Uendeligt: An Infinitely Forever Novel

by S King

  Dristan didn’t slow down his bravado by kindly waiting for her to open the door. Instead, he opted for the macho approach and kicked in the door.

  “Wake up sunshine!” He hollered before going completely still in the doorway.

  I grabbed his shoulder and came around his massive body to find what had stopped him in his tracks. It was one thing for Dristan to go silent when he was taken aback by someone. A rare thing, I’ll admit, but it was something totally different when I was in the same boat as him.

  Standing in the middle of the shoddy motel room surrounded by junk food and in silk pajama I hadn’t known she had, was Luminous River.

  “Are you two done being idiots now, or can I close the damn door?” Karina wasn’t hearing anything about our utter shock.

  Staring at her, I had a hard time believing my eyes. Hell, after everything we had just gone through in the woods on Shang’s property, I didn’t expect to see her in Ravendowager or at all. In all honesty, I had half expected her to fight me tooth and nail about coming home. But instead, there she was. Confirming by her presence that she had decided to come back. Luminous had left Shang behind. And Karina was the one to rescue her best friend from the lion’s den.

  As if to emphasize her point, Karina pushed me and Dristan further into the room and closed the door. But I was too busy staring at Luminous. No the outfit wasn’t like the one she had been in a few days before, but she still looked mouthwatering. Maybe it was thanks to not seeing her for so long. Maybe it was because I was desperately missing her. Whatever the reason was behind my inability to look away from her, I was just happy she was here. Safe. Alive. Pissed off.

  “Don’t give me that look,” Karina directed to Luminous narrowing her slate eyes on her best friend.

  “How the hell did you two get here?” Dristan asked, turning to Karina.

  “Walked?” She made a face and crossed her arms over her chest, “care to apologize for accusing me of something stupid?”

  He scratched the back of his neck and made a face, “well, you see what happened was—”

  “Uh uh,” she motioned between me and Luminous. “They need to talk and so do we. Let’s go,” without waiting for her boyfriend to counter and her best friend to argue, Karina was out of the room in the matter of seconds.

  “Sorry,” he grumbled and followed Karina from the room. Leaving me to stare at Luminous.

  She took a deep breath and looked around the room, “what’re you doing here, Demir?”

  “I came to get you,” my answer was quick. But at least it was honest.

  Some of the malice in her voice had drained out from the last time I had seen her. A good thing considering the looming threat hanging over her head. Maybe this time we could have a heart-to-heart that didn’t involve passing around insults and low blows.

  “Why?”

  “Did you not hear me when I told you I would come for you?”

  “What does your girlfriend say about it?”

  Clenching my teeth, I stared at her with narrowed eyes. “you’re the only one for me, Luminous and you know it.”

  “Does she?”

  “Don’t start with me, you have no idea what happened in that club or what happened after.”

  Her eyes narrowed and a muscle in her jaw jumped, “you seemed fine considering the fact you were two seconds away from fucking her on the floor.”

  “The only one I would fuck in Nine Lives would be you, after all you should know as much.” So much for no low blows and insults, I thought to myself as I prepared my muscles for the fight coming my way.

  Baring her teeth, she threw a bottle at my head, “and I’ve regretted it ever since!”

  Knocking the bottle away from me, I stabbed a finger at her, “you wouldn’t be in this situation had you listened to me!”

  Luminous grabbed her whip and uncurled it, “let me remedy it.”

  I pulled my sword and waved her forward, “ladies first.”

  “Jackass,” she growled before, spinning around with the whip twirling above her head. One deafening crack and I dove left as the rattle snake leather contacted with the carpet. When she jerked the thing back to her side, the ravels of the carpet scratched the thin padding on the wood floor. So, she meant business. Ok.

  Narrowing my eyes on her, I jumped over the dresser and grabbed for her shoulder. With a backfist to my sternum, she escaped my grasp. Only to snap the whip toward my wrist; sure, I allowed the razor wire embedded thing to latch onto my sword, but the months of her being cuddled up next to Shang had made her weak.

  With a flick of my wrist, the skull handle of the whip was ripped from her grip. Throwing the sword and its adversary somewhere in the bathroom, I motioned for Luminous to hit me with her best shot. And she did.

  Charging me in the confined space that separated us, a battle cry ripped its way out of her throat and those damn nails of hers caught me in the throat. Unlike in the woods, I didn’t relish in the bite of pain shooting its way up my neck. This time the damned claws hurt like hell. And I knew within a few minutes I’d feel the all too familiar sticky trail of blood from the wound. However, I wasn’t going to back down because she wanted to act like a damned rabid panther.

  Matching her fierceness with my own, I blocked the combination punches she threw and narrowly missed her crouching tiger kick. Throwing my body to the side, I allowed my foot to shoot out catching her in the back of the knee. She dropped as I rolled off the bed and knocked away the TV careening toward my head into the wall. The momentary move proved to be my disadvantage.

  Luminous jumped on the foot of the bed and reared her fist back prepared to land the perfect Superman punch on my face. Or so she thought. I smirked and grabbed her mid-air by her sides and brought her close.

  “Are you done?”

  The room spun, my body tensed. There was nothing else in this moment except me and her. There were no mysterious voices plaguing my mind with riddles DaVinci couldn’t even figure out. No Platinum, Gold, or Silver Guards haunting us around every corner. Just me and Luminous. Sweating, panting from exertion and glaring at each other.

  Mentally, I tried to prepare myself for the assault she was going to unleash on me. But as I studied her eyes and took in the veiled hurt, utter distrust, and hidden passion. I knew this fight wasn’t because of the promises I had made and broken. This was about feeling trapped in a spider’s web with no chance of escape.

  Pushing her zircon gray hair away from her face, I studied each feature displayed on her face and in her eyes. She was just as lost as she had been when we said our goodbyes on the cliff. But at least, now after our fight some of the fire had died in her eyes. Replaced with something I couldn’t decipher. But I knew one thing for certain. There was a small hope I might’ve done the right thing by having a hand-to-hand with her.

  “Your—”

  “You are the only girlfriend I acknowledge.”

  “That means nothing.”

  “Luminous River,” I sat her down on the floor, but kept her close. “When I tell you, there is nobody else.” Tilting her chin up, I breathed against her lips. “There is nobody else. You’re it for me.”

  A tense, suffocating silence possessed the room as we stared at each other. She could do one of two things. Knock my teeth from my skull or forgive me. Sealed with a kiss. But then again how likely was the latter going to happen? Especially considering the main character was more enraged than a hornets nest being kicked.

  “Why should I believe you?” A whisper. Not one filled with accusation or malice but of curiosity. As if she were fighting against herself.

  “Because…” I trailed a finger down her cheek, memorizing the way her jaw curved and how her lips pouted. “I’ve loved you since evigheden.”

  Luminous was most beautiful when she smiled. But I had to admit, even with tears brimming her feline eyes. She was just as stunning.

  Instead of answering me with words, she did the unthinkable. Grabbing the collar of my long sleeve
tee, she fused us together. Sparks flew around us as I tangled my fingers in her hair and pressed her closer to me. Thanks to the height difference between us, I picked her smaller frame up.

  Naturally, she wrapped her legs around my waist and clawed at my back. All the while, I couldn’t stop myself from thinking to myself. If I had to go through all of this again, I’d do it just to remember this moment once.

  “Sorry to break up the happy union—” Karina’s words were cut off as an explosion rocked the shabby building and knocked the paintings from the wall.

  Luminous ripped away from me, grabbing onto the wall for support as she looked out the opened door. “What the hell is going on now?”

  “Take a guess of society,” her best friend quipped as she ran into the bathroom and grabbed all of the weapons. “We’ve gotta go. Now.”

  “Where’s Dristan?” I took my sword from her and grabbed Luminous’s hand with the other.

  “He’s currently booking it to your car.”

  “Car?” Lumi looked at me with a raised brow.

  After years of not having any other form of transportation outside of Ike and Mike, I could understand where the confusion came from. We had a lot of catching up to do but now wasn’t the time to discuss the benefits of being a judge for the OE.

  I shrugged a shoulder and pulled her along with me as we bolted from the room.

  “Gotcha,” one of the Platinum Guard members dropped from the gutter and blocked our path to the stairs.

  “Care to explain why you two didn’t get a ground level room?” I mumbled, taking in the scene in front of us.

  Dristan was in the middle of the parking lot fighting several guard members of his own while four more guard members were making their way up the stairs. All in all? There were only nine members of the hidden guard. Which meant…I narrowed my eyes on each of their faces, but I didn’t see Shang anywhere in the mass.

  Had he known about the raid of the motel? Did he give the greenlight for his team to move in? I mean, it wouldn’t surprise me if he did. Afterall, this was a group of experiments that hadn’t been known about until they were forced from their hidden sanctuaries. Maybe the members had different rules in comparison to Gold and Silver. Maybe they could do what they wanted without getting clearance from their sect leader and that was why Shang wasn’t anywhere to be found.

  Luminous sighed and uncurled her whip before narrowing her eyes on Suzi, “we liked the view from the back balcony.”

  Leave it to the two of you to get a room simply for the view, I had wanted to say but opted for brushing the statement under the rug.

  “Let’s get out of here,” I squeezed her hand once before letting go as I tightened the grip on my sword.

  “Make sure to get us a drink after this, yeah?” Karina cracked her neck and sighed in boredom. Her sharpened steel pipe with the snapping skull at the other end was at the ready and waiting to grab onto anything she threw the thing at.

  Luminous smirked and tracked each of the guard members coming toward us. “Karina you take my left?”

  “As long as you’ve got my right.”

  “Deal.”

  The two women broke out in a full on sprint with Luminous bum-rushing Suzi into the platform as Karina advanced to the guard members clearing the last step.

  With a final look at Luminous fighting, I grabbed the cheap wrought iron rail and launched my body over the thing. Tucking in on myself, I landed on my feet. Forcing my legs to carry me harder and faster than before, I raced across the parking lot. Tonight, the only ones licking their wounds and barely living—if at all—would be the members of PG. Not my friends or my wife.

  Slashing through the bamboo whip aiming its way to Dristan’s back, I skidded in between him and Baeyoon.

  “Judge Losett?” The guard member stumbled back as he realized who was standing in front of him.

  Should he or anyone else decide to go back to Onyx Elite and report my appearance in the raid, I was going to be done for. However, it was a risk I was going to have to take.

  I smirked, tilting my head for a second, “don’t worry about it. And…” I trailed off to drag out the suspense.

  “And?” He prompted, obviously confused on what was happening.

  “I’m sorry for the headache you’re about to have.” Without warning, I spun around and rammed the butt of my sword into his skull. In an instant and with an unmistakable thud to his forehead. Baeyoon dropped to the cold cement like a ton of bricks falling from a levy.

  “How are we going to get out of this?” Dristan asked with his back to me.

  “Well, for the time being—” I cut off my explanation as my peripheral caught sight of Lumi following my earlier stunt. Followed by Karina’s manic laughing.

  “I think your girlfriend has the answer you’re looking for.”

  Grabbing the back of his jacket, I jerked him away from the barrel of the gun pointed at his head along with the Russian Heart flying through the air toward the center of the parking lot.

  “Damn it!” He growled bolting to take cover behind a row of abandoned cars.

  Lumi ran past us as Karina let out a battle cry behind us. Not good. The woman was just as bad as a damn maniac. In fact, she was a fucking maniac. But the mental beratement of the woman who was essentially saving us was cut short as one huge explosion launched me, Dristan and Lumi airborne.

  Shrapnel, debris and embers met us in the air before gravity missed our presence and pulled us back to the asphalt. The internal vibration from my back hitting the roof of an old Toyota Rav4 with the roof rack caused me to groan and try to remember how to breathe. As I laid there trying to talk myself out of acknowledging the pain, I wondered why in the hell I had allowed Dristan to remain with Karina. If anything she was going to end up killing us during one of her explosive episodes in the name of saving our asses.

  “Everyone ok?” Speak of the damned devil.

  Groaning, I grabbed for anything stable to pull myself up on.

  “Trying to kill us was not a part of the plan!” Dristan gripped.

  Rightfully so, my head got with the program and found my best friend stumbling off the hood of some Tesla that wasn’t going to be running ever again. Thanks to Dristan’s massive body having destroyed the hood and the windshield.

  “A little warning would’ve been nice,” Luminous added as she ripped her foot from under a hunk of ruble.

  “But did you die?” Karina asked, putting her hands on her hips.

  “Damn near bitch!” Luminous snapped grabbing a light post for support.

  I fell from the top of the SUV and grunted as I fell into the passenger window of a Honda sitting next to the Toyota. How me, Dristan and Luminous were always the ones to walk away from one of Karina’s episodes with the most damage was beyond me. Classically, Karina was seemingly unscathed and better off than the rest of our little gang. But I had to give it to her. She knew how to clear a room and a parking lot.

  “Can you walk?” I asked Luminous as I stumbled my way over to her.

  “No, I’m dying over here!” Dristan barked, knocking Karina’s hands away. “You and me are going to have to have a heart to heart about your pyrokinetic ways.”

  “Like you’d have me any other way.” She challenged before putting his big arm over her shoulders and took the majority of his weight.

  Luminous smirked and tried to take a step with the mutilated foot. Only to fall into my arms and blow out a hard breath.

  “I hope you’re still friends with Slade.” She grumbled against my chest and tried righting herself.

  I smirked, ignoring the pain in my back as I scooped her smaller body into my arms and tuned toward the Hummer waiting on the other end of the parking lot. Thankfully, my latest form of transportation had survived the assault Karina had unleashed on the sleepy motel. Gleaming under the faint moonlight the white paint begged for us to come on.

  “I’ll call him when we get out of here.” Kissing her head, I fell in step behind
Karina and Dristan.

  “Well,” Karina said after loading her boyfriend’s big body in the backseat and closed the door. “One thing we can all say.”

  “What’s that?” Dristan rolled down the window to insert himself in the conversation and looked at her with a raised brow.

  “We know they can fight.”

  I’d give her credit for trying to lighten the mood. But now was not the right time.

  Luminous narrowed her eyes on her sister and shook her head, “no Karina. Just…” shifting in my arms she sighed, “no.”

  “Too soon?”

  “Ya think?”

  With an unbothered shrug of her shoulder, Karina got in the backseat with Dristan. I smirked, opening the passenger door and gently sat Luminous in the leather seat.

  “You ok?” I asked, waiting for her to look at me.

  Her eyes were locked on the burning building in front of us. Originally, Dristan and I had the hopes of coming in silently and leaving silently. Granted neither of us expected to find Karina’s bomb happy ass here either.

  “What’re we going to do now?” She blinked a few times and frowned, “they saw you.” Looking at me, she searched my eyes for something, “if they go to the courts—”

  “Let me worry about it,” I kissed her forehead and cut off any argument about the contrary.

  Walking around the back of the Hummer, I knew where Luminous’s concerns were coming from. It was just four months ago that both of us were running against the clock of Onyx Elite and now? Well now they wanted to take her to the scientists and condemn her to a life where death would be better than the alternative.

  With a resolve of unforgiveness forming my heart into stone, I got into the driver seat and vowed I would protect Luminous from any danger or mad scientists that came along. It was a new dawn in our world, and I wasn’t going to play nice anymore.

  Throwing the gear shift into drive, I tore away from the parking lot of the motel and didn’t look back as the four of us found contentment in our own thoughts. All the while ignoring the looming threat of Black Diamond Orders being placed on our heads for what we had done in another guard’s territory.