“Who” Draco asks, which has Celmund scrolling through all the cameras in the compound to see who it was, his expression getting darker with each second that passes.
“They fucking left” he states as he lifts his phone angrily
“Who fucking left?” Cassius mutters
“Nova, Talia and Saskia” at his words I tense, I can her Ceric swearing from where he parked. Saskia out there has me imagining all types of things. My heart starts to race in fear, what if she gets caught and hurt like Dara did?
“How did they leave?” Draco asks
“It looks like they went with Tor and two of his men.” Why the fuck would Tor take them out, he knows better than that. Did Nova use her persuasion on him? I doubt it; Draco has warned him about how our women can use their gifts on us. I close my eyes feeling for Saskia’s life force, as soon as I find it I’m going to get her and no matter the reason why Tor took my woman he’s going to learn never to put her life in danger again. Draco dials Tor’s number I can them talking and then I feel my woman, I don’t stop to think I start my bike and am sliding it around until I’m facing out of town.
I’m going to have to sit Saskia down and insist that she doesn’t place herself in danger, the thoughts of the way I found Dara, her lifeless eyes looking up at me tightening my heart when I think of that being Saskia. I twist the throttle speeding down towards where I feel Saskia to be, my stomach twisting into knots. I can hear the others behind me, Ceric riding besides me his anger palpable.
As I come around a corner I see the three bikes with Tor and his men, when I see Saskia my heart calms. Coming to a stop next to her, I look her over making sure that she’s fine. I notice that she’s got Jasmine’s kutte on, I have ordered hers but it hasn’t arrived yet, I will need to follow up because I want my woman with my name on her back when she’s out. I can see the nervousness on her face, the biting of her lip as she looks at me. When I’m happy that she looks unharmed I look over at Tor and see him standing with his arms crossed looking at us.
I start to make my way towards him and see his eyebrow rise before his lips kick up in amusement; I will punch that smirk right off his face. “Burkhart” I hear Saskia call but I don’t stop as my fists are itching to connect with Tor’s face, and then she steps before me, her hands on my chest.
“No you don’t,” she grumbles as she tries to stop me as her hands slide around my waist.
“Saskia, let go” I place my hands over hers and pull gently so as not to hurt her.
“Don’t do this, he was trying to keep us safe. If he hadn’t come with us we would have come alone.” She states with a frown as she looks up at me. At her words my anger intensifies as I think of the danger she’s been placed in.
“He should have kept you at the compound.” I flip my visor up so that I can look down at her; I see her worried eyes as she looks at me.
“We already had a plan to leave without him, besides we are all fine. Burkhart, you can get angry with me afterwards but now we are wasting time, we need to go now so that we can catch him.” She turns her head slightly to a path that leads off the road, why the fuck did they come out anyway? Whatever it was, it is dangerous, there are only three of them with the women, anyone could have ambushed them and they wouldn’t have been able to protect them from getting hurt.
“You do not place yourself in danger, ever. I will not allow for anything to happen to you, you don’t understand, you have to be safe.” She needs to understand that this is not acceptable; I will not lose her too. I see the softening of her eyes as she looks at me her hand stroking mine where I’m still holding hers. “Why did you come out here?” I ask as I look around seeing trees surrounding us. This is the perfect place for an ambush, how could Tor stop here.
I glare again at him and the asshole has the audacity to wink at me, “I was following Vercin’s energy” at her words I tense, my muscles feel like they going to snap, I hear the silence that has descended around us as all the brothers stop at her words.
“What?” I can’t believe what she just said, therefore I ask again because I’m sure I must have heard wrong.
“Vercin was outside the compound, and he’s got a really strong energy that I was able to follow. He turned in here; if we wait much longer I won’t be able to follow it anymore.” I can’t believe the fucker allowed them to come here, my vision starts to tunnel. I pull my helmet off not saying a word and hand it to Saskia, I see her surprised look but she takes it. Before she realizes it I’m over the space separating Tor and I and I have punched him.
I can feel the blood coursing through my veins at the thought of him placing my woman in danger, “Fucker” I grunt as Tor punches me in the stomach, the asshole is enjoying this as he smiles when I kick his legs out from under him.
“Enough, you can both see who’s dick is bigger after we find Vercin.” Draco growls as he takes us both by the shoulders and pushes us away. I’m about to rush Tor again when Draco looks at me “Don’t even think about it, or I’m going to lay you out flat” he states with a frown. I glare at Tor and then at Draco, I won’t go against one of Draco’s orders but I really want to punch that smirk off Tor’s face.
“He placed my woman in danger.” I growl
“I know, and we’ll sort that out later. Now let’s see if we can find this asshole.” Draco says, “Your woman will ride with you, Celmund and Ceric will take Nova and Talia back to the compound. We will have the men riding in front, behind and opposite you to make sure that we keep Saskia safe.” At his words I nod, my anger still boiling but I turn and return to where Saskia is standing with my helmet. An annoyed look on her face, she shoves the helmet against my chest in anger.
“What?” I ask and nearly smile when she huffs in annoyance.
“Let’s just go before I forget that I’m supposed to like you and hit you over the head with that helmet” She grumbles as she walks to my bike. Her sexy ass in her tight jeans catching my eye, I can feel my cock hardening and I groan. Her eyes shoot back over her shoulder and me and she frowns, “Are you hurt?” she asks with a worried look.
“The only place hurting is for you darling” I murmur as I place my hand behind her neck and pull her to me. My lips crash down on hers and I hear her sigh in pleasure.
“Seriously dude, give us a break” Cassius quips, “we really don’t need to see you being all romantic.” I pull away and wink at Saskia’s blushing cheeks. Looking to my side I see Bjarni squatting down and place his hands flat on the ground, I know he’s feeling the vibrations around us to see if there is any imminent danger.
“Mount up” Draco calls already on his bike; I help Saskia onto the back of my bike and pull her arms around my waist.
“Are you ready darling,” at her confirmation I turn the bike onto the path and start following Draco and Tor that are riding before me. Wulf and Bjarni are riding next to us, one on each side. Cassius and Caelius are following close behind. I feel Saskia tensing behind me, her hands tightening around my waist. “What’s wrong?” I ask as I look around making sure that there is no danger lurking in the darkness of the woods.
“I think there’s other Keres here,” Saskia says
“We know” I grunt, because as soon as we turned into this path we could feel the Keres energy around us. I don’t like the thought of Saskia being here with us when we are clearly approaching a hive of Keres. Draco lifts his hand so that we stop and looks back over his shoulder, “Do you still feel Vercin?” Draco asks
“Yes, and he’s close” at her words I tense my arm moves back to pull her flush against my back.
“Park” Draco orders which has all of us parking our bikes and preparing to attack, the fear I’m feeling is something I’m unfamiliar with as I never feel it, but knowing that anything can happen while my woman is with me has me worried.
“Do everything I tell you, don’t move away not even for a second only if I tell you.” I state as I look down at Saskia’s worried face. I lower my head and kiss her lig
htly on the lips, “don’t worry we will all protect you.” That calms me slightly knowing that all my brothers will give their lives instead of letting anything happen to her.
“Be careful” she states which has my stomach tightening when I realise that she’s more worried about me than herself. Before I can say anything I see her eyes widen and then she’s looking to our left.
“Left” I grunt letting the others know that there is something approaching, I don’t need her to tell me because by her reaction I know we are going to have company soon. Draco and Bjarni have moved up the path and are blocking anyone from passing. Wulf and Cassius are standing around Saskia to make sure that she’s covered from any harm. Caelius and Bion have moved further down the path and blocking anyone from that side.
Gunner and Brandr have moved into the trees and are strategically waiting on either side for any Keres to make his move. I feel the energy level start to rise and know that the Keres are preparing to attack us. “Burkhart” Saskia says
“I know darling” I confirm, letting her know that I’m feeling the energy too.
Suddenly the ground starts to heave, I see Bjarni and Wulf both crouch and then the tremors stop but the trees around us start to heave, they are both blocking the tremors which has the energy building by the treeline but safe where we standing. “Burkhart, Brandr let’s send them a warm welcome.” Draco says
I smile knowing what he means, looking over at Wulf I wink which has him shaking his head in amusement. “Crouch down behind me darling” I call to Saskia as I place my hands on the ground, feeling the pull of Wulf’s energy thrusts I bend fire through my fingertips and into the ground to join his energy. I know that Draco and Brandr will be doing the same in the various directions which will have the earth where the energy is flowing heating up like lava.
“That should keep them back for a while” Cassius grunts
“Draco” we hear Vercin calling, looking towards Draco I see that he’s standing and looking ahead, “Taking a chance coming here aren’t you?” Vercin quips, I feel the wind rising and know that Caelius is picking up the wind in case anyone chooses to shoot at us the bullets will be pushed off course.
“I could say it’s optimistic of you thinking that you have us cornered.” At the beginning of the path Tor and his men left the bikes behind and made their way on foot through the trees for this very reason. They will now be surrounding whichever Keres have been stupid enough to attack us. I sense when Draco has located Vercin by the rise in energy levels, his feet are braced apart and his hands are facing the ground, the heat radiating off him is unbelievable. Draco is the only one that can bend more than one element, because of this his energy is frightening when he unleashes it.
Suddenly I hear a shot, my hearing picking up the sound from a distance away. “On the ground” I roar wanting to make sure that Saskia is safe. The bullet races past and embeds itself in the bark of a tree behind us. “Motherfucker” I roar as I realize that the shooter was aiming for Saskia.
“Stay here” I state as I rush forward, no one shoots at my woman and lives. Son of a bitch is going to wish he picked someone else.
“Fuck Burkhart” I hear Cassius grunt, I know that Draco is going to give me hell for leaving our circle but there is no way I’m letting that asshole of a Keres get away. “I’m going to fucking kill you when we get back” I hear Brandr grunt from next to me as we race to where I heard the shot being fired from. Trust Brandr to always cover my back, I see a Keres from the corner of my eye lifting his hand but before he can shoot Brandr has shot him between the eyes.
There is another Keres racing towards us an evil smile on his face, I know I’m smiling because there is nothing that I like more than feeling these fuckers bones breaking under my hands. I know that Cassius and Wulf will keep Saskia safe, I’m better away from her at this moment because my rage is boiling and when my fury rises then so does the fire in my blood. If she comes near me when I’m like this I’m worried that somehow I burn her and that is something that I would never be able to forgive myself for.
I punch him in the stomach and duck as he was preparing to kick out at me, as he bends down I raise my knee and knock him out flat on his back. There are another two charging me which has my adrenaline pumping, soon Brandr and I are fighting side by side as we dispatch a couple of the assholes that think we would be easy pickings because we’re by ourselves and they have the numbers.
I see the fucker that shot at Saskia moving through the trees with his snipper who has me quickly dispatching the guy I was fighting and rushing after him. When he senses me closing in he turns and lifts a handgun that he had in his hand. I speed up and am about to place my hands around his neck when he discharge the weapon, I ignore the pain as my hands circle his neck, “you shoot at my woman, you going to die” with those words I twist my wrists and snap his neck, then I pull my weapon from the back of my jeans and shoot him through the heart which has him disintegrating before me into dust, the fucker was a earth bender.
“I swear I’m really going to kill you this time.” Brandr grunts as I turn towards him and see his worried gaze as he looks down at my side. Only then do I feel the pain shooting through me and my vision starts to darken as I remember the Keres pointing his weapon at me, fuck, I was shot.
SASKIA 14
When I see Brandr rushing towards us with Burkhart over his shoulder I swear I feel like my heart is stopping. The panic that starts to take over my body is overwhelming; I feel my breathing accelerate until I’m panting. I want to get up off the ground and rush towards them, I want to make sure that Burkhart is still alive but the fear holding me down is stronger than me. What am I going to do if he’s dead, how am I going to continue.
Brandr reaches us and drops him next to me on the ground, my eyes are misted and even though I blink them to try and see him better they overflow with tears. “Don’t worry sweetheart he will be fine, Bion is making his way here.” Brandr comforts
“Not for long if Draco gets hold of him” Cassius mumbles, as he continues to rotate his hands. Only after the wind started to rise and the trees started to blow wildly did I realize that Cassius was an air bender. I was wondering why he was rotating his hands in an anticlockwise motion but when I saw the motion of the trees and the leaves and sticks flying around did I recognise that it was him doing that.
Bion rushes towards us, “I swear this asshole is going to get himself killed one of these days” He grumbles.
“Is he going to be fine” I ask worriedly and see Bion take hold of his t-shirt and tear it from the seam up to half of his chest, only then do I realize that he has been shot. The blood that is trailing down his stomach and side has me gasping. “Oh, he’s been shot” the panic is back and it feels like I have a constriction in my throat as I struggle to breath.
“Breath Saskia” Bion says as he places his hand over the wound, “he will be fine, the bullet went right through.” He points to the wound and then looks at me, “it’s already starting to heal.” All I see is blood, I can’t tell if its healing or not but it can’t be good if he’s lost so much blood.
“Do I have to give him blood?” I ask worriedly
“You can give him blood when we get back to the compound, don’t worry for now he’s fine.” I start to sit up but Cassius orders me back down. I’m surprised that even though the wind is blowing the way it is the air around us is really hot. I look up when I feel the ground shake, my eyes widen when I see Draco. His back is to me but I can see the muscles in his back are tense, his legs are braced and his arms seem to be relaxed at his sides but I know differently when I see what looks like a whirlwind raise from the ground before him and then instead of just wind there are flames flashing as it rotates. I know my mouth is hanging open but I still can’t believe all the things I saw today, the whirlwind starts to rotate faster and faster until it’s hard to see if its rotating and then its moving so rapidly through the trees that I gasp.
How does he do that? I hear shouts and
screaming and then Draco, Bjarni, Wulf, Cassius and Caelius are rushing into the trees until I can’t see them any longer. “Give me your hand” Bion asks, before I can stretch my hand out he has taken it and placed it over Burkhart’s wound. “Put pressure here,” he says and then he’s standing.
Brandr and Bion are standing with their back to each other as they scrutinize their surroundings; Burkhart and I are both on the ground between the two of them. Burkhart groans and then moves slightly. “Shh, lie still” I plead as I look around worried that the Keres will suddenly rush out of the trees and attack us.
When his eyes slit open I can see that he’s disorientated, he looks at me confused and then slowly turns his head. I notice when he realizes what is happening because his whole body tenses and then he’s trying to sit up. “No…you got hurt, keep still” I plead as I keep my voice down trying not to distract the other two men.
“I’m fine” Burkhart grunts and then winces as he moves. Worried that he’ll hurt himself more than he already is, I quickly slide over him, as I try to keep off his injured side. “Fuck Saskia, what are you doing?” he grumbles, but his good arm lifts to hold me close against him.
“I’m trying to save you, because it doesn’t seem like your fool head thinks much” I grumble as I turn my head to look into the trees.
“You tell him” Bion quips
“Yeah, if you want us to hold him down while you teach him a lesson we’ll be more than happy to help,” Brandr grunts.
“Piss off” Burkhart mumbles, I lift my head to look down at his face and see him frown as his hand moves over to my head and he pulls it down to his chest. “Keep your head down” he grunts
“Oh now you worried?” I mutter, “I thought that if anything happened to one of us the other also suffers. Maybe you should of thought of that before you went rushing like a crazy man” I argue and hear the other two men grunt in agreement, I try to pull my head up but there is no breaking the hold he has on my head. I huff when I realize that no matter how much I struggle he’s not going to let me raise my head until he deems it safe.
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