RAFE'S LAIR (20 page)

                                 CHAPTER 29

      Ava hated Dallas with a passion! Yes, she lived in the damn city, but it didn't mean she could ever find her way around it. She had to be the most directionally challenged person on the face of the planet, dammit! She always had trouble getting places, that's why she was so thankful when they came out with GPS. Too bad hers never worked right. Course it could also be operator error... No, it was the machine.

She didn't live that far from Lair and had left a good thirty minutes before she was supposed to be there. After having to turn around about ten times she was now fifteen minutes late and was about to pull her damn hair out. She passed the same building
for the eleventh time and decided it was a sign that she shouldn't have agreed to go back to meet Rafe again tonight. She pulled into a parking lot to pull out her phone to call Marie and get directions back home. She finally managed to dig it out of the bottom of her purse when it started screaming at her. Arrrg! She snatched it up and answered the call without looking at the caller id.

    "Hello." She said exasperated.

    "Ava? Beautiful are you okay?" Rafe asked when Ava answered her phone.

    "No I
am not okay! I am the exact opposite of okay Rafe."

Rafe instantly tensed up. "Baby what's wrong? Where are you? Ava answer me dammit!"

Ava pulled the phone away from her ear, put the speaker right against her mouth, and yelled at him.

    "I'm trying to i
f you would just shut up and actually breathe."

Rafe took a deep breath. "Okay baby talk to me. Tell me what
’s wrong."

    "I'm lost and I'm pissed that I'm lost and I am very sick of passing the same damn building literally eleven times Rafe. Did you get t
hat?
Eleven
freaking times I have passed the same god-damned building and I still don't know where the hell I am. Except that I've passed the
same
building..."

    "Eleven freaking times. Yeah I got that." Rafe finished for her laughing. "Okay since you ar
e so well acquainted with that building can you tell me which one it is and what street it's on?"

    "No I absolutely cannot tell you which building it is and what street it's on because I am LOST Rafe! Lost as in cannot be found. As in, have no freaking
clue as to where I am. As in tired of going in circles and just want to go home and curl up and cry." She said the last word choking back a sob.

Rafe pulled the phone away from his head when he heard Ava start to cry.

    "Shit! Fuck! Dammit!" Rafe yelled sending a text to Dom that Ava didn't know where she was and he needed their location like fifteen minutes ago.

    "Ava don't cry baby. Please don't cry, I'll go crazy beautiful. I can't stand the sound of you crying baby.
I...”

    "Oh well excuse me for
driving you crazy asshole! I'll just hang up and find my own way home like I was going to do when you interrupted me with your phone call in the first place." Ava told him then hung up the phone. He immediately called her back. "WHAT!"

    "Ava I swear I a
m going to paddle your little ass for hanging up on me. Don't you dare do that again beautiful. Do you understand me?" Rafe was seriously about to lose it. His mate was lost and incredibly upset. She was crying and she needed him to hold her. He needed to hold her dammit! "Dom where the hell are you, you fucking wolf?"

    "What did you say?" Ava asked him sniffling.

    "Nothing. Okay take a deep breath and look around you. Can you describe the buildings around you? Maybe I can figure out where you are that way." Rafe told her in the most soothing voice he could muster. Just then Dom texted him back giving him her location. Finally. The only reason he wasn't running out of the garage the second she was late was only because Dom and Michael had been following her here. He knew they wouldn't let anything hurt her before she could get here safely.

    "Ava? Baby did you h
ear me?" He asked looking at his phone to make sure she hadn't hung up on him again. He heard her sniffling some more and it made him grind his teeth in frustration.

    "Yes I heard you." She said in the most miserable little voice he'd ever heard. His co
ntrol broke even more and he had to fist his hands forcing himself to stay in the damn garage.

    "Okay that's good, so take a look around you and tell me what you see. You can do it baby, I promise I won't hang up on you. Just let me help you get here."

Ava started describing what was around her to Rafe. He immediately knew where she was and stayed on the phone with her as he guided her straight to him. Turns out, she was literally right around the corner from Lair. She pulled into the garage with him still on the phone and she saw him standing where he'd been standing earlier when they left. She pulled into the parking spot and he didn't even let her put her car in park before he was yanking open the door and grabbing a hold of her.

Rafe was so damned rel
ieved to see his Ava that he practically pulled off the damn door to get to her. He tried to pull her out immediately, she was buckled in.

    "Rafe stop. I have to put the brake on and turn off the engine so my car doesn't roll away." Ava said as Rafe was
fighting with the seat belt.

    "Then I suggest you do it quickly." He grated back to her.

Finally he had her out of the damn car and was wrapping her in his arms. He was holding on to her so tightly that he literally picked her up off the ground. He had to bury his face in her hair and make himself calm down before he looked at her. The whole glowing eyes thing was starting to piss him the fuck off.

After what seemed like an eternity of being squished Ava pushed at Rafe.

    "Um seriously, you’re squishing me. It's kinda hard to breath. Can you lighten up a little?"

    "Ava I'm telling you right
now, don't ever do that to me again. Okay?" Rafe said sitting her back on the ground and putting his forehead to hers.

    "Do what to you? I was the one that was lost in the middle of Dallas at night. Alone."

Framing her face in his hands he told her. "Exactly baby. You were lost
alone
and upset
alone
. And there wasn't a damn thing I could do to fix it. You have no idea what that does to me."

Ava looked at Rafe funny. There he went again acting like they were way more than they were. They had only known ea
ch other since last night for goodness sake.

    "Okaaay. So um did you say something about dinner?" She asked trying to get them out of this awkward moment.

Rafe looked at his mate a moment longer. He shook himself out of the freak out mode he'd been in. Ava was here safe now and he'd promised her he'd take it slow. He told himself. He kissed her forehead.

    "Yes I did. Come on let's get you fed beautiful."

Rafe led her through the back halls up to his loft. He made sure he kept her far away from everything going on in the club for right now. He didn't want her getting scared so soon. He would decide whether or not he'd take her around after he saw how dinner went. They got off the elevator and he walked her straight to his door. He let her in ahead of him and he ran into the back of her because she stopped right inside the door.

Ava was shocked by everything he'd done. The entire place was lit by candles and whatever he'd gotten them for dinner smell incredible. She felt Rafe's arms surround her and felt
he bend down to whisper in her ear.

    "Are you okay beautiful?" Rafe asked. He totally owed that demon big now. Ed had done way more than Rafe had planned to do, and judging by Ava's reaction, she was shocked by it as well.

    "I... You. You didn't have to do all this." Was all she could come up with to say.

Now she felt bad for not dressing up like Marie had told her to. Rafe had gone out of his way to make this dinner romantic for her and she'd barely made any effort to put make up on. She was in her f
avorite pair of jeans and a semi nice shirt.

    "I'm sorry had I of known, I would have dressed better." She told him fidgeting with her shirt.

Rafe turned Ava around. "You look absolutely beautiful Ava." Rafe said sliding his hand into her hair to pull her in for a kiss. "You look beautiful no matter what you’re in baby."

Ava's breath caught as she felt Rafe's lips touch hers. This time she couldn't even think to fight it. She just wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back. She felt him growl as
he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her flush against his body. Ava felt surrounded by him and she loved it. They both moaned when he deepened the kiss.

Rafe had to stop and he had to do it now before he couldn't. He started kissing his way down Ava'
s jaw to her ear.

    "Ava, baby tell me to stop." He whispered before he kissed his way to her neck. "Tell me to stop now baby before I can't."

Ava tilted her head back to give Rafe better access. This felt too good. He felt too good.

    "No. Please don'
t stop Rafe."

Ava cried out when he pulled back to look at her. He almost looked wild. The candlelight was making his eyes glow bright green. Rafe reached up to caress her cheek and she leaned into his touch. He seemed to come to a decision. He nodded once
then bent and picked her up and carried her to his bedroom.

                                    CHAPTER 30

      Rafe laid Ava down in his bed. His
mate
. She was
his
mate, and he finally had her where she belonged. He settled himself between her deliciously long legs and found she was a perfect fit to cradle him, just like he knew she would be. He could feel her heat even through their clothes. She was already wet with her need for him and the scent of her sweet little pussy cradling his dick filled his senses. He wanted to rip her damn jeans off right god-damned now and bury his dick as deep as he could go inside her. But he wanted to enjoy her too. To savor his first taste of her entire delectable body. He wanted to run his hands and then his tongue all over her and commit every luscious inch of her to memory.

   
“Fucking finally.” Rafe breathed as he kissed her lips again. "So soft."  Kiss. "So very." Kiss. "Sweet." Kiss.

Rafe licked the seam of Ava's lips letting her know he wanted in. On a sigh, she obeyed and opened for him. He slid his tongue inside her hot mouth. Rafe kissed his mate like a man starving. Hell he was a man starving. Well vampire starving actually, but
who the hell cares. All that mattered was that he finally had his mate beneath him where she belonged. And he wasn't going to stop till he wore them both out with as many orgasms as he could give them.

Ava moaned and arched into Rafe pressing her breasts ha
rder into his chest. She was soft a0ll over just like a woman should be. Just the right amount of curves to cushion and cradle his hardness as he held her safe against him. Rafe kissed his way from her mouth down her jaw and over to her ear.

    "I'm dying
to get inside you beautiful, but I don't want to rush this." he said. He nipped her ear and licked the little sting away. And she rewarded him with another one of her sexy little moans. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she grabbed hands full of his hair trying to pull him closer to her. She spread her thighs wider giving him better access to her center so he could grind his aching dick harder into her pussy.

    "I want to lick my way down your gorgeous body till I reach that hot little pussy and then I
want to lick my fill of it. Tell me baby, do you want me to taste your sweet cunt?" Rafe asked his mate.

    "Oh God yes Rafe please! But please don't tease me anymore.
“Ava begged Rafe.

Ava really didn't know how much more of Rafe touching her like this s
he could take. She felt like she was on fire and she would spontaneously combust at any moment if Rafe didn't do something! And soon. She needed him to strip her already and end her misery before she went insane. Her clothes were too tight and too hot for him to be lying on top of her like this. She loved the incredible feel of his weight pressing into her, but she needed them to be naked. Completely naked. Right. Fucking. Now naked. She was desperate for the barriers between them to be gone already. The weight of him on top of her was the greatest thing she'd ever felt. He practically surrounded her.

His arms were solid bands resting against the outside of her shoulders. And his hands completely surrounded both sides of her head to keep her in place to rece
ive his kisses. His chest was a hard wall pressing down on her breasts. With the slight shifts he made, it rubbed against her nipples creating the most delicious friction. His legs were solid logs between hers keeping them spread wide so his dick could lay perfectly against her center.

She could feel how hard his cock was pressing against her through their clothes and she desperately wanted them out of the way, so she could feel him skin to skin. She needed him to spread her pussy lips open with his dick s
o when he pressed his hips into her like he was, he would hit her clit with the head.  She panicked momentarily when she actually paid attention to how big he was. There's no way he would fit all the way inside her! She was about to tell him so when he spoke first.

    "Oh beautiful I'm not teasing." Rafe slid his hand down the side of her body lightly grazing the outer swell of her breast. She gasped and arched into him again. "That's it baby let me make you feel good." He reached the hem of her shirt and
started pulling it up. "Lift up a little for me; let me get this shirt outta my way before I rip it off."

Ava did as she was told lifting her arms above her head to help him get it off. Once Rafe had her shirt off, he tossed it to the side completely forgo
tten. She won't be needing it anytime soon. Hell, if he had his way, she wouldn't be needing one ever again. There had to be a law somewhere against covering up something as gorgeous as Ava's soft pink tipped breasts. As Ava laid back down, Rafe grabbed a hold of her wrists and pushed them above her head. He quickly secured her hands to the headboard with the cuffs he kept attached to it. Ava looked up at her hands and then back down at him and she had the cutest expression on her face.

Ava was frightened w
hen she tugged on the metal chains and couldn't move. There was no way she was getting out of the cuffs. They were fur lined so they wouldn't harm her skin, but she wasn't so sure about being restrained like this. Not to mention this was all too familiar. She immediately thought of the dreams she'd been having. They were becoming real! How is that possible? This was the first time she'd been with Rafe and in his bed.

    "Um I'm not so sure about this." Ava said nervously.

    "Oh I'm very sure about this beautiful. I want to be able to do whatever I want, how I want to you and not be interrupted. Don't worry; I'll take good care of you."

Rafe kissed his mate's stubborn little chin on his way to her lace covered breasts and the hard ripe nipples begging for
his mouth. He absolutely loved how that sounded and felt.
His
mate. She was only
his
mate.
Always his mate!
  He licked one nipple through her bra and she arched her back trying to push it deeper into his mouth.

Oh, Ava liked that! If he would only do it ag
ain. She was starting to seriously get turned on again. Her hands being cuffed completely forgotten. He felt absolutely incredible. The things he was doing to her were making her so wet she wouldn't be surprised if he could feel her soaking both their clothes. The fact she couldn't move her arms only added fuel to the fire now. She was completely at his mercy and she loved it.

    "Uh ah, no no baby. I'll suck on your pretty nipple when I'm ready." He said reprimanding her. "You don't get to decide how this
goes. Understand?"

Ava didn't immediately respond to Rafe's correcting her disobedience. She just nodded her head at him.
Oh no my beautiful little mate, that won't do. You will learn to answer me properly when I give you an order.
Rafe thought. So he pinched her other nipple to make his point and she jerked beneath him. And that made him growl deep in his chest in approval.

    "Use your words baby. I have to hear you say it." he said to her as he lowered his head to blow warm air over her now wet lace co
vered tip. He looked back up at her face to let her know he expected her to reply again.

    "Yes, I understand dammit. Now please do something!" she cried.

Rafe chuckled. "You are a feisty little thing. I'm going to have so much fun playing with you." Rafe said licking her nipple again. "Teaching you." Rafe added with another lick.

Then he moved his head and sucked away the sting of his pinch to the nipple he hadn't yet given the attention of his mouth. He enjoyed her whimpers more than she needed to know
at the moment. She wasn't ready to know how a vampire's mate affected him. Damn he loved the sexy sounds she made though.

    "But since we're on the subject of using words, you need to choose one. It'll be your safe word. If you don't like anything I'm do
ing to you, you say your safe word and we'll stop immediately. Okay?"

    "Okay. But you won't hurt me will you?" Ava was starting to get a little nervous again.

    "Ava… Baby look at me...” Rafe waited for her to do as she was told before he continued. Looking her straight in the eye, he said. "I would never intentionally hurt you... Ever, and I will do everything in my power to keep you from harm. You need to believe without a shadow of a doubt that I would take my own life before I hurt you. Or let anything else hurt you. Okay?"

Ava nodded her head again and before he could reprimand her for it, she said. "Yes I believe you."

    "That’s my good girl." he crooned "Now choose a word so I can continue enjoying myself with your delectable body."

    "Beans." she simply said.

Now that made him pause. "Beans? Why beans?" he asked amused and curious.

    "Because I hate beans. And you said I had to say it if I don't like what you
’re doing. So I choose beans." she replied matter of factly.

Well hell.
When she put it that way, it made perfect sense. Too bad though, he happened to like beans. Guess he wouldn't be eating beans ever again. Oh well, he'd much rather be eating her anyway. Which reminded him. He had an only
partially
undressed little mate at his mercy. She needed to be a
completely
undressed little mate at his mercy. Like right now.

   
“Beans it is beautiful. Make sure you really can’t handle whatever it is I’m doing to you, because once you say that safe word everything stops. Everything baby. I’ll help you get dressed, take you down to your car and tell you good night. And I’ll leave you alone and never be able to touch you again. Do you understand?”

   
“It has to be that final?” She asked.

   
“Yes baby it has to be that final unfortunately.” He said nodding to her. “That’s why you have to be very sure you can’t handle something before you say it. Okay?”

   
“Oh okay.”

He gave her a huge smile.
“Okay. Now where was I? Oh yes I was enjoying your delectable body. Be a good girl and no more interruptions.”

He looked back down at her lace covered chest. Her nipples were hard little points pushing against the now wet lace. He unfastened the front clip of her bra and slowly peeled back the cups revealing her ample breasts to his viewing pleasure. He
made sure to graze each of them with first the lace, then his hands as he did. He felt her suck in a breath each time. Then he watched her nipples harden further and goose bumps raise on her skin when the cold air hit them.

    "Oh look how pretty." he sa
id as he kissed her collarbone. Then he dipped lower and ran his tongue along the swell of each breast. "You taste so damn good baby, I don't think I'll ever get enough of you." He licked his way to one tight little pink berry and gently sucked it into his mouth. Flicking his tongue against it, he hummed his approval when she gave him one of her sexy purrs.

    "Mmm delicious.
” He released the one he'd been enjoying with a pop and moved to the other. "This one needs a kiss too."

He sucked it into his mouth
and lightly bit down. Rafe looked up at his beautiful's face as he did and almost lost it right then. Her delicate hands were gripping her chains hard. So hard, he could see the flex of her arms and her knuckles were white. Her head was arched back so only the top of it and her shoulders remained on their bed. He could see the tendons in her neck straining from the pleasure he was giving her. Seeing that taught neck made him need to drink from her again.

He shook his head slightly to clear it and quickly l
ooked back down at Ava's breasts. Their bed. Yes, it was
their
mated bed now that he finally had her here. He just had to find a way to make her realize it. She had to accept what he was. She had to accept they were mates. He would worry about that later though. She was here now and he was going to damn well enjoy every inch of her as many times as he could while she was.

    "Oh God Rafe!"  Ava cried. She arched into him again. She couldn't be still, the feeling of him kissing the little sting away from he
r nipples felt incredible. While he was sucking on her right nipple, he was stroking and pinching the left. Keeping it hard and needy. The man certainly knew how to use his mouth as well as his hands. She tugged on the chains restraining her hands again, but there was still no give. All she could do was lie here and enjoy what he was doing to her.

He slowly started kissing his way down her body. Stopping at her bellybutton to lick around and in it. The damn man was trying to kill her! If he would only hurry
up and get her out of her jeans, she would feel some relief. The seam sitting right on her clit wasn't creating enough pressure where she needed it. Not to mention she hated the barriers between them. She wanted to feel his dick slide through her now soaking wet slit when he rocked his hips into her.

    "Please Rafe hurry up. I don't think I can stand much more."

    "Mm mmm." he said shaking his head causing his goatee to tickle her. "I told you beautiful. On my time not yours."

Rafe unbuttoned her jeans
and started sliding them down her legs. Leaving her panties on for now. Mm, she's wearing a thong. He loved thongs. Actually, he loved any kind of lingerie. Especially when he was stripping it off his sexy mate. He would have to make sure she had plenty of different kinds in every color and style. He knew he would be shredding more than a few. He wouldn't mean to. He just wouldn't be able to stop himself from being able to get to her as fast as he could.