“I would say that I was surprised by your words, but I’m not. I was just giving you a way out to say face, but it appears that I was stupid even to think that you would take me up on my offer. I imagine that the other horsemen are outside waiting for you to complete what you need to do in here. You probably have them on some kind of time limit. That way, if you fail, then they can finish off where you left off. One of us is going to have to shoot and I’m not exactly sure who that is going to be.” Jordan would never get over Lila and even his death would prove useless to keep them apart. They were destined to be together in this life and the next.
Lila was doing her best to make the best of a bad situation. She stayed down on the ground knowing full well that anybody would look straight ahead and not bother looking down or up. She was out of his peripheral vision and what she needed most of all was some kind of weapon that she could use to take care of the situation swiftly and efficiently. She saw the fireplace and the metal poker that was used to stoke the fire. She grabbed it off the handle holding her breath and hoping that the man that had his back toward her wouldn’t realize that danger was a foot. “I’m going to have to be very quiet and one wrong move is going to be detrimental to not only my health, but for the health of the baby and to Jordan’s.”
“I like you, Jordan. I can’t remember the last time that I really had any kind of friendship. Even the horsemen are just a means to an end. We don’t even like each other, but we work like a well oiled machine and that’s all that matters to our clients. We get the job done and then we move on without having the entanglement of feeling anything for the subjects. You might be the only one that I will think about afterwards. I think that you know that is high praise coming from a man of my obvious lack of character.” Blake knew that if he went for the trigger that Jordan would do the same thing. He also knew that that it wasn’t Jordan’s day and that he was going to have to take some extreme action to finish this once and for all.
“We have both been in this profession long enough to know the score. It doesn’t take a rocket science to realize that our lives are not worth the paper that they are printed on. Things like that can make you cry, but you need to learn to have a laugh. If you don’t laugh, then you’ll scream and never stop. We may be at a stalemate, but something has to give. I’ve always known that things can go wrong, but they don’t remain that way for very long.” It was as bad as it could be. It seemed like everybody was trying to gun for him. Nothing was coming easy, but his father had taught Jordan that anything worth doing wasn’t easy.
“I could’ve easily shot you in the back, but I thought that I would give you the respect of seeing it coming. I don’t want to do this, but it’s not like I can just turn around and leave you breathing. If I were to do that, then my reputation wouldn’t be anything. Even my other horsemen would turn against me and make me think that I am weak. I can’t have that and I do believe that we have talked this to death.” He motioned for Jordan to come closer. He stepped out of the room and back into the playroom. Blake didn’t see Lila hiding behind the couch and waiting for her time to strike.
She knew why she was feeling this adrenaline rush and she was drunk on the power of having that fire poker in her hands. It made her feel like she could do anything, but it was a far cry from actually having a weapon that could fire off a shot from across the room. “I have to believe that Jordan has a plan. I won’t do anything, unless it’s absolutely necessary. I would love to come to his rescue for a change, but he’s the kind of man that will take offense by that. He would rather die than let somebody fight his battle for him.”
“I guess the joke is on me and I don’t really think that it’s funny. I caught the eye of a young lady and that has changed me. I don’t know how long that’s going to work before I need to get back into the action.” Jordan noticed out of the corner of his eye that there was a pair of shoes coming from behind the couch. At first, he thought that he was looking at one of the other horsemen about to ambush him. The shoes in question were a little smaller. That could only mean that Lila was lying in wait. He didn’t want her to put herself in danger, but she was the type of girl that wasn’t going to stand idly by and do nothing.
“It’s a bitch when you find a woman that you love. I’ve been down that road myself and trust me it doesn’t end well for anybody. The best way to avoid that kind of mistake is to keep things strictly professional. I thought they you knew that and you lived by a certain code of ethics. I guess it’s true about what they say. There’s somebody out there for every one and you never know what is going to happen until it’s happening.” Blake wanted this to end some other way, but he couldn’t even think about the possibility of them living to fight another day. One of them was going to fall and he had every intention of making sure that it was Jordan and not himself.
How long was Lila supposed to wait? That was the question that wasn’t running around in her head. She didn’t want the second chance, but with Jordan it was like they were given a way to get on with their lives. It was a good thing that she was stuck with him forever. It was just a matter of how long forever was really going to be. “I don’t want him to know that my heart has been broken before. He may not think so, but he has a fragile ego that needs immediate and constant stroking. He thinks that he’s invulnerable to pain, but if I were to lose this child I think that he would break into a million pieces. I know that, because I would and being parents it gives us the right to care for our child that deeply.”
“We both know that nothing good can happen here, Blake, I think that you and I have this kind of rapport that comes from knowing each other better than we know ourselves. I also respect you, but I can’t allow you to stand in my way. This is going to end for one of us and that is something that has a finality to it. I don’t like it any more than you do, but hurting one another is not going to be enough. We should just count to three and get this over with. We’ll treat it like it is high noon. I’m sure that one of us will get the kill shot. There’s no denying that the others going to be hurt and could possibly be at death’s door. Do we have a deal? Do this at the count of three and then one of us can find the peace that we’ve been looking for.”
Jordan moved around making Blake do the same thing, until his back was once again turned towards Lila. He was hoping that she would have the benefit of the element of surprise. He didn’t know that she had a weapon and that she was clutching it with both hands with her fingers turning white gripping the thing. He was hoping that Lila would act before he had to. He also knew that wishing in one hand and shitting in the other would only end up with a mess in his hands.
Both of them pulled the trigger and there was the telltale sound of somebody screaming at the top of their lungs.
Chapter 5
Jordan lay there holding his shoulder and looking to see that the blood that flowed between his fingertips was this bright red. He looked over at Blake and saw his eyes wide open with his own gun lying right by his hand. There was a gash on the top of his head. That kind of blood loss was going to end his life very quickly.
The bullet that he had fired at Blake had missed courtesy of Lila and her banshee cry of battle.
“I am very sorry.” Lila had acted on instinct, but it was too late. They both fired their guns with their silencers attached to the end of it. The only noise was two spits that probably wasn’t heard outside of the room. “I had to do something, but maybe if I hadn’t, you wouldn’t have got hurt.” “I don’t know what that look in his eye is all about, but it almost seems sexual. I’ve seen that look a few other times, but not when somebody was in need of medical assistance. Do I dare think that he wants something right here and right now? I know that I would love the chance to ride him to completion. That might have something to do with that adrenaline that is rushing through our veins at this very moment.
Jordan knew that they couldn’t stay here for very long. It was just a matter of time, until the other horsemen acted on the silence. He got up and stu
mbled into the other room with a bar along the wall. He reached under the counter and pulled out a bottle of tequila. He popped the top off with his teeth and then poured the liquid into the wound with tears streaming down his face. He did not scream, but he was happy to see that the blood loss had diminished.
He turned to find Lila standing there with her body looking as delicious as ever. He lifted her onto one of the black stools, before pulling at the button on her pants. They came loose and he easily lifted her legs to relieve her of said garment. He buried his face in her pussy and licked like a madman to get her ready for something more than just the agile digit of his oral appendage.
It wasn’t long before he was pulling his own pants down around his ass. He plowed forward with one mighty push of his hips that had him balls deep in a matter of seconds. She muffled her cry of excitement by slamming her fist into her mouth. Her canines were digging into the skin and she was looking at him like she couldn’t quite believe that this was happening. Jordan loved the way that she gave him the one thing that he needed the most. This was a good way to forget about the pain that was throbbing in his shoulder like that of a knife piercing into the skin and never being pulled out.
“Fuck me…fuck me, Jordan.” She showed him that she was serious by pushing her pelvis up against him. It was a nice tight seal, as hen hole enveloped him and held him close to her body like they were meant to be this way forever. “I love the feel of you and I don’t think that I will ever get bored of something like this. You know exactly how to push my buttons and I would hope that I have that same effect on you.” She ripped open his shirt seeing his nipples and diving forward to taste each one of them. His moan was the encouragement that she was looking for to nip at those buds and give them the attention that would make them stand up and be noticed.
“I love the taste of your lips. I think you know which ones I’m talking about.” Jordan pumped his hips. He could feel her fingers moving down around his balls. She cradled them in her hand. He could feel that her attention to detail was going to get the desired results. The slapping of their skin together was a sound that was meant for only lovers. They knew that this impromptu quickie was a risk, but it was something that they needed to do for one another. The adrenaline of the moment had got the best of them and now they had to rid themselves of that pent up feeling in some way.
Normally, Jordan would be picking up his boots and going out that door before the morning light. He didn’t want that to be the case with Lila. He was looking forward to a long and satisfying life with children and possibly grandchildren down the road.
“You’re the one that made this flame.” Jordan got into a rhythm of long strokes, which were punctuated by short ones that only involved the head of his cock. That mushroom tip was perfect to ignite a certain part of her that had gone left unattended. He slapped against her clit several times and watched her jerk, until he was once again inserting the length back to the deepest part of her.
They could hear the bottles in the back of the bar shaking with her hand now holding onto the top of the bar. She was pushing up against him and demanding that he give her the cream pie that would make her look down to see it seeping out of her. She squeezed those very telling muscles and her climax gripped him and pulled his scalding seed from where it was hiding to be unleashed.
“I don’t how it’s possible that I’ve met…a woman that is able to make me feel like I’m not even myself anymore… YESSSSSS.” He didn’t know what it was to cheat, but right now he was letting his body do all the talking for him. His libido was supercharged and the streams that filled her were not exactly from a man that was a one pump chump. “I’ve never liked a guy cumming inside me before, but with him it makes us all that much more connected.”
“There’s never been another man that has treated me the way that you have, Jordan. I believe myself to be a very lucky woman, but don’t kid yourself into thinking that you’re not one of the luckiest fucking men on the planet. I know how to please and I think that is the only thing that I have to thank Melanie for. It’s the only thing from this whole ordeal that makes me think that it was all worth it. I think that if I could do it all over again, I would rather not, but to say that would mean that we would never meet.” “I never looked for love, but I had found it without even trying. Fairy tales were meant for somebody else, but maybe there was a semblance of a happy ending in our future.
“I don’t want you to think like that. I wish there was a way for you to forget about your time with them. I would gladly make the arrangements for you to have that memory wiped out clean. Like you said, everything that we have gone through in our lives has made us who we are today. I have my own regrets, but the one thing I don’t regret is meeting you. I knew that you were something special from the moment that you went under the table to show me your loyalty. It wasn’t just that you did it, but it was the way that you did it. Girls have been a second thought, but with you it was like I was finding my soul mate. I don’t even know if I believe in such a thing, but I do know that I never want to be apart from you. I know that I’m supposed to be this bad ass, but you make me think that I can be a better man. Don’t get me wrong, I still like the hard driving sex that we give each other. I think that chemistry is very important. It’s something that people take for granted.” Jordan had always believed that getting to know somebody before putting that ring on their finger was a better idea than going in blind.
Lila was sitting there with her legs spread and all the energy in her body now drained to the bare minimum. She wanted to wake up and be ready to move quickly, but she was going to need some time to get her bearings. She looked at Jordan and felt that this man would give her a good life. The only stumbling block was Jamison and the horsemen that had been sent to make sure that their happily ever after never happened.
They were both breathless and staring at each other, but then they heard the footsteps entering the house and knew that the other horsemen had decided to come and make sure that everything went the way that it was supposed to.
THE END
LOVE FIGHT
Chapter 1
“You shouldn’t have done this. They’re coming and we need to be ready. I might’ve been wrong into thinking that you might be my Mr. Right. I know that I should take some time to think about it, but it’s been long enough.” I know that the horsemen are coming for us and that one has already been taken care of. The other three will see his death as some sign to make our death very slow. They will no longer want to end this quickly. What exactly did they expect us to do? Did they really think that we were going to wait to have our lives snuffed out? It’s possible that we may not have fought as hard as we did, except now we had something to live for other than just each other.
“I know that this was foolish, but it did give me that jolt of adrenaline that I was looking for. That fire in my shoulder has gone down to a dull numbing sensation. That comes from the liquor that I poured on the wound and from the feeling of your body making me feel only pleasure. That part of my brain overruled the pain that I was feeling and for that I don’t think that I can ever thank you enough.” He knew that walking away from here without making a scene was impossible. He picked up one of the guns. It was a weapon that he had to hold with both hands. It was something that could fire several rounds. All he had to do was see the whites of their eyes to lay waste to what the horsemen had become.
He definitely wasn’t going to be able to get all three of them at the same time, but maybe two would be enough to make the other easy picking. He wanted to feel that blood lust running through his veins, but the only thing he felt was that certain heat from what they had just done with each other.
“I think that there were times in the dead of night that I woke up seeing your face. I probably didn’t recognize it at the time, but you’ve always been the one that was supposed to ride in for the rescue. You were going to be my white knight in shining armor. I know that you told me several times that you’re not a her
o, but you are to me and will most likely to this child that isn’t born yet.” “I will always need him. His kiss and his touch will always make him the one that I will run to. It will always be Jordon and he can either accept that or run away from the best thing that has ever happened to him. I think he knows that I enjoy the unpredictable nature of our sex life. I never know when he’s going to have the urge. I think that I can say the same thing about myself. It’s amazing that we can both be on the same wavelength and want it at exactly the same time without the other one feeling that they’re taking one for the team.”
“I don’t know how you can say that, but I really don’t have time to debate this any further. I need you to stay back behind the bar and this time I’m not going to be very subtle about my intentions. They may have known that I had this arsenal, but they had no way of knowing exactly where it was in the house. That’s the reason why Blake waited, until I emerged with everything that I would need to wage war.” He motioned for Lila to get behind the bar and stay down right to the floor. He saw that she hesitated, but it was something in his eyes that made her relent. “I don’t think that it’s fair that I don’t give them a chance to fight back, but if I do it could mean the end of both of us and the child. That is something that I cannot let happen and I would rather lay down my own life than to risk yours.”
Jordan went over to the couch that was made of pure black leather and hid behind with the muzzle of the gun pressed up against the fabric in the back. He had his head peeking around the side of the leg with his hand on the trigger ready to give them a wakeup call that they would never forget.
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