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Jaden
Chapter Nine
... There are two catagories of men. Those who kill, and those who are killed. Two guesses which one I fall into...
... Karek ...
Mercenary. Demon. Si' Half Brother
Lia crept her eyes open as she became aware of shouts and thuds. Fluttering her eyelashes she tried to focus but everything looked so blurry…
Shaking her head slightly she felt a stabbing pain radiate through her head and she gasped at its intensity. What the hell?
There was so much pain and she was completely disorientated. All she wanted to do was close her eyes again and give into the dreamlike state she was in.
She felt like she had lead weights on each eye lid and trying to keep her eyes open was an immense struggle.
The longer she was conscious the more she started to notice how much her entire body pained her. Not just her head.
Blinking her eyes, she finally began to see things more clearly.
She could see red, glass and darkness. Blinking again she watched as something red slid down just before her. She was partially mesmerised by the flowing red line. Lower and lower it flowed. It meandered around a large crack in the glass and continued down, before it started to drip. Drip. Drip... she watched as the red dripped onto a dashboard...
Blood? Lia tried to pull herself up, but her arms wouldn't move.
Amalia slowly began to recall what had happened. She remembered screaming and hearing a deafening roar echo in reply. Seconds later she had felt a crushing weight... Jaden had wrapped his whole body around hers. He had been so heavy across her. His large arms clutching her to a chest that was warm to touch yet as hard as steel. She had been unable to look at him. Even as he had begged her to...
Instead she was transfixed by the tree. The immense width of it, as they had hurtled towards it. Closer and closer...
She could barely recalled him whispering that he would never let her be harmed, that she would live through this if it killed him.
If it killed him? Amalia gasped in large quantities of air, as she realised he hadn't been wearing a seat belt either. Panic began to fill her making her feel sick. He would have died on impact! Tears began to cloud her already blurred vision as she tried to turn her head to look around. She couldn't see him!
Jaden!
She wasn't even sure if she had screamed his name out loud or just into her mind.
Lifting her arm, she began to push herself up from the glass with more strength then she thought she possessed. Blinking, she put her forehead in her hands…
Where was Jaden?
Lia looked at the windshield, there was a huge hole… blood… cracked glass… had he gone through it!?
Lia tried to swallow, so she could breath more easily but her mouth felt so dry and yet she knew blood was there.
There was no way Jaden had survived...
Jaden had wrapped his body around Amalia's before he even knew he was doing it.
And the sheer terror he saw flashing in her eyes made him whisper to her in the old language.
His words elegant and flowing quickly over one another as he tried to sooth her. It may have only been seconds, but it had gone by so slowly, and the utter fear he had seen in her eyes would haunt him forever.
He had been thrown through the windshield, seconds before his back was crushed into the trunk of the tree, as he was whipped away from the vehicle, landing in a bloodied mess feet from the car.
Winded and barely able to breathe he had reached a state of pissed off he hadn't felt for centuries.
He could see blood pour down the windshield and he hoped it was only his own. He heard those bastards turn off their engine and casually get out their trunk. Their laughter and taunts sickened him.
They thought it was amusing to scare and attempt to kill an innocent woman? His innocent woman?
His snarl was one of pure blood lust. Nothing was going to stop him slaughtering these bastards. Nothing!
Karek slugged his huge body out of the passenger seat of the trunk. His back pained him from the jolt of the crash but he took great pleasure in imagining what the passengers in the car, currently wrapped around the tree, would have felt.
He grinned to himself as he pushed open the sliding door and pulled out the rifle. Guns weren't really his thing, too humanised for his liking. Personally he liked to get down and dirty with his kill, but he needed to take the woman alive.
Loading a tranquiliser into the barrel, he cranked the gun into place, and threw it casually over his shoulder.
Leaning into the trunk he grabbed a handful of red hair and yanked. With a growl of annoyance he watched as his half brother uncurled his long legs and got out of the trunk.
"Don't give me any lip, Si. Help kill the male, and then we are leaving. Understand?"
He watched as Si just sighed and looked out into the wood. He looked like he wanted to run away.
"Try it! Blood or not. I will hunt you down!" Karek snarled at the miserable waste of air that was his brother, and walked around the trunk, just as Johan jumped out of the driver's side.
He may have been the smallest demon Karek had ever seen, but his barely 5 foot 10 frame was full of aggression, as if he was trying to make up for being vertically challenge.
The permanent snarl on Johan's face was shadowed by the branches above them, but Karek knew it would be there. It was always there. As was the pure blood lust in Johan's red eyes.
Unlike other demons of their kind, Johan's eyes were permanently red, a signal of his eternal state of pissed.
Karek smirked... this was just too easy. And he had thought this was going to be difficult!
He knew the male known as Jaden was a strong bastard, but there was no way he was "the" Jaden.
He had heard the myths about him, and this wanna-be was not him! Crossing in front of the trunks headlights, Karek paused as he heard a roar... ? Cocking his head to the side he tried to discover the direction of the sound.
He heard Si gasp seconds before two glowing eyes ran at them out of the darkness...
Lia had established that Jaden was gone. Probably dead, somewhere between her car bonnet and the massive trunk of the tree dented into it. Gulping down air, she tried to ignore the sorrow that was drowning her.
All he had been trying to do was save her! Tears stung her wounds as she let them flow down her cheeks.
She needed to get away... she couldn't just wait here to die.
A gurgling sound came from behind her. She tried desperately to turn, but her neck was so stiff and sore she couldn't. Letting out a small sound of annoyance she tried to bodily turn around.
"Jaden?" She whispered, as she tried to manoeuvre herself to see. Amalia gasped and whipped her head around to the front of the car as a thundering crunch sounded on the bonnet. She froze in agony as her neck shot pain down her spine, moving too quickly was so not good, she thought as she finally managed to look to the bonnet of the car... and scream!
Lia desperately tried to open her door, but it seemed stuck. Not now! Not now! She yelled to herself, as she frantically shoved on the metal between her and freedom.
"Move!" She yelled as she shoved her entire body into the door, and tried desperately to ignore the decapitated body currently spayed over her bonnet.
The blood! Dear God! It was everywhere...
With a finally shove and a curse the door began to creep open. "Yes!" She said as she scrunched up her face with the effort to move the door even an inch.
Those men must be here... must be killing...
Lia shook her head before hysteria made her crazed, and once more shoved her entire weight into the door. The door swung open, taking her with it, seconds before the body spayed over her bonnet... disintegrated?
She watched in morbid horror as the corpse turned to ash... Shaking her head at the insanity of the sight, she decided to run... run fast and hard.
Clambering to her feet, took several attempts, her knees were badly bruised and she could barely feel the rest of her leg from the knee up.
Scrambled in the mud and leaves she dug her nails into the ground and finally managed to pull her body off the ground. She didn't even look back as she ran...
Jaden had no idea what he was doing.
He was drowning in a blood red haze that swallowed his vision, and made him the deadly killer he had been born to be. Ripping, bleeding, biting, punching... he didn't know how many he had killed, or how... he was just moving with a fluid grace, as stealthily as a vicious weapon, getting rid of Amalia's enemies.
His enemies, he corrected himself... the demons must be after him?
A scream returned Jaden to the present. Blinking wildly he saw a demon was under his bloodied hands. Red hair haloing around the head of a young half breed demon. His eyes wide with fear and mercy.
Ignoring his captive, Jaden turned and saw a body spayed over the bonnet. Had he done that? Probably...
The scream was feminine. Amalia... her name was like a talisman bringing him back to sanity.
Loosening his grip on the boy he looked around. He saw very little blood, but he could smell it.
The darkness of night could shadow his crimes but he could smell the evidence of them. He watched as Lia fought with the door, before falling onto the leave strewn floor, crawling at the ground for freedom.
What had he done? Too focused on death, he had forgotten to get her to safety. Shit!
He was bad at this protection thing! Grinding his teeth at his own failure, he looked down at the boy who was trembling in his embrace.
"Leave this place" he grated as he got to his feet and watched as Lia began to run.
The demon within the man liked that she was running away from him. It meant he would have to hunt her down.
That thought sent an unexpected jolt of pleasure through his body.
He could imagine catching her, dragging her to the floor, covering her small frame with his... He growled in pleasure, as he left the boy on the ground and began running to catch his female.
Si shivered on the ground, grasping at his bruised neck as he looked around... his brother and accomplish were dead.
He knew that. He had watched the multi color eyed devil destroy them.
Beheading one, and the Gods only knew what he did with Karek.
Si wept.
Not for missing either of the dead, but because it now meant he was free... completely free.
At last!
Lia ran as fast as she was able, her feet sliding occasionally on wet ground.
She didn't know it, but tears were streaming down her face.
She hated being alone.
And right now she would give anything to have Jaden running at her side. Away from danger.
But he was dead, and she was alone in the dark...
Lia rubbed angrily at her face as she tried to keep her vision from being blurry. Her breath was hiccupping with her fear, and she could barely catch enough air to keep herself moving forward.
Each step sent a vibration up her thigh. It was painful to keep running, but she knew she had to. Another step; more pain.
She gasped as she slid once more, barely keeping her balance. And that was when she heard it... pounding.
Someone was following her...
Jaden raced after Lia, hating that each step was paining her. He could tell, her sobs told him so, and the salt of her tears were carried to him on the breeze.
Picking up his pace, he ran for her, faster and faster, he didn't care if the boy decided to follow him. He would kill him if he was foolish enough to try anything.
He only cared that Lia had to stop crying.
His chest was hurting with the thought of it, a wound he was unable to heal. He guessed it was because he needed her to gain his freedom, although he was no longer believing himself.
He hadn't fought because he wanted to protect his key, he had fought to protect Amalia. Just Amalia. Not for what she could do for him. But because he didn't want harm to come to her.
Jaden sprang forward, catching Lia unprepared around her slim waist. He heard her scream of fear as he took them to the solid ground. Rolling to the side instantly so she didn't take the impact. Flipping her beneath him, he quelled her fighting hands by pinning them beneath his elbows, as he cupped her face.
"Look at me, Amalia" He whispered as he surveyed her body for injury. A cut was evident on her forehead and lip, but he could see no others. He watched the red liquid, slip over the plump lusciousness of her bottom lip, and leant down to lick at the offering...
Lia gasped as a tongue licked erotically over her lip. Had she heard Jaden's voice?
Lia prayed it was his body she was trapped beneath.
Creeping her eyes open, she watched as he pulled back and closed his eyes on a sensual growl. Her heart nearly jumped out of her chest as she saw he lived.
Jaden couldn't have imaged a more perfect taste. She was warm and so incredibly sweet. Her blood flowed over his tongue like cotton candy, sweet and silky, sending shivers through his entire body. More...
Jaden felt his incisors grow, and eyed her exposed neck. He was about to strike when a dazzlingly smile spread across her mudded and bloodied face. What the hell? Was his last coherent thought before her arms laced around his neck.
Jaden was in shock as she held him to her.
Her sweet smile pressed against his cheek, as she whispered such sweet words... he could barely keep track of them. But he knew she had been worried about him, feared he was dead, and could he hope she had whispered she had missed him?
Jaden was speechless, but he finally returned to reality as he clutched her closer to him, and rolled onto his back so she was spread over his chest. He didn't care about the mud and leaves beneath them, or the branches blocking out all light. He only cared that he had kept this woman safe, and she was... thanking him?
He watched breathlessly as she straddled his hips.
He hissed as she met his sex, and he instantly reacted to her weight.
Gods, she was breathless in the lines of moonlight showing between the branches. Like a pagan goddess her hair was strewn with leaves, and her eyes flashed with passionate emotion. How he wanted her!
Motionless, in case she lost her nerve her watched as her small meandered up his chest, over his pounding heart to his face.
Her gentle touch seared him, and he arched his back, wanting his body closer to hers.
With a loud smack, Jaden's jaw feel open. What the ...! She had slapped him?
He growled up at her, as she placed her fists on her hips and glared at him.
"What the hell was that for?" He didn't add on "You crazy woman!" As that would more than likely get him another slap.
"For scaring me! I thought you had died!"
"So now you know I'm not, your going to finish me off?"
He watched as she blushed and shook her head. Her dark mahogany curls bouncing around her pale face. "You just... worried me"
All the anger drained out of him like a pin to a balloon. She looked so lost and in pain...
The pain in his chest came back just as strong as before... what was that?
Flipping her onto her back, he shoved himself between her thighs, and watched her gasp at the hard heat that came against her.
"I'm still waiting for that apology" He purred as he rubbed his whiskered jaw across her neck.
"You're going to be waiting a long time" She muttered... her mouth was open and he knew she was aroused. Her breathing was fast and heavy, and her body was so submissive beneath his.
Oh the Gods, how he wished they were in a hotel somewhere. He didn't want to take her like this. In mud and in public. What he wanted to do to her didn't require an audience... plus she deserved more than this...
Jaden continued to rub his cheek over her skin, loving the softness he found. How different she was to him.
Licking sensually up her throat he felt his hunger rise... he needed to stop... stop right now...
"That's a good idea..." He heard her whisper... Damn it! He mentally cursed... he wished she wanted him as much as he did her. But he guessed that was all part of the challenge... but how he wished, she wanted him... all that passion within her directed at him sexually instead of in anger.
He sighed as he pushed his body off of hers, and helped her to her feet.
He should probably take them to a hotel. He knew one was nearby he had seen the signs back on the main road, and thankfully his wallet was in his pocket not his jacket which was ... somewhere. Jaden frowned... When had he lost his jacket?
He held her mudded hand as he walked them in the direction he thought the hotel might be in...
He had been walking for half an hour before he realised he had never suggested stopping out loud...
Had she read his mind?
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