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  “This isn’t Hunter,” I said. “It’s Doctor Rachel Stone. Who am I speaking to?”

  He didn’t answer straight away. “The girl. The one with the amulet.”

  “That’s right, now tell me who you are.”

  “I’m Commander Davian. I’m Hunters direct supervisor and I’m here to help you. Can you tell me where you are so we can send backup? You might have realized by now that Hunter likes to fuck things up in his own special way.”

  “I’m starting to pick up on that,” I said, laughing lightly to myself. “Look I think we need backup too, but he was hesitant to call you guys in. Can I trust you?”

  “Right now, we’re the only people you can trust darling. Don’t hold it against Hunter, but he’s got shit in his own past that makes it hard for him to trust people. He works alone now, but it wasn’t always that way. His last partner fucked him over and left him for dead.”

  “So, one of your guardians has turned on Hunter before. What’s to say that won’t happen again?”

  Davian huffed down the line. “Look I can’t get into the details. That’s for Hunter to tell you, if he wants to.”

  I breathed down the phone, asking myself if I could trust these people or not. From the sounds of things Hunter had every right to be suspicious of his guardian brothers, especially with the powerful draw of the amulet. I didn’t know what to do.

  Then I heard her voice again, whispering through my mind like a summer’s breeze.

  Trust him, Halo said. We need him.

  “Doctor Stone?” Davian said.

  I let out a long and regretful breath. “We’re in some fancy apartment building not far from the Four Seasons. It’s the tallest building on the block, I don’t know the name. A suite right at the top.”

  Davian just laughed back down the line. “I know the place. I should have known Hunter was holed up there. Stay put and don’t let Hunter know we’re coming. We’ll be there as fast as we can. You made the right decision Doctor Stone.”

  “I sure hope so.” The line went dead and I put the phone back into the jacket. I turned around and saw Hunter. I gasped his name. “Hunter!”

  “I only caught the last part of that conversation, but I get the distinct feeling you just betrayed me.”

  “The amulet told me to,” I said. “She did. She said we couldn’t do this without the guardians!”

  “Did she? That’s funny, because she’s telling me to chain you to a bed and tan your ass until you’re screaming. What do you think about that?”

  “You stay the fuck away from me,” I said through gritted teeth. “Every decision you have made so far has just got us into more trouble! I’m fixing this!”

  Hunter laughed and stepped forward. “You’re a disobedient nightmare, and you’re going to learn that your actions have consequences.”

  The huge giant marched forward and swept me off the floor with no problem. I pounded and kicked at him, but my blows meant nothing against a man that could take bullets. In a few giant strides we had crossed the apartment and he kicked open the door to a bedroom.

  He moved with a ferocious grace that was both terrifying and arousing. He hurled me onto a bed and moved as a flash in the dark.

  In that moment of rapidity, I found my wrists and ankles had been shackled to the bedframe. I was on my front, my breath racing in the dark, waiting for the absurd punishment he had lined up for me. Hunter crouched down beside the bed, drawing his eyeline level with mine. His red eyes glinted with an assuming wickedness.

  “Let’s get started, shall we kitten?” he said. “There isn’t much time before my brothers show up.”

  Then he was behind me. Strong hands yanked my trousers down my legs, taking my panties down too until my naked rear was exposed to the air. I felt his hand smooth delicately over my rear before he spanked me hard. I was still sore from before and I howled from his touch.

  I also felt myself growing wet.

  Fuck. Not again.

  Hunter chuckled in the darkness. He was a fucking madman, but maybe I was the mad one, because every fiber in my body coiled with excitement.

  “I’m gonna make you scream, little girl,” he teased. “And then I’m going to fuck your brains out.”

  I had no reply. All I could do was challenge him.

  “Just try it,” I said, biting my lip in anticipation.

  6

  Hunter

  The fire of rage fucking consumed me, but its heat was nothing compared to the desire I felt for my mate. I sliced my hand through the air again and spanked her hard, the sharp sound cracking through the room along with her cries of pleasure.

  Yeah, pleasure. It wasn’t hard to see that she was fucking into this.

  Each time I brought my palm down on that sore little ass she bucked against me, grinding her naked pussy against the sheets and flooding the room with the scent of her arousal. I’d been fucking rock-solid since fucking her last night, and I couldn’t wait to take her again.

  The guardians would be here soon, and I knew I didn’t have long before they were kicking down that door.

  Getting away wasn’t an option now, they’d be able to trace my scent from the apartment so I might as well stay put and teach Rachel a few lessons about discipline.

  “Tell me you’re sorry,” I growled as my hand cracked against her rear again. She squealed in response , her entire body shaking as she succumbed to dark gratification.

  I curled my finger between her silken thighs and ran the pad along her slick groove, nestling at the folds and pushing inside of her. Her pussy squeezed around my finger and she whispered a ‘Fuck yes’, pressing her face into the bedding so not to be heard.

  A dark smile tugged at my lips. She wasn’t going to hide this satisfaction from me.

  With my finger stroking her walls I let my thumb find her other hole and probed it lightly. Rachel pushed her weight back against my hand, her body begging me to go further.

  “Please—” she said, her voice trembling on her lips. I was taking my time with her, teasing her, keeping her release at bay until I heard the words I wanted to hear.

  “Please what?” I asked.

  “Please… let me cum,” she begged.

  Her desperation only made me go slower. She wasn’t getting what she wanted until I heard her yield to me.

  “Tell me you’re sorry,” I repeated, my finger moving in and out of her with a slick pulse. I was so fucking hard I could have exploded right there. Looking down at her throbbing pussy made me mad horny.

  “Fuck you—” she gasped again, demonstrating that stubborn playful side of hers. She was able to hold her own when it came to it, I had to give her that.

  “Not until I hear those magic words,” I said, pulling my hand away from her body. I sucked her juices from my fingers and then I spanked her hard again, leaving a few seconds between each hit as I turned her creamy little ass brazen red.

  I gave her ten more spanks for good measure. Each time her cries grew louder, and her physical reaction was stronger, her whole body tensing and shaking as she grew more aroused. I didn’t hold back at all; I gave her the full brunt of my punishment. Enough to keep her ass sore for a day or two.

  “Okay, okay!” she panted, dropping her forehead against the covers. “I’m sorry, I’m fucking sorry!”

  “For?” I smoothed my palm gently over her tender skin, teasing my finger back into her folds again.

  “For betraying you. I should never have gone behind your back like that.”

  “Who’s your master?” I asked.

  “Y… You are,” she said.

  “Who do you belong to?”

  “You,” she said, with less hesitance this time.

  “Who owns that dirty little body of yours?”

  “Y-You do,” she said again.

  “You’re goddamn right, and if I give you orders from this point on you follow them. Clear? Or there will be repercussions.”

  “Yes.”

  “Yes, what?”
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  “Yes, sir,” she said.

  “Good girl.”

  I let my finger slip back inside of her and started fucking her again. With my freehand I dropped my trousers, pulled my cock out and stroked my aching shaft. I was harder than granite and wanted nothing more than to bury deep inside of her.

  Only a few seconds went by after she finally succumbed to me. Then she found her reward. It came as a blinding orgasm that left her calling my name and shaking on the bed in the dark. Her pussy clenched around my finger, her entire body tensing until she finally dropped to the mattress, giving her weight back to gravity.

  Heady breaths came from her spent lungs. I left her on the bed for a second to wallow in the darkness. She’d had hers and now I was going to have mine. When I came back to the bed a few moments later I was completely naked. She felt me climb onto the mattress and looked back to see my naked form. Her pupils dilated.

  “Now you get the real reward,” I said, moving forward until I was over her, my erection jutting into the air. I mounted her from behind, pressed my cock up against her tight opening and sank inside. Her tight lips spread around me.

  Fuck. Yes. Heaven.

  “Hunter…” she said, moaning my name over long and stretching syllables.

  I pushed all the way inside until my cock was completely buried. Her precious little ass looked so fucking good from behind. I took her in my hands and squeezed as her tight little pussy stretched around me.

  With a sharp movement I pulled my hips back and slammed forward again. Her hands strained against the restraints and reached out to grab at the bedding. I fell into a rhythm quickly and started fucking her hard.

  Sweat began to drip down our bodies. I leaned in close, my chest pressed against her back as I speared her hard from behind. I wrapped my hand around her throat and pulled her up to meet me, turning her head so I could kiss her. Breath raced from her nose as my tongue dominated her mouth.

  The bed bounced beneath the force of my weight. Tiny mews of pleasure hummed from Rachel’s lips. My speed and force increased with each rhythmic stroke, until I was slamming into her tight pussy with a tempo that was long and deep, digging as far as I could.

  Our lips broke away from one another momentarily. I kept my hand around her throat, her hot breath wicking my face as I pulled her closer to the edge.

  “Yes, yes, yes—” she said on trembling whispers. I felt my cock swell inside of her as I too came close to the point of breaking.

  She screamed the word again as fire exploded through her. The lust and rage swirling inside me had taken away the man and left some primal fucking animal, rutting his mate with a ferocious intensity that had no limits.

  As she came, I exploded too, my cock bursting deep inside her tight pink walls, completely filling her with plumes of my molten come. She clenched around me, her pussy begging me to stay deep inside and never stop pumping.

  My breath was primal and heavy, shaking in her ears like a caveman. I found her lips again and claimed them, kissing her long and deep until our rhythm finally crested into stillness.

  For a small amount of time we just lay there in the darkness, my body pressed against hers, my cock still inside as my juices ran down her thighs. Sweat drenched our skin, melding our bodies together.

  When we finally parted I felt something new between us, as though the already inseparable bond had deepened once again, cementing the love that I already had for her.

  I untied her, wishing that I had more time to fuck every last inch of that body. Whatever tension there had been before, it was gone now. We had formed a wordless bond. I was hers; she was mine. Nothing would come between that.

  That moment of peaceful silence didn’t last long.

  Rachel flinched when the front door flew open.

  The bastards kicked it so hard it flew straight off its hinges and into the apartment. It made a real loud clatter.

  “Hunter?!” she shouted, standing up and drawing the covers around herself.

  “Just the guardians,” I said calmly. “Backup has arrived, darling. Don’t worry yourself. There’s nothing we can do now. Davian probably thinks I’ve gone rogue.”

  “Come out Hunter!” a deep voice bellowed through the apartment. It was Commander Davian himself. The bedroom door flew open and I saw a team of six armed guardians all looking back at me with guns pointing in my direction. Riot armor obscured their faces completely, but I knew the one at the front, the one closest to me, was Briggs.

  “Christ, you just couldn’t keep your dick in your pants, could you?” Briggs said.

  “Fucking do it already,” I said. “You hurt the girl and I’ll chop your fucking dick off.”

  Briggs fired the tranquilizer. The arrowed dart sank into my skin and started pumping chemicals through my body. There wasn’t much that could down a guardian. This special tranquilizer had been designed to handle the impossible job.

  Barely seconds went by before I felt my eyes grow heavy. The room went dark and I felt my weight slam against the bedroom floor.

  Rachel had got her wish.

  We were in the hands of the guardians now.

  7

  Rachel

  I couldn’t help feeling like I had seriously fucked up somewhere down the line. As soon as Hunter’s naked body hit the floor, I got a terrible feeling in my stomach that I should have listened to him.

  As soon as he was down two giant figures dragged his unconscious body out the room and another stepped into the doorway. I had anticipated a knock on the door when I spoke to Hunter’s superior on the phone, instead they’d sent a fucking vampire swat team.

  The soldier looking at me lifted his riot visor and revealed the face of a middle-aged man. He had a solid face, like Hunter, with a square jaw, a strong brow and sharp red eyes. A sprinkle of silver stubble covered his face.

  “You must be Rachel. I’m Commander Davian, Hunter’s direct superior.”

  “Where the fuck are you taking him?” I asked. “I thought you were on our side.”

  “Relax Doctor Stone, we are,” Davian said. He pulled a cigar from somewhere on his person and lit it before taking a long drag. “It’s Hunter we’re not sure about. The amulet is a very powerful device and it has a way of warping the minds of those around it.”

  “That’s exactly why he didn’t want me to call you,” I said. “He didn’t want you and your men to betray us over the amulet. It looks like he was right, and I was wrong. I should never have told you where we were.”

  “On the contrary,” Davian said, blowing smoke into the room. “Hunter was exactly right. We can’t be trusted around the amulet, but neither can he. Until we get a good look at him and know his mind is secure, we have to take every precaution. So far everything he has done has been off the book, which suggests he’s keeping you to himself so he can steal the amulet at the last minute.”

  “You’re dead wrong,” I said, gritting my teeth. “He’s a good person, he wouldn’t do that.”

  Davian shot me a confused look. “You seem awfully attached to him, considering you barely know the guy. You know, guardians aren’t supposed to sleep with their clients? He’s broken a lot of fucking rules in the short time you’ve been around.”

  “And you’re supposed to be his brothers in arms, right? This seems like a very strange way to say hello.”

  “Get up and get dressed. I’m going to wait outside and give you a minute to get ready. If you take any longer then I will send someone in to help you hurry the fuck up. Do you have the amulet on your person?”

  “Yes, and you’re not getting it.”

  “Good, and make sure it stays that way. It’s already made its mind up and decided you’re the keeper, I’m not going to act like a fucking moron and try to take it from you. My men are all under strict instructions to stay the fuck away from the thing, if anyone of them approaches you then tell me straight away. Clear?”

  “Wait,” I said. “You don’t want the amulet?”

  “It’s on
ly going to warp my mind and make me do something stupid. I don’t really feel like killing a whole squadron of my guardians over a petty piece of fucking jewelry, so no, I don’t want it.”

  “I don’t understand then, you’re not betraying us?”

  “Wow, there’s not much between the ears here is there? I thought you were a fucking doctor.”

  “I am, I’m just confused because you rocked up and hogtied the only person protecting me so far.”

  Davian rolled his eyes. “The equation is very simple, darling. The amulet has chosen you as its keeper. Hunter has been assigned to keep you safe. We keep Hunter safe. Once we’ve made sure he’s not lost his fucking mind, we’ll return your little lapdog and you can fuck all night long while you run the amulet back to Halo. That clear?”

  “I think so. You swear a lot, you know that?”

  “Shut the fuck up and get dressed,” Davian said, smiling slightly around his cigar. “We leave in two fucking minutes.”

  The door slammed shut and I turned on the bedside light. I quickly dressed and sat down on the edge of the bed, holding my head in my hands as I tried to process everything. Were the guardians on our side or not? I had no idea who to trust.

  It was possible that Hunter had lost his mind, but he’d directly refused the amulet from me already, just like Commander Davian had. His insubordinate streak was probably fair cause for Davian to suspect Hunter, but did they have to barge in here and shoot him like he was some escaped lion?

  As I got up from the bed I wondered if this was just part and parcel of how the guardians liked to act. From the little Hunter had told me they represented the most alpha vampires in society. This organization took the toughest bastards they could find and then subjected them to grueling modifications to forge them into super-soldiers.

  They were crass and abrasive. Giant pillars of arrogance, testosterone and muscle. They might be incapable of manners and civil discourse after their intense training. I guess I might feel more inclined to settle an argument with a gun too if I was pumped full of testosterone and rage.