Team: Echo (28 page)

“
Take up position on the porch in the shadows,” Marius told
her. “Mik can stay out here and keep them in his sites. But I want
back-up when they insist we lower our weapons. They make one wrong
move I want someone able to nail them. Watch for my cues if you
need to shoot, do not go looking at your brother, he’s too trigger
happy for this kind of maneuver.”

“
Sounds good to me,” Penny nodded and gave Dieter a squeeze
before walking to James and touching his cheek. She then headed off
for the porch and melted into the shadows. Yeah, she knew that Mik
was trigger happy right now, but so was she to be perfectly
honest.

The vehicles got closer and then stopped about twenty feet
away. The doors opened and occupants got out slowly, hands held out
from their bodies. Smart.

“
State your name, rank and business here?” Marius called
out.

A small pause before they seemed to send out the sacrificial
lamb. “Sergeant Major Kyle Phipps,” one man said. “We’ve been
tasked to retrieve the prisoners you have for transport to the
nearest base for questioning.” He paused and frowned. “The doctor
doesn’t appear to be amongst them. Where is he?”

Not a one of the men batted a lash when Marius shrugged. “He
apparently sent these guys in and stood back on the sidelines. Best
we can figure he was testing the defence systems we have in place
to best figure out his next move. I never had eyes on him.” Which
was true, Marius had never once looked at the doctor, so it wasn’t
a lie. Interesting.

Nodding the sergeant major looked to the others before he
turned back. “I’d like to request you lower your weapons so we can
retrieve those that you captured. We will also collect any dead
there might be.”

“
There are three, one over there,” Marius gestured, and then
pointed to the opposite side. “And two over there about thirty
feet. We’d appreciate if you would expedite this and vacate the
property as we will be resetting all the countermeasures in ten
minutes. No less and definitely no more.” At that all the men
lowered their weapons, halfway and began to back up, not once
taking their eyes off any of the occupants of the vehicles or the
prisoners.

Penny kept her weapons trained the entire time that the
military men were collecting their people. When they were finally
gone Penny still kept her weapon trained and called out, “We
clear?” She knew that they were but it was best to ask.

Mikhail turning around was a good sign they were, but Marius
gave the thumbs up. “Alright, let’s get the good doctor settled in
his new semi-permanent digs. Tonight we sweat him, tomorrow we make
his life a nightmare,” Marius looked at everyone. Getting nods he
glanced to Penny. “You feel like taking a round of questions
tomorrow?” The gleam in his eyes should have worried
her.

“
You bet,” she told him without hesitation. “I want some time
alone with him.” He would have to be restrained of course because
he did have a leg up on her with the fucking nano’s. “What’s your
plan big brother?” She asked and moved to link her arm with his,
ready to hear his plan and go for it right along with
him.

“
Me? Plan?” he blinked at her and then shrugged. “Let’s just
say that you should be grateful that the house is mostly
soundproofed now and that we’ll be stick him out in one of the
fields for the night. We should also be grateful we have no
neighbors close enough to see or hear what’s about to happen. But
first, I intend on kissing my woman and holding onto Honey for a
while. After that, I’m thinking we should do up a couple
pizza’s.”

“
God yeah, I’m starving,” Stefan said. A couple others nodded
enthusiastically.

“
Pizzas will be good.” Penny looked to Thomas, “How about you
boys go and get us pizzas? We know what Honey will want.” Hurm, “No
wait, maybe you should wait. She very well might want to come with
you.” The child would either latch onto her daddies or want to go
with her uncles. She looked up at James. “Come give me a hug?” She
needed one. Dammit.

Stepping into her he pulled her from Mik’s side and wrapped
her up in his arms. Lifting her up he let her wrap her legs around
him and just held her to him. “You okay love?” he asked softly. “I
nearly swallowed my tongue when you two rolled off the damned
roof.”

“
I’m okay.” She whispered and buried her face into the side of
his neck. “You are mine. I told you that I would be okay.” She told
him quietly and pressed a kiss to the side of his neck and used her
teeth to mark him a bit.

He gave a low growl she felt more than heard, one that made
her tighten her hold on him. “I know you did but I still worry for
you. It’s part of being in a relationship Pen,” he said. “You worry
for me and I worry for you, it’s very give and take. And, for the
record, later I plan on a lot of giving and taking
woman.”

“
Good because I want a hell of a lot of giving and taking as
well. I love you.” She said and bit his shoulder, hard. “I need
you.” She whispered against his ear. “I need you and Dieter both
inside of me again. I need you both fucking me and making me
scream, please.” She added nicely.

“
Like you need to ask,” he said with a smile smacking her ass,
hard. Chuckling at her yelp he kissed her cheek gently. “Come on
babe, let’s go inside and make sure D and Honey are good. While we
are waiting on pizza I think you, Deiter and I should maybe take a
moment to relax.”

“
I think so too. Perhaps a shower or maybe a change of
clothes?” Because she was ready to rip his clothes off. “Come on,
let’s go and give Honey some love while Mik and Gareth give Daisy
some love.” Because they all knew that the boys would want to give
Daisy lots of loving while they distracted Honey.

Nodding he headed for the door, not letting her down. He held
her close, his hands on her ass as he took the front steps quickly.
Moving into the house he finally let her slide down his body. “Come
on darling,” he smiled at her, “They’re in the living
room.”

“
Damn,” Penny let out a breath and nodded. “Okay, right. Need
to calm my body down just a little bit.” She was just glad she
didn’t have a dick that she would have to shift and hide. Grinning
she looked to her men, “I feel bad for you honey. I really do. You
boys have to hide your dicks from view. Sorry love.”

“
In this house, we don’t even bother anymore. It’s pretty much
expected with you around, just like it is for Mik and Gareth with
Daisy around.” Dieter grinned at her and winked as James turned her
around. “Let’s get going, so we can get upstairs
sooner.”

“
Sounds good to me,” Penny leaned into James. She wasn’t a
wuss or anything like that but she did need him right now. She
needed this touch, needed his love. She needed him, period. She
couldn’t function without her men and they all knew it.

“
You look tired Penelope,” Dieter said softly. He reached out
and stroked her cheek with a light finger. “I think you should also
have a bath tonight, a good soak will do you lots of good. Loosen
up those muscles your brother smooshed into the dirt.”

That had her smiling and she shook her head. “Yeah, that
would be nice.” She couldn’t figure out why she was feeling so
tired, just that she was. “I look forward to it, especially if you
will give me a massage after the nice hot bath.” With her demanding
that they should be able to skip away before everyone else got to.
Hopefully at least.

“
Definitely,” Dieter nodded with a wink. Then he stepped away
and into the living room.

“
Come on darling, the sooner we check in and let Daisy and
Honey see us in one piece, the better,” James said quietly. “The
sooner we get that out of the way the sooner you get a hot bubble
bath and a massage.”

“
Sounds good to me.” The sooner that they could all relax the
better. “And the alarm will be set and no one will get in, right?”
Penny hated to worry, but she did. She worried a great deal and
that bugged her to no end.

“
It’s already set,” Anton said as he came walking up to them.
“I’ve also got it wired a little differently so no opening any
doors or windows of any kind without doing a reset on that zone.
Right now, the system will all go ape shit even if you breathe on
them wrong.”

“
Sounds good, we’ll make sure that the windows aren’t opened.
What about our bedroom doors, we will be able to open and close
those without issue, right?” Because she wanted to go to bed,
wanted to spend some time with her men. “Or the basement?” Where
the workout room and sauna were.

“
Interior doors are wired differently. I get an alert on the
system and the cameras track and log who goes where. It’s only when
someone not identified in the system comes through that it sounds
off. So, as long as it’s not an exterior door or a window, you’re
good to run around playing your naked games.” Cracking a grin Anton
moved past whistling softly.

Penny snickered and shook her head. “I can’t wait to meet the
woman that brings him to his knees. He teases us about our naked
games but I bet he and his woman will be playing them
too”

“
I’d bet on it,” James said softly. “Come on and lets go see
what’s going on. Then I need to get some food, and so should you
before your bath.” Leaning in he kissed her softly before giving
her a light push towards the living room.

“
Sounds good to me.” Penny couldn’t wait for that moment. She
knew that it was silly but she couldn’t wait for the men to drop
one by one, or more than likely two by two. That was something that
would make her grin time and time again.

It took them a while but they eventually got out of there.
James sent her upstairs with Dieter while he headed into the
kitchen to get food and drinks. Dieter’s large hand was warm on her
spine as he walked down the hall with her to their room. “You okay
Penelope?” he asked in a quiet tone, his eyes intent on her
face.

“
Yeah, I’m good.” Penny turned and looked at him, leaning
against the wall and looking up at him. She pulled him closer, had
to. “I’m so upset because I put our family in danger. What if we
hadn’t been able to get here in time? There are so many what ifs
that I just.” She shook her head and leaned into him. “I hate this
feeling.” She was sure that Mik and Gareth were feeling it too,
hell they all were, but she was nearly falling apart and that just
simply was not her.

“
It’s not your fault Penny. If anyone is to blame it’s us for
ever agreeing to do the program and get the tech implant. It’s the
doctor’s fault for being greedy and corrupt. It’s the doctors fault
for injecting the nanotech without our permission. It’s the
military’s fault for not having better oversight on the project.
And, it’s those damned freaks out there that caused us to have to
do this in the first place. Your part in all this is very, very far
down the scale of where blame will fall love.”

“
You boys aren’t to be blamed for any of this. You were doing
what you were doing to simply be good, to be of service for your
country. Don’t you dare say that this was your fault.” She cupped
his cheek in her hand and leaned into him. “I love you Dieter, you
do know that, right?”

“
I know this very well, you tell me at least once a day and,
if I’m very lucky, sometimes as many as twelve times in a day.” He
smiled and leaned in to kiss her. “I love you as well Penelope.
But, back to my point. If you aren’t blaming us then why are you
blaming yourself?”

“
I have no idea.” Her words came out in a jumble. “I freaking
hate it too. I don’t know what the freak my deal is. I just hate
that these fuckers tried to take away our family. That they
violated our home. A place where we should always be safe. I’m
pissed more than anything.”

“
And you should be, because it is our home. But we stopped
them and sent them packaging. So don’t worry so much,” he smiled
again. “Come, let’s get you into the tub. You need to have a nice
long soak and then we can all climb into bed together.”

“
That sounds like heaven to me. I look forward to it.” She
couldn’t wait for it actually. To be able to be curled up against
him, to have him holding onto her and just relaxed and rested
because they were together. Penny had to grin through, packaging.
“I think you meant packing Dieter, not packaging.” She whispered
his slip up with a happy smile. “And James will join us later?” It
wasn’t so much a question as a reaffirmation of fact.

“
Of course he will, he’s bringing snacks,” Dieter grinned at
her. “Which is very good. We will need fuel to ensure we satisfy
you and your insatiable appetite for all things sexual. It’s a
tough job but someone, namely us, must do it and do it to the best
of our exceptional abilities.”

“
And you do have the most amazing of abilities. I happen to
love when you put those to use on me.” She licked her lips and
shuddered. “Goodness gravy when the two of you put your minds
together and attack me I swear it’s like I’m falling down a
blissful path that I never want to get up from.”

“
That is the best part of our evil plan. Keep you so sexually
satisfied that you won’t notice what else we might be doing.” He
pushed open the bedroom door and shot her a purely angelic smile.
“But don’t tell James I told you that part. I think he may have
told me not to tell you about it.”