Page 17 of Ruled By Their Desires

“Yeah, because you did that. And since? All the insistence on keeping away from her, avoiding her, telling your women to keep their mouths shut around her, telling the males not to fuck with her, giving in to her demands over and over again, stalking her like some sap and charging in like a knight on a white horse to save her? What happened to your balls Marcus?”

Frowning tears stung her eyes for no reason. She didn’t want to hear this, whatever this was.

What was Hawk trying to say?

Moaning, she moved. “Hawk….,” she murmured as if waking. “Take me to bed.” Lifting her arms, he bent and picked her up, her legs going around his waist like she had at eleven and so many times since, he hugged her to him as she rested her head on his shoulder, closing her eyes sighing. “Love you,” she told him honestly clinging to him around his neck and meaning it. Her uncle’s hands stroked her back. “We love you too little bit.” They told her. She didn’t want to see Marcus. Couldn’t.

“We’ll take care of you little bit.” Crash told her as they walked from the room knowing the others came with her.

They got a few steps, and something smashed against the office wall. She couldn’t think about that either.

The booze and tiredness were doing their job, by the time they’d reached where they were staying. They took her boots off and jacket, wrapping her in a blanket.

“You pissed him off staying that. It always did.” Spike told her kissing her cheek. She smiled as each of the others kissed her cheek too. She’d really missed them caring for her.

“Go get laid.” She waved them off. “Women are wailing in their beds missing you. You’re all far too tense and need to let off some stream.” Sniggering they left her, and she snuggled down hearing the door close. Although she got the impression that Marcus didn’t know it, she’d never slept with her uncles. They were that for her. Family. Why it bothered him at all she didn’t know, her last thoughts were that it clearly did. She smiled into nothingness.

Waking in the night she knew she wasn’t alone anymore. Without moving her body, she gripped her blade, before she caught his scent and didn’t bother to turn towards him. She knew who it was and released the blade. “Sulking in the dark now? That’s beneath even you. You’re lucky I didn’t throw it.” She bit out. He’d know she had a blade.

“Hardly in the dark, I’m sitting in plain sight in front of a window and I’d take a knife wound from you any day Moon and wear it with pride.”

That was perturbing. “I’ll remember you said that when you’re balling like a baby. You’re in the wrong room Marcus. In the middle of the night. What the hell are you doing talking to me? We don’t talk. We don’t mix socially. In fact, we don’t engage at all.”

He appeared to ignore that. “And why is that Moon? Because it was how you wanted it and….. I did too. Where are your bed fellows? They finished quickly, why is that?”

“As always, they gave me exactly what I needed and left.”

“Did they now….” She didn’t say anything else. “You know they’re fucking other women right now right?”

She laughed. This was ridiculous….

And said nothing. He was here for a reason. He’d get around to it soon enough. He waited for her to calm down. “What went wrong?” he asked eventually.

“This couldn’t wait?”

“No. Sit up I want to see your face.”

What the fuck?

“Giving me orders now Marcus?”

“If I thought you’d take um I’d order you to slow strip, spread your legs and let me eat you before I fuck you but then again, you don’t need my cock do you?”

Asshole. ….

She gritted her teeth sitting up against the headboard keeping the blanket firmly around her neck. He didn’t need to see that she’d not been fucked at all or even undressed. “I’m sure the quad updated you. I don’t report to you.”

She was sure she could hear his jaw grind. “Be grateful you don’t. Had you, you’d be paying for that disappearing act right now….” He seemed to take a moment to focus or some shit. “They did. I want to hear it from you.”

She sighed. “Someone, or several someone’s had tagged a number of the crew in both cars. Their clothing and other items. Both Humvee’s were heavily compromised and we found a phone, so at least one of them was in league with someone to report back. Humans or KC’s. No idea which one or several someone’s, wasn’t about to let the boys work them over, no time for that, so, no choice but to leave them there. I reported in to the Director, who was genuinely pissed off. They’ll all be arrested on arrival and interrogated. Made sure they weren’t following us and pushed for here. Although now, being a day later would have been preferable. I feel cheated. I had the show without the dinner.”

He remained quiet for a minute. “You hungry Moon?” She was sure he wasn’t talking just about food. Her clit pulsed.

“Not at all.”

“Shame. The threat to the humans, to you is real. We could easily hunker down in our mountain base and wait it out. Your people would be safe. But the other’s you care for so much, would be wiped out. I’m trying to honour your request on this but, you should know, if it comes to a choice, your father has already made his decision and I will make it happen. Even if I have to knock you out and drag you there by your hair.”

She huffed. “Caveman. Nice move.”

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