be careful little girl, you wouldn’t be able to handle the huge heat I’m packing so don’t push too hard.”
“Oh please, you’re probably a tiny needle dick who over compensates with a huge ego.”
As she said this, Stryker had climbed the basement steps and emerged in the hall, meeting up with Kryton and the others who were covered with blood, nursing a few wounds, Tyson was popping a dislocated shoulder back into place while Craig was holding his left hand – which had been sliced off. Kryton grunted when he heard what Selena said, “I don’t know who you are lady, but his ego is much smaller than his dick – hell he could walk on the damn thing if he needed to.”
“You are all a bunch of assholes,” she said as Stryker carried her out the door and onto the porch where he sat on porch swing and pulled her onto his lap, pinning her down so she couldn’t move. She turned and tried to bite his nose but he ducked out of the way.
“Why do I have to be on your fucking lap, asshole?”
“Because it’s the only way I can keep you fully restrained, Selena. And my name is Stryker.”
“Gee, that’s nice, asshole.”
Everyone emerged onto the porch. Colton went into ‘doctor mode’ and immediately began checking injuries. “We’ll reattach that hand as soon as we return to my place, Craig. A few stitches required, an amputated limb to reattach but other than that everyone isn’t looking too bad.”
Hansen and Tyson headed through the woods to retrieve the cars and bring them to the house. Colton turned to Stryker, “decided to be the bait, eh?”
“The opportunity presented itself last night and I had to take it. I knew you’d figure it out, Sir.” Stryker said as Selena continued to squirm and try to break free in his lap.
Selena started to hurl an insult but Tess shot out her hand and said, “Selena, shut up and sleep,” and suddenly Selena’s lips were stuck together and her head dropped down onto Stryker’s chest.
“Thank you, Highness.”
The SUV’s pulled into the driveway and they all piled into the waiting vehicles. One headed to the house but the SUV with Stryker, Colton, Tess and Selena detoured to the airport first to drop off Stryker and Selena. Stryker’s private plane was waiting to take him to his home – a castle built in Scotland in the fourth century and owned and restored by Stryker for the last three hundred years. As the SUV pulled up to the plane on the tarmac, Colton asked Tess to wait in the car while he got out with Stryker, who was still carrying a sleeping Selena over his shoulder. She watched, confused, as Colton said something to Stryker, causing him to look over at her in the SUV and smile and then Stryker reached out with his free arm and hugged Colton.
As Colton headed back to the car and climbed in, Tess asked, “What was that all about?”
“Later, my love, let’s just get home and replenish right now,” he said as he laced his fingers through hers and leaned his head back on the seat and closed his eyes.
After showers, feedings, debriefing and stitching, the vampires were all hunkered down in various rooms, sleeping away their aches and pains as their bodies healed – all but one vampire. Colton stood, naked, by the window, watching a sleeping Tess, nervous but with a contented glow in his heart. She took a deep breath, rolled to one side, her eyes fluttered open, found him and smiled, “Why aren’t you sleeping?”
“Because I’m watching you.”
“Why?”
“Because it makes me happy,” he said.
“Do you want to know what makes me happy? That beautiful naked body in this bed pressed up against mine,” she said as she threw back the covers.
He smiled but held out his hand to her, “I will but first, come join me for a moment.”
“Okay,” she said as she climbed out of bed. As she reached him by the window, though, he dropped down onto one knee and she gasped, “Colton what are you doing?”
“Tess Hamilton, my heart, my love, you are the best of me, will you please do me the incredible honor of coming to the old country and becoming my wife, my Queen, in a ceremony that is over a thousand years old and join me at my side as a leader for our people?”
“That’s what you were talking to Stryker about?” Tess said.
“Is that a yes?”
“Oh, yes, yes,