Colton's Dilemma (Shadow Breeds) (12 page)

Hansen blushed as he walked out, but managed to mumble, “You couldn’t handle it, Miss.”

Colton wrapped his arm around Tess as they headed out of the room, “You got Hansen to crack a joke.  He’s never done that in all the years I’ve known him.  That’s pretty incredible, Tess.”

Tess smiled and shrugged her shoulders, “So, now what do we do?”

Colton squeezed her hand, “Now, it’s dawn.  We need to hunker down in here until nightfall.  Then we’re moving to a safer location.”

“That’s it?  We’re just going to run?  You gear up with all this power and we just run?  That seems kind of wimpy, don’t you think?”

Colton pulled her towards the stairs, “Tess, you and me are going to stay upstairs in my bedroom all day then we’re going to regroup at a new location that the wolves don’t know about and then we’re going to hunt them down, okay?”

Tess heard everything he said, but it was the first part that intrigue
d her the most, “We’re going to be in your bedroom?”

Colton nodded.

“All day?”

“Yep.”

“Will you keep all of this on?” she said as she motioned to his outfit with a wicked gleam in her eye.

“Well, I’ll keep on as much as I can,
but there are things that I want to do to you that are going to require me at least loosening up part of what I’m wearing.  Is that acceptable?”

Tess shivered as she followed him up the stairs, “Oh, hell yes,” she said.

“Hansen, head to Magnolia and get it ready for us, will you?” he said as they passed Hansen on their way through the kitchen.

“Are you sure sir?  You’ll be vulnerable when you’re here, ummm, sleeping,” Hansen replied.

“Just activate the alarms and lock up when you leave.  I won’t be sleeping.  I’ll keep watch.  I need you to make sure Magnolia is ready when we get there.  I’m counting on you Hansen.”

Hansen started to protest again but then thought better of it, “Yes, sir
, should I contact the others, Sir?” he said.

Colton’s head whipped around and he stared and him.  Colton ran his hand through his hair.

“Your men, what are you, some kind of leader?” Tess said.

Colton looked over at her and felt a twinge of guilt, there was a lot about him that he still hadn’t explained to her, but he hadn’t had time yet, and he didn’t have time now.  He smiled at her, “Sort of, but there’s no time to explain right now, my pet.”

He turned back to Hansen, “I don’t think they’ll be needed for this, I fairly certain we can handle it, but just to be safe, contact Stryker and read him in on the situation to have him and the others at the ready if things get worse.”

“Yes, sir,” Hansen mumbled.

Colton scooped a squealing Tess into his arms and ran at his full speed up the stairs and into his room.  Colton had Tess flat on her back in the middle of the bed before she had time to blink.  Her eyes were wide and it took Colton a moment to realize that they were staying that way even as he started kissing her.  He pulled back and looked at her, “Are you okay, Tess?  Did I scare you?”

A grin broke out on her face, “Scared, no.  That was awesome.  So fast.  You have got to do that with me again.”

“I will.  But do you mind if I make love to you first?”

Her eyes blinked
as her mind came back to the present moment, “Oh, please do,” she groaned as her hands grabbed the back of his neck and pressed his mouth into hers. 

Colton pressed his body into hers, and felt his growing erection straining against his leather pants.  He kept having to kick his feet out from under his heavy leather coat.  “Can I at least take the coat off?”

Tess smiled at him, “Yes, but don’t you dare take those pants off.  I want to grab your ass through leather when I come.”

“Dear God, you turn me on woman,” he gasped as he shrugged out of his coat, dropped it on the floor then unzipped his pants.  His cock was so hard that it sprung free with an audible ‘thwack’ against Tess’ belly.

“Ooof,” she groaned

“Sorry,” he mumbled into her mouth as he kissed her.

“Don’t be sorry, just get that thing inside of me.”

He obliged her with one quick thrust, burying his cock
to the hilt. 

“Yes!” she moaned as her hands grasped his back side, squeezing and holding him in place.

It was then that Colton knew that he was in for the ride of his life.

             
More than an hour, and countless orgasms for both of them later, Colton’s arms shook as he pounded into Tess.  He could feel her muscles beginning the spasm that meant that she was close again.  “Oh my God!  Colton, bite me.  Holy shit, would you please bite me on this one?” she cried out.

He had kept himself from biting her this entire time, not wanting to weaken her this time
, but when Tess asked him
, begged him
, he couldn’t hold back any longer.  His fangs elongated and he sank them into her soft neck.  She cried out and her sex clamped him so tight as she spasmed that his own epic orgasm followed hers almost immediately as her liquid life flowed down his throat.  He withdrew his fangs, licked the wounds to close them and then collapsed on top of Tess, rolling them to their sides and cradling her in his arms as little spasms of post-orgasm bliss pulsed through both of them.  “I’m falling in love with you Tess,” he whispered as he drifted off to sleep.

“I’m falling in love with you too, Colton,” she whispered.

Chapter 4

It only took a few seconds for Colton’s sub-conscious to realize that he had to wake up, now, and that he was waking to danger, extreme danger – and something was very wrong.  He instinctively tried to reach for Tess but he couldn’t move.  He felt like he was in a fog.  After a few attempts he finally managed to open his heavy eyelids – and what he saw did nothing to alleviate his fears.   There were at least a dozen werewolves – in their human form – in the room, and they had him pinned to the bed underneath a steel mesh net.  Without thinking – his inner beast came out – his fangs elongated, his eyes changed to black and he tried to lash out but his body felt like it was filled with lead.  His eyes flew open and locked on the largest male in the room – who had his arm around a struggling Tess’ neck.  The male’s eyes locked onto Colton’s as his tongue came out of his mouth and licked along Tess’ neck. 

“Let me go you fucking creep,” she growled as she yanked on her arm.

“Now, Tess, baby, is that any way to act towards your boyfriend?” he mumbled.

“
Wh, wh, what?  You’re lying.  You are not my boyfriend.  I would never be involved with a creep like you,” she hissed.

“That’s not what you said last week when you were begging me to fuck you one last time before you had to hook up with
the fang creep.”

Her panicked eyes moved to Colton’s, “Colton, he’s lying.  I have no idea who this guy is.  Please, you have to believe me.”

Colton could see in her eyes that she meant what she said – she truly did – and yet, he was getting a bad, bad feeling about this entire situation.

The alpha male rolled his eyes, “
Selena, will you get your ass in here and break this spell that you put your sister under?  This crap is getting old – and I want my girlfriend back.”

Colton’s heart fell as a young woman who looked remarkably like Tess walked into the room.  “I’m only doing this so that you can break up with her, my mate,” she said to the alpha male.  The male pulled her into his arms and kissed her hard.  A growl began in his chest, “I would love to change into wolf form and take you right here and now – but we have work to do, my beloved
Selena.”

She began reciting a chant over and over as she looked at Tess
, “Juina Shelt Fonsed.  I cast a spell asking.  I now ask the favor of having the spell removed.  No harm may come from the cancellation of this spell.  No further power shall it have.  This is my will.  So be it.  Juina Shelt Fonsed.  .  I cast a spell asking.  I now ask the favor of having the spell removed.  No harm may come from the cancellation of this spell.  No further power shall it have.  This is my will.  So be it.”

Colton watched, horrified and with his heart breaking, as Tess’ body began to shake uncontrollably.  She screamed and cried out his name, “Colton!” then she fell to the floor on all fours, gasping and crying.
  When her head came up and he finally saw her eyes, the last of fight drained out of Colton as his heart broke.  These were not the eyes of the woman he was falling for – these were not Tess’ eyes – these were the eyes of a stranger.

Her eyes darted around the room, “
Wh, where am I?  Shane?  Selena?  Where the hell am I?”

The alpha male called Shane knelt on the floor in front of Tess and stroked her hair down her back.  Colton wanted to kill him for touching her.

“Tess? Tess, baby?  Come back to me.  You’re safe now.  You don’t have to bang the nasty fang-er anymore.  You did good, baby.”

“I did?  Everything is so foggy.  And why is my foot in a walking cast?” she whispered.

“You asked me to do that as part of your cover baby.  Don’t you remember?  We had to stage that rape scene so that he would see it in your memories as real – complete with you escaping and injuring your foot.”

Tess’ gaze came around to meet Colton’s.  Her eyes narrowed to slits and there was no love in her eyes as she hissed, “Who the hell is the nasty fang-
er?” she said as she struggled to her feet.

“This is the one that you told us about – the ancient one that you found
by using your spells.  I was content with killing him and using his blood for our little experiment one time – but you convinced me that you could lure him to us and we could capture him and use him over and over.  We should be able to get at least a dozen vamp-wolves out of him before he croaks.  Excellent work, Tess.  We couldn’t have done this without you,” he rasped – turning Colton’s blood to molten lava.

It’s not possible that she faked all of that.  He would have known.  He would have felt it – wouldn’t he?

“Tess?  Look at me Tess. Tell me what he’s saying isn’t true.  I felt you when you were with me.  I felt your love for me.  It was real – I know it was,” Colton mumbled – hoping against hope to see some spark, a flicker of recognition in her eyes – but he saw none.

The alpha male – Shane – walked over to Colton’s bedside, “
Ahhhh, poor lonely vamp thinks that Tess fell in love with him after only a week.  Isn’t that cute.  What a sad, pathetic loser.”

Selena
sidled up to Shane, her hands caressing his body but her eyes were glued to Colton’s crotch – which he realized with a groan had not been zipped up yet.  “Yes, but a very well-endowed sad pathetic loser,” she purred.

“Easy, babe, this vamp can’t do you the way that I can.
  Taylor – let his hand go so he can tuck his dick in, would ya?” Shane said.

“Are you sure, Sir?  This guy’s pretty strong.”

“Well, perhaps you’d like to touch his dick and put it away for him?”

Taylor’s hands quickly released Colton’s left hand.  He tucked himself into his leather pants, worked the zipper and button closed and then mumbled, “Thanks
,” and then he went limp on the bed.  Shane leaned down so that his breath was against Colton’s ear, “You’re not going to fight me anymore, are you vamp?”

“No.”

“Cause you’re a broken man with a broken heart?”

“Yes,” Colton choked out and squeezed his eyes closed.

The males rolled him up in the steel mesh net, secured it then rolled him up in a black, thick blanket – that’s when Colton realized that they were going to take him outside.  “You do know that this won’t protect me for long, right?” he mumbled.

“I know.  We’ll have you underground soon enough.  And the pain you’ll feel during the short time that we have you outside in the sun, well, that’s just a little bonus for me now isn’t it?”

              Colton felt his body being lifted by unseen hands, felt as they walked him out of the door to his bedroom and onto the stairs, felt the movement as they walked down the stairs then felt the agonizing burn as they walked out the front door and into the daylight.  Despite the dark blanket, his skin started bubbling, he could smell burnt flesh but none of that hurt as bad as when he heard Tess’ voice say, “get me home so that I can shower his stench off of me,” as they tossed him into the back of  a darkened van.  The unbearable pain of his broken heart brought on a welcome blackness as he passed out.

             
Colton woke to find that he was chained, ankles and wrists, in the middle of a dank, dark, musty basement.  His arms were stretched out to the sides so that he couldn’t reach his hands together or his feet – no chance of breaking the shackles that way.  He started to think of other ways to get out of there.  He wasn’t too worried, yet.   He knew that Hansen would be tracking him soon – and once that happened God helped anything that got in Hansen’s way.  But, as hurt as he was, he didn’t want that something to be Tess.  He still held out hope that she was just acting back in his bedroom.  And he knew that nothing would be able to stop Hansen once he went into his death mode.  He had to get free so that he could get Tess somewhere safe, somewhere he could talk to her.  He knew that deep down inside she still felt something for him – there’s no way she could have faked the connection between the two of them that they both felt, he was sure of that.  A witch’s spell could have never gotten him to tell anyone about Lisette, never in a million years.  The sound of the door unlocking brought him out of his thoughts and back to his situation.  He stared daggers at the figure who entered the room – it was Tess’ sister, Selena.  She walked towards him, looking up and down his body seductively, “Mmm, mmm, mmm, for a vampire you are one fine looking dish.  I think I’m just going to have to sample you myself,” she said.