“Stop struggling” he mumbles against my ear, and then I feel his hardness against my stomach.
“Really” I mumble as I feel my cheeks flushing, my movements coming to a complete stand still. “I swear we need to have a serious talk when we get back about safety” I mumble, “This isn’t something you should be thinking about under this situation” I whisper
“Darling you rubbing your body against mine, what do you think is going to happen?” he murmurs
“You hurt, you not supposed to be. . .” I close my eyes and then open again in embarrassment, “like that” I mutter and hear Bion and Brandr chuckle.
“Darling, I’m hurt not dead” he groans as I move my leg which accidentally rubs against his hardness. I’m about to berate him when there is a noise and suddenly I’m lying flat on my back and Burkhart is covering my body with his. I hear shots being fired and then grunts and quiet.
“Are you okay?” Burkhart asks as he lifts off me and I feel his hands traveling my body to make sure that I’m not hurt.
“I’m…fine” I stutter as I try to calm my racing heart. I swear, when I get back to the compound I will never leave again.
“Is everyone fine?” I hear Wulf ask as he comes back to where we are. At every ones confirmation he looks at Burkhart, “What about you?” he asks with a raised brow
“Still alive” he groans as he sits up and then helps me to sit.
“You won’t be for long if Draco gets his hands on you, what the fuck did you think you were doing?” Wulf mutters as he shakes his head. I stand and then look around surprised to see that the area seems like a hurricane just passed through here, I’m helping Burkhart up when Draco strides back into the clearing. Looking over at him I feel a shiver course down my back when I see his blue eyes shine with an intensity that is overpowering.
He looks around at everyone and then his eyes focus on Burkhart and myself, “We going to talk about this” he states as he looks back at Burkhart, I see Burkhart nod once and then he’s guiding me towards his bike.
“Are you going to ride?” I ask surprised when I see him pick up his helmet, the man has been shot, how he can think of riding his bike is beyond me.
“I’m fine darling, get on” he says as he sits on his bike
“Maybe I should ride with someone else, then the bike won’t be too heavy for you.” I hear the men around me chuckle at my suggestion and I frown.
“Woman, stop giving me grief and get on the bike.” He grumbles as he looks back at me, I look around and see the men grinning at us.
“What’s so funny, he shouldn’t be riding he’s just got shot?” I ask
“He’s wound has already started to heal sweetheart, and it serves him right if it hurts” Bion says as he walks past, “but you can ride with me if you like.”
“Piss off,” Burkhart growls at Bion, “get on Saskia or I will help you onto the bike?” he mumbles as he frowns at me. Well if he thinks he can order me around he has another thing coming, I take a couple of steps after Bion before I feel myself being lifted off the ground.
I gasp in surprise when I look up I see Burkhart’s set features above me, “What are you doing you oaf?” I hear the men laugh at my predicament and glare up at Burkhart furiously.
“You are not riding with anyone else except me” he mutters as I’m placed on the back of his bike and then he’s taking his place before me and starting the bike.
“Well I already rode with Tor so I don’t see what the difference is,” I swear I hear him growl at my statement but he doesn’t answer as he turns the bike and we are once again riding, If he wasn’t hurt I swear I would argue with him but as soon as he is completely healed I’m going to set down some rules. Just because we together doesn’t mean that he can treat me like I don’t have a mind of my own.
As we about to turn onto the main road I see that Tor and his men are waiting for us, when we ride past, Tor winks at me, and I know that he did that just to annoy Burkhart when I feel him tensing before me.
Men, always so competitive and it seems like I got the most competitive out of all of them. We continue in silence until we have parked in the garage and Burkhart is helping me off the bike. My anger with him has cooled on the ride back, therefore when I see him wince I place my hand on his cheek which has him stilling.
“Are you in pain?” I ask and see his eyes soften at my concern
“It’s not too bad,” he says as he leans his face against my palm, his eyes bore into mine and then he kisses my palm before he raises his head. “We have a meeting, why don’t you go and rest and I will be with you as soon as we finish.”
“But you need to get your wound checked”
“It’s fine, Bion will do what he has to” he says and looks over his shoulder as Brandr calls him, “I have to go, be good and I will come as soon as we done.” With those words he guides me towards the garage door and then turns and joins Brandr. I see he doesn’t go anywhere until I leave and I wonder where they going to meet, as I know that the men usually meet in the computer room but it looks like Tor and his men are also going to be part of this meeting therefore they will need a larger area.
I make my way through the compound, as it must be the early hours of the morning there is no one about therefore I go into the kitchen and make myself a cup of coffee, sitting at the table I take a sip and think of everything that happened today. When the men started to bend the elements I must be honest I was in shock, I knew that they could do it but it’s completely different when you actually see it.
“Thank goodness you back” I jump in surprise at Talia’s voice and look up to see her walking into the kitchen. “I was worried about you, Celmund was in the computer room since we arrived and I knew there was fighting going on. Is everyone okay?” she asks
“Everyone is fine, and yes there was fighting but to be honest I didn’t see much with my head buried in the ground.” I quip as I think of the way the men kept of berating me every time I would raise my head slightly. I go on to tell her what happened and see her eyes widen in horror at my recounting of the events.
“Did they catch Vercin” Taila asks, only now do I remember him, with everything going on and Burkhart getting hurt I completely forgot about why we were there.
“I actually don’t know, everything happened so fast that I completely forgot about him.” I confess and wonder if the men are going to ever allow me to help them again after what happened today, and if they do will I want to be surrounded by danger like I was today?
BURKHART 15
“I swear I don’t know how you haven’t been killed yet” Brandr grumbles as we make our way towards the bar, all the guests have left long ago. The woman that helped Vercin is under lock and key until we know more about her and why she helped him. Most of Tor’s men are awaiting us in the bar. After what happened today everyone will need to know that we now have a way of capturing Vercin.
I know that he didn’t die because Draco’s mood is way too dark to be a good sign. Unlucky for me, because in the mood he’s in when this meeting is over he’s going to tear into me. “Let me take a look and see how your wound is” Bion says as he comes to stand next to me. I frown but I lift the torn side of my t-shirt away and look down.
“You one lucky motherfucker,” Bion grunts as he presses with the tips of his fingers around the wound. It’s still fucking sore, but there is no chance in hell that I’m going to complain. I know that I should think before taking action, that I should try to keep my temper but there is no way that I could stay when a fucker tried to kill my woman. “The bullet went right through and didn’t injure any organs; therefore you should be as good as new in a day or two.” I nod in thanks and then lean back against the wall
“What happened with Vercin?” I ask as Brandr leans back against the wall next to me. Bion stands on the other side his arms folded before him as he looks around.
“Draco burnt his ass but his men got him out of there before Draco could toast him.” Brandr says
and then looks over at Bion, “Is it my imagination or was that a level five.” My head snaps around to Brandr at his comment, none of us have a level five when it comes to bending our element. We are usually a level three maximum four once we have a mate, to be a level five is something only talked about and not ever seen.
Keres are usually only a level two because of their evilness and we suspect that Vercin is a level three but have never got enough evidence to prove it. Draco has always been a level four as he is the only one among us that can bend three elements and then we have Tor that bends two, but to reach a level five it means that he has to be able to bend all of them in harmony with each other and at full power.
“Are you serious?” I ask and see him nod, looking at Bion I see a pensive look on his face.
“I would say if it wasn’t a level five it sure was close, did you feel the energy radiating off him.” Bion says with a raised brow as he looks at Brandr, “We need to find his mate, I hope she’s out there somewhere because I don’t know how much longer he can hold on.”
“Fuck, there would be no one to stop him if he had to change” Brandr says as he looks around as the men start filtering into the bar. We change the subject after that until Draco walks in with Tor by his side and Wulf right behind them. I can tell Draco’s still pissed by the way his muscles are tense and the intenseness of his glance.
As he starts to talk everyone immediately quietens, “as you all know we went after Vercin today and nearly got him.” He states, “he managed to get away when his men rushed him into a chopper, but we now have a way of finding him which we didn’t have before.” He states and then looks directly at me and raises his brow. I know that he is silently asking me if what he said is correct, because that would be a requirement for Saskia to continue helping us whenever we might have a lead. I will agree to her involvement only if we can arrange another way of her finding him. I nod to let him know that I’m in agreement but we’ll still discuss it.
“How we going to find him, did you manage to somehow put a tracker on the fucker?” one of Tor’s men asks
“No, we have something better than that.” Draco states but he doesn’t elaborate and I thank him for that because I would rather no one besides the brothers that already know about Saskia know. “I want all of you out there; Celmund has mapped out areas where the chopper could have landed. I want him found” Draco states as he looks around at every man, “he is hurt, and it will take him a while to get his strength back up to what he’s used to, therefore this is the perfect time to attack.”
Celmund takes over to point out all the areas that need to be checked, men start to be placed into groups and dispatched to the different areas. I see Draco striding towards us, “How’s he?” he asks Bion as he inclines his head towards me. Bion gives him the same information he gave me which has Draco then looking at me.
“You have two days and then I want an explanation” Draco says and then he’s striding away
“You damn lucky you got injured and he’s got time to calm down” Brandr states, “I thought you would have calmed down now that you have Saskia, what the hell were you thinking?”
“He shot at her” I state and see Brandr shaking his head
“He didn’t kill her, but it would have killed her if you had died.” With those words he turns and leaves, his words piercing me deep as I realize what I actually did. To get revenge I placed Saskia in danger, if anything had happened to me she would have perished because there is no way one mate can survive without the other. My heart is racing at the thought of what I did, I promised never to put another woman in danger after what happened to Dara and as soon as I get a mate I place her life in danger.
I feel a hand on my shoulder, looking to my side I see Bion looking at me as he squeezes comfortingly. “Don’t beat yourself about it, learn with it and next time it will be different” he says
“I promised to protect her and the first thing I do is place her life at risk” I confide, “I don’t think I’m any good at this Bion.”
“You will be fine, next time just think of how it will affect her before you act like a cowboy and rush ahead.” I don’t know if I will be able to do that as I have always been driven by my temper, how am I going to keep Saskia safe if I’m the biggest danger to her. I look up and see Draco’s eyes on me and know that he heard our conversation, his eyebrow raises in question. I know that he’s asking what I’m going to do, but I don’t know what to answer therefore I turn and leave everyone behind and make my way to where I know I will find peace.
On my way to our room I stop near the kitchen as I feel Saskia in there, why isn’t she resting? I walk towards the door and stop when I see her talking with Talia, she is clearly tired but her smile still radiates and lights up the room. What am I supposed to do, how am I going to change so that I can keep my woman safe? Because no matter what she’s my priority, I have to always make sure that she’s safe. As Talia says something, I see her head snap around when she senses me close and then she’s smiling that smile that she only keeps for me. “Is the meeting over?” Talia asks as she stands and turns towards me.
“Nearly” I grunt, “why aren’t you ladies resting?”
“I was too hyped up to sleep, besides I was worried about you” I lift my hand and she stands and makes her way towards me, her hips swaying as she walks.
“Shall we go finish what we started?” I murmur and see her blush, her hand slapping me on the arm.
“Burkhart!” she mumbles embarrassed
“What?” I ask innocently and see her eyes roll
“Well then, I will let you two get to it and I will go look for Celmund” Talia quips playfully as she walks past.
“Thought she would never leave” I joke as I touch my lips to Saskia’s but one taste isn’t enough and soon we are both breathless. “If you don’t want me to take you right here you better start moving woman.” I grunt as I guide her out of the kitchen and towards our room.
“But you hurt” she whispers as she looks around to make sure that no one was hearing her. I will have to show her that a little wound like that doesn’t incapacitate me. As soon as we enter the room I have Saskia against the door and her legs around my waist, as I kiss her neck I place my hands on the top of her t-shirt and pull. The fabric rips, but before she can complain I have pulled the cup of her bra down and am suckling her breast. Her gasp of pleasure has me pulling her away from the wall and walking with her towards the bed. As I lay her down my hands go to the waist of her jeans and I pull them off her sexy legs, until she’s laying before me in her panties and a torn t-shirt with her luscious breasts peeking out of her bra.
I pull the rest of my torn t-shirt off and throw it on the ground, then I’m slipping the boots off my feet as I pull down my jeans. When I’m standing naked before her I see her eyes wondering over me with a hungry look on hr face. “What do you want darling?” I ask and see her eye close in passion.
“I want to ride you” she murmurs which has my cock twitching in anticipation, how the fuck did I get so lucky. I place my hands on her hips and pull down her panties throwing them on the floor next to my discarded clothes. Next I have lifted her again and then I’m sitting on the bed with her legs straddled around me.
“I’m all yours darling” I grunt as I lower my head and take one of her nipples into my mouth as she lifts and places me at her entrance and then she’s lowering her body over mine and we are both groaning in pleasure. I lift my head and then take my hand and twist it around her hair as I bring her head to mine and I kiss her as she starts to lift up and then slowly lowers herself again. “Fuck darling” I groan as she rotates her hips as she lowers, this isn’t going to take long. I place my other hand on her hip and start to pull her down harder on me. Her head snaps back and she groans in pleasure.
“Burkhart” she moans
“Yes darling” I grunt, “faster” we are both panting, I place both my hands over her ass and guide her faster and faster over me until we a
re both coming undone. Saskia’s arms move around my shoulders and she lays her head on my shoulder as she tries to calm her breathing. My hand moves from her hip up to her back and I stroke gently. A few minutes later I can hear her breathing change and I know that she has fallen asleep.
I slide back on the bed and lay back keeping her in my arms, the feel of my woman close to me has a calming effect that nothing else has been able to do. I need to find that calmness within myself when my rage starts to take over, because I can’t continue placing my life in danger like I have done before. I need to get rid of the vengeance that has been eating away at my soul since Dara died, that has been driving my life since then.
Tomorrow I will go and kill the fucker that I have been torturing for two years. I have kept him alive and taken my vengeance out on him for touching my sister, the thoughts of everything that was done to her has been driving me for years. The thoughts of how much she suffered because they thought that she was indispensable had my rage boiling every time, but I find that that blinding fury has calmed.
I feel a close of a chapter when it comes to Dara, the pain of her death is still there but I don’t feel the need to carry on torturing the motherfucker that hurt her. The guilt has also diminished, I have always felt guilty for not being there to help her when she most needed me but I have finally come to peace with the fact that it wasn’t my fault, and I think all of this because of this woman in my arms.
She has brought me a peace that she will never understand, my soul was distraught with vengeance and guilt but now I find it craving the peace and happiness that I can feel when I’m with Saskia. My fingers are stroking her soft supple back feeling her life force flowing under my fingertips. “I love you” I murmur softly and hear her mutter in her sleep which has me smiling like a fool by myself. I close my eyes and take in the fragrance that is all Saskia.
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