Chapter 14
Chapter Fourteen
Sydney
The sun is barely up, and I’m awake staring at the ceiling.
I know what I need to do, but it’s breaking my heart.
I shouldn’t have told him I loved him, but I couldn’t keep the words to myself any longer.
I roll over and study him as he sleeps. His big body is covered with a sheet from the waist down.
He has one arm under his head and the other rests on his abs.
I can’t stop myself from running my hand down his chest. His cock stirs under the sheet, and I flip the material back.
I lean over and take him into my mouth. He groans as I take him deep.
The hand on his belly moves my hair back so he can see me.
“Best fucking way to wake up,” he growls. I take him deep a couple more times and swallow around his head. “Climb up here and ride me, baby. I don’t want to come down your throat.”
I shouldn’t let him take me without a condom, knowing what I’m getting ready to do, but I can’t stop it either. It’s not fair to him if I take another child from him. Mari, for all intents and purposes, is his.
I pull off with a pop and straddle his hips, then I take him into my body slowly.
His hands grip my waist tight as I glide down his shaft.
His thick cock parting my body. I throw my head back, my hair falling down my back as he guides me up and down.
I lean backward, bracing my hands on his knees.
A twinge of pain in my shoulder doesn’t stop me.
I start moving, gliding back and forth over him.
His cock is hitting me so deep and in places that make my eyes roll back.
I keep the pace constant, not too fast, but not too slow either.
I’m trying to make this last time the best ever, but every time with him has been beautiful and the best. His grip on my waist tightens more.
“Fuck, you’re killing me, spitfire.” He groans as I keep up the pace.
He pulls me down hard and rolls us so he’s over me now, taking control. He pulls back and grips my legs behind my knees, opening me up more as he rises to his, taking me deeper and at a different angle.
I cry out, “Tucker,” as my back arches off the bed, my head digging into the pillows behind me.
“You don’t control this,” he orders as he starts moving harder and faster inside me.
I love when he takes control. When he demands more from me. But this time it’s not about me. It’s about him. I reach up and pull him down. His weight lands on me, pinning me to the bed. We are connected completely.
“I love you always,” I tell him as I go over the edge. He groans as my orgasm pulls his from him too.
I watch him pull out of the driveway in his truck.
I wait until I can’t see him anymore before I close the door and let the tears fall down my face.
My phone goes off on the counter. I move toward it and know what I’m going to find.
He texted yesterday too. I open the text to a picture of one of Mari’s blankets covered in blood.
Miles: I’ve decided you’ve had enough time.
I know Mari’s safe in the other room playing, but it’s another reason why I have to do what I must. I move to my office and remove the SD card from its hiding spot before I head toward my room. I just hope I have time.
Poseidon
I’ve been on the jobsite for a couple of hours when a need I’ve never felt before hits me. I pull out my cell and text her.
Me: Spitfire, how is your day going so far?
I need to know she’s okay. My heart clenches as I think about how she looked at me before I left. She was acting weird.
When we made love this morning, I felt like she was saying goodbye.
She kept touching me all morning. I almost called in and told Jayden I couldn’t come to work, but she insisted I go and said she took the day off to spend time with Mari and had an appointment with her counselor.
I slip my phone back into my pocket, thinking that’s probably where she is and why she isn’t answering me back right away.
I don’t know how much more time has passed, but it feels like hours when emergency lights bounce off the wall.
I turn to look out the still open walls of the house we are working on.
I recognize Dax as he gets out of the car, then I see Aries pull up in his SUV.
But when I spot my brothers and father walking up the driveway, I know this is about me.
I pull out my phone and dial her number, noticing it’s been only an hour since I sent the text. The call goes immediately to voicemail, and I dial her number again. Again, it goes to voicemail. This time I leave her a message.
“Call me back, spitfire.” I watch Dax and Aries make their way toward me. I look around as I feel like the walls are closing in on me. I shake my head. “Nope. I don’t believe it.” I choke.
I look at my dad and brothers, and when they all have matching somber looks, my knees buckle. My body falls, and I hit the floor before Aries can catch me.
“Brother.” I hear the pain in his voice.
I shake my head over and over. Tears are falling from my eyes. I can’t do this. I won’t survive it.
“There was a fire,” Dax says, but I won’t believe it.
I fight them. I don’t think as my knuckles connect with skin. I’ll get away from them all.
“She and Mari weren’t in it.” Dax’s words break through the fog.
“Where are they?” I growl as my vision clears, and I see I hit my own father. “Fuck. I’m sorry, Dad.”
“It’s okay, son. But what the heck do you eat to have fists like that?” He chuckles, but I can see the pain in his eyes. He’s grown close to Sydney and Mari.
Zeus and Hades are holding me back, each have an arm in theirs. I’m bigger than my brothers. I outgrew them when I was in the military.
“Her house is completely destroyed. No bodies were found. Her car wasn’t there either.”
“You could have fucking started with that.” I stare Dax down. “Where is she?”
“We don’t know. We can’t reach her mother. She’s in court.”
“Wrenn said she saw her leave with a couple of suitcases before the fire broke out.”
“Why would she torch her own house?”
“She didn’t. We have two men in custody who were fleeing the area. They don’t speak English. We are trying to get an interpreter.”
My phone goes off in my pocket. I pull it out, sure it’s her, but when I see his name, I click it on.
“Tell me you have eyes on her,” I demand.
“I don’t. Sorry, man. I lost her at the bus station. Her car is there along with her cell phone.”
“Fuck.” I throw my phone at the wall, and it splinters apart.
“That isn’t going to help,” Jayden says, and I turn to stare him down. “I know how you’re feeling, kid. But what did he say?”
He’s told me about what happened to Autumn, but he can’t possibly know how this feels. She lied to me. She told me she loved me and then left me.
“He lost her at the bus station. Her car and phone are there.”
Aries’s phone starts ringing. He smirks as he puts it on speaker.
“Hello, Hawkeye. He got a little angry and broke his phone.”
“Well, I wasn’t done. Did you know she was acquitted of murder?
That she was the only survivor of an attack in Zimbabwe?
She humped it for a day to get to Botswana, where she was then transported over the border into South Africa.
” He pauses. “She killed a man named Bahati Abara. The South African government reported everyone died in the attack and the sole survivor died in surgery months later.”
“She told me about an attack. She said Mari’s dad died in the attack.” I know some of what he’s saying. But I didn’t know she was in hiding. It explains why she didn’t want to tell me much. And I still don’t understand all of it.
Carter continues, “The man she met with in the hotel, Miles Kant, is the owner of Kant Holding International, a huge multibillion-dollar corporation.”
“She told me he was going to donate money to the zoo.”
“She lied,” he says. I knew she did as soon as the words came out of her mouth, but I didn’t question it.
“My hacker Bekah found some information that he is associated with a group called the Brigade. He paid off the Abara family after Bahati’s death.
He and an employee of his, Colton Rorke, had traveled to Africa around the same time as the attack on Sydney.
According to Bekah, Rorke has traveled back to South Africa a couple of times in the last year. ”
“Fuck, not Rorke.” I scrub my hands through my hair. He really has been behind the attacks on Sydney.
“Yeah, what about him?”
“Someone give me a damn phone right now.” I turn to the others, leaving Carter on Aries’s phone. “Find her, Carter. She couldn’t have gotten that far. Dax, can you try Sharon again? I know what’s going on.”
Hades hands me his phone, and I dial the Tennessee State Police branch since I don’t have his number memorized.
“I need to speak to Sergeant Whitlock.” I wait while the operator connects me.
“Whitlock,” he answers.
“Colton was a part of the attacks on Sydney. Find Lydia and the kids, make sure they are safe. He and his boss are after Sydney, and they could be going after Lydia next,” I tell him.
“Fuck,” he yells into the phone, and the line goes dead.
“What did we miss?” Aries asks.
“Did you meet Lydia and her two kids at the party?” I ask him and the others.
“Colton Rorke is Lydia’s soon-to-be ex-husband.
He was with the men who attacked Sydney, which means he’s known she was alive this whole time.
He’s got to be the one who vandalized her car and sent the bloody rhino to her. ”
“What does that have to do with your girl?” Aries asks, and it all clicks into place.
“She must have witnessed them kill a rhino.” And she killed Bahati to save herself and Mari.
The look in her eyes makes sense now. She was protecting me.
They must have threatened me. “Aries, call Cronus and get the guys ready. I’m going after my girl.
She thinks she can run to protect me, but she’s sorely mistaken. Come on, brothers.”
I move out of the jobsite as Aries hangs up with Carter and dials the leader of our clandestine unit. Cronus will pave the way for us with local law enforcement to take care of these assholes going after my woman.
“Where are you going?” someone asks from behind me.
“To find my girl.”
Aries runs up, and I climb into the passenger side of his SUV. My father is in my truck and follows us. I know Dax will get to Sharon. I also know Whitlock will get to Lydia and her kids. I need to find my girl. I’m not sure she knows about Colton, but she is in more danger than she can imagine.
Aries’s phone rings before we reach the clubhouse.
“My guy Timothy ran his facial rec gear. He found her checking into a motel in Nashville under an alias. She paid with cash. I’m on my way there. See you soon.” Carter hangs up before I can get a word in.
Again, the phone rings, and this time it’s Cronus.
“The team is ready. Get back here so we can gear up. Kant is behind everything. He’s also got judges and politicians in his pocket he’ll attempt to use to get out of this mess.
He’ll set fire and watch it burn while he heads to an extradition-free country. ”
This is what we do. We take care of those who think they are above the law. Drago Defiance MC was created with one purpose to hide its true agenda. Settling the score that ties other hands.
We get to the clubhouse, where I leave everyone behind to go to her by myself on my bike. If we all rolled out, that would give away where she’s hiding. But when I get to my girl, I’m going to spank her ass red for pulling this shit.