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Ghost5: Please forgive my grammar it's very bad
ANGEL OF DARKNESS
CHAPTER THREE: THE LAIR
"Welcome to my lair" Kai uncoiled himself from his inexpressibly relaxed lounging stance against the French windows; he strolled to the foot of the bed.
Ray thought he was possibly in some realistic nightmare, he sat ridged up against the carved wooden headboard and simply gaped for a moment at his captain; Kai looked good even in a nightmare wearing a pair of smart trousers and shirt, and not wearing his usual war paint.
He wasn't real; Kai would never think of looking like that, he couldn't be real.
"Did I wake you too soon?" he drawled in a tone that sent responsive shivers down Ray's back.
"I can change that. And from where I'm standing I'm very well satisfied," he added
Kai was leaning against the footboard, lustrous burgundy eyes wandering over every exposed inch of flesh.
"I was expecting to be just a tiny bit disappointed, but I'm not, you're more athletic than you used to be, not that I'm complaining" he complimented
"What are you doing here?" Ray asked
"You're in a private house, it belongs to me," Kai said
"You're house? What the hell am I staying here for?" he demanded
"I brought you here" Kai said softly "It was incredibly easy"
"You brought me here for what?" Ray snapped
"Whatever I want," Kai said with dulcet emphasis
Ray's head was swimming with a mess of utterly bewildered thoughts, why had Kai brought him to Tuscany? Why was Kai looking at him as if he was starving for something to eat? Kai had never looked at him like that before, what on earth was going on?
"You really are an incredible creature," Kai murmured in a thickened undertone.
"And if you stay in that bed much longer, I'm likely to join you"
"You brought me all the way to Italy for reasons you won't tell me, when all I wanted was to go home" Ray moaned
"Like to see you try, I have your passport and what little money you have" Kai remarked silkily
"You have my passport and money?" Ray repeated
"Poor Ray was it really me who reduced you down to this, or was it Enrique? By the looks of it most rich people seem to be real taken with you, what you need is a rich patron who'll give everything you want and never question the bills" Kai murmured with soft smooth delivery of a devil's advocate.
"I'm very generous with my money and my lovers…I've never had to buy anyone before and would never have thought of buying my own team mate. But the more I look at you in that bed and contemplate total possession and title I see your investment potential"
"I don't know you like this" Ray confided
Kay smirked at the comment.
"There's a lot you and others don't know about me, and there's a lot I don't want you to know" he explained
"Why did you bring me here Kai?" Ray asked again
"Why?" Glittering wine coloured eyes slid over the jet-black torrent of hair.
"Are you really that dumb? Three months ago you virtually destroyed me"
"I…I did what?" Ray was shocked and caught unprepared for that attack.
"The only guy ever to put one over on me is just a few months younger than me" Kai spelt out
"You knew exactly what you were doing that night"
"I didn't," Ray protested
Icy dark eyes held distressed golden ones with force of will.
"You waited till I left so you could get your claws into Enrique, you hadn't planned on me coming back did you? So that night you were probably waiting for me to see you so you could shut me up by kissing me" Kai said almost pleased about it
"It wasn't like that," Ray argued
"What? You going to claim rape now?" Kai asked raising an eyebrow
Ray closed his mouth and thought it best not to speak, he lowered his head; Kai through his head back and laughed with sardonic amusement.
"Ray, this is Kai you're talking to, Enrique had you up against the wall and you didn't seem to mind, then when I went to see you, you weren't exactly wearing much and were more than ready for a lot more than kissing, up until that night I hated the fact that I wanted you"
"W-wanted me?" Ray's full attention now pinned to Kai.
"God Ray you're like a thorn sinking deeper and deeper into my skin" Kai angled a terrifying cold smile over him.
"Come on Ray you knew that I wanted you that night, I've often wondered how it would have gone if I hadn't found you and Enrique that night, that really was careless, there have been times when I've wanted nothing more than to get you flat on your back in the nearest available bed" he said a little firmly
"And I've come close to damn near doing it" he added calmly
"Close?" Ray repeated
"I will never forget that image of you and Enrique, but I'm going to make you forget him" Kai swore in a sizzling undertone that purred along his sensitive nerve-endings like bittersweet chocolate, inflaming him in all sorts of intimate places.
Ray couldn't take his eyes off Kai.
"I have had three long months to think about how I intend to entertain you" Kai savoured his unrestrained pleasure.
"I knew that this moment would come," he added he produced a small box and tossed it onto the bed.
"Present for you…I bought them"
Ray's long luxuriant lashes lifted and dropped again as he opened the box to discover a pair of black fingerless gloves with the ying and yang symbol on them; Kai laughed softly, lazily with immense satisfaction; rampantly amused by Ray's dazed state.
He strolled round to the side of Ray's bed and sank down on the edge; Ray felt the cool touch of Kai's fingers above the veins on his wrist, Kai put them on him.
"Not bad fit," he commented still holding Ray's wrist; he pulled Ray closer and pressed his mouth hungrily and agonisingly to an incredibly sensitive spot on his neck.
"Tonight" Kai breathed huskily and vaulted gracefully upright again.
"I'll see you at breakfast in an hour" he added before leaving.
Ray sat down and went over the situation, he was in Tuscany with Kai, Kai had been lusting after him for months and was prepared to give him everything he could want; Kai was expecting Ray to obey his demands.
When Kai touched him it was like coming alive in paradise, Kai had openly admitted that he would have got Ray flat on his back just to satisfy his hunger; but then again Ray would have loved nothing more than to do the same to Kai once, up until that night.
Ray had a shower before getting dressed, he found Kai in an inner courtyard.
"I want my passport back," he demanded
"Is that what you really want, or are you afraid you might enjoy it here?" Kai asked smoothly
Ray didn't answer it would be a waste of time, and secretly he didn't want to leave he had got his secretive captain on his own and to himself.
"I want my passport," he demanded again
"No" came his answer as Kai sat back drinking his tea.
"You can't do that!" Ray spat
"I never threat what I can't deliver, think about it… you return to China and tell the White Tigers and the rest of our team what?" Kai asked smirking
"I was lured out here by you" he answered
"Who would believe such a thing of me?" Kai asked interested "I, Kai Hiwatari would go to such lengths to trap my own team mate, in my own house no less" he added with silky emphasis
Ray sat down and began to eat quietly; like it or not Kai had got him trapped, and no doubt Kai would probably enjoy wielding power over him.
Kai couldn't force Ray to do anything he didn't want to do, even Kai knew that; Ray decided to take a tour of the house while Kai had a matter to attend to, he paused in the doorway of a grand oak panelled room that was probably Kai's office, Ray smiled at the thought of him sat behind the polished desk working.
"You look pleased with yourself"
Ray spun round too quickly almost falling over, long white fingers curved round his forearms to steady him.
"You can let me go now, I'm not going to fall at your feet" Ray said calmly
"Ever?" lustrous red wine eyes challenged him with assurance. "Don't be so sure Ray"
Ray pulled back his body trembled, a slow sensual smile tilted Kai's mouth but surprisingly he said nothing.
"Would you like to go out to lunch?" he asked
"I guess" Ray replied shrugging his shoulders.
He followed his captor outside to the driveway.
"What do you think?" Kai asked getting into a sporty lime green Jaguar
"That can't be yours" Ray exclaimed
"It was the last time I drove it," he replied before starting her up and driving off.
"When did you learn how to drive?" Ray asked interested
"When I was fourteen, I was only allowed to drive round my grandfather's estates," he replied shifting up a gear.
Kai took Ray to a sleepy village on a hill, the restaurant was formerly a monastery; they chose to dine outside under the shade of a chestnut tree, Ray accepted a glass of water and stood by the wall taking in the view of the wooded valley far below.
"I didn't know you drank wine" Ray said astonished gesturing to his glass filled with red wine.
Kai shrugged and took a sip.
"I know you don't drink alcohol," he murmured
They sat down and ordered their food.
"It's wonderfully peaceful up here" Ray commented
"I agree" Kai mumbled
There were a couple of momentary pauses.
"Tell me Ray, what made you go to Max's party?" Kai asked before tucking into his meal.
"Mariah and Lee" he moaned
"I see," Kai nodded
Ray was beginning to feel curious, why had Kai gone to Max's party?
"Why did you go? Parties aren't your scene" Ray asked
"I couldn't let Max down could I? It would probably have killed me to see him so heartbroken" Kai answered finishing his meal.
Ray smiled did Kai really have a soft side?
"I think it's time to go," he added after another clumsy silence.
Kai's eyes met brilliant gold ones, he felt oddly vulnerable for a brief moment.
"Kai do you hate us?" Ray asked when they were both in the car.
"What?" his forehead crinkled seriously
"Do you hate being apart of the Bladebreakers?" Ray asked
"No satisfy you?" Kai answered
"Then why are you always so cold to everyone?" Ray began
Kai placed his hand on Ray's cheek.
"It doesn't concern you," he whispered before leaning down and winding his other hand into Ray's hair.
Ray wanted to kiss him so badly it burned every sense pitched to an unbearable high, his eyes slid shut, Kai placed a kiss on his lips before setting him back and starting the car; Ray's lashes swept up his body throbbed with a sense that was pure pain.
A finger raked down Ray's cheek.
"I know" Kai breathed quickly.
The moment the Jag pulled into the driveway of Kai's home Ray leapt out, he couldn't get away from his captor quick enough.
"Ray"
"I'm going for a walk" he replied
"Fine, the gardens are quite nice" Kai suggested
Ray abandoned hope of shaking him off; they walked passed the pungent rose bushes and the beds of wild flowers.
"You can drop the nice guy act Kai, that's what makes your ambition to trap me here so funny" Ray said darkly
"Then why don't you leave? I know you can easily leap the walls and run for it; and besides I could have screwed you in the Jag with an audience of shocked high class businessmen, and all without one word" Kai delivered with brutal honesty.
Ray fled into an orchard he had enough of listening to Kai verbally battering him, but he didn't get very far before a powerful hand closed over one shoulder and yanked him back; Kai spun him round with frightening strength.
"Look at me" he demanded
"You can't take my freedom away," Ray said sternly
"But I already have" Kai reminded
He curved a hand to Ray's backbone, Ray's lean lithe body tensed against his.
"Let me go Kai" Ray demanded
"I think I will" his eyes skimmed with hunger over Ray and he drew him close with controlled power and took Ray's mouth with slow, drugging intensity.