Force of Knight Magic (26 page)

“No
,
I can’t
,
”
t
he girl said softly.
“I have no desire to.”
And with that
,
she disappeared into the woods.
When Holly started to go after her, Phil stopped her.

“Rolland is on her trail.
He’ll help her.
There are places that…you all will be taken to a place where you’ll get the training you need, help.”

The forest seemed to light up for several seconds and with the dimming
,
Holly had her gun out and was standing in front of the younger ones.
Before she could react, her brother suddenly sprang up and growled low.
There were ten men and wom
e
n standing in the field around them.

“These people are our trainers.
They will take you with them and help you all.
No more harm will come to you.”
Phil looked around as he continued.
“Don’t worry about Lisa.
When she’s ready to accept
,
she’ll be brought with you.”

“I’d like to stay.
I’d like to…there’s someone I want to find.
A man by the name of Clint Barnes.
I’d like to find him.”
Alexander turned to Phil.
“I…I’ve figured out what he is and I think I can help him in his work now.
He said I had a place with him.”

Phil looked at Holly.
“The doctor you had in the hospital.
The one that has joined your pack.
What do you think?”

She didn’t get a chance to answer as her brother took that moment to
shift.
“I think that would be a great idea. But only if you work with Phil here too. He’s my friend and he’ll…if he’s willing
,
he’ll get you on the right path.”
He looked at Phil when he growled.
“You owe me
,
buddy.
This will make us about even.”

“Like bloody hell it will.
You owe me more than you
r
fat ass can pay.”
Phil looked at her while he spoke to her brother. “But I’ll call it even if you tell me that you’ll leave us alone for a long week.
Holly and I have some catching up to do.”

She shivered. Her entire body
was
on fire for the man in front of her.
When she stepped up to him and wrapped her arms around him, she could hear her brother cussing and Alexander laughing.
As they left the area for wherever Phil was taking them
,
she thought she heard her brother telling Alexander that his day was coming too.

The room he took her to was one she’d never seen before.
Not that she had a lot of time to look around.
She was naked before she hit the bed and Phil was inside of her scant seconds later.
She screamed her first of
what she was sure would be
many climax
e
s before she had a chance to ask him anything.

“Again.
Come for me again
,
love.
I need to feel it before I can come inside of you.”
Even as her body lifted again she knew that she’d never get enough of him.
Not just the sex
,
but his love.
As her third then fourth peak took her Holly screamed that she loved him, love
d
Phil for all of time and then some.

They spent three days in bed.
Phil wasn’t sure
if
it was a record or anything
,
but he certainly felt like it was.
He was going down the stairs to his kitchen to fix Holly a much needed breakfast when his cell phone rang.
He groaned when he saw who it was.

“Rolland, I told you not to bother me unless—
”

“She’s dead.
She met the sun this morning.
I had her in one of the cells until last night
,
but she asked to see her friend Shelly.
I didn’t know, Phil.
I’m so sorry, I had no idea.”

Lisa had killed herself.
If Phil was honest with himself
,
he knew that she would have done it anyway.
He sat in the kitchen chair and talked with his brother.
“She was set on it anyway
,
I think.
I doubt there was anything you could have done to change her mind.”
He thought about the vibrant young girl and wondered how the others were taking it.
“She was going to see Shelly.
How is she taking it
,
and the others?
Are they okay?”

He heard Holly coming down the stairs.
He thought she’d felt his pain
. H
e’d forgotten to hide it from her. Then he felt guilty.
She’d known the girl too
,
and he knew she’d want to know.
He pulled her into his lap and held her as Rolland continued.

“Shelly is taking it the hardest.
I think the others knew it was only a matter of time.
They’ve all filed charges against their maker.
Even Lisa.”
Rolland took a deep breath and he knew that whatever it was
,
he wasn’t going to be happy about it.
“The rogue is claiming she is wrongly accused.
Not that anyone believes her
,
but you know how they can be.
The
T
rustees
,
I mean.”

“I know.
Is…where is Anye?”
Phil let Holly go when she stood and went to the fridge.
He was momentarily distracted when she bent over into it.
Christ
,
he was hard that fast.

“Phil, are you listening?
I said
,
where is she?
I didn’t know you knew where they’d taken her.
I don’t.”

“I thought that… Jose Benson took her to the cells. He said he was going to take care of her.”
He frowned
,
trying to think just what he’d said.
“He said that he was going to kill her for her crimes.”

“I haven’t seen Jose for about a month now.
I thought I’d heard…let me ask
M
om.”
Phil started pacing as he waited for his brother to come back.
Something was off.
And he was sure that Anye was as free as he was.
“Jose left the
T
rustees about three months ago.
Mom said he and some woman had taken up together and that no one knew who she was.
If he took Anye—
”

“Mother fuck,”
Phil shouted
,
and earned a raised brow from Holly.
“She
is
free.
Jose took her away and lied to me.
When I get my hands on that bastard
,
I’m going to skin them both alive.”
He hung up with his brother and reached out to the other
T
rustees.
There were supposed to be five of them, making it so that there was an uneven spread across the system.
The first person he was able to contact confirmed what his brother had said.

“Yes. We never did figure it out.
It would have been easier if we didn’t have the hard set rule about taking the blood of each other. But Jose left some time ago.
I’m not sure where he was headed; he’d mentioned that he wanted to go somewhere
where
it was
n’t
dark.”
The
T
rustee laughed.
“Why he’d want to go where the sun was always shining was beyond me.”

After thanking her he sat down again.
Holly setting a plate of breakfast in front of him had him look up at her.
There were ten slices of bacon, five sausage links
,
and a pile of fried ham.
There were at least a dozen eggs and a half pound of fried potatoes.
She had a plate in front of her filled just as full.
There was a plate of toast and a crock of butter set down next.
He had a fleeting thought that one of her brothers was coming to eat with them or possibly all of them.

“Will I be able to feed you all the time
?
” he asked as she tucked into her food.
Her laughter
wa
s what he’d hoped for.
“I meant to come down and fix this for you.
I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be.
I had fun and I know you were working something out.” She handed him a glass of milk.
“I have to go to the office today.
I have to figure out what’s going on.”

He started eating and stopped when she mentioned her office. She wasn’t going in alone and he told her so.

“I know that.
In fact, I was counting on you going with me.
Also, you need to be aware that…well, I’m thinking about quitting.”
He looked at her.
Surely she couldn’t be
…

When she started laughing
,
Phil stood up
,
pulled her into his arms
,
and kissed her.

He picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist.
He wanted her again and right now.
Swiping his hand over the table
and
clearing it of the remnants of their breakfast
,
he laid her on it.
He was glad now that he’d not taken the time to put on a shirt, especially since she was wearing it and nothing else.

“I need my dessert.
And you’re just the thing I need.” He pulled the chair around
,
set it between her legs
,
and sat down.
“Perfect.
Just perfect.”

Pulling her forward
,
he lifted her thighs so that they lay over his shoulders.
H
e was going to feast on her and he didn’t want anything to get in his way.
He reached up her t
highs
and tore her panties from her.

“You should know that I love tearing these things from you.
I think you’ll need to start buying in bulk. That way we won’t have to worry about how many we shred.” He licked her inner thigh and kissed her knee.
“Of course
,
you could go without them.
I’m not sure how practical that would be when you are wearing pants
,
but for me
,
it would save time.”

“You are talking entirely too much.
Shut up and eat me or let me suck you.”
He grinned when she growled.
“I mean it
,
Phil.”

He leaned into her and licked her from gate to clit.
Christ
,
she tasted delicious.
He took another lick at her before he pulled her closer to him
,
slid his finger into her
,
and pulled her nubbin into his mouth.
She was so tight and wet that he didn’t have any trouble fucking her like this.
When she began riding his mouth, lifting her ass up to me
e
t him
,
he inserted another finger into her heat and started fucking her with his tongue too.

“You have no idea how delicious you taste to me.
When you come, and you will, I’m going to drink your nectar and then I’m going to ram my cock deep into this hot
,
sweet pussy.”
Her climax rolled over him.
He took as much of her cream into his mouth
as
he could before he slid his fingers out and into her ass.
“Tight.
Soon I’m going to take you here and when I do
,
I’m going to pink up this beauty before I fill you with my cum.”

He stood up when she came again.
He tore his pants open and rubbed his thick cock over her opening
,
not touching her clitoris.
Her begging had him pausing more because he didn’t want to come all over her than
that
he wanted to prolong this.
Finally
,
he moved just the thick head into her.