He put his hands on her hips, his chest to her back with his head next to hers.
"I have always wanted to see you in the sun, but never dreamed I would get to." He kissed the top of Bianca's head, "But there is something going on here and I don't know what it is. I know I am getting more powerful and now it seems you are as well," he said, moving his arms the rest of the way around her and holding her tight.
Just then there was a knock on his door. They both knew there should not be many people left at the club at this time of day he walked over to the door, opening it slowly at first to see who was there. As Raven backed out of the way, Bianca could see Chel walking into the room, her eyes red from crying and tears still running down her face. No longer nude as she had been at the beginning of the night, she had on jeans and a small tank top.
She jumped a little when she saw Bianca still awake, "Miss Bianca, I am sorry but I was only doing as Raven asked."
Bianca looked at her, face inscrutable. She watched the little she-wolf squirm under her cold gaze, enjoying it for a moment before replying, "I understand, you were only following the orders of your employer. Regardless, I had a debt to pay and was not in control of what happened."
Chel relaxed slightly. Raven stepped in, "Chel you have not told us what's wrong or why you're crying. Did something happen at the club after you left us?"
Chel hung her head and started to cry a little harder, "No sir I...I...just need your help. I lied to you...I ran away from my pack and I think they're back in town to take me home and I don't want to leave."
Bianca glanced at Raven and stepped over to Chel, taking her hand and guiding her into one of the chairs in the living room, sitting her down before going back into the bedroom to get her silk robe and wrapping it around herself.
Raven took as seat in the chair opposite of Chel's and Bianca perched on the arm beside him. "Well, tell me the whole truth Chel, we can't do anything if we don't know what we are up against."
Wiping away a tear, Chel started on her story, "Well my pack has a bitch queen and the alpha male is whoever she feels like having in her bed at week. She is very old and powerful, so none of the males dare try to take over. They all know if she ever gives up power it will be to her son. He is cruel and heartless and gets away with whatever he wants."
Raven looked up at Bianca then lay his hand on her leg as Chel kept telling her tale. "Well, long story short, her son picked me to marry. Which really translates to is that I will be his breeding bitch who he fucks for pups or whenever he feels like it. No matter if I am ok with it or not and I could not take that so I ran away."
Chel started crying again, her hands over her eyes.
Bianca glanced down at Raven, "Well, no other predators enter our territory without our leave. Any incursion by the pack will be met with force. By your kinds' own laws, they must seek permission of the resident alpha. And by tradition, my kind has always hunted and killed yours."
Raven nodded and picked up where she left off, "By being my employee, you are here by my leave and therefore under my protection. They have no right to come and try to take you. I will not allow it."
Chel smiled weakly, "Thank you both, Mr. Raven, Miss. Bianca. You don't have to try to protect me from them. I just came to ask for help getting out of town, and to tell you I was leaving. I...I...don't want y'all getting hurt or killed on my account."
Bianca let out a short bark of laughter, "Bah, I will hear none of that girl. The day a pack of mangy wolves waltzes into my territory and tries to take someone under my protection is the day I pack up and leave."
Raven nodded grimly, "Like to see them try it."
Bianca stood and fetched her phone from the side table. "What are you doing my love?" Raven asked.
"Calling Cass, we need all the help we can get. He is old and powerful." She left a brief message for him in Italian and clicked the phone off.
Chel's smile got a little bigger and she was not crying as much.
"I will let my pack know to be on the lookout for other wolves." Then he stopped and his smiled, "Ladies, if you will come with me." He stood, still nude, he held a hand out to each of them. He got odd looks from both of them but they took his hands and he led them to a back set of stairs and then down it, turning on lights as he went. When Bianca was sure they were now deep underground, they at last they came to a room at the end of a long hallway. On the other side was a wall with a large steel door set in it. Raven still not saying a word, walked across the room to the door. Opening a small panel next to the door, he placed his hand on the scanner. The door started to open, revealing bright light that illuminated a huge room full of weapons. Swords, axes, spears, and guns of all kinds and something in a glass case with the glass blacked out came into view.