Page 21 of Ruled By Their Desires

She pulled her hair free narrowing her eyes at him. “Try it and your balls will be in your throat.”

“It would be worth it!” he snarled down at her.

She went to grab a blade and suddenly Hawk and Spike took an arm each pulling her up, Marcus had to take a step back. “What Marcus meant to say was good job Moon, the intel was invaluable. As always you did your job well and we thank you for taking the risk. Now food then bed Moon,” Spike told her. Giving a nod she left them.

Asshole!...

“Your legendary control around her is slipping Prime.” Hawk told him.

“You saw that shit she just pulled. The fact that I let her have a fucking nap when I wanted to strangle her for putting herself in that danger is a miracle. I could fucking kill her myself for doing it.”

“We all know she was right. You should have requested her go in. I saw her do her job and as a result, we now have valuable intel we didn’t have before, that will help us make this op a success not a fucking failure.”

“You don’t think I fucking know that? But my guts are twisted from having to watch her do it. I nearly exposed us all going in there after her ass. The fact that she’s right, doesn’t make it any easier to swallow. When I saw her in that compound….. Fuck!” He looked away taking a calming breath. “She like this all the time?” They all nodded.

“You should have thanked her not threatened her.” Spike told him.

“I fucking know that too.”

“You still want her.”

“I never said I didn’t.”

“Then make this right.” Hawk told him.

“Make it right? Like it’s that simple? She won’t have me.” He sneered not concerned that all his men could probably hear him. “She didn’t even fucking know me at that prison site. Or in her house. And not until her father pointed me out on that vid did she accept it was me. It was like she’d wiped me out of her life entirely. Do you want to know how that feels? That the one female you actually crave, doesn’t seem to know you exist? She won’t forgive me for trying to take you away from her, for all the years and shit since, the avoidance, the rules, the women, and for what happened with Sarah and all the others. Won’t even give me the time of day for fuck sake, let alone talk to her.”

Hawk grabbed his arm. “You don’t think she understands our lives, who we are? Cos brother I can tell you she does. More than any human. She knows our needs and wants, our value to the human race and never lets us forget it. She doesn’t care who we fuck, how we live our lives, as long as we are happy doing it.”

But that was the trouble, he didn’t want to share her and didn’t think the same dispensation would be given to him somehow. “That’s because she loves you. How she forgives the shit you pull on her night after night and still, has your back I don’t know.” He rubbed a hand down his face. He couldn’t think about that now. He had a mission to focus on or Moon would be dead and that, wasn’t acceptable. He might never be able to have her, but he wanted her in his world. No matter how small a place it was. “Be ready at 0300. We’re gonna go in from the North side, then use her building entrance point. Most of the humans will still be sleeping. Stun if we can, kill if not.” Hawk gave a nod and he walked away, when all he really wanted to do was go and hold his woman, in case it was goodbye.

She was up at 0230. Crash had touched her, and she’d woken instantly a blade in her hand. He gave a nod smirking at her before climbing into the back of the Humvee picking her up and laying her across his legs, his arms around her hugging her tight while she pulled herself from sleep properly. One of them would always do this if she slept alone in the field. Giving her time to wake. They’d taught her in those first days, if she woke it was for a reason and not always because sleep was done and to listen for it on waking. Her instincts instantly alert to the world around her. KC’s didn’t make noise and struck when humans were easy targets. At night. There’d been too many incidences in those first years where she’d listened to them and struck first before thinking. They carried those stab wounds with pride the dumb nuts. But she’d learnt to be more cautious. Sometimes.

“You good little bit?”

“Yeah, thank you.” She snuggled in while he kissed her forehead.

“You did well yesterday, that intel was vital information. We’re very proud.”

She chuckled. “I thought so.”

“He did too you know that. He overreacted because he was gut sick at the thought of anything happening to you and had to stand by and watch with all those KCs around you.”

“So were you guys but you didn’t act like that.”

“But we wanted to tan your ass too little bit. That was some scary shit to watch.”

She huffed. She could feel him laughing. They’d never tanned her ass. Taught her valuable lessons in the field and gym that usually hurt but never physically chastised her. “You be careful today. I can’t lose my quad.” She told him resting her head on his shoulder.

“You’re never losing us little bit. No matter what. Now time to get your stinky ass up. You need to find some water tonight and bath. It’s bad.”

She sat up as if affronted. “What a charmer. I can see why you don’t have a wife.”

He put a hand on his chest in mock protest. “What me? I’m the sensitive type. I’m deep into my female side. My intuition is off the charts. I’ll have you know the ladies love me.”

She rolled her eyes getting off his lap chuckling, pushing the door open. “That’s your cock,” she told him stepping down. “There’s a difference. Your cock can’t talk.”

She grinned hearing his soft laughter as he climbed out next to her kissing her on the head, hugging her close. And saw Marcus coming over and held back the sneer. He looked in their direction and looked away. Crash whispered. “Oh little bit. Any man worth his salt can make his cock sing, not just talk.” She burst out laughing quietly. He kissed her forehead again and stepped back. They both walked over to the others as Hawk grabbed and kissed her good morning along with the rest of her quad passing her some coffee.

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