephens arm grabbed her tight around the waist. Heaven started to say something when a wave of pleasure shot through her, she moaned out a prrr and curled into Stephen. Daniel snorted " See! Now stop being stubborn and enjoy your mate. Be happy you have one." Daniel went and sat back up front. Heaven looked at Stephen confused at why Daniel was pissed. Only to shrug and fall into a deep sleep.
(14 Hours Later)
The plane landed and they all jump in Jayson's jeep and Daniel jumped on his motorcycle. They drive to the docks in Rio to get on ferry to isla de los gatos. Stephen loved the light that came to Heaven's face at the fact that she was home. " Happy to be home I see." He said. Heaven turned to him laughing "Ya, I didn't realize how much till we landed, but ya I am happy to be home. Even happier that you're here with me." Stephen smiled and kissed her on the forehead. They started walked to walk up the dock but Daniel yelled " Don't even think bout it,Esme. Get back here now!" Stephen stiffened at Daniel saying Heaven's name. He could see her eyes flash from their bright hazel to jade green. Stephen swung Heaven so she looked at him, then said " Babe your eyes, relax." Then he turned to Daniel " You know she's trying to get herself under control. Stop pissing her off!" Daniel started to step to Stephen, when a very deep commanding voice said "Salvador, Stand down now." Salvador stepped back and said " Yes, father" The man step to them all and said "Now, will someone tell me why a human has hands on a clan female and he's challenging my son for his mate." Stephen stiffened at the fact that this man thinks Heaven is with Sal. "Esme is not mine anymore,dad. I told you that on the phone last night." Heaven was now the one that stiffened. She took a deep breath then said "Alpha Delgado, Stephen is here with me. He… Wait, What do you mean you told your dad last night Sal." Salvador looked away " I ...kind of never told our parents that we stopped dating." Alpha Delgado turned to Sal and grabbed him by his shirt "When did this change and I want a straight answer" Salvador gasped to breathe "5 years ago, Alpha" Heaven looked ready to snap on Sal. "Alpha, It's been 61/2 years ago. It was after I came to the conclusion that your son was not fateful." Alpha Delgado released Sal and turned to Heaven. "Okay, I will handle my son on that matter later. Now, that does not solve the issue of why you're now with a human. You know by pack law this can not be, he must leave." "I say before you my Alpha that the legends are no more, I have found my mate and he will change on the coming full moon in two days." The Alpha's eyes grow large as he listened to Heaven's sermon. He cleared her throat when she finished. " Okay, well if it is true you will have to prove it to the clan at tonight's welcome party or he will have to leave the island."At that they all got on the ferry.
When they started to approach the island Stephen could see Heaven playing with her ring. "What's wrong, princess?" Heaven looked up "Nothing,Im fine let's go." She said trying to get off the ferry.
Stephen stopped her. "No, Something's wrong you've been playing with your ring for 20 mins now. Tell me." Heaven looked up at the man she loved "I…Im nervous bout you meeting my family now that I know that they know nothing bout you." Stephen just laughed "Babe Im not nervous, so you shouldn't be. I'm your mate that has to mean something." Heaven watched Stephen laugh and walk off the ferry without another word. They all got back in the jeep. Isabella looked up and yelled "Bitch you coming or what?" Heaven rolled her eyes and jumped in the jeep. They drove into the island toward the house where Heaven grow up. "So, what should I be ready for Jay? Am I going to have to fight another guy for my girl." Stephen said sticking his body out the jeep. "No,nothing but Esme's brother Caleb will hate you till he know you. He and Sal are really close." Jayson said "Then it's just your sister Cataleya, right." Esme sat in the back of the jeep still playing with her ring. Stephen pulled himself back in the jeep and looked at her. "Babe, I asked you a question." "Huhh, Yeah that's it." The jeep pulled up to gate and Jayson pressed the intercom. A soft voice came thru "Who's the hottie next to u, Jay." Esme got up and pushed the intercom "Open the gate,Cat. Then you'll find out." The gate opened and Jayson drove up the a magnificent house that looked as if it had a hundred rooms. "25" Stephen's head turned to look at Esme than said "huhh" "You wants to know how many room were in the house, I said 25" Stephen started to protest when a girl bout 17 years old ran straight at him. "Ohhhh who are you? Im Cat, by the way." Stephen flashed Cat a bone melting grin and said "Sorry, lil sis, Im off limits" Cat's jaw dropped as Esme just could not stop laughing. "Babe that was mean and you know it. Cat this is my fiancé Stephen." Cat looked as if the world fell, then gave an evil grin. Cat yelled "Daddy, Esme brought a human home." Esme's eyes grow wide "You little…" "Esmeralda, lo que es tu hermana gritando acerca?" "Mamá, Inglés por favor? ha sido demasiado largo para mí tratar y traduzco para Stephen." Stephen looked at Jayson "What are they saying man?" Jay laughed "Marie, asked what Cat was yelling bout, and Esme asked her mom to speak in english so she does not have to translate." Esme's mother, Marie, looked at Stephen than Esme "Who is this handsome young man, Esmeralda." Stephen saw Esme wince "Mamá, this is Stephen my fiancé." Marie smiled "Well, this is a surprise, everyone come inside, I have the bar all set up out back." Stephen grinned and said "I would love a soda." They all walk into the house, Marie stopping Esmeralda at the door. "What is this about, Esmeralda, you know the rules. Get him out of here…... NOW!" Esmeralda pushes her mother off " He stays till the Alpha kicks us out. If that happens we all leave, and this time I'm not coming back." Esmeralda pick up her bag and heads up to her suite stopping at the outdoor bar on the way. Stephen looks up from talking to Jayson, his brow furrowed. "What's up, princess? What's going on?" Esme closed her eyes and said "Nothing, Im going up to my room, I don't feel good all of a sudden." Stephen took her bag from her and pick up his own. "Than let's go. I don't want you passing out on me." They waved to Jayson, Isabella, and Cat goodbye and took the back stairs up to Esme's suite.
Esme walked into her room throwing her bag down on the floor and laid down on her bed. Stephen stood in the doorway of her room looking at everything from window sit on the left wall to the huge canopy bed in the middle of the room. "Wow, this is your room, man, this one room is bigger than our whole second floor back home. Shit!" Esme laughed at his description. "Ya I guess it's big to someone who hasn't been in here before. I think it's too small for me now but whatever." Stephen sat on the bed next to where Esme laid running his hand up her spine making her shiver. Esme rolled off the other side of the bed excitement in her flashing eyes. "Don't do… that again." A grin spread across Stephen's face "Why?" Esme took a deep shuddering breath "You know why, everyone will hear us." Stephen walked around the bed. "Really but, how much do you need my touch, my lips on your wet pussy right now?" Esme's eyes dilated at the very thought of how bad he wanted her. Her body betrayed her in all ways, her nipples poked through her T-shirt, her jean shorts rubbing her extremely sensitive thighs. Stephen's nose flared as if he could smell her arousal. "Esme, stop fighting it. You want me so bad right now it's driving you mad. So, I'll ask again how bad do you need me?" "Very badly. Okay, I need you so badly that I think if you fuck me right now I could hurt you." Stephen still not listen to her starts to pull her T-shirt over her head. Esme tried to stop him from taking her shirt off. "Do you miss the way I caress your curves every time I kissed you, as you grind up against my crotch." Esme whimpered at the waves of pleasure crashing through her body. Stephen ripped her T-shirt out her hands and over her head. "Esmeralda Moreno get down here NOW! Bring that Human and his bags with you." Yelled a booming voice. Esme froze under Stephen, her eyes wide. "Princess who is that?" Stephen asked getting up off the bed. "Th...That's my dad." Stephen stopped "Then why do you look so scared and why can I hear your heart racing like you want to hide in a hole." Esme looked at him confused and started to say something when her door flew open. Her father stalked into the room grabbed Stephen by the throat and threw him into Esme's wall. Esmeralda ran in front of her father trying to stop him. "Daddy, stop please. Don't hurt him please, he has permission to be on the island." Esme's father ignored her and continued to stalk Stephen, Stephen was now on his feet wiping the blood from his lip. " , I don't know what I did to piss you or your wife off but I'm here for Esmeralda that's all." Esme's father hissed at him "You are human, what right do you have to the future curador of our clan. You humans brainwashed my daughter into staying away for 6 years, NO MORE!." Esme could not believe her father, just when she was about to tell her father he was wrong the flash of eyes caught her attention. Esme turn around to see Stephen's eyes no longer their deep brown, they were a bright flashing blue. His skin emanated heat like steam from a tea pot. Esme ran over to Stephen and grabbed his face forcing him to look at her. "Baby you need to breath. Your eyes are flashing blue, you can't change yet. Please calm down."Stephen looked down at her, closed his eyes and took a slow deep breath. When he opened his eyes they were back to their natural brown. Esme's father couldn't believe his eyes. Esme's father back up to the door and called for his wife. Marie comes to the door. Esme's father looks at Esme "The human can stay, till the full moon. But, I don't want him in the house; he stays in the guest house in the back of the property." Her father turned to Stephen "If I find out you talked my dulce niña into something she doesn't want I will kill you,lobo."Esmeralda gasped "Papá, ¿qué ... que no es un lobo." Stephen stopped Esmeralda "No, it's ok I had a feeling your family would not like my background." Esmeralda stood there dumbfounded. "What are you talking about, there's nothing wrong with being human,..." "But, Im not all human, my mother was a wolf." Esme looked at her parents "Can you guys leave us alone please?" Esme's parents walked out the room frowns on their faces. Esme turned to Stephen "Now what do you mean your mother was a wolf. I met your mother and she is very much human." Stephen took a deep breath "No, the truth is you met my step-mother, she married my dad after my mother died. As you know my father is very much human. My mother died when a few months after I was born. She went for a run in the woods behind our house. My father said he heard a loud BANG and the a yelp. He said he ran and ran till he came to their favorite clearing. A were-hunter shot her for her fur." Esme got up and sat next to Stephen. "So what happen to the hunter?" Stephen looked at her "Nothing, by law she was fair game because she was in her shift." Esme gasped at Stephen's omission. "Thats horrible,baby. I'm so sorry." Stephen took a deep breath and walked over to Esme's window sit "Ya, my dad finally told me when I was 14. That the woman that raised me was not my mother. He told me that there was little to no chance I would change because I was only 1/4 shifter. So I kept my inhuman genes a secret till now." Esme didn't know what to say. She thought about asking if he knew how to shift. "Yes, I can shift. I first shifted after I meet you actually." Esme looked at him baffled and stuttered "Ho...how did you…" Stephen tapped his forehead. "You think, I say princess." "So it was your mind I heard in the car." Stephen smiled a grin that made Esmeralda want to melt into a puddle. Esme walked over to Stephen and looked him in the eyes and before she could ask the room got warm and a black and grey wolf stood in his place. Esme gasped and ran her hand through his fur. "That was amazing. I can't believe you can shift so fast." Stephen shifted back and sat on the bed. "It comes easy like breathing. All I have to do is think wolf and I shift." Esme though panther and she felt herself shift,then shift back. A grin crossed her lips. "That is cool. It was never that easy before. I would have to actually think hard about it, even then it was painfully." Stephen looked at Esme with all the love in the world. But, now knowing that by the full moon he would have to leave the island... "STOP" Esme yelled. Stephen swore "Princess, if you think that your father is not on his way to the Alphas house now, to try and find a way to get me kicked off the island than you have no idea who your dad is." Esme started to protest but just then Isabella came running in the room "Ummm.. sorry to interrupt but Esme the Alpha just informed us that Stephen has to prove himself tonight not on the full moon, and to make it worse he is going to enact oldlaw." Esme felt all the air leave her body. Her vision began to get fuzz, then black.
Stephen turned just in time to catch Esme before she hit the floor. Isabella yelled out her name but she was gone. Stephen lifted her up in his arms and laid her down just as everyone else came to the door. Esme's father came up to the bed pushing Stephen out of the way. He touched his daughter's head then turns to Stephen. "what did you do to her I can't hear her anymore, I can't feel her thru the clan bond. WHAT DID YOU DO ?" Rafael yelled to the point the large house quacked. The authority in his voice had everyone on their knees, whimpering. Stephens eyes flashed at the absurd thought that he would harm his mate. Isabella stepped toward her uncle. "Uncle, If I may, It was not Stephen who caused Emeralda to faint. It was the news of the lucha el poder that caused it." Rafael look at his niece "But why can I not hear her any more…" "Did you ever think that I may be blocking you, FATHER." Esme said as she sat up on her bed. Rafael looked baffled at his daughter "But...but that is not a skill that our clan has… no cats that I know of have that skill." Stephen had a huge grin on his face "But, it is a skill that wolf packs can do, that along with the ability to hide our scent. That is why in human form I smelled human, if I were to shift for a split second everyone in this room would smell wolf." Marie stepped forward at this point "But, how did Esme get the skill, she is not a wolf." Emse now got up from the bed and told everyone to step back. "Probably the same way I can do this.." Esme though wolf and gasps filled the room as she shifted into a black wolf with her same green eyes. Stephen stripped out of his shirt and though panther and he slowly shifted into a black panther with his wolf blue eyes. Stephen prrred at his beautiful mate. "You my princess look breath taking as a wolf, but what do you say we shift back." Esme growled at her father and started to charge him. "Esme! Stop now" Stephen yelled in her head. Esme dropped her head whimpering in pain. "Im sorry my love but you need to shift back before you dad blow a blood vessel in his forehead." They both laughed as they shifted back to human form. Esme looked around the room to see that everyone was on their knees even her father who is pack beta. Esme looked at Stephen "What… What going on. Father get up." "It's that lobo When he yelled at you his power choked the room, I've never felt power like this." Stephen thought of how to stop the power from choking everyone in the room. Just than a voice told him to breath and put it in like bringing in a rubber band. As he did the room began to feel lighter, the air became breathable and everyone began to get off their knees. Stephen took a step to help Isabella up off the floor when a surge of thoughts hit him at once. "Where is he, the alpha has shifted? Why is he not on the rez? Who is that whore with her hands on my mate?" Stephen couldn't get control of all the thoughts in his mind but one stood out to him, out of all the voices. Stephen walked over to the window and opened it, he then turned to Esme "We've got something we need to handle." Esme walked over to him "Okay let's go" With that Stephen jumped off the window sill. Esme followed him out knowing this was the easiest way to leave without her dad asking too many questions. "It's my pack they know Im not in Cali. they felt it when I released all that power." Esme looked at Stephen confused "Ok so what's the problem." Stephen stopped at the door of the guest house. "I'm supposed to take over the pack, because my mother was the Alpha's daughter. I can't get the out of my birth right. I'm supposed to marry the girl of my grandfathers choosing and take over, by the winter solstice." Esme didn't know what to do or say. She cleared her throat "So, wait neither one of our families want us to be together. How did that happen? We can leave and… " Stephen grabbed Esme and shook her. "We are not leaving, not now at least. Im going to vidchat my grandfather, and he will handle the pack. Im going to stay here and we will handle your family first." Esme looked at Stephen with tears in her eyes. "Thank you" She said hugging Stephen. Esme pulled back and looked at him. "Wait, what do you mean your grandfather pick a girl for you, who is this slut?" Esme's eyes flash green. Stephen laughed "I was waiting for you to say something about that." Stephen sat Esme on his lap. "Her name is Leah. She is the very opposite of you. She is native to the pack, a pure blood as my grandfather says. Problem is she is not you. My grandfather says she is an alpha female, but I just think she's a pure BITCH." Esme giggles. Stephen picks up his laptop and vidchats his grandfather, after about a minute, a russet skinned man comes on the screen. "Stephen, What is this? Why did you leave? Where are you? The pack is going crazy." "STOP GRANDFATHER!" Stephen took a deep breath. "I had somethings to handle with my mate. I don't have to tell you anything, but I will. I'm in Brazil with my mates clan." His grandfather tries to interrupt, but Stephen talks over him. "I will be here as long as we need to be than we will return if my mate wishes." Esme gasped in shock, looking at Stephen. His grandfather clears his throat. "What would you have me do. That girl can not lead our pack you know the laws, and you have to lead." Esme was insulted that he said that with her right there. Esme could feel both their bodies heat in anger. Esme move the laptop so it was solely on her " , the fact that you don't know me and are insisting that I can't help lead Stephen's pack is absurd. I have my clan here and my father is beta, my grandmother clan healer, both places of honor. So, We will be back in two weeks and you can test my strength then." With that she closed the chat. Stephen smiles at how well Esme handled his grandfather. Esme looked up "Oohhh please tell me you didn't just let me do that. Tell me I didn't just let me talk down to your grandfather." Stephen grabbed Esme's face and kissed her. "You did just what I was going to, but beat me to. I hate that he said that mess to you. You can lead better than any woman in our pack." Esme kissed Stephen on the lips. "Thank you that's what I needed. My dad just doesn't get you… us, just give him time." "Im not worried about your dad. Now what is this fight I have to do to prove myself." Esme's eyes widen before she closed them and breathed out. "The lucha el poder is a fight that has you show how strong your shift is. You will shift into your wolf form and the alpha will first try and force you shift back to human form. Then he will try and force u to bow down. The only person in history to out rank the alpha in power was my grandfather." Stephen sat back thinking of what Esme said. "But wait, If your grandfather outranked that alpha why is your family not in charge. It doesn't make sense." "My grandfather turned down the chance to be Alpha, he said he would rather be a beta in the clan." Stephen sat back thinking. "So your dad could have been alpha of the clan. That means you have the potential to be an alpha female. It's in your blood." Esme shrugged getting up and moving to the window. "Yeah, I guess by even if my family was in charge I would never be aloud to be Alpha. In my clan men lead not women, women are meant to be at home watching the kids, that's another reason I left. I didn't want my dad or my "husband" to tell me what to do or how I should act. You know women don't leave the island, it's against our laws." Stephen got up walked over to her "No I didn't know that but that's why we are going to change all that. Come, let's take a shower and rest before tonight." Esme smiled softly taking his hand and makes her way to the guest house master suit.