Reed: Bowen Boys (6 page)

“It’s nice and firm. Perfect.” She glared at him when he lay back on the bed. “Do you have any aspirin? I have a pounding headache. Walker gave me something for it, but I couldn’t take it and drive.”

“You expect me to believe that you drove all the way here to borrow an aspirin?” He shook his head and winced. She immediately went to find him something to take.

When she went back to the bed, he was asleep. She started to wake him, not sure if he should be sleeping, and decided to find out. She took out the business card that Sebastian had given her and called the number on it. An answering service answered after the fourth ring.

“My name is Kerry Stephens and I’d like to speak to Mr. Bowen if it’s possible please. It’s about his brother.” She was told to hang on please. When someone answered, she knew it wasn’t Sebastian. The woman was laughing.

“Hello, my dear. What have you done, killed him? I probably would have. By the way, I’m Ama. The one with the tats.” Kerry didn’t think they were tats any more than she thought the woman was Sebastian.

“Mr. Bowen, Reed Bowen, is here and he’s come for an aspirin. I’m pretty sure he didn’t come all this way for just that, but he did have a box of candy he said was from little George and a….” She hated babblers and she was fast becoming one. “Reed Bowen is here and he’s sleeping. Is that all right?”

“Let me ask Walker. He’s standing right here.” There was a muffled conversation and she decided that she should have simply tossed Reed out on his ass and been done with it. But Doctor Bowen came on the line.

“He can sleep if he wants, but I would very much like it if you kept a close eye on him. He’s got a nice bump on his head and I tried to discourage him from driving, but he’s a little stubborn. Can you do that, or do you want me to come and get him?”

She nearly said hell yes, come and get him, but she found herself saying she’d keep an eye on him. When she hung up, she stared at the man sleeping in her bed.

“This is just stupid. What the hell were you thinking, Kerry, to let a man you hardly know come in here and then agree to watch him sleep? In your own bed?”

She was exhausted and wondered if he would be there all night or would get up and leave soon. When ten o’clock came and went, she knew she was going to be stuck sleeping on the couch. As much as it was comfortable sitting on, the stupid thing wasn’t all that comfortable to sleep on, as she discovered an hour later. She sat up on the thing and glared at Reed as he slept on.

Grabbing her pillow, she shoved it between them and lay down. Almost as soon as her head hit the pillow, she was feeling relaxed enough to close her eyes. But no matter how hard she tried to fight off sleeping to make sure he didn’t move over and do whatever she was thinking she shouldn’t let him do, she felt her eyes get heavier and heavier. She reached for her alarm clock, thinking she’d only lay there for an hour, and lay back down. She was nearly asleep when she thought she heard him chuckle. But she was too tired right now to care. Sleep claimed her.

Chapter 6

“Death, where do you suppose she’s gone?” He looked over at Dora and tried not to cringe from her again. The last time he’d done that she’d sulked for a week. He didn’t need that right now.

“How the hell should I know? I’ve not seen her since she came here the other day and talked to you guys.” And the day he had told her what he wanted in exchange for not putting the pictures on the web. If he didn’t count attacking her in the lot, that was. What the fuck had happened there he was still trying to work out. “I’m not her fucking keeper.”

She smiled at him. No matter how mean and cruel he was to her, she loved it. He realized at that moment that she liked it rough in bed too. He’d slapped her a few nights ago and she’d cried out. It had taken him nearly five full minutes before he realized that she’d come and not been in pain. Fucking cunt. He wished he’d never met her and only the father. But he was bad enough.

“She’ll need to turn up pretty soon. I need her to spot me some money for the electric and gas. She’s behind from last month too.”

Death looked at her.
These people are worse than me
, he thought. At least after he got what he wanted from Kerry he was going to give her what she wanted in return, the thumb drive. These two only took and took until she was nearly dry. Then they wanted more. He stood up when Dora started rubbing his cock. As much as he hated to admit it, he didn’t want to fuck her any more.

“I’m going out.” He picked up his coat and moved to the door before she could comment. Norman came out of the kitchen just then and he looked at him. It wasn’t even ten in the morning and he had a bottle of beer in his hands. The man tipped it at him.

“Are you going to look for Kerry? If so, tell her we’re running low on food.” He winked at him. “We actually got our card filled back up yesterday, but no sense in telling her that. Those things don’t buy us the finer things in life, like beer and smokes.”

Death walked outside and into the cold morning. He wanted to run but needed to get out of this area first. His wolf snarled at him to do it now, but he calmed him with the thoughts of what he was going to do for him when he had all the money he could ever need. He smiled when he thought of the look on Kerry’s face when he showed her the drive. He made his way to his home, a cave high in the mountains above the town.

“I’ve been watching you,” he’d told her. She looked up at him while she’d been standing next to her car that night. “You can’t hide from me, Kerry dear. I’ve got a nose for you.”

“What do you want? I just want to go home. If you’re here for money, you’re shit out of luck. I’ve nothing to sell and the money is gone until I get paid again.”

“I need for you to download all the information you have on credit cards that people make their cable bill payment with. All of it. I need more money, and since, as you’ve pointed out, you don’t have anything to sell, you’re still going to get it for me.” She stared at him for a full minute before she answered him.

“I can’t do that. No, that’s not right, I won’t do it. I’ll lose my job, then where will you live? In the streets with my family? I just will not do it.”

“Oh yeah, you will. You think I want to hang out with your family for the rest of my days?” He laughed at her and she’d taken a step back when he reached for her and put the drive in her hand. “You might want to have a look at those before you say no. I’ve got extra copies, so if you think destroying that one will get you out of this, think again. I only stay with them because of you. And if you don’t do as I want, I’ll kill them both and it will be on your hands. When you do what I want then I’m done with the lot of them.”

She looked back at the house they’d both just come out of and when she turned back to him, he had shifted. The look in her eyes had made him realize that she’d be delicious when he took her. He also realized that she’d had no idea what he was. None of them did. He moved close enough to her to sniff her and get her scent, then he backed away. She stood there for a long time after he left her. He knew because he’d watched her, and when she finally got into her car and left, he’d followed her to her new digs and watched her through the night. He’d known the moment he saw her run that she’d do what he wanted.

Entering the cave, he stripped down and fisted his cock. He had masturbated so many times while he’d watched Kerry that he was sure that he’d not be able to come any other way than with his own hand. He went to the wall of the cave where he’d hung her pictures, all of them, and looked at his favorite. The one where she’d been in the shower shaving her long legs.

He held his cock while he remembered it. The way she’d bent over for him, her ass the shape of a heart. He gripped his cock harder when he could see her as if she were right in front of him, with her leg up on the little shelf and her hands running up and down while she lathered those long, strong muscles. When she stood up, her legs bent in a way that he could see her pussy just peeking out from her thighs, he grabbed the wall in front of him as his cock filled. Thinking of her leaning over again, this time she took his cock into her mouth. He cried out a strangled scream when his cum shot from him and sprayed the wall in front of him. He wanted her so badly he let his wolf take him to go and get her, and only just remembered that he had no idea where she was right now. But he was hard again and his wolf needed to kill.

Moving out of the cave, he moved into the city and roamed the alleys until he found what he wanted. As soon as she moved into the darkness, Death shifted again and she was his before she screamed.

“Don’t. If you make a noise, I’ll kill you before I begin.” He tore her clothes off her and watched the moon dance over her flesh. It wasn’t as creamy or as toned as Kerry’s, but she wasn’t where he could find her right now, and this thing would have to do. His wolf snarled at him, clawed at him until he had to give her to him. Leaning down to the woman, he bit her throat hard and let the wolf have him.

When he backed off her and waited, Death could feel the woman’s fear. She was going to be weak enough soon that she’d no longer be fun to chase, but for now…. As soon as she took off running, the wolf watched her, snarling at her so she’d run faster. When she was nearly a mile from them, he leapt after her. The woman was dead before her body hit the ground.

As soon as the wolf had his fill, Death took him back. As he moved to the cave again, he made a slight detour to the creek that he knew ran past his home. When he dove into the icy depths, he felt it as if were a thousand tiny knives cutting into this body. He scrubbed off her blood, then he let the wolf do the same. Soon he was back in his cave with a nice fire going, and sated.

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Reed woke because he was too warm. The room was dark, so he moved his hands down his body to take the comforter off, but nearly shot out of bed when he realized there was a body laying over him. Then he realized who it was. He smoothed his hands down her back to her ass, and nearly moaned when she shifted her body over his, and he did moan when her leg moved over his cock. Christ, this was a perfect way to get himself killed.

Trying to move out from under her seemed to be a lost cause. She was cold and he wasn’t. That’s when he realized that the room really was cold. He wondered if the heat had been turned off entirely or if she had the thermostat turned down that far. He didn’t think it was the latter, and tried again to move out of the bed. When his hand brushed over her breast, he stilled.

She was naked.

The blanket that had been covering her had moved off her. He raised his head slightly and could see down the long column of her spine before it stopped. He wanted to tear the blanket away to see all of her, but wasn’t sure how she was going to react now, and he was pretty sure she’d not let him explain that he’d only looked and not touched.

Laying his head back down, he tried to think. It wasn’t until she moaned that he realized he was caressing her back and nearly to her ass. He couldn’t do this anymore. He was going to take her, which he wanted to do more than he wanted his next breath, or she was going to have to move so he could get up and go out into the cold. Or take a cold shower. Either way, he needed some relief.

“Kerry? Kerry love, I need for you to move over.” She snuggled closer and he swallowed hard when her leg moved up and down over his cock. “Christ, love, if you don’t move off me I’m going to roll you to your back and bury myself deep into you.” He knew the exact moment when she realized where they were.

She lifted her head and stared down at him. She didn’t scream as he’d thought she would, nor did she move. The sheet that had fallen from her back was now pooled around his chest, and he knew that if he looked now, he’d see her breasts.

“You fell asleep.” He nodded, trying to tell himself not to look down no matter how much he wanted to. “I called your brother and he said to watch over you.”

“Walker?” She nodded, and he felt the sheet move across his chest. “Kerry, I’m aching. I need for you to either move off me or kiss me. Either way, I need you to make the decision now.”

She stared at him for a long time, hours it seemed, before she moved. His breath caught when she pulled back, and he called himself all kinds of a fool for letting her go. He lay back on the bed and closed his eyes. When her body pressed against his, he looked at her again.

This time he did look and moaned when her nipples grazed over his flesh. “I don’t know what draws me to you when all I want to do is push you away. Maybe if we have sex, I’ll be able to forget you and I can move on with my life.”

He didn’t care what her reasons were. He ran his hands down her ribs to her waist and then cupped her ass and rolled her over him. His cock really did ache, and he pressed her over onto her back and looked down at her as he settled between her thighs.

He took her mouth, marveling again at her taste. She tasted of warm sunshine and the earth. Reed wanted more of her, and leaned down and laved her hard nipple until she curled her fingers into his hair and held him to her. He leaned up on one leg and his hand and pulled his shirt up and out of his pants, then over his chest. Kerry helped him pull it over his head.

Sitting up between her legs, he slowly moved the sheet off her. He wanted to see her, all of her, before he feasted on her. As her breasts flushed, he saw her ribs, then her navel. When the sheet caught on her hips, she lifted them up and he pulled it off her. Reed knew for as long as he lived this was going to be his best memory of her.

“You’re gorgeous.” She flushed, and he pulled the sheet completely off her legs and tossed it to the floor. “Christ, you’re more beautiful than anything I’ve ever seen.”

He moved to the edge of her bed and off. He stood before her, pulled open his pants, and freed his cock. Taking off his pants and boxers at the same time, he stood up and fisted his cock. He was aching to be deep inside of her, and knew that if he entered her now, it would be over almost as soon as it began. Going to his knees, Reed pulled her to the edge of the bed and laid her legs open on either side of him. He was going to taste her and wanted her to watch him. When she leaned up on her elbows, he kissed her bent knees and then looked up at her.

“I’m going to eat you.” Her moan was nearly his undoing. “Then I’m going to make love to you. I’m going to come deep inside of you and mark you again. Do you know what I’m saying?”

“You want to bite me.” He nodded. “I don’t understand why, but I like the way it feels when you sink your teeth into me. Just thinking about it makes me wet.”

He could smell her arousal and leaned in to bury his nose into her heat. She threw back her head and he lifted his head. He wanted her to watch him. He wanted to see her face when she enjoyed this. “Watch me, Kerry. Watch how much I enjoy drinking from you.”

Pulling her closer to the edge of the bed, he spread her legs wider. He could see her clit, swollen with need, and he wanted more than anything to bite her there. Leaning slowly into her, he licked her from gate to clit, then worried the hard nubbin with his teeth and tongue. She rolled her hips up to him, and he suckled her hard.

Her climax screamed from her, and he lapped to catch all of her juices. She cried out again and again as he fucked her with his tongue. And when he pressed his finger into her, she rode him hard. He wrapped his free hand around his cock after gathering cream that dripped from her sheath.

He thought if he came like this he could take her easily. But when she cried out again, this time begging him to take her, Reed knew that he’d not be gentle with her this time even if he came a dozen times before entering her. Standing up, he nearly went back to her when she spread her legs wider for him and touched her clit.

“Move to the middle of your bed so we have room. I need you. Christ, do I ever need you.” When she didn’t move fast enough for him, he picked her up and moved her himself. As soon as he moved between her legs, she wrapped her legs around him and he slammed home.

“Reed,” she screamed out his name. He moved out of her to the tip, then back into her hard. He had to tell himself that she wasn’t a panther and that he needed to be careful with her, but every time he tried, she’d do something to make him forget again. When her nails sliced down his back, she arched up beneath him and he felt her mouth slide over his arm.

He wanted her to bite him. Now. He needed her to mark him in the way of their kind, and nearly begged her to when her teeth nipped at his shoulder as he pounded into her. When she cried out this time, he felt his own climax racing over his body, and before he could tell her to bite, command her to mark him, he felt her teeth sink into his flesh, and his climax roared from him as he let his panther go enough to mark her as his. He then filled her with his essence.