“I don’t remember anything. I have heard of it but never been. Have I?” Chayce asked and looked around me at his brother.
Rayce nodded, “Yes, mom and dad used to bring us here when we were babies. I can see why you wouldn’t remember it. We were so young when you were taken,” Rayce explained.
Chayce nodded, “I see.”
“So, how did you two end up together?” Rayce asked.
I cleared my throat and decided to start at the beginning, “Well, Marie and I were practicing shadow travel when it happened, but I don’t know how,” I confessed.
Then Chayce chimed in on the subject, “It’s really very easy. Any hellhound can do it.”
“We have been trying for weeks,” Rayce stated as he turned down the road leading us home. “It’s not working.”
“You probably make the same mistake most newbies make,” he said.
“Which is?”
“Have you been in your hellhound form when trying?” Chayce asked with a smile.
“Yes,” I said.
“That’s your problem. You have to be in your human form for it to work,” he snickered. “It takes practice but once it’s mastered, you can go anywhere.
“Did Gage train you?” Rayce asked.
“He did, along with others in the pack.”
I was sure his training with Gage was quite different from the training that Rayce had been tortured with.
“Now I feel stupid,” I confessed.
“You shouldn’t. It’s a simple rookie mistake,” Chayce expressed as he lit a cigarette and rolled down his window.
“That explains a lot,” Rayce said, “Ok, you traveled to your old house but how did you two meet?”
“Gage sent me to fetch her,” Chayce confessed.
“Why would you do that?” Rayce asked as we pulled up to the house.
Chayce grew silent. He had something weighing heavy on his mind. “He gave me the order. I had no other choice but to follow it,” he said curtly.
“Can you enlighten me?” Rayce asked.
“Gage has something on me, but I would rather not talk about it. Maybe some other time.”
Rayce nodded slowly but didn’t press the issue. “Later, then,” was all he said and turned off the truck. “Come inside.”
“Nice place,” Chayce said stepping out.
I knew it would eventually come out, what I was forced to do in order to get out of Gage’s clutches. I was ashamed. I wanted to get into a burning shower and disinfect my mouth before Rayce kissed me. I ran up the stairs to the front door but he stopped me. “Where are you going, babe?”
I turned back and smiled at him, “I need a shower. Plus, you guys have a lot to talk about.”
I looked Chayce in the eye before entering the house, he nodded as if he understood my dilemma. He would tell him everything. I couldn’t bring myself to hurt Rayce by telling him. Before I could reach the stairs that would take me to the amazing shower, I was nearly knocked off my feet by a huge hug from Marie. I pulled out of the hug and looked at her brilliant smile. “We need to talk. Come upstairs with me.”
As we entered the bathroom, she bombarded me with questions of where I went and how I did it. I told her everything. I climbed into the shower and talked to her while she sat on the toilet seat. I was trying to be quiet. I didn’t want everyone in the house to hear me. I spoke mostly in a whisper. When I finished telling her about what I had to do, I only had one question for her.
“What’s wrong with me, Marie?” I looked at her and waited for an answer.
“First I can’t believe you found his brother and now he’s here. Do you understand how big this is?”
“I do,” I said smiling. I sat down on my bed and sighed.
“What’s wrong?”
“I think there is something wrong with my body.”
“Are you hurt?”
I looked at the door and listened before speaking, “No. I’m fine. It’s just that…my body sort of betrayed me.”
“What do you mean?”
“I almost responded to Gage’s advances,” I whispered. I was completely embarrassed. “How could I be attracted to someone like that? I love Rayce but even being around Chayce turns me on. I am ready to have sex, no matter who’s around.” She waved my question off as if it wasn’t any big deal and laughed. “Come on, Marie. This is serious.”
“Jessica, you’re in heat.”
“What?”
“It happens to us all. Don’t feel bad. It’s nature, Jessica. You are only doing what your animal side is craving and that’s okay. Rayce will understand. I know that he can tell what’s going on with you. And why are you asking me instead of not doing what you need to take care of it?” she asked smiling again.
“What do I do, jump his bones?”
My friend nodded. “In nature, the female will test several males before she finds the one.” She made quotations in the air with her fingers.
“Are you telling me that I will flirt with others until I get laid?”
“Yes. Obviously, Rayce is the one you want. Better get on that,” she grinned. “Now, hurry up and get dressed, I want to meet this guy.” She left the room.
I stood in the middle of the floor, brushing my hair. Arms wrapped around me and Rayce kissed my neck. “You know everything?”
“I do,” he said deeply.
“And?” My face burned.
Without another word, he spun me around and kissed me passionately. He tasted like honey on my tongue. I wanted more and wrapped my arms around his neck as he lifted me off the floor. My towel fell to the floor and I wrapped my legs around his waist. His hands cupped my ass and he began to grind himself into me. I love when he took all of my weight in his arms.
“I want you so bad, it hurts,” I said against his mouth. I slipped my hand between us and slipped it down into his jeans. I took his cock into my hand and began to stroke him the best I could. He let a small growl escape his lips and he closed his eyes as I stroked him.
“Your touch is like fire,” he said. I pulled my hand away and he tossed me onto our bed.
He quickly ripped off his clothes. My juices flowed from my pussy in anticipation. I wanted him so bad. I pinched my nipples as he climbed on top of me. I wrapped my legs around his waist but he didn’t enter me. I shifted my hips to feel his skin against mine.
“Feel how ready I am,” I whispered and the head of his cock slipped against me.
“You are so fuckin’ wet for me,” he growled. “I have to get control of myself or it will be over before we even start.”
He was right, I wanted it to last as long as it could. I rolled him over onto his back and climbed on top of him. I could feel his hard cock pressed flat against my slit. I looked down at him and took my breasts in my hands and began to play with my nipples. Excitement struck his eyes and his hands grabbed my hips and held on tight. I rocked back and forth slightly, allowing his length to slide against me, stimulating my need. I knew if I rocked enough, he could slip in easily.
I leaned forward and sat back, allowing him to enter me. I put my head back to the pleasurable full feeling he gave as he stretched me. I placed my hands on his thighs for support and began to ride him.
His strong hands kept me on a rhythm that worked me against him. “That’s it, babe. Come for me,” he grunted.
My long-awaited orgasm crashed over me. He was relentless and didn’t allow me to collapse. He took me in his arms and turned over on top of me. The look in his eyes was blazing. I was in ecstasy.
“Don’t stop, Rayce. Do it again,” I begged.
“I don’t plan on stopping,” he said, driving into me harder and deeper. He laughed a little. Then he thrust into me again but much deeper and harder. I reached down and took his ass in my hands and pulled him even closer to my body. He lifted my legs on his shoulders and he leaned over me. This position always made me finish but he then took my breast in his right hand and tweaked my nipple before sliding his fingers down to my
tender swollen hood and gave it a tickle.
My heels began to tingle to his touch, and I wanted so bad to finish but his fingers and cock left me. He slid off the bed and stood on the floor, “Get over here,” he commanded. I rolled over onto my knees and his hands grabbed my hips again. He teased my opening and circled my swollen mound with his tip. I was clawing at the sheets in anticipation. My body grew even more hot and wet for him. “Please give it to me, Rayce,” I begged.
His hands slid up the length of my back and gripped my shoulders. I was thrust forward as he slammed into me. I bellowed a pleasurable moan into the air as he began to pound into me. He reached his right hand between my legs and played with my swollen clit. His touch pushed me over the edge and I found my voice.
“Yes…yes…yes…don’t stop,” I demanded while ecstasy took me.
He released a growl that vibrated up my spine, causing every hair on my body to stand on end. My body shivered as he spilled deep inside me.
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My nightmares stopped. I didn’t have the looming feeling that Gage would find me and have his wicked way. I was completely safe in my new home. I didn’t have to worry about anything but the upcoming fight. Rayce assured me that I didn’t have anything to worry about but I couldn’t control that part of me.
The fight was getting closer to its due date, and before I knew it, we only had two weeks remaining. Chayce stuck around to help after Rayce told him what he had been through. The stories infuriated Chayce even more than being lied to his entire life.
I felt so bad for the guy. He had been led to believe he was someone he wasn’t. He was actually much more than he could have ever thought. I told them everything Gage had told me about him and his father’s crazy world take over idea. Everyone thought it was crazy as well, and set up a plan to fight back.
I wondered who would be running our pack now. Chayce was born first, it was his right to take it if he wanted it. Rayce had already taken it for himself but now he had to fight Gage for it.
Rayce had already introduced Chayce to the rest of the pack members. Well, the pack members who were left in our little town. Most of them had gotten hooked on the hunt and were suspected to be with Gage. I make lucky number thirteen in our little pack. That was small compared to what it once was.
“I know that this might be a hair brained idea, and a little far-fetched, but why don’t we take both packs?” Everyone looked at me as if I had fucked the neighbor’s cat or something. “Well, why not? Chayce and Rayce are both born leaders. If Gage and his father think they are all powerful, why don’t we take it from them? Fight them both for Devils Bend and Oklahoma City.”
Jay, Rayce, Chayce, and Marie looked at each other in a strange way and Rayce shrugged his shoulders. “Jessica, that’s actually a good idea. Why couldn’t we take what belongs to us?” he asked the others. “I will fight Gage, and when I win, we move onto the City and take that too.”
“You aren’t going to fight Gage, I am,” Chayce proclaimed.
Rayce had a big problem with this and he voiced it to him, “No. I will fight him. Gage made the challenge to me. It’s this pack he wants.”
“He wants them all,” I stated.
“He wants to kill me and take you as his prize. I can’t, I won’t let that happen. It has to be me.”
“Listen, he won’t know the difference between the both of us,” Chayce said. In hellhound form, you couldn’t tell a difference between them. “It would be too easy.”
“We could take them by surprise,” Jay stated.
We could take them out there and wouldn’t have to worry about a thing. Then one of you can run Devils Bend and the other can run Oklahoma City?” Marie explained.
Listening to them all had my head spinning. I never even should have opened my mouth. What I really wanted to do was run away with Rayce and never look back. “Screw all of this scheduled fighting bull shit and get on with it. Hell, let’s all risk our lives,” I said and everyone stopped arguing. “Excuse me,” I turned and left the kitchen. I stepped out onto the back porch for some fresh air.
The summer season lingered in the air. I hated being hot even with my high hellhound temperature, I still hated it. I hated everything at that moment. I couldn’t even handle being in the peaceful garden Rayce had created. I began to remove my clothes. I needed to run so I could burn off some steam. I got down on the ground and began to shift into my hellhound form. I wanted to kill something. I was so sick of worrying. I was at my breaking point. I heard Rayce calling my name from the porch but closed my eyes and didn’t look back at him. I ran toward the tall trees.
As I stepped through, I began to think about how I could lose Rayce and that sent me into an even faster run. The feeling of my speed released some of the tension in my body. I hadn’t been able to truly open my wings in a long time and this run was working magic on my stress. I didn’t want to go too far from the house but I had to get away. If only for a while.
I knew it was wrong, and a little selfish, but I wanted Chayce to be the one to fight Gage. I didn’t want Rayce even coming close to that man. I knew if Gage got his evil hands on Rayce, he would torture him to death, as he did when he was young. I wished I was powerful enough to take Gage out myself, then we wouldn’t even have to worry about it. He was so strong. I didn’t see how Rayce or even Chayce could win a fight with him without vampire blood.
I knew what I had to do. I had to find a nest. Vampire blood was my only way out of this mess. If I drank enough blood I may have a standing chance against Gage. I could end everything myself. I wouldn’t have to worry about my family, my pack, or Rayce. I charged toward a spot that I knew had vampires. I entered the out skirts of Devils Bend and kept running in the direction of the blood. There had to be some still there. We hadn’t been there in almost a year.
Once I came close to my destination, I lifted my nose into the air and gave it a good sniff. I caught the familiar scent of cinnamon and butterscotch. It burned my nose but made me drool. The dark mine didn’t seem as dark as when I was inside it with Jay. No wonder he didn’t have a problem seeing anything. With my hellhound eyes, I could see everything. I could even see down into the deep dark holes and I was right. I would have gotten impaled if I had fallen down into it. There were old wood boards sticking up from the bottom. The place still had the same smell of mold, and water still dripped from the ceiling and walls. A new scent lingered. The charred remains of the vampire bodies.
I continued down the tunnel and entered the room where I had exterminated with Jay. I could smell the vampires, but I couldn’t find them. They were out hunting. I chose a place to lie and waited for them. I closed my eyes for what seemed like only a minute when I heard footsteps approaching. I had fallen asleep. The vampires began to come in. Meaning it was a half hour before sunrise. I waited for them to get settled before I struck.
Once it quieted down in the mines, I could not hear a thing. Only new vampires still breathed because they were too new to know any better. Vampires didn’t have any need to breathe. I stood slowly and quietly from my hiding place. The scent was thick in the air.
I took my first sleeping vampire quickly. It was a male. I sank my onyx teeth into his throat and ripped his head off. Sleeping vampires were such easy targets. Sleeping like the dead was a literal statement when it came to vampires. I drank him dry before I moved on to the other four. I felt strong and powerful after my feed. I was ready.
Surrounded by dead vampires, I shifted back into my human form and closed my eyes. I thought about the bathroom in the apartment. It was the one place I was familiar with. I didn’t want to take a chance on landing in his room where he had me delivered. Keeping myself focused on the bathroom, I hoped no one was using it at the time. I didn’t need to interrupt someone’s morning piss. The gust of wind hit me.
I opened my eyes to a dark room. I didn’t get a flash of someone with their naked ass on the toilet. I crept to the door and turned the knob and exit
ed into the hallway. I knew the direction led to the living room where I met Gage’s infamous dick of a father. I went the other way. I used my nose and could smell his cologne. Gage was in there. I could hear his slow and steady breathing, along with another, he was not alone. I should have thought about that. Footstep approached where I crouched. I carefully turned the door knob and hoped it wasn’t locked. The door opened to the dark room. I closed the door behind me.
I could do this. I could kill him and leave, as long as the lights were out. I padded cautiously to the side of the bed. Gage was on his back sleeping. The girl was curled up into a ball on the other side. She looked like she was trying to keep away from him as much as possible.
I pulled the sheet down off of him slowly. He wasn’t dressed in anything but his birthday suit. I was also naked. The thought of our intimate parts touching made my stomach turn. I covered him up again. I had to get as close to him as possible. I straddled his stomach instead of his groin and his hands reacted by rubbing my legs. I froze for a momentary second. This was my moment and I had to take it.
As his eyes began to flutter open, I took his head in between my strong hands and turned it. He gasped as I sank my sharp teeth into his throat. He gripped my arms, trying to stop me, but I had him. I sank them even deeper until my jaw nearly closed. He didn’t have a chance to say anything before I ripped the whole front of his throat out. He tried but couldn’t let out any noise. His wind pipe was exposed. I spit his flesh onto the floor and watched as his blood flowed freely onto the cream sheets, staining them forever crimson.
His eyes were full of fear and pain. I could see him trying to mutter words. I covered his lips with my hand and smiled down at him. His blood held a wild flavor against my tongue. I leaned down to his ear, farthest away from the sleeping girl beside him and let out a whisper.
“You have lost this fight, Gage Johnston, and your father is next. You will never hurt me or my family ever again. Now die, you, son of a bitch,” I growled.
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