The Faerie Master (Aaron's Kiss Series) (14 page)

“I’m fine, thanks.
Let me go.
Where’s...you’d better leave before Garrett gets back.
He doesn’t much like his beating time interrupted.”

The giggle escaped before she could sensor it.
The man standing over her looked at her oddly, but didn’t say anything.
Suddenly, she was standing upright and then she was in his arms.
She tried to pull away from him, but he growled at her.
Growled?
Oh well, things are certainly getting more Wonderland
-
like every day, she thought.

“Are you talking to yourself or are you talking to me?
Shawn said you were a little overwhelmed by all this.
The man who was hitting you when I came up?
That guy was your boyfriend?
He took off when he saw me coming at him.
I wished he’d hung around.
I had to see to you or I’d have given chase.
He might have been fun to chew on for a bit.”

“Maybe next time you can.
And not my boyfriend, I don’t have one of those.
He’s my step-brother.
Do you think you could put me down?
I think I’m going to be really sick and I don’t want to throw up all over you.
I think I might have a concussion.
It’s been a very strange day.”

Daniel stopped immediately and put her down.
She barely made it to the ground before she started throwing up.
Cade couldn’t remember the last time she ate or what she’d eaten.
She tried to think about it, but it was just too hard.
When her belly was empty and the heaving stopped she just sat there for several minutes resting.

“You okay?
If you promise to stay right here I’ll go inside here and get you a cola.
But if I have to come and find you again I may have to beat your...never mind.
Just stay here until I return.”

Cade thought about telling him she didn’t have the energy to move much less get up and walk again.
She closed her eyes and thought about what he’d said.
Aaron MacManus.
This man said that he worked for Aaron.
And Shawn said she was overwhelmed.
Well, damn it, it had been a lot, but these two men were going to get a piece of her mind when she found them again.
When Daniel came back with not only a cola but a bag of chips she didn’t know whether to kiss him or kick him.
She decided to wait on both until she felt better.

“You look better, though I’m going to take you to the clinic to make sure.
Shawn said that I was to watch over you and make sure you were safe.
I had a hard time finding you after you left the mansion or you’re step-brother wouldn’t have hurt you.
What did you say his name was again?”

“I didn’t. And I’m not going to any clinic.
I appreciate you running him off, but I’m fine now.
I’ve got a lot of stuff to do today before I have to be at work tonight.
So why don’t you go away?”

Daniel just smiled at her.
He was sitting on the ground in front of her and she wanted to smack him.
Arrogant dickhead, she thought.
She decided to ignore him and continue with her day.
She hurt and was sure her face was really bloody, but she really did have things to do.
When his cell phone went off, she stood up and started walking back the way she’d come.
When he pecked her on the shoulder and handed her his cell she took it.

“Go to the clinic.
Why do you have to be so—”

Cade closed the phone on Shawn and handed it back to Daniel.
She didn’t even look back at him as she continued on.
When Daniel’s phone rang he handed it to her.

“I’m going to assume that we had a bad connection and that you didn’t just hang up on me.
Damn it, Cade, why don’t you just do what you
’
r
e
—”

This time, before she handed him back the phone she turned it off first.

“You’re really going to piss him off like that.
While I don’t really care for myself, it’s you who is going to pay when the sun goes down and he gets to you.
I haven’t known him long, but the little I have known him I would say he has a protective streak when it comes to you.”

“I can’t imagine why.
I have to get to work, Mr. Taggert.
You should really move along.
I don’t like Mr. MacFarland very much right now and myself even less.
Goodbye.”

Cade suddenly found herself lying on the sidewalk.
While she’d been talking to Daniel she’d heard a car coming, but had no idea why it would register to her.
Then when she was l
a
ying face-down on the sidewalk with Daniel on top of her, it took her several seconds to realize there were bullets flying over their heads.

“Someone is shooting? I don’t believe it.
Let me see if I can—”

“Will you stay the fuck down? Christ, that man is tenacious.
You’re going to have to tell me his name now. He just fucking shot me.”

~CHAPTER 10~

Cade was still lying on the hospital bed when Shawn threw the curtain back.
She’d opened her mouth and he was sure she was either going to blast him or scream, so he covered it with his hand.
His heart was still pounding and had been since he’d felt her terror.

“I’m going to take my hand away and you’re going to be quiet.
If you so much as open your mouth to yawn I may be driven to strangle you.
Why I ever let you out of my sight is beyond me.
What has the doctor said about your injuries?”

He removed his hand and stepped back to look at her.
When she just sat there staring at him he cocked a brow.
Damned woman was going to drive him nuts.

“I asked you a question, Cade.
I would suggest that you behave yourself and answer me.
I’m in no mood to play your little power games that you’re just going to lose anyway.”

Still nothing.
With a deep growl he left her to find the doctor, anyone to keep him from screaming at her.
She was hurt and bleeding and he wanted to throw her over his shoulder, take her home, and heal her.
He also wanted to go and find the bastard who hurt her.
Shawn was nearly to the front desk when he realized why she wasn’t speaking.
He’d told her not to.
Of all the times for her to listen, now was not the time.
He nearly stormed back in behind the curtain when he heard her crying.
That did him in faster than her wounds.

“I’m sorry, baby. Please don’t cry, Cade.
Please?
Here, let me hold you. Stop fighting me, I’m stronger and bigger.”

“You’re a bully.
Let me go.
I have to pee.
There was no reason for them to shoot poor Mr. Taggert.
He was only there because you guys won’t leave me the hell alone.
I told you to leave me to myself. But oh no, you have to be all big and macho.
I was doing all right before—”

Shawn couldn’t stand it anymore.
He pulled her into his arms and crushed her to him.
She was all right, cranky, but all right.
He wanted to kiss her, wanted to pull that luscious body of hers up to his and take her.
Take her right then and there on the stupid bed where anyone could come in and see.
His need to mark her again was weighing heavily on his body, heart, and mind.

Moving his mouth down along the column of her neck he closed his eyes when she responded to his nearness.
Her scent crushed him with need.
Licking the pounding pulse it was everything he could do not to bite her.
When she whimpered he ran his fangs along the vein
;
not breaking the skin, but coming very close.

“I want to taste you again.
Sink my fangs deep into you and drink from you.
You’re like a drug and I can’t get enough of you, Cade.
I can’t think when your body is close to mine.
I can’t breathe when you’re this close to me, not when I can feel your heat, smell your arousal.
I bet if I were to run my hand up under this gown I’d find you soaking, drenching wet.
Oh, Cade.”

Her legs parted for him when he ran his hand up her thigh.
His cock jerked hard in his pants and he thought if she touched him now he’d come immediately.
When his fingers ran along the band at her leg just under the tiny material he felt her muscles quiver under his fingers.
Pulling the shadows around them quickly he slid his fingers under the band and into her slit.
He captured her moan with his mouth.
Moving along her throat again, he licked the pulse as he fucked her with his fingers.

“Cade, come for me, baby.
Come and let me mark you, taste you.
Christ, baby, you’re so hot that I can’t wait to bury my cock deep within you.”

As soon as she arched up and began riding his fingers as she clung to him, he licked her pulse again and sank into her vein.
He couldn’t take much; he wasn’t hungry.
But he did need to mark her. The need to mark her as his became harder and harder to stop.
When she came this time, hard and quick, he nearly came with her. Her pussy spasmed and tightened around him, milked his fingers like he knew she would his cock if he were to strip down and slam into her deep.

When her hand cupped against his cock through his pants then worked at his zipper, he nearly came then.
When she had his cock free of his jeans but still hidden behind his briefs he heard her growl at him or his pants, he wasn’t quite sure.
Sealing the wounds at her throat he shifted and helped her free his cock.
Her hand was hot against it.
And when she took the drop of pre-cum off the tip into her mouth he nearly threw her to her back and fucked her then.

“I want to taste you, but my mouth...I don’t think I can do it without hurting...Shawn, can you come for me, come hard and let me taste you this way?”

She wanted him to come, wanted him to bring himself to climax so that she could lick him clean.
Taking her hand into his he rubbed it up and down his shaft.
With his fingers he showed her how to pleasure him, how he liked to be touched, caressed, and squeezed. Soon he was leaning back on his hands while she encircled him, while she pulled and tugged on his cock until he knew he was so close, almost too close to let her continue without coming.

“I can come on you like this or inside of you.
I’m so close, baby, that either way is going to be fast.
Come sit on my cock and ride me.
I want to feel you come again.”

When Cade started to rise up he lifted her and settled her across his lap even as he turned more onto the bed.
When her panties got in the way he reached down between them and cut them from her body with a sharp claw.
She settled her pussy over him and dropped down.
He came.
As soon as she was seated over him he shot his seed deep into her womb.
Over and over his cock surged and filled her and when she came with him, hers mere seconds behind his, he felt his cock surge again.
As if he was having a second climax.