PS03 - Tall, Dark & Heartless (53 page)

"Comfy," he mumbled as he as pressed a butterfly kiss to the side of her breast.

"Caine,-"

"Sleepy."

"Caine," she said, biting back a smile even as she rolled her eyes, "I'm not tired. I want to get up. So, if you could just-"

"No."

"Caine,-"

"Shhhhh," butterfly kiss, "sleepy."

"Fine," she said with a sigh as she gave up her plans to escape and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. She couldn't

help but laugh softly when he rewarded her with another butterfly kiss.

For several long minutes she lay there with him in her arms as she tried to fall asleep, but the problem was that she wasn't

tired. She was full of energy and needed to get it out. After their day of nonstop sex she should be exhausted, but oddly enough

she wasn't.

Anxious would be a better way to describe what she was feeling right now. Now that they were free and had their

relationship sorted out, well they sort of did. There were still a lot of things they had to settle between them, but for right now

she was content to leave things the way they were. They had plenty of time, an eternity actually to work things out. All she

wanted to focus on was testing out her new abilities and maybe seeing if she could finally kick Caine's ass, for curiosity sake

of course.

Caine chuckled around a groan as he pressed another kiss against her breast and pushed himself up so that he was

hovering over her and looked down at her. Even as she saw him in shades of blue thanks to her night vision, the man was

incredibly sexy. She reached up and ran her fingers over the tattoo covering his jaw and couldn't help smiling. This man was

all hers.

"You want to go play around with your new abilities, don't you?" he asked, chuckling as he leaned down and gave her a

quick kiss.

"Maybe," she said, following after his lips as she considered doing something else with her newfound energy.

"I guess we can do that since I know that you won't let me sleep until I show you," he said, pulling back, but not before he

leaned in and kissed the hell out of her.

Just when she was about to push him down onto his back and mount him, he pulled back and grabbed his jeans. He had

them on before she could put up much of a protest.

Caine chuckled as he zipped up and moved to leave their tent. "Hurry, baby, and maybe I'll let you pin me," he said with a

wink before he disappeared.

She had to snort at that. Like she really needed him to let her do anything now. She was a Pyte and could hold her own. In

fact, she could probably kick his ass in under two minutes flat and have him begging for mercy.

*******

"Oh my God, you sick bastard!" Danni snapped as she struggled to hold onto the tree limb he'd left her on twenty minutes

ago.

"Stop being such a baby and get down here," he said, gesturing impatiently once again for her to simply let go of the limb

and float the thirty or maybe it was more like eighty feet down. It was really a simple concept and he couldn't for the life of him

figure out why she was having such a tough time of it.

"Get me down!" she snapped, which of course was followed by a little squeal as she opened her eyes and looked down

before snapping them shut once again.

"Are you going to go get her?" Jax asked, standing next to him and still pointing that damn flashlight on Danni, which of

course could be one of the reasons why she was squeezing her eyes shut. The man didn't need the flashlight. Thanks to his

Alpha blood he could see just as clearly as Caine could, but the rest of his pack couldn't and they would bitch and whine if Jax

shut it off.

He considered going back up there and getting her, but really, how would she learn anything if he did? When they left the

comfort of their tent an hour ago they worked on controlling her fangs and eyes, but when it became obvious that she wanted to

see if she could kick his ass he decided that they should move onto other things.

If all she wanted to do was spar he would probably be alright with that.....in time, but no, not Danni. She wanted to go

full-contact and see if she could hold her own against him, or judging by that devious little smile she sported just before he

floated her ass up to that tree limb, she wanted to see if she could kick his ass now that she'd been turned. She wouldn't be able

to of course. Well, not now anyway, since she didn't have full control of her abilities yet and they would never find out one

way or the other, because he would never be able to raise his fist against her. He loved her too much to do anything that would

hurt her.

"This is kind of cruel," Jax said, making no moves to get the woman down, Caine noted. Then again the man knew him

well enough to know that he'd simply grab her and put her sexy little ass right back up there. Actually, he'd probably put her a

good ten feet higher to teach her a lesson about letting other men touch her. The other reason the Alpha wasn't moving his ass to

save her might have something to do with the little betting pool they had going. Not him, the pack. Jax bet that when she fell

she'd break both legs, half her ribs and her arm.

That was pretty stupid, because he'd catch her before she hit the ground. He of course mentioned that when the stubborn

pack decided that he couldn't partake of the bet. Cheap bastards. For clarity sake he of course pointed out that if he didn't catch

her, which he was ninety percent sure that he could, that she would probably break all her limbs, a few ribs, her hip and her

neck on the way down on the long thick branches that would slow her fall, but they wouldn't listen to him.

"Don't you have a better way of showing her how to float?" he asked, gesturing to the woman hugging the tree branch

while muttering, "Don't look down," every other second.

Where the hell was the trust? He told her he loved her, so why the hell was she worried about getting hurt? To prove her

love and devotion to him she should let go and get her hot little ass down here and finish tonight's lesson so that he could get

her beneath him again.

Jax pursed up his lips in thought as he studied Danni. After a long minute he exhaled long and loud while shaking his head.

"I really don't."

"I do!" Danni yelled, letting him know that her Pyte hearing was working just fine. Until they figured out how to kill this

damn mutated cancer in her body he was going to have to keep an eye on her abilities to make sure that everything was

functioning correctly. If they started acting up again he'd have to feed her immediately.

"We've already been over this, Danni."

"Let's go over it again!" she snapped, still squeezing her eyes shut. He really could not believe the lack of trust. She was

really going to have to work her ass off later in bed to make this up to him.

"Just get your cute ass down here, Danni, so that we can move onto the next lesson," he said, wondering just how long she

was planning on drawing this out. He didn't have all night. He still needed to feed, make her scream his name a few times, feed

her, feed again and get some sleep before they had to move out in the morning. If she didn't move her ass he'd have to give up

all hopes of getting a nap and so he could let her make this up to him.

"You said you loved me!" she snapped, letting out a little yelp as a gentle breeze caused the small branches surrounding

her to brush up against her.

"I do," he said firmly before adding, "so let go!"

"No!"

"Don't make me come up there, Danni!" he warned. If he went up there he was moving her fifteen feet higher and then he

was shoving her off that damn branch. It's how birds did it, wasn't it? Not that he really cared because his plan was sound.

She'd fall or jump, at this point it really didn't matter, and then her natural instincts would kick in and save her or he'd catch

her. No matter what happened she wouldn't be landing face first in pine needles and she really should know that by now.

"Come on up, Caine," she said, risking a peek down only to squeeze her eyes shut a second later. "I'd love to have a word

with you about this."

Typical Danni, he thought as he shook his head in disgust, he was trying to teach her something and all she could focus on

was kicking his ass.

"Just get down here, Danni, so that we can move this along," he said with a bored sigh.

"Fine!" she snapped as she started to blindly, yet carefully, slide backwards towards the tree trunk. "I'll climb down!"

"Do that and I'll just put you right back up there," he promised.

She let out a frustrated scream as she stopped. "I hate you!"

"Uh huh," he said, absently scratching his bare chest as he considered grabbing a bag of blood or two since this promised

to be a long night.

"She's going to kill you when she gets down here," one of the females that had begged him earlier to fuck her said as she

threw him a glare.

"That's the beauty of being me," he said with a snort. "She can try all she wants, but it's never going to happen."

The woman rolled her eyes as she focused her attention back on Danni. After a little while a few of the shifters got bored

and went to fire up their laptops and check the score of the game, but most of them upped the bets.

"Okay," Danni said with a shaky voice and he nearly sighed with relief, that is until she added, "I promise a night of hot,

mind blowing sex to whoever gets me down from here and keeps the deranged Pyte from doing this again," Danni said, taking

everyone by surprise.

Not even ten seconds later, Jax was shoving about a dozen males out of his way as he rushed towards the tree. A few

seconds later when his mate's betrayal registered in his mind he was throwing the betraying bastard out of his way and making

his way towards her. He had her in his arms and safely on the ground in seconds and not too long after that he was dropping her

on her ass in their tent while he raced to free his erection before it burst through his pants so that they could get started with the

mind blowing sex.

"Jerk!" she snapped as she dropped the rest of the way onto the sleeping bag and curled up into the fetal position.

For a moment he kneeled there awkwardly with his erection straining towards her. "What about the sex?"

Her answer was a glare as she flipped him off.

"Is that a no?" he asked, unsure if she was just taking a few minutes to rest before she followed through with her promise

or if she was reneging on her promise.

When she shot him a double one finger salute he had his answer.

He stared in disbelief at the little tease for a moment before he dropped his eyes down to his poor erection that needed her

and back to her before he shrugged. "Okay, you're going back in the tree, you little liar."

Chapter 45

"Someone.....," she took a deep breath as she rolled over onto her back, uncaring that the little rocks and sticks were

digging into her skin, "kill him.....please."

Caine frowned down at her. "I don't remember you being this much of a wimp. Is this a new development?"

Still gasping, she turned her head slightly to the left and sent Jax, who looked torn between being amused and concerned, a

pleading look, but he simply shrugged as he focused his attention back to packing up his truck.

Great, she was on her own with the sadistic bastard who wouldn't leave her alone. She still couldn't believe that he stuck

her up in a tree, not once, but twice. Promising the man sex only to take it back before she was able to get her bearings had

been a foolish move. He'd placed her back in that tree and promised her that she was staying there until she either fell or

jumped.

She fell.

Stupid squirrel, she thought again as she tried to roll over onto her side and failed miserably. Why the hell was she so

exhausted and sore? Oh, that's right. The big jerk frowning down at her was the reason. When she failed to float as they called

it, even though she much preferred to think of it as semi-flying, because she was too busy screaming her ass off he'd gotten a

little pissed. He took it as a personal insult that she couldn't do it.

From there he'd been determined to make sure that she could not only do her other abilities, but master them, immediately.

When he tried to see how strong she was by having her lift a van she'd succeeded, but unfortunately she got so excited that she

could do it that she did a little happy dance, tripped and accidentally threw it at him. No matter what he said when he came to

minutes later, or everyone else said for that matter it was an accident.

When he jumped to his feet and went after her, she had to admit that she did master that little ability pretty quickly. For all

of sixty seconds it had been pretty cool to see things flashing past her while she ran from the enraged Pyte. Unfortunately for

her, she hadn't seen the oak tree in front of her while she'd been enjoying her new ability. Thankfully she didn't pass out, well,

she didn't remember doing it, but everyone around her said she had when she managed to open her eyes again.

From there it only got worse. Caine became the drill sergeant from hell. He made her practice speed, lifting, jumping,

more running and kept threatening to put her ass back up in that tree when all she wanted to do was get a shot at kicking his ass,

now more than ever. She'd give anything for a chance to kick his ass, anything and if she couldn't have that she'd very much like