His Saving Grace

Yes, finally I have finished school now some time to myself. I have enough money to leave here and travel abroad to at least three countries and let God take me where he wants me. But first put applications in for teaching and see where that will lead me. Hopefully I can land a job before I leave for vacation that way I will know how much time I actually have for vacation. I put my plans into motion and start getting ready for my vacation. I told mom what was going to happen she got all excited that she was going with me.

"HA, not happening lady, not at all." I let her down easy telling her I am going by myself as I needed a much needed break from everything that has been happening. She started going on her tangent about how safe it was not for me to alone and that she should go with me but I put a stop to that quickly.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Dee was born in California and have lived in Missouri for over 50 years where I grew up in a small town with a few friends and a younger brother. Mom and dad were very strict but loved us all the same. Mom sheltered us from the world which I see hindered me in my life but not my brother. He's like mom the social butterfly, me not so much. I always played with him or by myself and was fine with that. Truthfully I am not a people person and would prefer animals above all.

Let me start from the beginning of my epic journey through life. I had packed all my clothes I was going to take on my vacation so anxious to get out of here was an understatement. I asked a dear friend to take me to the airport who was way overly protective of me, I just semi-ignored him and went about my business. So let is begin this journey together.

Rockie takes me to the airport and drops me off early in the morning on a Wednesday, we said our good byes as many times before but this time it was different. He gave me all kinds of information about traveling abroad, who to speak to not to speak with, just tuned him out. I went inside to check my luggage and fill the tags out and send them on their way to the abyss. I work my way down to the gate and look to see what is open and what is not along the way, to get something to drink and breakfast.

I find a seat and plug in my computer and cell phone to charge them so that I can use them on the plane till I get to my first destination which is a lay over for three hours in New York's JFK's International Airport.

Some guy walks by me "someone smells good," I think aloud softly. I look to see who walked by and there were five God like men. But of course who would look at me I am not that pretty, I have weight on me and I am an older woman.

As they walked by they nodded and said, "Hi!" in very thick accents, with deep sexy voices that makes your heart melt and shudder in ways you didn't know you could.

I said, "Hi" back and looked away feeling flushed, but damn I could barely keep my eyes off of them.

Beth texts me to see what I am doing, it is usual our morning talk while she is working. I proceed to tell her about the men that had just walked by and smelled so good. I was teasing her that she could have two of the five as I get the rest but I get to choose which ones I want. She text me back asking for pics of the men, I told her "Hell no! That it would be too obvious taking a pic but I could try to figure out a way to do it." But did I actually do it? Nope not at all, little selfish of me but oh well this was my time, my time to have fun no matter what.

It was time to line up to get on the plane and I had to stand smack dab in the middle of all these men, but what I did not know was that they were all watching me. I could feel eyes on me but only glanced at a couple of the men who were starting intently. I just smiled and moved my hair out of my eyes, little flirting doesn't hurt I thought silently. Standing line waiting to load on get on the plane Beth decided to call instead of texting which was probably smart since I was surrounded by these God like men.

"Hey Beth what's up?" I asked.

"Nothing, just checking to see where you're at right now and if you got any pics of those men you were telling me about?" Beth stated.

"I am getting ready to walk the plank to find my seat so I will call or text you when I get there ok?" Is all I said in hopes she gets the hint that I could not talk right then as we were getting on the plane.

"Okay, be careful and have fun. Don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Beth said laughing while I disconnected the call. I sighed and rolled my eyes and one of the men caught me doing that.

"Why the eye roll princess?" He asked.

"Oh, it's just my friend who wants to know what I am doing," I replied to the gentleman in front of me.

Rockie calls and excused myself so that I could answer the phone. "Hello? What's up? Oh, her meds are in a bag in the dining room. They are in the top drawer of the hutch. I put them in there so that mom cannot get to them and take them out of the bottles. Her meds are all fixed for the week and should be replenished every Friday night or Saturday morning. I put her new meds and put them together so she should be good to go for a month at least. I will call you and let you know if she needs any refills once I get a call, but they know I am going out of the country for a few weeks so all should be good until I get back. However let me know if it's not and I will take care of where I am at. I have to go as I am boarding." I tell him.


"Where are you heading to princess?" a sexy voice asks me.

I tell him where to and left it at that for the moment. I know he was and the others were trying to make small talk and make me not feel awkward.

"We are heading to New York for some family business that we do here in the states." The first one states with a big beautiful toothy grin.

"What kind of business do you have, if you don't mind me asking?" I ask.

"We own construction companies and several elite tattoo parlors around the world. Lachlan owns four gyms over seas. We are in several cities in the United States, Finland, Scotland and Ireland, Italy and Greece," he said.

"Are you heading to New York to visit family?" he asked with smirk.

"No, I am actually going to Lapland, Finland and visit some friends a little later. Then head to Scotland and finish in Ireland somewhere. Then when I return back in the states I will stay in New York for a few days before heading back here." I said.

"Well, then can I give you some places you must see in Scotland and Ireland since you will be heading there?" He asked.

"Sure that would be great since I do not have any particular place I am staying in Scotland." I stated.

"I insist on visiting South Scotland and staying with us at our home in the country. You will have everything at your disposal and won't have to pay to stay of course. I of course would want to show you around Scotland personally. It is the only way to see it off grid not the touristy sites. Please? I insist, really it would be my pleasure." Sexy man said to me with pleading eyes.

"Name is Dee, what is yours?" She shot back. "Names Conall, lass and these here are my brothers: Damhan, Evander, Lachlan, and Mathe Lyons-Mackley," Conall stated with a wide smile.

Conall has dark hair, shaved on the sides and longer on the top tided up in a bun, his face is chiseled with a close shaved beard that has some grey in it and his eyes are light ice blue that makes you melt every time you look into them. His body, well, he's built like a brick house as well as his brothers. Damhan and Mathe are twins both red hair and beards with emerald green eyes as well as a chiseled body. Damhan is a Lycan and Mathe a blue dragon. Lachlan had coal black hair military cut no facial hair built like the others and owner of four gyms. Both brothers have light brown eyes with gold and green specs. Evander is dragon. All the brothers had secrets they kept from humans which could bring their clans and pods down. Conall had told me this information in private to see how I would react which there was no reaction to what he had said to me, just blew it all off. Like I am going to remember all that, haha.

I May remember what Conall tells me about him and a couple of his brothers, like Dahman but I know I won't remember all of there names.

I don't understand why but there is something about Dahman that just keeps sticking out in my mind and I do not understand why. It's almost like there's a pull towards him for some reason and I cannot stop looking at him.

I need to concentrate on my work not him, I mean them but damn those eyes of his they just see me through to my soul. Conall thinks I am looking at him and he cannot keep from smiling from ear to ear.

Girl pull yourself together and look away. I just get up and walk away for a bit get something to drink, use the bathroom grab breakfast or something to get my mind off him, them oh Lordy I'm gonna be in trouble if they are on my flight.

I go do my business and come back charge my phone and computer back up and start reading, this should be a distraction for me I hope.

I look up from my phone and scan the area and don't see any of the brothers and give a little sigh of relief thanking God for no more distractions, at least not from them.

I start to get ancy and bounce my leg up snd down. I hate waiting for flights and being around a lot of people Makes me feel closes in.

I know if I feel like this now how do I feel when I fly, right? Truth is I love flying and as long as I'm sitting by the window I'm all good with that. At least I can look out and feel the sun see how small the ground.

I also wonder what people are doing, what they are doing and where are they going. Weird I know but my imagination runs like this all the time.

I feel some people walking by staring at me. Then bodies start to pile all around me. Crap why didn't I sit at the end knowing the possibility of people sitting by me.

I see out of the corner of my eyes who are around me and feel there gazes upon me but refuse to look up any of them. I am trying my darnedest not to smile or even look but feel one arm going around the back of my seat then a head on my shoulder. It is like these guys are trying to read over my shoulder or cuddle up to me or something. The others are laughing which is making me crack a smile and I let out a loud grunt of sigh and they all burst out laughing.

"Wondered how long it would take to brake you princess," one says.

I just roll my eyes at them and shake my head.

"Couldn't leave me alone now could you?"

"Nope." They all day in unison.

"Attention passengers if you are on flight 3945 heading to New York your flight is delayed for an hour. We are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused." Says a gate attendant.

We all just look at each other but they see the frustration in my face snd get concerned for me as they know I have a connecting flight I'm going to miss now once we get there.

This is something I'll have to deal with when I get there since it won't do any good for me now.

"Don't worry princess I will make sure you get to where you are going in plenty of time even I'd I have to fly you there myself," Conall tells me.

"So what are you going to fly me on your dragon?"

"Something lime that I suppose."

He chuckles and I roll my eyes snd mumble to myself I may as well clothes my eyes for a bit since I has been up pretty early.

Dahman still has his head on my shoulder slightly sleeping as it is so I put my head on top of his head snd shut my eyes not knowing that I actually fell asleep on a hard noggin. The others lay on the floor or against each other and fell asleep too.

About an hour later we all woke up to the gate agent making an announcement that our flight has arrived and we will be boarding the plain in twenty minutes.

None of us have found our mates and only one of us could shift into a Lycan or Dragon, the others were one or the other. Lachlan was a golden dragon with gold and green eyes. He's been waiting for 300 years for his mate, although he had found his but she was killed in our last war and that took him down a spiral end. I was the only one who could pull him out of his depression state. He did not mate with her as they just met during the war and she was immediately killed in front of his eyes and he in turn killed the human for revenge.

The twins have yet to find their mates as well, but they cannot decide if they want to share or have one for each of themselves. I tell them let the fates decide and go from there. Evander is like me and has not found his mate yet but has not saved himself for her. He's the one who likes to party and drink the finest liquors available. Evander and one of the twins are dragons the other, Dahman is a Lycan. So that leaves me, the special one who is both Lycan and dragon.

I do not understand why i was gifted with both 'friends' inside of me but I do know that they come in handy when fighting. If i cannot see what is ahead of me on ground I can always have Pen come forth fly around and look to see what we are heading into when we are fighting. I have to do everything I can to protect my people no matter who they are. I can also take some who are exceptional warriors that have weapons on Pen and I let them fight from the air that way, yet it puts me in danger but at least I can cloak us all and the rogues who are against us do not know we are there and can end the fight in no time. If I have to I leave my warriors cloaked and drop them in the middle of the fight to let them finish the fight then pick them back up

I am always looking for ways to improve our techniques to help us fight and save our lives and to protect us. I make sure that everybody knows how to fight and defend themselves from very young age to they can no longer do so.

I brought out of my thoughts when the gate agent calls for our numbered tickets to come stand in line while we get ready ready to board our plane.

"Excuse me sir but that is our seat, if you don't mind we will take our seat next to her."

"I am sitting here and will not move nor can you make me, dude." the rude passenger said.

"Please do not make this any harder than it can be, but let this gorgeous lady decide whom she would like to sit by."

"Ma'am who would you like to sit by you for the long haul?"

"Conall and Dahman can sit by me as well as their brothers. Does that answer your question?"

The disgruntled dude gets up in a huff and moves elsewhere towards the back and Conall and Dahman make their way to sit down by Dee. She was satisfied that she got to sit by them and not some stranger who did not care for himself and already had an attitude.

The three of them talked off and on during the flight until they landed in New York.

As we were walking to our gate I passed several beautiful women who all pined over us, non of us took any interest in them of course. When we came to our gate there weren't many sitting there but there was a smell of sweet wild flowers mixed with spearmint. I had to follow the smell it was too much not to follow it had my dragon-Pendragon and Lycan-Due are both screaming mate.

We walk near the female and they are screaming in my head as they make me look at her and there she is sitting with her computer in her lap typing or reading something, she looks up and smiles. She is a goddess, with bits of grey hair, very curvy woman and I look at her and say, "Mate" as she looks at me with those big beautiful blue eyes. I walk to her and she takes a deep breath and does not drop my gaze. I walk by and I could hear her say to herself "damn he smells good."

I snickered a little but Due and Pendragon are both begging to go and sit by her to get to know her. I tell them to calm down and we will do that in time. We have to see if she is on the same flight as we are and if not we will most certainly be.

We board the plane she was far ahead of us but I immediately sought her out. I had to sit next to her, smell her, touch her at least once. I longed to hear her talk, laugh, I needed more, no wanted more. Due found her and he was dancing in my head like no tomorrow. Pendragon was on high alert seeing there was someone else trying to take our spot next to our mate, he was not happy and wanted to turn and snap his head off. I had to tell them to settle down, we will get to her with due patience. Geez these two give me such a headache sometimes.

"Where did you learn to fight like that Dee?" Lachlan asks her.

"Oh brother, do you ever watch fights on pay preview?"

"No none of us do, but we know all about fighting though and you have got some mad skills."

"Well just keep this between us, but I am a fighter and I also teach how to fight MMA style as well as other files."

"Wow..wow..wow.." is all Lachlan could say.

We landed in New York, she got off the plane before I did, I mind linked my brothers to try and detain her if possible. She gave them a slip as they were not paying attention to her, useless assholes. I knew her name was Dee, she was going to Finland and new what gate she was headed too. She dipped into the bathroom so I waited just outside, trying not to be creepy at all, Lachlan walked by and looked at me staring at the women's bathroom cocked his eyebrow. "Waiting for someone bro?"

"No, why Lach?" I asked.

"You look like a creepy creeper stalking it's prey outside the bathroom that's all," He laughed thinking he was funny.

Dee came out spotted me, smiled and walked away. You have got to be kidding me! My brothers just started laughing at me as she walked on. Dee looked back and had the biggest grin on her face as if she was trying to hold in a laugh. Looking at her shaking my head I saw some skanks walking towards her, I followed them to protect her although she would protest I'm quite sure. One of the twats tried to take her bag she turned and decked him, grabbed another at his wrist taking him to the ground.

"Shit, she's got some fight," talking to myself.

Damhan looked at me, back at her and said with wide eyes, "Well don't get her pissed off she just may bite your head off!"

We hurried and handled the rest of the asshats and handed them over to security. Talking to Dee she was not happy but I calmed her down just by touching her, sparks flew and man did it feel good. I knew right then and there she was mine all mine and that I loved her. But I had secrets about our world and could not tell her yet until I have her trust and her love.

We walked to her gate and talked a little more. "Give me your phone please," she said. I handed her my phone she gave me hers, I looked at it not quite knowing what to do, she just looked at me, rolled her eyes, "duh put your name and number, email in there ding dong."

"Uh-Oh, yeah ok, here done," handed it back to her.

"Mine is in there so now we can text or call. I also attached my flight when I'll be in Scotland and where I am flying into. You know when I come if your offer still stands?" asking me if she was unsure.

"Yes, I'll even come and pick you up, but right now I have other business to take care of here in New York. Be careful lass and do not wonder too far from the gate, don't want you to get into trouble again." Then got up and left but not without giving her a kiss on the cheek.

We go get our bags and take a bus to our town home here in New York City where we settled in. We met in the kitchen and ate lunch a couple of brothers stayed behind to get some sleep and the rest took off to their office downtown.

"Did you see the way Dee fought those thugs?"

"Yeah, she's all muscle man and can she fight."

"Makes her sexy as hell."

"Yeah it does and add on all those curves, she is pretty bad ass."

"She will be able to handle herself no matter where she goes won't she?"

They continue to work in their office on paperwork discovering that there are many discrepancies in their financial part of the business. They call Evander to help look over the papers they have in front of them.

"Conall look here there is a huge discrepancy here during this month of two hundred thousand dollars. It is missing but it does not say where it has gone to or who took it out."

"Call Lizzy in here she takes care of these transactions as well as Harry and a few others."

They call Lizzy and ask her about the funds missing in the larger amounts that do not have explanations next to the memo. This is something that is a must so that the brothers know exactly what is being spent and where their money is going for. It helps when tax season comes around for anything that can be written off.

They continue to view the papers line by line and on find more and more of the same amounts totaling over three hundred thousand dollars just for starters. This money is supposed to go towards the new building they putting up that will house apartments, shops, gym, and a recreation center for those who live there and in the city. They also are building a wing on a children's hospital for those who have cancer and the families need a place to stay.

Conall calls the others into the office that remained back at the house to come in telling them they have a problem and need all eyes and hands on deck to help out. When they heard this they came right away taking some of the work and looking over the papers they had and were finding more money taken out and not being used for the new wing or the building. None of them had authorized any of the monies to be pulled out of their account which is for building materials for both buildings. They also have money set aside for furnishing both places and money was being stolen from that account as well.

The monies were mounting to be well over a million dollars combined and there was nothing to say who was taking the funds out without authorization and making notes for what is is for.

"Lizzy look for any receipts for these transactions and who withdrew them and why. We need to know and follow the trail, please get back to us right away."

She got right on it and went through her vouchers of requests, checks, with draw slips, anything and everything she could find. She even enlisted others in her department to help her out asking for their files for the dates in question. She is their supervisor but she had noticed one person who was missing all the while, Harry. She went to his office and started looking through all of his files and found some important information that she immediately took to her bosses.

"Here, I found these on Harry's desk I don't know if they mean anything or not but I hope you do find something in here that you will find useful."

"Thank you Lizzy you have very well finding what we need, please keep looking to see if there is anything else or anyone else we need to look into."

With that she left to go back to her department and continue to look around everyones' desk since they were away at lunch. She could snoop a little closer to see if they have any paper trails that she could get a hold of and forward them to the brothers. She found a few more files and put names on them. She took everything she found up to their offices.

"I have found more information, I put their names on the files that way you can call them into the office together or one at a time. I also provided their logon id's to look into their digital files and track their spendetures as well."

"Your work is much appreciated Lizzy, you may take the rest of the day off."

"Thank you sir, I do have somethings that I need to get done with family. I will see you all tomorrow, bye."

They have Champ look into the electronic files while they continue to look into the paper trails they have. It takes several hours which they will be in their office for the long haul. It will take all day and night possibly overnight. Definitely several days.

They continue their investigation over the next several days with Champ and much is coming too light but with no explanation why the monies have been taken out.

We have business to take care of here in New York at one of our offices. There is trouble with one of our properties that we are doing construction on and it needs our immediate attention. We arrive at our flat, settle in then look over the files.

We have found more information besides what Lizz has already dug up on Harry and others in the departments that are short changing us, stealing that is. We just have to find out where the funds are going. This is going to be a very long process to figure out who else is involved and why.

"What the hell is all this shit for?" Lachlan states in a snarly voice.

"Why can't Harry take care of this shit when we are not here, that is why we hired him for!" we all yelled at the same time. We cannot believe Harry cost us three million dollars on our project for the Children's Center Wing in the Metro Hospital in NYC.

I send Evander, Dahman, Lachlan to the job site to see exactly what is happening there. We need to know what the fuck up is all about and the rest of us head into the office. Once we arrive Charlotte greats us as we walk in. She is a younger dragon that belongs to our pod but she does have a mate who also works with the company. Champ is very smart, works in our IT department and helps out in the accounting department as well. He went to Harvard and graduated first in his class at the age of 16. Char rings him lets him know we are here and meet us in our personal conference room on the 12th floor.

I called Champ and told him we found some disturbing information. He is our head IT guy that can get to the bottom of anything we throw at him. He is also our cousin and another shifter like us but nobody in his pack are dragons or other shifters, just werewolves and a few Lycans. We have our own IT guys in our pack Nelson and Andrew who are twins, they are warrior trainers too but they geek out on anything IT.

Champ comes up to our offices once he is finished with his meetings with his departments. Champ looked at that some of the papers that were on his bosses desks and saw what he was up against. He could not a trace them until he took them or copies back to his office and reviewed them more closely to have a better idea of what and where the money was going to and who all was involved. It would be better to look through the electronic transfers to get a better idea of what is happening than paperwork.

"There is another Four million dollars missing from the other new new building that is going to house a recreation center, shops and apartments. Who took that money and where is that at?

"Another two million taken out of an account, oh shit brothers' look at this. On top of what has already taken out there is a total of thirty more million dollars taken. What the fuck is going on?"

"Champ, nice to see you again, wish it was under different circumstances." I say as we shake hands.

"Yes, nice to see you all again Conall. Here are the files that I have pulled on Harry which includes his phone records, photos of who he's been seeing and talking to."

"Call him in, we want to confront him with all this shit he's pulled." I tell Champ.

"He's not in his office went to voice mail, boss."

"Find him now!" I told him.

Texted Evander to look for Harry on the property in case he shows up there. I sent copies of the papers and pictures of who he was talking to and where, Evander caught a glimpse of him across the street eating lunch with a couple men. They looked less than savory from where he was standing. Ev looked at his brothers pointed to where Harry was and they took pictures and sent them to a friend in the police department to check out to see who these skanky men are. Their friend told them they would know something by end of day.

Mathe was sitting at his desk looking at the computer when he received an email with information about the skanks Harry was with.

"Hey guys come here, we just received the information about those two skanks Harry is with. They are loan sharks working with the Italian mob boss from Italy. Name is a mystery and no trace of him or them can be truly found. The names that are given are fake names, Huey and Duey." as reads this he is laughing at the sharks names.

Mathe had put the some of the financials in his computer and let the information run but when he had entered the pictures and information from his cousins. He ran a facial recognition scan on the men sitting with Harry, he could not find anything that came up but he did receive information that is very interesting.

"What the hell kind of names are these? They must look like Donald's nephews then." They all started laughing at the comments being made. Conall was intrigued with what was on the screen, no pictures of the men except for what Lachlan had taken at the site.

Conall did not think the names were funny but he did not let his brothers know it. He nor his brothers could fathom what was taken from them but they needed to hustle to get that money back somehow and it did not matter how they were going to get. They would get their retribution from the people who took it and that included Harry himself. They just had to look for the others who are involved taking all that money from them and their company accounts.

Champ continued looking into the accounting department financials with a fine tooth comb checking out who did what, when and tracing every possible lead he could get from everyone in that department. He new Lizz was very maticulas about her bookkeeping and did not like when anything went arye. She worked with Champ for many years in his pack and now at Lyons-Mackley Incorporated. She hated Harry and half of the people she worked with because she new they were liars and she gave Champ all their information including email, phone, login and password information so he could comb through their electronic files.

The brothers' also told Lizz about the fund raisers that they were going to hold to help with the building the addition to the children's hospital, which is a special project they are dedicating to their parents' that were murdered many moons ago. Thinking how easy it would be to steal some of these funds from them he told Lizz that he would go make the deposits for her so she would not have to leave the company.

She, at the time, trusted him but warned him that she watches all accounts and tracks all transactions being made and who makes them, including deposits. He did not care he was there to take from the rich and make himself richer, secretly and never to get caught.

Two years later and he was caught but he played it cool and planned on lying to them about the funds. He was not as smart as he thought he was but that he will come to find out later rather than sooner so he thinks.

They arrive back to the office and they escort him back to their offices but instead of their personal office they share they took him into an interrogation room set up for their workers like him who steal or lie so that they can get everything on video and have it for their records and the courts. This was all Evander's doing since he is an attorney and wants to play by the human rules, more like he has to keep their asses covered.