Chapter 10 You Already Shine So Bright
You Already Shine So Bright
Trenton
My brother was inside the small cabin we had rented with Ariel. I wasn’t so sure it was a good idea to leave him alone with her right now when he was struggling so hard to keep his damn hands to himself but I was kind of out of options here if I didn’t want her to be alone at the moment.
And her being alone right now absolutely was not an option.
We were in a shitty situation here with far too many unknowns for me to be comfortable with her being in any space by herself.
With that fucked up pentagram being the only thing in the storage unit and then that unknown person having been in our hotel room I had no idea what we’d gotten ourselves into here. I had no idea if we were up against two different things here or if they were somehow connected.
I did not like not knowing things where Ariel was concerned. She had a knack for attracting a stupid amount of danger and I knew it wasn’t exactly her fault but it absolutely could be quite obnoxious at times. The job was never boring, that was for sure.
Some days, like today, I kind of wished for boring.
I felt like our relationship would never be able to progress if we were constantly in the thick of shit and I was well past ready for our relationship to move forward.
Because Simon and I both grew up hoping we’d one day find that other missing link to our souls we had individually decided to wait for that special someone.
Part of it was that when we didn’t feel that bond with someone there was absolutely nothing there for either of us.
Ariel had been the only person either of us had ever had any desire to have sex with.
So we’d both remained virgins while we waited for her.
Ariel was the experienced one here out of the three of us. I hoped that when the time came she was worth the long wait. But I knew without a doubt she would be.
I called Quinton the moment we got in the SUV and left the hotel. I stopped once to check the vehicle over for any tracking devices, be they magical or otherwise. I found none so we drove around for awhile making sure we weren’t being followed.
Quinton had found us a place to stay that was out of the way and very private.
The biggest cabin was where the manager lived.
It was up the road and out of sight from the rental cabins.
The cabins were all down a dirt road and spaced far enough apart from each other that they weren’t right on top of one another and it gave off a certain sense of privacy.
Our cabin was the last one and had a pretty decent view of a river off the back porch.
Solitude could be a good thing but in this case it kind of made me a little bit nervous. I had no idea what we were up against and it was starting to create an itch under my skin.
I stood outside on the back deck with my phone to my ear, listening to it ring as I stared out at the dark water.
Quinton answered on the third ring. “I fucking hate that I’m not there with her right now.
I knew this shit was going to fuck with me when I sent her out there with the two of you but I did it anyway because I’m getting sick and tired of watching the three of you dance around each other.
But, of fucking course, nothing can ever just go easy with her.
Now I have to figure out if I want to have my ass there or call Rain and get my ass chewed out so that he can have his ass there.
This fucked with my whole plan. I gotta tell you, Trenton, I am not happy with any of this. ”
Fuck Quinton Alexander. I didn’t answer to him and I sure as fuck did not take orders from him.
I was always respectful toward him because he was the head of Ariel’s coven and it made my life a whole lot easier to include him in her safety. But enough was enough and I was not going to allow him to speak to me as if I were a child and he was my parent.
I also didn’t like that he was trying to insert himself into our relationship with Ariel.
I got that he was one of her husbands and I respected that.
But he knew when he got involved with her that it was never going to just be the two of them and she’d have multiple partners he’d have to deal with.
He knew it and he was more than okay with it.
But somehow Quinton thought he could be the boss to every single person in his life. He needed to learn now not to overstep his place and if he waned to be respected as a person then he ought to learn a little something about giving respect in return.
“I’ve had enough of your bullshit, Quinton.
This was a curtesy call and one I gave because of who you are to her and the role you play in her life.
But I’m telling you right now that if you don’t back the fuck off when it comes to Simon and myself then that curtesy that I’ve been affording you is going to disappear real quick.
Stay out of our fucking relationship with her.
Now, she’s here with us and she’s safe. For now.
Now I’m pissed and I’m not interested in carrying on this conversation with you any longer.
Text me when you figure out what you want to do and I’ll text you with any updates on my end. ”
And, with that, I hung up on him before I could say anything that I might regret later.
He was too fucking used to people letting him get away with running their lives and it was getting out of control. He needed to learn that there were some people he wasn’t going to get away doing that to and I was one of them.
And that was just fucking that.
I had no idea how Rain put up with his shit all the time and didn’t constantly beat his ass.
Then again, Quinton Alexander and Rain Kimber were so damn similar it was almost like he was Rain’s biological son himself.
My phone vibrated with a text and I looked down at the screen, expecting it to be Rain chewing my ass out.
It wasn’t.
It was from Quinton.
Quinton: I apologize. You’re right and your relationship is none of my business. I’ll back off. Keep me updated on everything else and I’ll do the same.
Jesus fucking Christ. An apology from Quinton Alexander and he’d agreed to back off. Had stranger things happened?
I shoved my phone into my jeans pocket and pushed Quinton into the back recesses of my mind. I didn’t have the energy to allow him to occupy my mind at the moment when I had the situation at hand that I needed to focus on first and foremost.
I heard the door slide open and shut and knew my brother had joined me out on the deck.
“I’m going to take first watch tonight, Trent. Why don’t you go in and get some sleep in while you know you can.”
I couldn’t believe he was offering to take first watch. Then again, he’d slept great the night before with Ariel wrapped up safely in his arms. I would know, I stayed up half the night entirely too fucking jealous as I watched the two of them sleeping peacefully.
I was exhausted and almost desperately needed the sleep. Running on empty meant mistakes could be made and none of us could afford for that to happen.
There was one small problem with that.
The cabin was basically one big room. That meant there was only one bed we all had to share. Granted, it was a king size bed, but still.
I did not want to sleep in a bed next to Ariel. There was little chance of me keeping my hands to myself if that were to happen.
There was a reason I tried not to touch her and keep some physical distance whenever I could get away with it.
“Thanks, brother.” I murmured as I clapped him on the shoulder and walked past him.
He didn’t say anything but I felt his eyes on me as I walked into the cabin.
I knew he wanted to say something to me about Ariel because he thought I was being stubborn.
Simon thought we should both put the moves on her hard and not let up until she reciprocated.
I didn’t think that was the way to go but I understood why he was getting so frustrated with the situation.
Ariel was on the couch pretending to watch tv when I walked through the room. I said pretending because I knew her nosy ass had been trying to eavesdrop on my brother and I when we’d been outside. She wouldn't have been able to help herself.
I picked my bag up from the floor by the front door and carried it into the bathroom with me. For such a small cabin there was a really huge freaking tub with jets and everything.
I stripped out of my clothes and got into the shower. I turned the water on to scorching hot and washed my hair before scrubbing down my body.
My dick got hard when I soaped him up and my mind immediately went to the green eyed blonde girl in the next room.
I couldn’t stop myself from wrapping my hand around my dick and rubbing it up and down, soaping it up. I groaned and bit my bottom lip hard to muffle my noises. The last thing I needed was Ariel hearing me and knowing what I was doing in here.
I definitely didn’t need her out there thinking I was in the bathroom jacking my dick off while in the shower. Which was exactly what I was doing.
But I couldn’t stop myself now that I had started. And I didn’t even want to try.
I needed to work it out of my system.
I needed to work Ariel out of my system.
I pictured her in my head. On her knees before me in the shower. She stared up at me with those big green eyes of hers that were filled with a burning heat as she reached out for my cock.
She wrapped her small, soft hand around my dick and licked her lips hungrily. She leaned forward and licked the tip.
My cock jerked in my hand and I was slightly embarrassed with myself that I almost came so fast while touching myself just at the thought of her warm, wet tongue sliding around the tip of my cock.
She moved her mouth up and down the length of my cock while sucking on it. All the while watching me with those eyes of hers.
It didn’t take long of fantasizing about her before I was coming all over my stomach.