Taylor’s mouth dropped open at his cavalier attitude. His eyes narrowed and he shut his mouth. “How did you get here?” He stepped closer.
Dev pulled the coffee can and a pot up. “You’re just now thinking of that, are ya?” He snickered.
“Why the hell are you laughing?” Taylor shouted.
Unconcerned, Dev poured water into the pot. “Why not?” He opened the can. “Getting worked up is bad for us Ananza’s, you know?”
Taylor glared at his back. “Kami—”
“Yeah, I know.” Dev’s voice dropped low as he poured the coffee into the pot. “That’s why I’m here.” Walking around him, he set the pot onto the coals. With a shake of his head, he sat down and sighed. “You’d better sit and listen.”
His brother stilled. “Is she dead?”
“Yes and no.”
Taylor looked angry. “Listen, I—”
“Shut up and sit down!” His brother yelled.
He released a frustrated breath, walked over, and sat down.
Dev stared at the flames. “I know some of it, but the cycle is messing with all of it. So, we need to find out why.”
“Messing with all of it?” Taylor repeated as he stared at his profile.
“Yeah, do you know that it’s seven in the fucking morning?” Dev asked with an aggravated tone. “Fucking sunrise?” He shook his head with disgust. “There I was snuggled up with…” His voice fell away. “Man, am I gonna get it.” He chuckled. “But, I love it when she gets—” he halted and looked over at his confused looking brother. “And now I’m fucking cussing of all things unheard of.”
Taylor was glaring at him.
Dev looked startled at the hateful look, and then he threw head back with an uproarious laugh.
Taylor stood up and gaped down at him. “What the fuck is wrong with you? Kami’s lost, she may be…”
“May be what?” Dev stared at him.
“Gone, dead!”
“And, would that bother you a whole lot?”
At the question, he blinked his eyes at his brother. “What the fuck kind of question is that?”
“A reasonable one.” Dev shrugged. “I mean after all, she’s just a maiden. Really, she’s no one of importance to someone like you.”
Taylor’s eyes started to glint.
“What? So, you get another bedmate, I mean she’s just another notch on the ole Taylor belt, right? You can get laid by any chick in the—”
“You keep your mouth shut about her!” he shouted while he dove for Dev and somehow missed him in midair.
Dev gave him a cold smile. “Taylor Scott had a bevy of women, and now that you are an actual Sun Warrior?” He laughed. “Women will beg to—”
“I don’t want any other woman!” He dove for Dev, again. The larger man swiftly stepped aside and Taylor landed on the earthen floor. Immediately, he rose up to hover with his feet above the dirt.
His big brother crossed his arms over his chest. “Neat trick, but can you do this?” Dev whispered and disappeared from where he stood.
Taylor’s feet lowered to the dirt as he stared all around. He felt a tap on his shoulder and flipped around.
Dev hit him right in the jaw.
He stumbled back, spit some blood out, and wiped his mouth. “I’m going to kill you.”
“Sorry, already dead,” Dev teased while giving him a wink.
Enraged, Taylor held his fists at his sides.
“Besides, I don’t get why you would just sit here brooding in your supernatural cave, doing nothing if you love her so much.” Dev’s eyes twinkled at him.
His brother stilled.
“Yeah, if you care so much, Sunshine Boy, you would be with her right now.”
Taylor was puzzled by the accusations.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought. You don’t love her.” Dev turned away.
Taylor looked around as though he were suddenly lost. “But of course I love her,” he whispered as though he were talking to himself. “I just never…” His words fell away and he glanced up at his brother.
With a huge grin on his face, Dev stood with his arms crossed over his chest. “Now, you’re ready to go.”
His befuddled brother blinked with confusion. “What do you mean?”
“Dammit!” Dev shouted with disgust as he looked over at the fire. “The damn thing boiled over!” He rushed over and removed the coffee pot from the fire. “Ouch.” He shook his burned hand.
“What kind of God are you, anyway?” Taylor gaped at him.
“The human kind, you dope!” He shook his head with humor.
“So, what are you going to do now?” Taylor sighed.
“I’m gonna have some God Dammed scorched coffee!” He sounded disgusted as he blew on his burned fingers.
His brother simply stared at him while he poured a cup of the blackened liquid.
“Besides, my job here is done.” He sipped at the coffee and made a face. “Why is it that women can make a great cup of this stuff, while a man—”
“Dev!” Taylor shouted at him.
He looked up. “What?”
“How do I find her?”
“You know what she looks like, right?” Dev shook his head with a smile and stood up.
Taylor clicked his tongue. “It’s not like I can go to the cops and—”
Dev started to laugh again.
“Stop with the laughing, God Dammit!”
“For a college grad, you sure are some kind of dumb.” Dev rolled his eyes. “To see her, is to find her.”
Taylor grew even more puzzled and he gazed all around. “But I don’t…” He glanced back over and Dev was gone. Irritated beyond belief, he released an aggravated breath. “Fuck! That man really pisses me off!” he shouted through the empty cavern.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
MADELINE
Skywalk Lodge, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Madeline arrived at the lodge at noon. She took the company jet and by the time she got to the council chambers, she was livid. She burst through the double doors and saw a strange old woman standing in front of the council.
The council lowered their heads.
Madeline stared at the woman. “Are you the one I need to talk to?” she asked.
The medicine woman bowed her head. “I am Nonni.”
With rage in her eyes, she looked around. “He’s gone again, and this time it was at sunrise!” Her angry words fell like a stone in the silence.
“The brothers of the sun,” Nonni whispered.
“What the hell does that mean?”
“Taylor went to light. But…” she halted.
“But?” Madeline prompted.
She lowered her head again.
The wife of their leader looked from Nonni to the chief. “I want to know where he is!” she yelled.
They remained mute.
“Listen.” Madeline released a breath and attempted to calm herself. “He told me to come here, and here I am.”
They did not raise their heads.
“We have lost them,” Nonni spoke again.
With a sense of panic, she swung her eyes over. “Lost? You mean he won’t come back?”
Nonni gazed up and there were tears in her old eyes. “We do not know.”
Her body shook and she balled her hands into fists. “I am going to go to the mountain.”
“No!” the chief shouted. “You cannot go to the Lightning.”
“Why not?”
The chief remained silent.
“Ooh!” she yelled. “You people need to understand something.” She glared at all of the bowed heads. “This is my man, and I refuse to just sit around and wait for—”
“For what?” A voice called out.
Gasping, she flipped around. “Dev!”
He chuckled. “Missus Ananza, you know that it’s not nice to yell and threaten the council—”
“You!” she screamed and marched over to where he stood while her hands were balled into tight fis
ts at her sides.
He blinked his dark eyes at her screaming. “Now, Maddy, you’d better not slug me, or there may be severe consequences.” His tone remained commanding and chastising as he gave her a wicked wink.
She stilled at his amused warning and let out a frustrated shriek as she continued her tirade, “Disappearing at all hours now!” She shook with rage. “I won’t tolerate this!” She stuck a pointed finger into his chest.
Crossing his arms over his broad chest, he stepped back and looked at her. His smoldering gaze rose slowly up from her feet to her waist.
Madeline felt a warm flush along her body and it crept all the way to her face.
Dev continued his blatant appraisal and his eyes drew up to her heaving chest. A brow rose while he paused there. He finished his seductive perusal at her flushing face.
“Are you done?” she seethed at him.
Wearing a serious expression, he leaned in close. “No, you need to turn around, so that I can look all over again,” he purred the suggestion to her face.
“Ooh!” She trembled with rage.
Reaching forward, he hefted her up onto his shoulder and looked over at the council. Their startled eyes shot down to the floor while he stared. Ananza nodded his head at them and turned away.
“You put me down, Mister! You are not going to get away with—”
“Shut up, Maddy!” he ordered.
Her jaw dropped open.
“And close that pretty mouth, will you?” He chuckled and carried her out through the doors. “At least until I feel the need for it.” He reached up and pinched her ass.
She gasped from his shoulder. “If you think for one moment that I will allow…” He lay her belly down on his horse and she sucked her breath in.
He climbed up and moved her body onto his lap.
She was staring at the ground while her belly lie across his lap as the horse took off. “You can’t fucking do this!”
Highly amused, he laughed and gave her ass a hard slap.
“Oww!” she shouted.
“I have been neglectful in your taming.”
“Oh, so help me…” She blew a breath of disgust out.
“Who’s going to help you, Maddy?”
“I mean it, Dev!” She began to kick her legs.
Dev joyfully popped her ass again. “So do I, woman!” He laughed loudly, as she lie there and fumed. “Besides,” he broke into her silent pouting. “I thought you liked my rides.”
“Oh, no!” Her blue eyes rounded.
Dev chuckled some more, as she felt him caress her ass with his hand. She shivered. “Now, Dev…”
“Do I have to gag you?” he asked with humor in his voice.
Her hands balled into fists again, her breath knocked from her by the horse’s gallop. “Could—you please let me sit—up?”
There was no answer.
“Dev!” she screeched. “I’m getting dizzy!”
“You have to ask nice,” he snickered.
Madeline rolled her eyes. “You are so infuriating, so…” She sighed with defeat. “Please?” He remained mute. “Dev?” she asked as the jostling continued.
“You have to give me an entire presentation and—you have to say it provocatively.”
“What?” Her eyes widened.
“You heard me…Woman.”
She released an irritated breath.
“And ‘please’ should perhaps be repeated several times.” He made a clicking sound with his tongue.
“No, Dev—” her plea was cut off by the horse’s movement as it lurched into a run.
“Say it!” he yelled.
Her breath left her and she couldn’t speak. She uselessly kicked out again with her legs.
“Okay.” He clicked his tongue again, and the horse slowed. “I’m ready to hear your proposition, but it better be sexy, seductive and blatant.”
“You mean you want me to…” She heard the clicking sound again, and the horse started to gallop. “Oh—ooh!” she spluttered.
He grinned.
“Okay, okay!” she shouted.
He clicked his tongue and the horse slowed.
With a nervous flutter in her stomach, she swallowed heavily.
Dev let out a whistle and the horse halted. “And it better be good,” he whispered. “I want a slutty, bad girl proposition, you hear?”
Madeline gaped.
“And, the pretty little mouth opening will be pursued later.”
She snapped her jaw shut.
They sat for a couple of silent minutes.
The horse whinnied.
“My horse is getting impatient,’’ he urged in a low tone.
Letting out a reluctant sigh, she hesitated. “But I’ve never…”
Dev clicked his tongue.
“No!” she pleaded. “Wait!’
He snapped the reins and the horse stilled.
“I’m…” She swallowed heavily. “Devon?”
“Yes, Madeline?”
“I…”
He chuckled.
“Stop laughing!”
The laughter stopped.
She cleared her throat, preparing herself for a clever pitch.
Dev chuckled and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying this. He reached down and ran his hand seductively between her thighs.
“Ooh!” she yelled. “I can’t concentrate!”
He moved his hand and slid it sensuously back and forth between her butt cheeks.
“Dammit, Dev!”
“Any day now, Maddy.” He finger massaged her inner thigh and her ass at the same time.
“Um, Dev? Please allow me to ride with you.”
At the shortly worded request, he stilled. “That’s it?”
Struggling again, Madeline tried to rise up.
“Oh no, you don’t, little girl!” He held her down.
Letting out a sound of pure aggravation, she kicked and fought. “Okay! What do you want?”
All she heard was a loud disgusted breath, as he didn’t reply.
“Dev?” she whispered.
“Broker the deal, Madeline. Use all the stops. Act as though it means millions to you.” His voice was low.
“You’re serious?”
No answer came, as he remained mute.
“Okay.” Madeline took in a deep breath to prepare herself. “If you will allow me to ride…” Her voice fell away when the images of their past rides came into her mind. His hard cock thrusting up into her as they rode. “I will guarantee a substantial umm…profit for you.”
“What kind of profit?”
“A hot spreadsheet of pleasure and ever increasing dividends,” she answered.
“Dividends?” His tone sounded skeptical.
“Yes,” she cooed. “Hard sliding.” She swallowed heavily as her skin flushed. “Pleasure for your…portfolio.”
Highly amused, Dev laughed at her euphuisms. “What will be my cut?” he purred.
Shivering, she trembled at the tone of his voice. She could easily picture the teasing expression he now wore. Wicked and sensuous, it was painted in her mind for all time. “I promise a yield of one hundred percent obedience within the next few, um—moments.”
“Will I…” He pulled her pants down below her ass. “…See these dividends immediately?” He grasped her lacey thong underwear.
Gasping a little as the air hit her bare skin, her breathing became labored. “Oh, yes.” She felt him tug them up to her crack.
“Mmm,” he groaned as he rubbed her bare cheeks seductively with his hand.
Madeline was instantly wet. “Yes, I will take all that you can invest and give you…” She was panting as his fingers reached under her.
“Yes?” he asked in a stained voice as he stroked her clit.
“The best fucking of your life!” she yelled out with heated frustration as she squirmed in his grasp.
Reaching down, he smoothed her ass vigorously with both hands. “You know I don’t like that coarse language,” he w
hispered as he squeezed both bare cheeks with his fingers.
“Unh,” she groaned with a desperate sound. “Do we have a deal?” she panted the question out.
He remained mute.
Madeline sighed and rolled her eyes, knowing he wanted more, and she racked her brain to come up with her most compelling argument. “If I open all my channels of…” she hesitated. “…Investments to you?”
With a sudden flurry, he fumbled with the reins and did not answer.
“I could double your length and increase the size of your hard stock as you fill my open, waiting account with…”
He grasped her waist. “With?” he prompted in a tense voice.
“Devon?”
“Yes, Madeline?”
“I am getting so incredibly hot and I need…” She released a heavy breath.
Dev raised her up. “Yes?”
With a tremble, she looked into his smoldering eyes. “Anything.” She licked her lips. “Anything you may want to give me.”
With that winsome, boyish smile, he swiftly pulled her pants entirely away and set her down directly onto his lap. “How about a hard piece of my stock?” He grasped her hips and swiveled her down onto his waiting cock.
Madeline drew in a deep breath while ripping her blouse open. She rapidly lifted her breasts from her lacey bra and held them up in her hands while her eyes had glazed over with ecstasy from his thrust.
Dev stared down at her sweet offering. “Now these are real perks!” He lowered his mouth and latched onto a nipple.
Madeline laughed breathlessly, as her body shuddered from his blazing mouth.
Dev raised his head to gaze at her face. “I may have to think this whole investment thing over while we…” He raised her hips up and slammed her down.
“Ahh!” she yelled out with helpless ecstasy in her voice.
Wearing a wicked expression, he drew a brow up as he held her steady. “…Ride,” he finished the sentence and let out a whistle.
Madeline’s eyes rounded. “Oh, no, Dev!” she pleaded as the horse began to gallop and his cock rose up deep inside of her.
“Oh, yes, Maddy. You need to cinch this deal, remember?” The horse ran through the water as Madeline felt an instant and overwhelming orgasm rush through her. Her body grew rigid in his grasp.
Dev looked into her eyes. “I’m going to break the Brave’s record, and you will give me many wet returns this time.”
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