Touching Rune (16 page)

They were almost half way through the almost thirty hour return trip to Moscow. Both Sergei and Dimitri had worked on several different issues, held additional meetings with their Singapore and Munich staff while Rune had watched movies and read. It was late in the evening when they sat down to a delicious dinner of steak, seafood and fresh steamed vegetables. Rune decided there were several things that she really loved about this century besides Sergei and Dimitri. Some of them were the food, the wall glass that showed pictures, the comfort of travel, and her personal favorite, the bathroom.

“I think I’ll go take a shower and lay down for a while,” Rune murmured, setting down her wine glass.

“Are you in pain?” Sergei asked, searching her face. “Did you take your pain medication?”

Rune glanced at him and shook her head. “My side is not hurting,” she replied. “I do not like to take the medication. It makes my head feel funny,” she added, standing up.

“You can take an over-the-counter one,” Dimitri suggested. “They are not as strong and will not cause you to have the same reaction.”

Rune smiled tenderly down at Dimitri. “I am fine. I am not hurting,” she reassured him before brushing a light kiss over his lips. “Finish your wine. I know you both have a lot of work to do. I am just a little tired and will rest for a bit.”

“Rune,” Sergei said, rising out of his seat and walking over to her when she turned to leave.

She turned back and looked at him with a closed expression. She had meant what she said earlier. She would not accept being his rebound. She may not be able to claim him for long term but she could for the few days she had left.

“I meant what I said, Sergei,” she said quietly looking up at him. “I will not be used or play second to any woman.”

Sergei threaded his fingers through her long hair and pulled her closer. He stared intently down into her brown eyes. He felt like he could easily drown in the dark pools of emotion held within them.

“You are such a beautiful woman,” he said softly. “You have a strength that I admire.
Your compassion for others is endless. You could have turned your back on those who have needed you but you fought for those less fortunate with no thought of the toll it would take on you,” he whispered, taking a step closer to her and cupping her chin with his left hand. “I could never use you and you are far too vibrant to ever play second to any other female.”

Rune stared up at him with a skeptical look on her face. “You aren’t just saying this to get on my good side, are you?” She asked suspiciously.

Dimitri chuckled and rose from his seat. He moved to stand behind her. Bending, he brushed a light kiss along her neck before he looked over her shoulder at Sergei .

“She has been watching far too much television,” Dimitri whispered. “Go get your shower. We will be in shortly.”

“You will?” Rune asked with a raised eyebrow, staring intently at Sergei. “Or both of you will?”

“Both,” Sergei said roughly, pulling her closer. “I meant what I told you before, Rune.
We have claimed you.”

Rune placed her fingers against his lips when he bent to kiss her. “Just remember, you aren’t the only one doing the claiming. And I meant what
I
said. You will not kiss me until you have brushed that ‘nasty-ass’ woman’s mouth from your own,” she stated before she turned and walked out of the small dining area.

Sergei’s eyes flashed with desire and humor as he watched Rune toss her hair defiantly over her shoulder. A slow smile curled the corner of his mouth as he watched her. Fire ran through him as he thought of taking her from behind. He wanted her.

“That look will get you into trouble, my friend,” Dimitri said, looking at Sergei.

“She said she was feeling creative,” Sergei murmured under his breath.

Dimitri’s eyes flashed hotly at the dark tone in Sergei’s voice. His friend was looking for a fight. A passionate, no holds-bar passion-filled fight. Rune had awoken the sleeping dragon inside Sergei.

“You love her,” Dimitri stated with a knowing gleam in his eyes.

“Yes,” Sergei replied. “Yes, I love her. I don’t care what she believes. I will not let her go. She said all she wanted was to be loved and to have a family.”

“We will give her both,” Dimitri replied with satisfaction.

“Да, мы дадим ей то и другое,”
Yes, we will give her both.
Sergei replied. “Starting now.”

*.*.*

Rune leaned her head against the wall of the shower and closed her eyes as the hot water pour over her. She had covered her head in a shower cap to keep her hair dry and she had a waterproof bandage on her side to cover her wound. Judy had slipped a couple into her bag before she was discharged when she asked how she was to take a shower without getting her stitches wet.

“Are you alright?” Sergei asked huskily.

Rune opened her eyes and stared at him. “What are you doing in here? I thought you had meetings or such to do,” she replied.

“Someone said I needed to brush my teeth,” Sergei responded with a glimmer of amusement in his eyes. “I thought I’d better take care of that if the only woman I want was going to let me kiss her again.”

“Am I?” Rune asked softly, studying his face intently. “The only woman you want?”

“Yes,” Sergei replied, holding her gaze with his own so that she could see the truth in them.

Rune stared at him for several long moments before a satisfied smile curled her lips. She reached out her damp fingers and ran it along the scar running under his eye down to his lips. She tenderly caressed his lips with her thumb.

“I love you, Sergei,” she whispered. “Never have I felt the emotions that I feel for you and for Dimitri. You have the power to break my heart. I am not sure I like that.”

“Rune,” he whispered. “Finish your shower. I swear I am having a larger one installed so the next time we travel Dimitri and I can join you.”

Rune smiled sadly. “I would like that,” she said, knowing she wouldn’t be around to enjoy it.

She
turned off the shower and reached for a towel. She found Sergei had beaten her to it. He gently dried her face and neck before he moved down the rest of her. She watched him in the mirror as he knelt down in front of her. She briefly closed her eyes as a sharp pain of need rushed through her.

“Turn around and I’ll dry your back,” he said in a low husky voice filled with need.

Rune turned so she was facing the closed shower door. She raised her arms up as he moved up her body and gripped the top of the glass door. Her breath fogged the glass as he continued to dry her.

“Sergei,” she moaned softly.

“You saved my life,” he murmured as he carefully dried around the bandage on her side. He pressed his lips along the edge of it. “If you had not pushed me to the side, the bullet would have killed me.”

“You don’t know that,” she said quietly.

“Yes, I do. Pierre found it embedded the side of the limousine,” Sergei replied as he carefully dried her back. He pulled the damp shower cap from her hair and tossed it next to the sink behind him. “It was in the report he sent to us.”

Rune turned to look up into his eyes. “I don’t want you to come to me because you feel gratitude, Sergei. I want you to come to me because I am the woman you want.”

“You are the woman I care about,” Sergei whispered, brushing her hair back before letting his hand slide down her arm. “What I feel for you has nothing to do with gratitude.”

“Brush your teeth, Sergei,” Rune whispered reaching up and brushing a kiss along his jaw. “I will be waiting for you in the other room.”

Rune took the towel out of his hand and wrapped it around her. She paused at the door to smile back at him. Something had changed in him. She wasn’t sure what it was but something was different. She turned back to walk into the bedroom. It was hard to believe they were on a metal flying machine and not back at their home in Moscow. If it had not been for the vibration she could have believed they were on the ground.

She pulled the towel from around her and draped it across the chair. She was leaning over the bed to pull the covers back when she felt a warm hand slide up over the curve of her ass. A smile pulled at her lips.

“Dimitri,” she said before looking over her shoulder at the smooth broad chest. “You took a shower?”

Dimitri ran his hand back and forth over the smooth skin. “There is a smaller guest cabin next to this one.”

Rune moaned as he ran his hand around her to cup her right breast. The slight roughness of the callouses felt good as he moved his hand across her skin. She bowed her head as he pulled her back against his body.

“How are you feeling?” Dimitri asked quietly. “We will just hold you if you are too tired or hurting.”

“I’m hurting,” Rune replied with a teasing smile. “But it has nothing to do with being shot. I hurt for you and Sergei.” The smile died as her eyes darkened. “I was so frightened I would lose one or both of you.”

“Rune,” Dimitri moaned as he pulled her around and into his arms. “When I saw the blood on you… never do I want to experience that type of fear again.”

Rune stood pressed against him, her bare breasts crushed against his smooth chest. He was wearing only a pair of black sweatpants that hung low on his hips. Her hands moved down until she could slip her fingers under the waistband and run her short nails along the cheeks of his ass.

“Kiss me, Dimitri,” Rune whispered. “I want you and Sergei to take away the fear. I need you both to love me like you will never let me go.”

“We won’t,” Sergei said, standing in the doorway. “Dimitri, kiss her. Show her that she belongs to us.”

Dimitri cupped Rune’s face between his hands and a determined glint darkened his blue eyes. He slowly bent forward until his lips were a hairs-breath from her own. A low moan was pulled from him when Rune squeezed the cheeks of his ass to pull him closer as her eyes dropped to his lips.

“Sometimes I will do what Sergei says when we make love, sometimes he will do what I say. Tonight, I want us both to take you,” Dimitri murmured before he captured her lips.

Rune didn’t have a chance to ask him what he meant. Her hands gripped him tightly as he pressed her lips apart and kissed her deeply. Their tongues battled for dominance as the fire between them burst into an inferno of need fueled by desire and fear.

She started and a shiver raced through her when she felt another set of arms around her. She pushed down desperately on the sweatpants that Dimitri was wearing at the same time as she pushed back against the front of Sergei. His hard length brushed against her ass and she gasped when he ran his hand over it before lightly smacking it.

“Sergei!” She pulled just far enough away to cry out his name.

“Kiss me, Rune,” Sergei said turning her in his arms. “Kiss me,
мой красивый ангел
.”

Rune lifted her face and pressed her lips to his in a fierce, possessive kiss that told him he belonged to her. For as long as she was with them, she would be the only woman they
would want, desire or need. She sucked on his tongue the same way she had sucked on his cock. The low groan was answer enough that he remembered the feel of her lips wrapped around him.

“Sergei, she is on fire,” Dimitri said running his hands over her ass. “Spread her on the bed. I want to taste her.”

“Get her ready for me, Dimitri,” Sergei said looking down into Rune’s desire laden eyes. “Tonight she will take us both.”

“Sergei,” Rune whimpered.

Sergei pulled her away and gently lowered her down onto the king-sized bed. Rune laid back against the pillows, her hair fanning out around her in an erotic picture of aroused wanton desire. Dimitri parted her legs while Sergei climbed beside her, bending over her so he could claim her taut nipple in his mouth. Shockwaves of sensation swept through her as Sergei’s hot lips captured her sensitive nipple at the same time as Dimitri’s hot mouth covered her mound. A soft cry exploded from her at the double attack on her body.

“
Thor pust!”
Thor’s breath!
Rune cried out in her own language. “You will kill me with pleasure.”

Sergei pulled back and looked down at Dimitri who was holding Rune’s soft lips apart so he could suckle on the small nub of her womanhood. Dimitri glanced up and the look in his eyes promised that she would be screaming much more before he was done. Sergei turned his attention back to Rune’s other nipple at the same time as she wound her right hand around his throbbing cock.

“Сын-из сукин!”
Son-of-a-bitch!
Sergei grunted out harshly as she began stroking him in her fisted palm. “Get her ready, Dimitri. She is gripping me and pumping me hard.”

Dimitri broke away long enough to growl out his own demands. “Too bad, I am enjoying m
yself.”

Rune thrashed back and forth when he bent down again. Her body trembled as he lapped at her clit. The combination of having two hot mouths pleasuring her while she was stroking Sergei’s thick, long length was too much for her. When Dimitri pushed his fingers deep into her slick channel, she exploded with a loud cry.