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  “Gee mom I was at the library. Ow let go of my arm!” he looks from my face to his hands on my arms and releases me immediately, “Oops, sorry,” he mutters.

  “Well that’s gonna leave a bruise,” I say while rubbing my upper arms, “Now do you want to tell me what your malfunction is and why in the world you are scaring the shit out of the poor desk clerk?”

  Jason just stands there staring at his feet like they're the most interesting thing he’s ever seen. “Sorry. I thought, oh never mind it doesn’t matter,” he looks back up at me, “just don’t leave again without telling me okay.” he says then goes to walk back towards the elevators. I grabbed his arm to stop him and spin him around.

  “No, tell me what you thought,” I demanded.

  “Alright fine since you must know. The last place I saw you was walking into your room, when I came to get you there was no answer. I got worried so I called security up to unlock your door. Your bags were unpacked and laying on the bed but you were nowhere to be found. I panicked. I thought somehow,” he takes a deep breath, “somehow that bastard Devoncourt got ahold of you. When no one around here seen you I came to the front desk demanding to see to surveillance footage and that’s when you came through the front door.”

  “Well seeing as I’m armed to take out a tank I highly doubt one werewolf is going to take off with me.”

  “That’s not the point Jessi. We don’t even know if he is working alone or not and I didn’t know where you were anything could’ve happened.”

  “Well genius you could’ve called my cell phone,” I reached in my back pocket in emphasis my point and pulled out my cell phone waving in front of his face.

  He just stood there back to looking at his feet rubbing the back of his neck.

  “Well I didn’t think about that,” I just rolled my eyes, grabbed his arm, and pulled him into the elevator. “Come on over reactor we got a dog to catch.“ Jason laughs and we agree to change and arm up then meet in my room in an hour.

  An hour later we are standing by the little table in my room staring at aerial maps off the mountains where hikers last spotted Devoncourt. The trail seemed easy enough, it was the storm coming in tonight I was worried about. I suggested we put it off for another night, but like Jason said we don’t know if he has help and we could possibly lose him.

  Walking out into the lobby people stop to stare. I guess if I was them not know who I am I would stare too. Jason and I both are in all black military gear with mini Uzi’s strapped to our back with straps that run from around our waist, across our torsos to around our shoulders holding silver glacier rounds. I have both of my 9mm Berettas in my shoulder holster, four daggers strapped to each thigh, and silver throwing stars attached to my cargo pockets.

  Two hours later we finally reach the mountains where Charles was last seen. The idiot didn’t even try to cover his tracks. It’s almost as if he wanted to be followed.

  We walked down a ridge for about another mile when we finally spotted the cave entrance.

  “Alright Jason what’s the game plan?”

  “Well we can start by going in and shooting the fucker.”

  I shrug, “alright sounds good to me.”

  Just as we are about to enter the cave small rocks fell down the side of the ridge. Three very large and very growling men step into view.

  Jason pushes me towards the entrance, “Jess go inside and whatever you do don’t come out.”

  “But what about you?”

  Jason grabs my shoulders and kisses me on the forehead, “don’t worry about me I’ll be fine,” he whispers. “What about Devoncourt?” I asked.

  “If you see him, pump his ass full of silver. Now go!” he yelled shoving me into the cave.

  Behind me I hear ripping, snarling, and a lot of gunshots. I run further into the cave stumbling around in the dark. How in the hell does he expect me to shoot anything in here. I can’t even see five feet in front of me. I guess I got pretty far into the cave because once I stopped running to listen for any sounds from outside all I got was complete silence. So, either Jason killed those bastards or, oh god I don’t even want to think about it, or I ran further than I thought. After a few more minutes of staring into blackness my eyes started to adjust to the darkness of the cave. I hear a scrape above me. I spin around and aim upwards into the cave.

  Charles drops down behind me from a ledge above. Jason is nowhere in sight. He wraps his big arm around my neck and presses what feels like a knife into the middle of my back. I start to struggle to try and pull away but he just squeezed me tighter and pressed his knife further into my spine.

  “Stop moving my sweet or I just might accidentally sever your spine.”

  “Fuck you asshole let me go,” I say between gritted teeth.

  “Not yet. Me and you are gonna have a nice little chat.”

  “I don’t have a damn thing to say to you other than fuck off and die!”

  He leans into the side of my neck and breathes in, taking in my scent which leaves chills running down my spine and not in a good way, “such dirty words for such a pretty little girl.”

  Just as I was about to speak there was a noise coming from a tunnel just to the right of us. After a few seconds a bloody and half conscious Jason comes stumbling out with a gun in hand pointed in our direction.

  “Let the girl go Charles,” Jason orders.

  “Boy you are not strong enough to command me,” he sneers back.

  “I’m strong enough to put a bullet through your fucking head if you don’t let Jessi go.”

  Charles leans down and says into my ear while keeping eye contact with Jason, “so, my sweet tell me what have your friends, coworkers, and family been keeping from you?” I could feel his breath on my neck. Just the thought of this man touching me makes me want to hurl. I turned my head to look at Charles and he let me loose enough so I could half turn and face him.

  “Shut up Devoncourt!” Jason yells.

  Charles chuckles softly, “perfect, So it’s true she really doesn’t know about you all and the prophecy. Oh, this ought to be fun.”

  “What in the hell are you talking about. Jason can’t command you. He’s human for fucks sake and my family doesn’t hide shit from me.”

  Charles throws his head back and lets out a howling laugh.

  “I don’t see what’s so funny,” I said clearly not amused.

  “Oh my dear, but I do,” he says and points at Jason, “and so does he.”

  “He doesn’t have a clue what you’re rambling on about,” I exclaim.

  “That is where you are wrong,” he turns towards Jason, “isn’t that right Jason?” he asked Jason with air quotes when he said Jason’s name, “or is that really your name?”

  “Devoncourt I’m warning you shut the fuck up!” Jason roars.

  “But Jason,” he says in mock amusement, “this is simply too much fun to shut up.”

  “What is he talking about Jason?” I ask.

  He then takes his eyes off Devoncourt to look at me, “he’s crazy he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he stated.

  “So half breed who are you gonna believe someone who has been lying to you right along with everyone else in your life or someone who only has your best interest at heart and is willing to tell you the truth?” he sneered looking at Jason.

  “Jessi don’t listen to him,” Jason pleads again.

  I turned my head to look at Charles once again, “well, for starters I damn sure know you ain’t got my best interest at heart and I wouldn’t believe a damn word that comes out of your vile mouth,” I spit at him.

  Charles puts his face in the crook of my neck and inhales deeply, “oh but she smells so good. Her heat is getting stronger. Maybe I’ll just claim her here and now,” he looks up at Jason, “I don’t mind an audience you can watch. You never know you just learn a thing or two pup.”

  “Wait a goddamn minute. Ain’t nobody claiming shit you sick sadistic bastard!” I screamed

 
“On the contrary my sweet I think I will,” Charles lowers his arm from around my neck and grabs my crotch through my pants and starts moaning rubbing himself into my backside.

  This guy really is bat shit crazy. I could feel the bile rising in the back of my throat from this mans touch. I’ve never really wanted a man’s touch until recently. But, something about this man touching me just feels wrong and not just because he's molesting me. Something about him just screams pure evil. I look to Jason and see pain written all over his face. I could tell Charles’ display is affecting him just as bad as it is me. Too bad he can’t make a solid shot. He’s barely standing as it is. So, it’s either let this vile creature rape and claim me or figure something out and figure it out quick.

  I tried to plead to Jason with my eyes to understand what I’m about to do. He can’t acknowledge me for it might give away my actions to Charles. So I do the only thing I can. I start to moan back at him and rub my butt into his hard shaft. He takes it as an open invitation and does exactly what I expected him to do. He removes the knife from behind my back to grab my breast. As soon as he seems good and distracted I elbow him as hard as I can in the ribs and drop to the floor. Charles was too stunned to react quickly enough and is now in Jason’s sights and has no time to move or reach for me again. Jason fires off several rounds and all bullets hit their target. Charles’ body jerks and falls to the floor with a hard thud.

  I scrambled out of the way and to my feet. I run to catch Jason as he slides down the cave wall. When I reach Jason his eyes roll into the back of his head and his body goes limp.

  “Jason! Oh god Jason! Please baby hold on.”

  Thirty six gruesome hours later we are back in Miami at the hospital. Jason still hasn’t woken up yet. I’m not even sure what his injuries are or the extent of them. He was covered in so much blood it was hard to tell if it was his or the werewolves blood he was caked in. By the time I dragged him out of the cave our back up team had arrived with the medic chopper. I handed Jason over and let our field doctor work on him.

  When we arrived at the hospital Jason was rushed into a room and no one has been able to see him yet. After being at the hospital for a couple of days, refusing to leave, and with no information on how Jason was doing a doctor finally walks into the waiting room.

  “Are you Miss Barnes?” he asks

  I stand up, “yes that’s me.”

  “Jason woke up and he’s asking for you.”

  “Oh thank god. Thank you doctor,” he nods his head as I rush past him and run down the hall to Jason’s room.

  I entered the room to Jason lying in a hospital bed covered in a thin white sheet. I walk over to him, look down and smile. He looks up at me meeting my eyes returning my smile, “did you really call me baby?” he asked laughing.

  “If you can joke around then you are feeling much better,” I smile and smack his shoulder. He moves to sit up in the hospital bed and I jump to my feet to help him. Jason reaches out and grabs my arm. “What the hell Jason don’t move you’re injured.”

  “No I’m not. I just got a nasty bump on my head.”

  “But, all the blood.”

  Jason holds out a hand to stop my protest, “Not my blood. It was the wolves. I just got my head beat in pretty good,” he emphasizes by rubbing the back of his head, “and probably a good concussion to go with it and hey, who said I was joking around. I specifically heard, “oh god baby please hang on, i need you, i want you, i love you so much, and I believe there was a lot of crying.” he said playfully and winking at me.

  At his silliness I can’t help but laugh, “ha ha funny guy. If you can think up such ridiculous shit then I think your gonna be just fine.”

  “So, whatcha say we blow this joint and go get plastered?” he asks wiggling his eyebrows.

  “Why the hell not,” I agreed happily, “After all what we’ve been through the last few days we could both use a good stiff drink.”

  9

  ALMOST

  Nikolaos stands in a dark corner in Adalwulf’s Den a club he owns, watching Jessi and his brother at a table by the dance floor drinking laughing and having a good time. He would have gone to the hospital to check on his brother but Jessi refused to leave his side and he couldn’t risk her finding out. The only thing he could do was command the werewolf doctor taking care of his brother to refuse Jessi access to him until he woke up. According the doctors the areas around his ribs were completely shredded and he had a chunk of meat taken out of his right shoulder from fighting the wolves at the cave while he stayed in human form. If he would’ve shifted he wouldn’t have a scratch on him but none of us can afford for Jessi to find out the truth before it’s time.

  The doctor also mentioned he was talking while in a healing coma saying things Jessi doesn’t need to know just yet. So, unfortunately because of the circumstances I couldn’t be there for my little brother and because Jason was healing so fast I couldn’t take the chance of Jessi seeing him and finding out what he really is. So this time we all had to suffer.

  Before Jason picked Jessi up for their night out he did manage to call me and give me a full update on exactly what happened in the mountains. Thank the Goddess Jessi thought Charles Devoncourt was nuts otherwise we’d all have a lot of explaining to do. If that scumbag wasn’t already dead I’d kill him myself for touching what was mine. It took all I had not to shift just listening to what he did to Jessi. No one touches what belongs to me. Including little brothers being led onto the dance floor right now by Jessi.

  “Hey knot head. Do you wanna dance?” I yell at Jason over the music.

  “No I don’t.”

  I stand up, grab his hand and drag him to the dance floor. If he thinks he’s getting out of this he’s crazy. I don’t know what is in them drinks but damn I feel good. I feel so alive my body is buzzing with energy. I can’t stand sitting still for too long, I tend to get a little antsy. But, tonight it seems worse. I can literally feel the energy pouring off my body. If I didn’t know better I’d say my body was harvesting energy.

  I dance circles around Jason while he laughs at me. I know I probably look like I’m try to rain dance or something but I don’t care. I’m just here to have some much needed fun. The poor man really can dance, well ballroom that is. But, you get him to a club and dancing to music with bass and he seems so outta place. He’s just standing there tapping his foot swaying side to side. Every once in awhile he’ll wiggle his butt for me. I just clap and keep dancing around him. I was reaching for Jason when I got a whiff of vanilla. It smells familiar but for the life of me I can’t remember where I’ve smelled that scent before and now it’s mixed when Jasmine. The buzzing in my body intensifies until I’m burning with heat and need. I feel the dampness starting between my legs. Uncomfortable I start to rub my legs together trying to release the pressure that’s building inside my body. Lost in my own sensations I didn’t notice that Jason walked away and was no longer standing in front of me.

  An arm wraps around my front lower abdomen from behind and I’m pulled back into a muscular chest. We sway to the music working our bodies together and rolling our hips. My skin feels so hot; it feels like it’s covered in flames. Contact with the stranger seemed to make my body hum even more. Not sure what to do or what I need I press back into the chest of the man holding me and start to grind my hips with his. I wonder where Jason got off to. Maybe some girl dragged him off to dance somewhere. With the way I’m feeling I really don’t care. I feel hot, high, energized, and extremely horny.

  I lean my head back onto the man’s chest just as another man walks up in front of me and this man brings a new meaning to the word hot. Tall, dark, beautiful and gorgeous green eyes. The stranger in front of me puts his hands on my hips and his thigh between my legs and begins to sway with me and the other guy behind me. The guy behind me grinds his erection into my backside and the guy in front of me uses his thigh to put pressure onto my pussy.

  I grind my body into both of theirs loving the feel
ing of being between two men. I know I shouldn’t be thinking or acting like this. Something seems extremely wrong but right now my mind can’t seem to process anything I’m doing or what’s going on around me. Besides I’m too high on energy to give a shit.

  Just as I started moaning both men were ripped away from me by a very pissed off Jason. He reaches down, grabs me, and throws me over his shoulder. I screech, kick, and pound on his back but it doesn’t even seem to faze him. “What the fuck Jason? We were just dancing and having a good time.”

  “Yeah having too much of a good time. I didn’t bring you here to act like a slut!” he yells.

  Now I’m really pissed, “Did you just call me a slut fuck face?” I’m screaming at him to put me the fuck down and beating the shit out of him. Jason reaches up and smacks me on the ass hard.

  “Ow you cold hearted bastard put me down!”

  “No!” he roars, “and if you keep throwing a fit I’m gonna put you over my knee and really spank your ass. Now shut up and be still.”

  Jason walks with me over his shoulder to his car, throws me in the front seat, and slams the door.

  “Gee talk about me throwing a hissy fit,” I mutter under my breath.

  If I didn’t know any better with the death glare he just shot me through the windshield I’d say he heard me. But that’s impossible.

  Jason snatches the driver side door open, jumps in and peels out of the parking lot. On the drive back to my house neither one of us said a word. When we pull up to my front door I jump out of the car as quick as I can just to get away from the prick. But I’m not so lucky. As I’m getting out so is Jason. He stalks over to the passenger side of the car towards me and plants both hands on the roof of his car on each side of me boxing me in.

  He leans in close to my face, “first, I wouldn’t call you a slut if you weren’t acting like one. Secondly, the next time you act like that I will put you over my knee and paddle yours ass,” he all but roars in my face.

  I’m not sure what came over me, I’m not sure if it’s his dominant attitude or the paddling my ass part but I leaned into him and planted my lips directly on his. At first he didn’t respond. But after a few seconds he snaps out of it and kisses me back. He ran his tongue along my bottom lip and bites it asking for permission to enter and I freely give it. When his tongue touched mine its like fireworks went off inside my body. Every bit of my body heat traveled south straight to my pussy causing my clit to throb and all my pent up energy seemed to be releasing.