What a Man Wouldn't Do For His Mate
"Wait! So You're Telling Me To Change This Women's Son!? NO!" David shouted from where we all now stood, in Max's office.
"She's my mate, I need her! Children, please? I'm not saying he's going to permanently move in with you, I just need to give Lucy that little push to get her to join us. I'm begging you." I sighed, as did my boys, who knew they were going to give in.
"Fine! Fine, we'll help you! But! If he puts one finger on our mate, he's finished!" David snarled, and the boys joined him growling a warning at Max, who nodded, understandingly.
"Thank you boys. I'm going on a date with her tonight, please, play nice with Michael?" I nodded, pulling everyone out before they could get into another argument.
"You guys go to the bikes with Laddie, I'll get Michael."
"I don't think-"
"Too bad David, He'll follow me, that's all we need. We need to do this for Max." I then walked off toward the concert, hoping to find a familiar face in the crowd. I had been looking for about 20 minutes before I decided to give up, but just as I was walking back, I noticed Michael beside a piercing booth. "It's a rip off." He looked startled but grinned when he saw me. "If you want your ear pierced, I'll do it for you."
"Sure, that sounds great." I grinned, gesturing him to follow me and we ended up back at his bike. "I'm Michael by the way."
"Well, Hello Michael, I'm Meg." I said shaking his hand jokingly, making him chuckle just as my boys pulled up. "And this is David, Dwayne, Marko and Paul. And our little brother Laddie." I hopped onto David's bike and he smirked at Michael smugly.
"You know where Hudson's bluff is?"
"I can't beat your bike." He stated, but David just continued to smirk.
"You don't have to beat me Michael, you just have to keep up."
"Hold on tight, we're going for a ride." Dwayne said to Laddie, who held him tighter just as we all took off, with Michael hesitantly behind us.
We rode down the beach like crazy people, laughing and shouting at each other. The moment I saw the fog I knew what David had planned and I snarled in his ear. "Don't you dare! Stop him right now!" He sighed, gesturing for Michael to slow down before parking the bike close to the edge. "He needs to think of us as family, because we're going to be whether you like it or not! After Lucy changes, he's Max's problem, but until then, I need you to help me…Mate?" I knew he practically melted when I called him that. It got him to do anything I could imagine.
I listened as David explained the history behind this cave, while I sat on the couch, cuddled against Dwayne's side, watching his intense face as he read his book. "Marko! Food!" David insisted and I winked at Marko as he walked out of the cave.
Once we finally got Michael to loosen up a bit, He danced with Paul and me to the music and we ate together. I was just happy that David didn't do any of his mind tricks to freak Michael out. Eventually I saw Marko walk toward the shelf in the back of the room, and come back with the bottle that Laddie had drunk from before. "Drink this Michael…be one of us." We all chanted his name as he gulped some of the liquid from the bejeweled bottle and I danced around the room in a fancy waltz with Dwayne.
We continued partying for a while, watching Michael get drunker, before he finally passed out on the couch. Marko and Paul carried him home while Dwayne took his bike and I sat on David's lap in the wheel chair. "Thank you for cooperating. I would like to just get this over with quickly. Max has done so much for us, we're just repaying the favor." He nodded, leaning his face into my neck.
"Come on princess, we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow. Let's go to bed." He held me to him as we hung in the back of the cave, after checking on Laddie, and it wasn't until the boys joined us that I drifted into a peaceful, dead sleep.
