Summary: Desire. A tale of love, deception and betrayal. Let the Mebony/Ramony battle begin.

Rating: NC-17

Disclaimer: I own nothing, the Tribe and the characters and the property of Cloud 9 and Mr. Thomas.

Chapter Four

I feel like my dream lasted for a lifetime or at least until I walked into that restaurant and saw Mega sitting there looking dark and gorgeous.

In that second I felt alive, my eyes widened and a fire smouldered in them, instead of my normal walk I made sure to swing my hips more and show off plenty of leg as I moved over to the table.

Ram seemed pleased with my appearance and no doubt guessed that my sudden sexy walk was for his benefit and not Mega's.

Mega looked up at both of us and raised an eyebrow at me in mild amusement at my attire but did not address me, instead he turned to Ram greeted him.

"Hello Mega, I trust that you remember my wife", Ram said as we sat down.

I do not know what I had expected Mega to be like but not like he was. In my mind he was a forceful man who was cold and curt, I had mostly expected that meeting him would prove him to be a sap like all other men and as such my hunger would fade, unfortunate this was not the case.

As his cool gaze appraised me I felt his power trying to suppress me yet instead of backing down and away I drew myself up tall and matched his gaze. For seconds our gazes were locked before he turned his head and gave a low chuckle, "Yes I remember your whore".

I seethed quietly as Ram smirked slightly.

"I assure you that I am no whore, in fact I am quite the reverse. I am not even sure why you are here, if you do not apologise immediately then my husband will have you destroyed", I threatened in a superior tone, all the while praying that he would not notice the slight blush of my cheek.

"Is that so?" Mega inquired, leaning back in his chair, "Why do not you fight your own battles rather than hiding behind your husband?" He suggested, with a taunt in his tone.

Although I was mildly shocked by his reply I made sure not to show it and lifted my wine glass to my lips, "Believe me hunny, I am doing you a favour by not addressing you myself, you could not handle it?" I challenged as I drank the wine moistening my lips with it and making sure that he was looking as I did so, I would subdue him.

"I would not?" He questioned as his finger hovered above my leg under the table, showing that he would go through with making me eat my words but it is not in my nature to back down.

"No you would not", I replied keeping eye contact all the while thinking that his touch could not possibly have very much effect on me … how very wrong I was.

As Mega's finger brushed lightly against my flesh I felt white hot fires of pleasure tingling across my neglected flesh.

"Really, because you seem just like an ordinary woman to me", He smirked evilly as he hand brushed higher and moved to the inside of my thigh.

I bit my lip trying to resist the urge to moan and surrender to him, despite my hatred of giving in yet I was saved from the decision as a loud beeping broke through our contest.

I turned to see Ram reading a text message and realised that I had quite forgotten about him being there and wondered nervously if he had realised what was happening although he did not seem to so I figured that I was safe.

As he finished reading he got up and kissing me on the cheek said, "I'm sorry my Ebbie, but business calls. You will stay here tonight, I am sure that Mega will be kind enough to make sure that you get up to your hotel room safely".

"Of course", Mega said as Ram called the waiter over to cancel his order but as he looked at me I saw the challenge in his eyes and knew that this was war.