by Jessie Lynn
Michael helped ease Rafe back into the chair. "Just a suggestion. I don't think you should try doing that again yet. Kay?"
Rafe looked at Michael and wanted to smack him upside the back of his head. "Ya think?" He asked sarcastically. "Tell me Mike what was your first clue?" Rafe deliberately called him Mike just to piss him off. Michael hated being called by the nickname.
"Rafael, I'm going to give you that one cause you’re still doped up and can't think straight." Michael said back to Rafe. He knew Rafe called him that damn nickname on purpose. When Rafe looked back up at him and arched his brow, he grinned back at him and winked. That made Rafe laugh a little which was a good thing.
"How the hell did the vamp find my mate?" Rafe asked. Dom was the first to answer him.
"We have now learned that Ed has been checking on her every night. We think there is a trader in my pack I am ashamed to say." Dom said head bowed. He looked Rafe in the eye and said. "I give you my word I will find out who and I will personally take care of him. He will pay dearly for betraying us."
Rafe grabbed Dom by the forearm and told him. "I don't blame you for any of this Dom. I fucked up when I lost it the night I met her. If anything happens to her, it'll be my fault." He gave Dom's arm a squeeze before he released it and continued. "So we need to find some answers and soon. Dom, you said you talked to Ed." At Dom's nod, he continued. "Get a hold of him and have him bring Ava and her friend here. We can protect them better here at Lair than just having someone watch over them at their house."
Dom grabbed his phone and dialed Ed. He looked back up at Rafe when it went to voice mail. He hung up and tried again. When it went to voice mail again, he knew someone had messed with his phone.
"It seems someone has fucked with my phone. Ed called me not too long ago with no problems, yet I've tried him twice now and it went to voice mail. Ed said he had not received any calls from any of us." He told them throwing his phone on the table. "I told him to stay in touch. He agreed to call every three hours."
"How long ago did you talk to him?" Rafe asked him.
"About two hours ago. He said he would stay with your mate until the vampire left. Even if that wasn't until morning. We need to find out who the vamp is and why she's watching your mate."
"I agree. So we now know that whoever this vamp is has help from your wolves and possibly vamps close to us. We need new phones; all of ours have obviously been fucked with." Rafe started planning.
Sloan spoke up. "I'll get those; I have several stashed for this reason. Be back in a few." He headed towards the door, but Rafe stopped him.
"Sloan wait. We now know we have traders on the inside. I trust only you guys here with me now. We need to watch each other’s backs. Nate, you go with him. You guys come straight back here."
"You got it boss." Nate said getting up and walking over to Sloan.
"Just so you know this doesn't make me too happy Rafe. But because your mate is in danger, I'll agree to what you want. You owe me now though and you know it." Sloan said pointing at Rafe.
"Yeah well you already owed me so this makes us even. Now get the fuck out of here so you can get us those phones so I can get a hold of Ed."
Sloan nodded and said to Nate. "Let’s go kiddo. Rafe said jump."
"Watch it wolf. Rafe may like you, but I don't have to." Nate said to him following Sloan out the door.
Rafe looked at the rest of his friends here with him. "Now the only thing we can do is wait." He said on a sigh.
Marie had finally managed to get Ava to calm down. They had talked some more and had decided they would both be more aware of everything going on around them. Ava was taking a bath and she was cleaning up the kitchen. Marie had also gotten Ava to eat a little so she felt better about that too. Tomorrow was Saturday and Ava was going to be pretty busy at work so she would have the whole day to get everything ready for Sunday night. Ava had agreed to go to Lair with her after a little more convincing.
Ava came down the stairs to say good night to Marie after her bath. It was still pretty early on a Friday night, but when you had to be at work early on a Saturday, then you had to be boring. She only felt marginally better after her and Marie talked about things. Marie had still gotten her way and made Ava agree to go to Lair this Sunday. She still didn't want to, but she wouldn't go back on her word. She just prayed she wasn't making the biggest mistake of her life. Ava found Marie still in the kitchen finishing up.
"Hey do you need me to help with that?" Ava asked Marie.
Marie turned around when she heard Ava. "No baby girl. You go on to bed you have a long day tomorrow and gotta get up early." She went over to her friend and gave her a big hug. "Sweet dreams sweetie and since I won't see ya in the morning, have a good day at work dear."
"Kay thanks. I'll see you when I get home." Ava hugged Marie back and headed back upstairs to bed. She knew she wouldn't get to sleep right away, but she was just too drained to do anything else. As she went up the stairs, she prayed she wouldn't dream tonight.
Ed had gone back inside to listen to the girls and see if he could find anything else out about what was going on. He now knew they were going to Lair on Sunday. That could be a good thing. Rafe would be able to talk to her again and hopefully not fuck up this time. He knew Rafe wouldn't want to let her leave, but they'd cross that bridge when they came to it. He felt his phone vibrate and pulled it out as he went back outside. It was a number he didn't recognize, but he answered it anyway. As he got back outside, he felt the stalker vamp had left. Good at least something good was going his way.
"Yeah." He said putting the phone up to his ear.
"Ed this is Dom."
Ed pulled the phone away from his ear and looked at the number again. Putting it back, he talked to the wolf. "Dom why the hell are you calling me from a different number?" He asked.
"We have confirmed either your phone, or ours have been compromised." Dom told him.
Ed heard Rafe in the back ground yelling about him being a meddling fucking goat and some other shit.
"Dom tell that crazy fucking vamp to shut the hell up while the grownups are trying to have an intelligent conversation."
"I will do nothing of the sort. What have you been able to find out?"
"The vamp just left I think. I'm going to stick around for a little while longer to make sure he stays gone though. Ava just got out of her bath and is heading to bed." He was about to continue when Rafe started screaming at him through the phone so loud he had to pull the damn thing away from his ear.
"You fucking goat I'll kill your sorry ass if you watched my mate taking her bath! You tell me where the fuck you are right goddamned now. I swear you had better not have looked at her while she was naked!"
Rafe swore his head was about to explode. He couldn't even think about Ed being there while his Ava was gloriously naked and stretched out in a tub full of bubbles. He could just picture getting glimpses of her silky wet skin as she washed and enjoyed her bath. Seeing her pink tipped breast revealed as her bubbles popped slowly. Thinking about seeing her step out of the tub dripping wet when she was done made his mouth water. Her robe would stick to her body showing off all her curves when she wrapped it around her damp skin. He should be the one there watching her get ready for bed. He needed to see her sleeping peacefully. Fuck he was instantly rock hard yet again. He couldn't take much more of this.
"Where the hell are you Ed?" Rafe asked the demon again. "Tell me right now."
Ed started laughing at the irate vampire screaming his fool head off. He could just imagine how red Rafe's face was. The dumb shit actually thought he would disrespect Ava like that. Geez just for that he was going to give the fucker shit.
"Rafe man your chick is so fucking hot. I can totally see why you want her. She was spectacular in that bath, all those bubbles floating all around her. Mmm damn fine dude. I think I'm gonna slide into bed right next to her and listen to all the cute little sounds she makes while she sleeps."
Ed la
ughed harder when Rafe started screaming at him louder. Any minute now, he was going to hear an explosion go off and see a mushroom cloud over Lair. That would be Rafe's head blowing off. He could just see Rafe perfectly. Ed heard commotion coming over the line and Rafe's screaming got quieter. He heard Dom come back over the line.
"Ed do you have to antagonize him like this? He is suffering as it is, and you are making it much worse. We just got him to calm down and you go and rile him up again. Now the vampire is gone, so we should be expecting you back here in the next hour or so. Yes?"
"Dom its way too easy fucking with him about this so I can't resist. Yeah like I said gonna hang here to make sure and I'll head straight there in a few. Tell the raving lunatic I wouldn't intrude on his girl's privacy like that so he needs to chill the fuck out. See you guys in a few."
They disconnected the call and Ed went hunting to see where the stalker vamp was hiding out.
Ava shrugged out of her robe and threw it on the end of her bed. She slipped into bed and pulled the covers up. She was a little chilled since she was still slightly damp from her bath. She hated wearing a lot of clothes to bed, they were too restricting. She usually slept in a tank and boy shorts, and that meant when she wasn't covered up she was freezing. She stared up at the dark ceiling for what seemed like forever. She didn't even realize when she started drifting off and her dream started again.
CHAPTER 18
Rafe knew the instant his beautiful had fallen asleep and she started dreaming of him. He'd told everyone he needed to lie down for a little bit. He claimed it was the drugs they had given him. He really wanted to see if he could make Ava's dream less frightening for her. He was lying in his bed eyes closed focusing all his attention on her, trying to join her in her dream. Then he felt her and finally saw her.
She was curled up on her side covered up to her neck. He pictured himself lying there behind her. He could smell her sweet scent. He heard her whimper softly. She knew he was there with her, she could feel him behind her now. He could feel her body heat wrapping around him as well. He reached out slowly trying not to scare her. She jumped and cried out when his fingers touched her hip. She immediately tensed up, but he continued to slowly slide his hand around to the front of her waist. He started talking to her softly.
"Sshh beautiful. Easy baby just try to relax for me. Every thing's all right. Okay?" He cooed to her as he started pulling her against his chest. She started struggling against him then trying to pull away. "No baby its okay I won't hurt you. Ava, beautiful, it's okay baby just let me hold you. I'll keep you safe baby. Come here, I have you now."
She only tensed more and started whimpering louder at that. Rafe could feel her start crying and he almost lost it and snatched her to him right then. His heart broke from feeling her in such pain; from feeling her fear beat against him. No, he couldn't let her keep feeling this way! He had to ease her somehow. Rafe couldn't make himself release his mate. He had his hand spread flat on her lower stomach and quickly slipped it under her shirt so he could feel her soft skin. He had to take a breath to steady himself the second there was no barrier between them and all he felt was her soft skin. Rafe had his Ava flush against him now. Damn she fit against him perfectly.
"There's my beautiful. That's it come here baby. Ah, God I've needed to hold you again, to feel you so soft against me. Just breath for me Ava let me hold you a minute." He was whispering in her ear now. He slid his hand up her body until he felt her arms curled tightly against her chest. She was holding the blankets to her chest for dear life. When Rafe slowly started pulling them out of her hands, she wrapped her little hands tighter around the blankets crying out again.
"NO! Please leave me alone! Don't hurt me again." Ava was crying harder now. She could feel her hot tears pouring down her face soaking her pillow. "Please not again. Don't bite me again, it hurts so much."
She knew she was back in her dream, but this time it felt different. The man was being gentler this time. He was talking to her softer, and was touching her more slowly. Still she knew what would happen. He would strip her and push her to her stomach. Then he would chain her hands above her head so she couldn't fight him off her. He would then cover her, fuck her from behind, and then bite into her neck hard forcing her to wake up from the pain.
"Sshh no baby. No, I won't hurt you, I promise. Come here let me show you Ava." Rafe said to her.
He really was going to lose it. Fuck, she was so scared, she was sobbing and shaking so hard. He had to stop this before she woke up screaming again. He couldn't reach her when she was awake. Rafe lifted up on his elbow and pulled her to her back. That shocked her. She wasn't expecting him to change her dream like this.
"Beautiful relax for me baby. See I won't hurt you." Rafe wiped her tears from her face with the tips of his fingers. Sliding his hand along her tear stained face. He dipped his head lightly kissing each of her eyes. "Yeah that's it breath for me baby. Let me love you Ava just let me give you what you need."
Rafe kissed his way down her face to her lips. Ava gasped when his lips lightly touched hers. "Ava, baby ah damn you taste so good. Open for me beautiful let me taste your soft lips." Rafe said against his mates lips. He angled his head and kissed her deeper.
Ava opened her mouth moaning when she felt her dream lover kiss her harder. She felt him slip his tongue into her mouth stroking hers. This dream was different. This man was being so gentle with her. He sounded the same and he felt the same, but he was easing her into his touch. He wasn't just taking her, then hurting her. He continued kissing her as he slid his hand down and under her thigh pulling it up and out so he could slip his leg between hers. Then he slid his hand back up to her butt and back down. He kept caressing her back and forth. She felt his thigh make contact with her core and she arched into it.
"Yes baby that's it. I have you. Let me make you feel good." He said to her.
He kissed his way down to her neck. When his lips made contact with her skin, she pushed her hands between them trying to push him away.
"No! No! Stop get off me." She screamed trying to pound on his chest.
No! Ava was starting to panic again. Rafe couldn't lose her now. She had started to relax against him. He knew she was enjoying his touch. He had felt her panties grow damp against his thigh as she rubbed herself on him when he pushed his leg between hers. He still had a hold of her leg and he slid his hand up the back of her thigh pushing his fingertips under the lace of her panties. He stroked along the seam where her ass met her leg. He let his fingers trace her ass to just under her little pussy. He was teasing both of them now.
"No baby, come back to me. I won't bite you Ava. Listen to me beautiful. I will not bite you. Do you understand me?" Rafe said against her temple kissing her there. He felt her take a deep breath.
"You, you won't bite me?" Ava asked him in the most frightened little voice he'd ever heard. And that broke his heart even more. He flinched at the sharp pain that went through him.
"No baby. I promise you I will not bite you. I just want to make love to you beautiful." He kissed her eye lid, again feeling hot tears falling out of them. Taking a steading breath, he told her again. "I swear to you I will not bite you. I just want to hold you baby. I want to slide my dick inside you slowly until I feel you cum all over me. Will you let me do that Ava? Will you let me make love to you beautiful? Nice and slow just like you need me to."
Rafe felt his mate's breath catch and she whimpered beneath him. This time however her whimper wasn't one of fear, it was one of need. Yes! He growled deep at his triumph. That is what he needed to hear from her. Her little hands were clutching him closer now instead of trying to push him off her. He had to shake himself to keep from rushing too fast for her. He had to remind himself that she needed him to give her this pleasurable dream of him.
"Answer me beautiful. Do you want me to make love to you? Do you want me to make you cum all over my dick as I slide inside your tight little pussy?" Rafe cooed in his mate’s ear.
Ava arched into her dream lover again. He had promised her he wouldn't bite her. She wanted to believe him. He felt so good on top of her. The weight of him so comforting to her. He had moved so he was nestled between her legs now and she could feel how hard he was pressing against her core. He slid one of his hands under her ass as he flexed his hips into her and she cried out at the exquisite pleasure that caused.
"Yes! Oh, God please make love to me. I need you." Ava wrapped her arms around her lover’s neck holding on for dear life and she felt him growl as he started pulling her shirt off her.
"That's my girl. Let’s get these clothes off you." Rafe said knowing he had her finally. He pulled her shirt off her as quickly as he could without being too rough and scare her again. Once he had her shirt off, he started kissing his way down her body till he reach her gorgeous breasts. He wrapped his hands around them lifting her nipples to his mouth. Licking first one hard little berry, then moving to the other before he went back to the first and sucked it into his mouth. Taking long slow pulls on it, he lightly flicked it with his tongue.
Rafe felt Ava's sharp little nails dig into his scalp as she pushed her fingers through his hair to hold his head to her. He lifted up and gently blew warm air across the nub he had been enjoying. Loving her cry of pleasure as she lifted to him trying to get him to suck her nipple back into his mouth. He instead moved to the other nipple as he slid his hand down her body pulling her thigh higher on his back so he could angle her pussy tighter against his thrusts. She was wetter now. He could feel her heat growing as he stroked her with his dick. Her panties were soaked all the way through now and were only getting more saturated with every stroke he gave her.
"Oh that's much better isn't it baby." Rafe said to Ava against her breast. He flicked each of her nipples one last time with his tongue, then started moving down her body.
Ava couldn't believe how good this felt. She didn't ever want this dream to stop. This version of her dream lover was wonderful. He was kissing his way down her body and he was in no hurry to finish this. In her other dreams he was always so rough toying with her till he was ready to fuck her. This man was making her need so strong, she didn't know how much more she could take. This version cared about whether she was afraid or not. She held onto his head running her fingers through his hair and loving the fact she was free to touch him as well. She needed to be able to hold onto something other than cold chains as he touched her. She needed to hold onto him so he could keep her grounded in this dream.