Chapter: I Will Have You

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Two stood amongst the doorway of the kitchen to the dining room where a woman sat with a proper air hovering around her.

"Tell me again how she came about?"

"She appeared when James was paying back his father's debt to people. She announced that she was the wife of his father." Brace explained with his arms crossed over his chest.

"So this woman is technically James's stepmother."

"Yes."

"And now she will be living here?"

"Yes. She's supposedly the co-owner."

"Lovely." Nayla mumbled as she continue to stare at the woman.

The red headed woman known as Lorna Bow, or rather, Lorna Delaney, sat at the dining room table where she was enjoying her breakfast that Brace cooked up. She appeared two days ago, announcing that she owned the Chamber House too. A woman with a stubborn personality and went headstrong against anyone. Both James and Nayla were waiting for Brace to take a knife to Lorna as the older man found Lorna annoying.

Speaking of James, Nayla left Brace, who will be continuing to keep an eye on Mrs. Delaney. Nayla stepped out into the hallway to come into the foyer where she stood. She felt the air shift to a familiar heavy feeling. The front door then open to show James stepping in, his eyes immediately rested on Nayla.

Since a few days ago with him sending her an arousing dream and the kiss she shared with him, the two have been keeping their distance from each other. But their eyes always met to hold raging emotions. They both knew that if one of them made any sort of move toward the other, they will break apart.

The two did not know if it will be a good or bad thing to simply let go of their release their pent up emotions to see what the outcome will be. Instead, they tiptoed around each other and continue to let their emotions build.

Hand on the staircase banister, Nayla began to make her journey up the stairs. She does glance over her shoulder down at James one last time to watch him slowly pull his top hat off while staring after her. Facing forward, Nayla continue climbing up the stairs until she came onto the second floor to make way to her bedroom.

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James ignored Lorna as she tried to talk to him about her living in the Chamber House now. He reach in the centerpiece bowl on the dining room table to pluck an apple out of the bowl. Wiping the apple against his shirt, James brought it up to his lips to take a large bite out of the fruit.

When Lorna stepped closer to him to talk again, James walked right by her. Brace stood off to the side, amused by James not speaking with Lorna. It was clear that James was not in the mood for any conversation as he left the room to head upstairs.

The door to Nayla's bedroom was open. James came to stand in the doorway of the bedroom, leaning his left shoulder against the doorframe to stare at Nayla sitting on her bedroom floor. He observed Nayla as she was using a wet stone to sharpen her tomahawk.

"Can I help you?"

"Have you ever used that before?"

Nayla paused in sharpening to look up at James with a single raised eyebrow. She laid the tomahawk across her lap while tilting her head to the side where her eyes ran over James before her eyes made contact with his. She caught the way James narrowed his eyes then relax them as he continue to intensely stare at her.

"Yes."

"Are you good?"

The tomahawk slammed in the doorframe that James leaned against. Slowly, James stood up straight to turn his head to stare at the embedded tomahawk in the doorframe then turn to stare at Nayla. He tilt his head back as Nayla was before him, staring up at him while reaching up with her right hand to grasp the handle of the tomahawk.

"Answer your question?"

A small 'hmp' escaped from James. He stepped closer to Nayla, sliding his right foot between her feet. His head tilted down to stare down in her eyes that was tilted back to stare up at him.

"You missed." James lowly told her.

The distance between the two was beginning to disappear. The tip of their noses stroke against each other.

"Didn't want to hurt your handsome face, James."

"Oh. Do be careful with your words, Nayla. You might make me blush."

A small snort escaped her causing James to smirk. His eyes flicker down as he felt Nayla body press against his body. The warmth of her breath brushes against his own. James felt his hands flex on his sides as he was preparing to grab Nayla in a constrictive hold against his body if she makes the first move.

"James! James! I need to talk to you."

Nayla slid away from James to go back to sitting on the bedroom floor. She resume in sharpening her tomahawk blade.

Frozen and tense in his spot, not understanding what had happened until Lorna appeared in the hallway, James hands turn into fists on his sides. His intense stormy blue eyes stayed on Nayla. Nayla gave him a quick look with a twinkle in her pale green eyes then she was working back on her tomahawk.

James felt his teeth grind against each other as he was but a hair away from taking action to consume Nayla into his hold. So very close, but the new Mrs. Delaney, his stepmother interrupted his moment to strike down upon Nayla in a burning desire.

"What?" James whirled away from staring at Nayla to step into the hallway where Lorna stood at the top of the staircase.

The door behind James clicked behind him causing James to glance over his right shoulder to see that Nayla shut her bedroom door. It was clear that he will not be allowed back in. His opportunity was a miss and he felt himself resisting from charging Lorna and to lock her away somewhere in the Chamber House, away from him.

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It was nighttime and Nayla was reading a book in bed when James barged into her bedroom. She shut the book to stare at him with questionable eyes upon his sudden appearance.

"Come check Mrs. Delaney over."

Nayla threw the blankets off of her to slide out of bed and she pulled on a robe before moving by James to head downstairs to the sitting room. Brace stood off to the side while Lorna sat in an armchair by the fireplace, clenching her cloak around her.

"What happened?"

"She went out. Got attacked by a rich man who wanted her in a certain manner." James stood aside.

James watched as Nayla softly talked with Lorna in a low tone that Brace and he could not hear. He stood back as Nayla manage to get Lorna to break out of her state of shock to talk to Nayla about any injuries on her body.

When Nayla stood up, she came over to James where she rested her right hand on his arm. She turn her head to stare up at him.

"Bruises from when the man grabbed her. Other than that, she said she wants time to herself to think. Let us give her some peace." Nayla softly said while her eyes shot over Brace as the comment was meant for all of them.

Sliding her hand off of James arm, Nayla left the sitting room to head back up to her bedroom. The sound of boots following her made Nayla to know that James was right there. She entered her bedroom, but she did not shut the door as James followed her right in, shutting the bedroom door behind him.

"Can you make salve for her tomorrow?"

"Yes. To reduce swelling and the bruising." Nayla told him as she slid the robe off her body to throw on top of the chest at the end of the bed.

Nayla stepped to her bed to pick up the book that she threw on top of the blankets and set the book on the nightstand on the side of bed. She pulled the sheets back, but she stopped herself from getting into the bed. Her eyes came to rest on James as he watched her.

"What else do you want, James?"

"Many things."

"Don't we all." Nayla sighed as she sat herself down on the edge of the bed.

Nayla rest her hands on her sides as she kept her eyes on James as he began to take steps closer to her. Her eyes narrow as James crept closer and closer until the front of his thighs brushed against her knees.

"What are your thoughts on your stepmother?"

"I wish to not think that she is." James roughly murmured underneath his breath while reaching up with his right hand to brush strands of her hair away from her face.

"Will she get in trouble for her actions tonight?"

"Likely so." James replied as he dropped his hand away from her hair to brush against the side of her neck.

Pale green eyes darken at the tingling sensation of James fingertips trailing down her neck and down to her collarbones. His right hand came to settle against the center of her chest. He pressed his palm against her chest, his fingers spreading out.

Silence hung between them. James was feeling her heartbeat beating normally, not speeding up even as he touched and stood very close to her. He could tell that Nayla could control her emotions when she needed to.

A gentle shove against the chest caused Nayla to fall back onto the bed. Her eyes shut as she felt James right hand that was on her chest, began to slide down the front of her nightgown with no shyness. Pressure from the hand caused her to flex her body underneath his hand, feeling it trail down her stomach and continue its path downward.

Nayla open her eyes when she felt James hand came to a stop on her upper thigh and the edge of the bed sinking. The sight of James placing a knee on the bed as he came to hover over her with his left hand pressed beside her shoulders.

"What do you want, Nayla?" James asked her the question she had asked him earlier.

Without the coat on, James shirt hung down to show his chest illustrated with thick dark tattoos. The stormy blue eyes of James appeared to have a storm within them. Raging waves crashing down onto her, sucking her in and wrapping all around her body. Nayla felt herself sinking into his touches.

"Many things." Nayla smoothly repeated his answer from her question.

"Hmp." James got a small smirk.

The hand on Nayla's thigh flexed then grabbed a good bunch of her nightgown to slowly drag upwards. Cold air of the bedroom licked against the bare skin that began to show. A rough hand touched her thigh, sending a shiver throughout Nayla's body.

"What do you think that you are doing, James?"

James bent his upper body over her to hover his face over her face. They stared at one another for a few seconds before James lowered his head to brush his lips against her right ear.

"Mine."

One word brought a tingling sensation to spread throughout Nayla's body. The feeling then went straight down to one area that James right hand was hovering close by. A shaky exhale escaped from her lips. It amazed Nayla that one man could make her body erupt with warmth and sensitivity.

Sound of boots coming down the hallway made James to growl against Nayla's throat. He pressed his mouth just underneath her ear while giving her thigh a squeeze before pulling back. James kept his face very close to hers as he stared at her with a dead serious expression.

"When they aren't around, I am going to have you."

"James…"

"I am going to have you. I wish not to repeat myself."

Nayla open her mouth to give him a snarky comment on commanding her, but she shut her mouth as his face came closer to her own. It felt as if his eyes were staring straight through her. The burning of wanting bubble in the bottom of her stomach. By staring into James eyes, Nayla could see how much he was holding himself back from taking her right here and now.

"Yes."

Instead of a reply back from James, he brought both his hands up to cup either side of her face and his forehead rested against her own.

"I warned you about me."

"And I told you that I know how dangerous you could be. But so can I." Nayla whispered with narrowed pale green eyes.

The hands cupping either side of her face flexed then tugged her a small bit forward. The chap lips of James were harsh, but he lighten up as he felt Nayla's hands come up to circle around his wrists.

The voice of Brace calling for James got closer to the bedroom.

James pulled away from Nayla, staring at her then he was gone out of her bedroom in two strides. The bedroom door shut behind him.

Perch on the edge of the bed, breathing a little bit heavier than usual, Nayla stared at the bedroom door with wide eyes. She licked her lips, tasting the alcohol that James must've had today.

The burning sensation continue to grow in her lower regions as she thought about James promise.

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