RAFE'S LAIR (12 page)

    "YES!" He roared throwing his head back as emptied himself inside her milking cunt. Rafe jack knifed up in his bed, instantly feeling the loss of h
is mate's heat. He looked around his room wishing with everything he had that he was still in his Ava's bed holding her as she came back down from her orgasm. He looked down at his jeans seeing the wet spot where he'd cum all over himself instead of inside his gorgeous mate. Damn he was pathetic. He'd gotten so wrapped up in Ava's dream that he'd actually felt like he was inside her.

                                    CHAPTER 19

      Marcus knocked on Rafe's door. "Rafe man, you okay? We heard you yelling. What's going on? Rafe open the fucking door." Marcus started messing with the nob trying to open Rafe's door.

    "Chill Marcus. I'm fine just give me a sec, I'll be right out." Rafe called back to him. Rafe jumped up rushing into the bathroom to chang
e and get cleaned up.

Ava cried out as she came awake and for the first time actually missed being in her dream. She wanted to stay wrapped in her dream lover
’s arms and enjoy coming down from the most incredible orgasm of her life. Too bad it wasn't from a real man. Ava laid back down, closed her eyes, and didn't even realize she went right back to sleep.

Rafe cleaned himself up as quickly as he could. He felt
like a damned teenager caught jacking off to his dad's hustler mags. He walked out of his room a little later to find Ed reclining on his couch with his boot propped on his coffee table. He had one of Rafe's beers in his hand and the other stretched out across the back of the couch. He had the biggest grin on his face like he knew exactly what Rafe had been doing. Yeah well fuck you, you damn goat wanna be. If it weren't for Ed, Rafe would have been coming inside his mate instead of in his damned jeans. Rafe watched Ed bring the bottle to his mouth to take a drink. Halfway there he stopped and said.

    "Feel better there snookums?"

    "I should take that damn bottle and break it over your ugly ass head you sorry sack of shit. Tell me where my mate is before you piss me off even more."

    "Tsk tsk lover boy. That is no way to talk to the one who helped your sexy little mate get nice and relaxed for your little dream date you just had."

Rafe didn't even let the demon finish his little come back. He went after the guy and had him up off his couch about to deck the asshole. He felt everyone move in to separate them while Ed was still laughing.

    "Dammit Ed stop antagonizing him." Dom yelled shoving a still laughing Ed back down onto the couch. "I'm getting ti
red of having to pull you two apart. Now everybody sit the fuck down and let's figure out what the hell is going on so I can get back to my own problems."

    "Oh Dom come on you never let a demon have any fun. Seriously how many of you have ever seen Rafe
so on edge like this. Once he has his mate for real, he'll go back to the old even keeled Rafe and then he'll be boring again. You gotta let me enjoy this while I can." Ed said not taking his eyes off a still fuming Rafe.

    "I hope I'm there when you fi
nd your mate so I can give you hell right back. And I hope you find it then loose it right away so you have to suffer and see what it feels like to need your other half." Rafe said.

    "She, Rafe, my mate will be a she. And hate to tell ya buddy, but ther
e's no way I would accept a mate after seeing what you've gone through."

    "I say" it" because we don't know with you fire eaters. You guys are some fucked up assholes. And you won't get a mate cause there's no one desperate enough to put up with your na
sty ass." Rafe shot back.

    "True dat vampire, true dat." Ed said saluting Rafe with his beer bottle.

    "If we're all done with the bickering back and forth, let's be productive shall we gentlemen."

    "Ah Dominic. Always the voice of reason." Ed said
. Getting up he added "I need another beer if we're gonna do this shit. Anyone else want one?"

There were collective "Yeahs" all around. When he got back with his arms full of beer Dom started talking again.

    "Ed what did you find out so far?" Dom asked after all the beers were passed out.

    "Well really good news for lover boy. The girls are coming back Sunday night." Ed started. "Well I see that got your attention mate." Ed said when Rafe's head snapped up.

    "You’re sure?" Rafe asked not daring to hope it would be that easy. If Ava came to him willingly, he would have no problem making her understand she was his. Once she was here, he wouldn't have to worry about anyone or anything hurting her too. He could take her straight to his bed where she belonged, no more long tormented days without her.

    "Yeah Romeo. I'm sure. They don't remember coming here. Which reminds me. How in the holy fucking hell does Ava even remember you in the first place?" Ed asked. "I know I wiped that girl clean. I wiped b
oth of them clean. Marie has no memory, but your girl?" Ed pointed his beer at Rafe. "Your girl remembers you biting her. Makes me wonder what else she remembers. Care to enlighten us?"

    "Not that it's any of your business, but she remembers only that I
'm not human, and my voice. She's been dreaming of me and it's been scaring the shit out of her. She wakes up right after I bite her so thinks it's painful. She thinks it's meant to kill her." Rafe said shaking his head. "I tried to tell you that she needed me, but you didn't want to listen to me. You wanted to fuck with me and make me suffer. You didn't count on the fact that you were making my mate suffer more. I should kill you for causing her that much pain."

Ed looked down at his beer. "Your right abou
t that. I've been going by to check on them every day, but I didn't pay close attention till tonight. I'm sorry for that. I should have noticed before now what this has been doing to her." He looked back up at Rafe. "She doesn't look good man. Had I not have heard them talking about coming here Sunday, I would have come back here to figure out a way to get you into her life again. I don't know how and I don't know why, but that girl needs you now that you've met."

    "Wait a minute.
You’re telling me Ava remembers Rafe, but my feisty little Marie doesn't remember me?" Ethan asked.

Ed pointed his beer at Ethan "You can just fucking forget about that right now asshole. I absolutely do not have the patience for two psychotic vamps lusting after their mates."

Ethan threw up his hands to ward him off. "Whoa there Tonto. Who said anything about that little firecracker being my mate?" Ethan gave a dramatic shudder. "No thank you. All I wanna do is fuck her like twenty times. See how many positions I can make up, not commit the rest of my life to one chick. No matter how hot she is."

    "Anyway." Sloan said." Ed were you able to see what the vamp watching the girls looks like?"

    "Nope. I was gonna go try to hunt him down, but he took off before I could. I did find where he was hanging out while he was at their place though."

Marcus cut him off. "The vamp is a she."

    "No shit?" Ed asked surprised. "How do you know?"

    "Well Ed let me teach you a little bit about werewolf anatomy. We have a better sense of smell than everyone. Even demons." Sloan gloatingly told him.

    "Dude what the hell ever. Demons are better at everything and everyone knows it too."

    "Enough
!" Dom yelled. “I’ve had enough of the childish bull shit. The vampire is a female. Rafe you still haven't been able to figure out who it is, yes?"

Rafe shook his head. "No I'm sorry, I haven't. I don't like the fact that she's been following me and now be
en watching my mate."

    "Agreed. Ed you will tell Sloan the location of the girls' apartment. We know the vampire can't be out in day light, but she obviously has someone of my pack helping her. She might have someone watching the girls during the day, s
o we will not take a chance with that."

    "Dom you just said someone in your pack is a trader. That tells me that I don't want to trust your pack to watch Rafe's girl." Ed said to him.

    "Fuck you Ed! I will never betray my alpha nor will I betray my friend." Sloan yelled jumping up.

    "Sloan sit down." Dom started.

    "Forgive me alpha but I take Ed's bull shit comment as an insult that I will not let slide." Sloan said moving towards Ed.

    "I said sit the fuck down now Sloan!" Dom growled getting
in Sloan's face.

Immediately Sloan bowed his head and backed down from his alpha. "Sorry alpha. I meant no disrespect to you."

    "I know Sloan and I agree with you." Turning around Dom addressed Ed. "You do not know of what you speak demon. My beta has pledged his life to me and I know without a doubt he would take his own life before he would betray me in any way. He is also loyal to those he calls brother. Any League enforcer is who he calls brother."

    "Not to mention Sloan and I owe each other our
lives so I would trust him with my mate always." Rafe said. He looked over at Sloan and nodded his head. Sloan nodded back in gratitude.

    "Right. Fine my bad. I'll tell the wolf the address; it's only for one day anyway. My question is. Rafe are you gon
na flip out on your mate again?"

Rafe shook his head. "No. Now that I know who she is and why I feel so strongly, I'll take precautions to ensure her safety."

    "Which is what exactly?" Marcus chimed in. "No offense man, but I really don't want to have to pull you off her in the middle of the club again."

    "No I understand. I'll feed as soon as the sun sets Sunday, that way the scent of her blood won't affect me as much. Not to mention, after seeing the dreams she's been having of me, I have to take my
time. She's terrified of me and that's killing me." Rafe looked down at his hands shaking his head again. "It's breaking me apart knowing how she feels about me now. I'm going crazy knowing she's upset at all especially because of me."

Rafe looked back up
at the men gathered in his living room and he hated what he saw on most of their faces. Pity. He didn't want them to feel sorry for him. Hell he didn't want them knowing about any of this at all. He knew he needed the help though. Until his mate was safe in his arms and they'd figured out who the hell was following them and why, he needed all of them.

    "Alright." Michael said. "Then let's quit sitting around on our asses wasting time and get moving."

Everybody got up with collective "yeahs" and started heading out.

                                   CHAPTER 20

      Rachel and Carl were at Carl's apartment finalizing their plans. It was late afternoon on Saturday. Carl's apartment was on the other side of the city from Ava and Marie's condo. His apart
ment was a very small efficiency in a rundown part of the city. The two were in Carl's dirty bed in his even dirtier room.

    "We need some place to take the girl once we have her." Rachel was saying to Carl.

    "I know an abandoned warehouse fairly close to her condo." Carl said.

    "You
’re sure the place is abandoned?" She asked him as she stroked her fingers across his bare chest.

Carl looked at the vampire he'd fallen in love with. He was kinda pissed tha
t she was questioning him about the damn building he'd scoped out for their little shin dig. She'd been lying on his chest and he flipped her to her back quickly and pinned her with his body and just looked at her a moment.

Damn she was hot. She had long h
air and it was the blackest he'd ever seen. It almost looked fake. Her eyes were a deep green that were so crystal clear. Her build was slender, and she was the shortest little thing. The top of her head only barely hit the bottom of his chest. Yeah he was a tall son of a bitch, but no matter how you looked at Rachel, she was short. She was even shorter than most human women. Her lips were a little on the small side. Okay, a lot on the small side. But she still had a pretty little face. And the things she could do with that mouth made up for her lips being so small.

    "Yes sweet cheeks I'm sure." He said with a smile. She hated when he called her that. He liked the little pet name, so he didn't understand why.

Rachel smacked the asshole on the side of his head. Damn she was sick of having to deal with this dumb piece of shit. She only had to pretend she wasn't completely disgusted by him for one more night. Thank the Fates. Once she'd drained Rafe's mate dry while Rafe watched unable to do anything to stop her. Then plant enough evidence to frame him for her murder, she could put this stray dog down. The entire word would thank her for it. It'd been a miracle Carl hadn't completely ruined everything more than once. She plastered on a smile.

    "Carl, dear,
you know how much I hate when you call me that."

Carl laughed. "I know, but I don't understand why. It's a perfectly good pet name." 

    "Carl we've been over this how many times. You don't do the thinking; you’re not that great at it. Now tonight we'll go into the girl's place and knock both her and her friend out. We'll take both of them to the warehouse where we'll then call Rafe and have him come rescue his precious mate. Once he's there, we'll stun him with the dart gun so you can tie him up."

    "I
told you I can just knock that leach out my damn self. I don't need a fucking dart gun to take him down."

Rachel slapped him again. This time Carl ducked his head and pushed her hand away.