Sebastian (Bowen Boys) (16 page)

“He has released me.”
Khan nodded, figuring that was what the larger man had done. “He said that I am to try and make my way in this world with the help of you. He said that I could learn a great deal from a man such as you.”

“I don’t know about that.
I didn’t do anything that any other man wouldn’t have done when his family was hurt.” Wanera nodded. “Did he tell you what happened?”

“H
e said that you avenged your family and me. He said that I am indebted to you, as is he.” Wanera stood up and looked down at Sebastian. “He saved me through you. Had you not come—”

“You would have died.”
Wanera nodded, still looking at Sebastian. “What will you do? How will you live here?”

“I was given my money that I had in my lair. I also have a great deal here that Bill has stored for me.
He has been doing it since I started working, and says that I have enough to be nasty if I want.” He looked at Khan and smiled. “I’m not entirely sure what that means. Do you?”

“No. Sorry
, I don’t.” Khan looked at his brother as he stirred on the bed and glanced at his watch. “His mate will be here soon to watch over him. Do you know how much longer he will sleep this off?”

“Soon.” That was all he said as he moved toward the door
, but stopped and turned back to him. “Master has told me that I owe him my life. I will repay him.”

He was out the door before Khan could ask him how he was planning to do that. He looked at Sebastian when he
said his name softly. Standing up, he moved to the side of the bed and smiled at him.

“It’s about fucking time
, you lazy bastard.” Sebastian sat up but winced a little. Khan helped him until he was sitting and leaning back against the headboard. He asked him if he wanted him to get Ama.

“Not just yet. I have to tell you something.
I’ve already explained things to Ama about what happened.” Khan nodded. “It’s about that man Wanera. He gave me his blood and I’m connected to him.”

“We know.”
Khan laughed at Sebastian’s look of surprise. “You’ve been asleep for nearly twenty-four hours, and in that time a great deal of shit has hit the fan. We’ve been to hell for you, buddy.”

“Hell?
I don’t understand.” He looked down at his hand, and Khan hid his own under his leg. “It’s gone. The mark he gave me, the one that said…. Is he dead?”

“No.
Not yet at any rate. But if he flushes the toilet again just to hear the sound and to watch the water, Mom might kill him for that. He’s been resting, too, but he healed a little faster.” Khan took a deep breath. “When you told Ama to go and save him, we went with her. There was no way I was going to let her go without some protection. It was a good thing, too. That bitch showed up. But so did someone called ‘Master.’ He told us to bring Wanera back with us.”

Sebastian reached over and pulled his hand to him.
Khan had noticed the mark when he’d returned to this world. Sebastian looked at the tiny little fork for several minutes before he spoke.

“It’s not like mine was.”
Khan nodded. “It’s redder and seems to be a little more detailed. Who gave this to you? The Master?”

“He never touched me that I can remember.
But I’m pretty sure he did it for….” He looked away. “That woman, Darkness, she hurt you and the others simply by making Wanera hurt. She wasn’t going to hurt my family without some sort of payback. But as much as I wanted to kill her for that, I couldn’t.”

“No
, you wouldn’t. You’re a good man, Khan, and a better leader. But this mark...what does it mean? Do you know?” He shook his head. “Then we need to find someone who does know. Maybe we can ask Wanera.”

Khan stood up.
“I will, but for now I need to let Ama know you’re awake, unless you’ve already told her.” The door opened behind him, and he glanced at Ama. “I see that you have. I’m sure you two have plenty to talk about, and I have to go and tell the rest you’re awake.”

Khan left
, knowing that neither of them heard a word he said. He was nearly down the stairs when he felt a small touch of someone and stilled. It wasn’t his family, and it wasn’t anyone he knew.

“You’ve helped me with
a problem that should never have been. I marked you so that others that saw you knew that you were protected by me.”
Khan leaned against the wall and tried to wrap his mind around the fact that he had been marked by this man.

“I
don’t…I’m not really sure what you think I did for you, but there is no need for you to protect me. I was avenging my family, not helping you.”
He heard the laughter and shivered. It was not a happy sort of sound.

“You are very strange, male
, but I can respect your wishes. I have but a favor to ask of you. Neither a large one, nor does it involve anything more than you are willing to give me. I would like information on Wanera on occasion. Nothing much. Just to hear that he is…making it, I suppose.”
Khan smiled.
“You think my request funny?”

“No. I think it’s a great request
, but unnecessary. I think that Wanera will succeed no matter what he tries. He’s a good man and a better being for what he’s learned on his own. Having friends is one thing, but he never put his needs above his friends, even though I’m pretty sure he was supposed to.”

This time the man’s laughter was just that, full of humor.
Khan felt himself relax a bit. Maybe the man could see why he didn’t need to be protected. But Khan had a feeling he was going to be stuck with the man.

“I will be very happy if he does
do a grand job. As you have probably surmised, he is more than just an employee of mine; he is one of my creations. Darkness was as well, but she was…I was at a darker time in my life when I made her, so she didn’t turn out as I had planned. But I can see your point. Wanera will be a success, and I will not mark you. You’re a good man as well, male. One I am very happy to know. I will bother you no more.”

Khan looked at his palm when the connection was closed.
It began to fade almost immediately, and for that Khan let out a long, slow breath. He closed his hand over the now clear skin and moved to the kitchen to tell his family that Sebastian was going to be fine. He was also looking forward to going home with his mate and seeing his children. Also, he wanted to take his wife to bed. She was still in heat, and he wanted her fat with their child again very soon. Smiling, he entered the kitchen. Khan was a very happy man.

Chapter
16

“You’re still dressed.” Ama looked at him from the doorway and smiled. It was all Sebastian could do not to leap on her and take her right there. But while he was feeling better, he knew that he’d use all his energy if he did that, and wanted to expend what he had on making love to his mate.

“I am.
What do you have on, Sebastian? It looks like you have more on than me.” He sat up more and pulled his shirt over his head. “More. I want to see all of you.”

“
Come here and help me then.” She moved away from the door and pulled off her own shirt and dropped it to the floor. “Ama, strip for me. Please? I want to see you naked and standing before me.”

She stopped moving about halfway across the room and ran her hands up her sides to under her breasts
, where she slipped her hands under her bra. He watched as her hands moved against the heavy flesh and felt his cock jerk to attention. She was going to kill him. When her bra slipped off her shoulders, he wanted to follow the tiny straps down to her elbows and then suckle at her skin as it was revealed. She held her hand over her nipples as she pulled her bra off and dropped it to the floor with her shirt.

“Don’t tease me.
Let me see them.” She lowered her hands, and his breath caught. She was the most beautiful creature he’d ever seen. “I want to see all of you.”

The pants were next
, but she left her panties in place. He smiled. She was leaving them for him because he’d told her that he loved ripping them from her. When she stepped toward him, he moved his legs to the side of the bed and unbuttoned his pants. It was either that or his cock was going to strangle. When she was standing in front of him, he leaned in and kissed each of her hips.

“Do you have any idea what I want to do to you right now?”
He kissed the area just below her navel, then swirled his tongue in the small indentation. “What I want to taste of you?”

“Yes.
I want the same things. I want to feel your tongue inside of me. I want to feel your cock, too, as you fill me.” She moaned when he turned her around and bit her ass. “Sebastian, I can almost come with you doing that.”

He bit her again as he slid his hand to her front and into the small triangle of her panties.
She was wet and hot, and when she opened her legs for him, he nearly sank his teeth into her deeply just to feel her come. He touched her hard clit, and she rocked into his hand. He turned her back around and buried his mouth over her.

“Sebastian.”
His name ended on a moan, and he curled his hands into her panties and jerked them off her and suckled her clit into his mouth at the same time. She came quickly, her cream filling his mouth, but he wanted more, needed more.

Pulling back his head
, he looked up at her. She had a dazed look on her face and her eyes were as dark a green as he’d ever seen them. She moaned when he slid his finger deep inside of her. Sebastian stood up, pulled his pants from his body, and freed his cock. He ached to be inside of her.

She pushed him back against the bed
, and he landed on his back. He didn’t know what she had planned, but right now he was game for whatever. She told him to get to the middle of the bed, and he scrambled to do as she commanded.

“I want to ride you again.
You’ve no idea how good that feels to be in control of my own body like that.” He nodded as she moved up his body, skimming her breast over his cock as she went. “I want you not to touch me until I tell you to. Can you do that?”

“Yes,” he responded
hoarsely. “I can do that, but I will want the same thing when you’re finished with me.”

“I’ll never be finished with you.”
He wrapped his hands around the headboard and watched her. His heart was pounding in his chest, and he could hardly catch his breath. She licked his cock, and he felt his balls tighten. She was going to make him come right now if she kept that up. He nearly told her so when she swallowed him.

“Christ.”
He jerked up from the bed and was glad he’d held onto the headboard. Otherwise, he might have flown up off the bed and onto the ceiling. She moved up over him, and he took her mouth when she brushed against his.

She fisted his cock and lowered
herself over him. As he rocked up, she pressed him back down with her weight. Ama moved slowly over him, her hips rolling forward just enough to let him know that her ride was going to last for as long as it took her to kill him. He gripped the bed harder, knowing that if he let go she’d quit.

“I love you.”
He nodded, unable to speak. “And having your cock in me like this is amazing.”

Bending his knees
, he used his feet to roll with her. She leaned back against his thighs, and her hand moved down her belly to her pussy. Sebastian watched as her fingers joined his cock inside of her. When she opened her nether lips with her free hand, he could see her clit and that she was careful only to brush against it and not pinch it as he wanted to do.

He was ready to
do just that when she scissored her fingers over her clit and squeezed. Her climax rolled from her and over him. As she rode her own hand and his cock, he reached down and pulled her hips over him faster. He needed to come, and he didn’t care if she stopped now or not.

Lowering his legs
, he sat up and took her nipple into his mouth and bit her. She screamed out his name and he bit again. Blood tangled around his tongue as he sealed the wound, and he rolled her to her back.

“I’m going to fuck you hard
, baby. You’ve taken all my good intentions out of the picture the moment you sucked me down your throat and swallowed me.” She nodded and wrapped her legs around his hips. “Mark me baby. Please. I need to feel you make me yours.”

He pounded hard into her and felt her nails tear at his skin as she held onto his shoulders.
The harder he took her, the harder she met each of his strokes. Nuzzling her neck, he knew that he wasn’t going to last long and licked a path from her shoulder to the sweet spot just behind her ear. Her body shuddered beneath his as she sank her teeth into his arm. Christ, his mind exploded along with his body.

Sebastian
knew the moment that he sank his teeth into her that he had hurt her. She screamed against his arm, and he started to lift his head when she wrapped her hand into his hair and held him there. Sucking hard on the wound, he took as much of her essences into him as he could and roared as his climax grabbed him by the balls again and felt as if they were being twisted hard. He came again, and this time she roared out her release as he did.

He held her to him as she continued to spasm beneath him.
He rolled to his back, never leaving her body, and held her over him. He was just closing his eyes when she spoke. Pulling her tighter, he felt her tears touch his chest.

“I thought you were going to die.”
She looked up at him, tears staining her cheeks. “I thought for sure that I’d killed you when…you were hurting so badly that I didn’t know what do to.”

“I thought I was
, too, until I realized it wasn’t me but Wanera. He thought this would happen, I think, but wasn’t sure. I’m glad that we were able to help him…I’m glad that you were able to help him.”

“
Khan stayed behind and…he won’t tell us what happened, but I think he killed that woman who hurt you both. I thought Monica was going to murder him when he came back. But his dad only nodded like he would have done the same thing in his place.” Sebastian thought his dad would have, too.

“He didn’t kill her
, he told me. But I’m pretty sure that she’s where she doesn’t want to be.” He’d had a couple of dreams about her. He was sure that the man, her boss, had shown him that because he wanted him to be sure that she’d never harm them again. “We won’t have to worry about her again.”

“Good.”
She stretched out over him and he felt his body respond. “We had a delivery while you were resting. Our…uniforms, I suppose you could call them, arrived for the ball. I’m pretty sure that we’re not going to be wearing them out in public ever, but they are sort of pretty.”

“Pretty?
I’m not fond of that word when it comes to clothing I’m expected to wear. Especially when it’s in a public forum.” She giggled. “Ama, what is it I should know?”

Her peals of laughter didn’t
reassure him. Neither did her evasion of the question as the day wore on. By the time they were eating dinner, he decided that he was going to find the box of whatever it was and burn it. Nothing that made her laugh this hard was going to be anything he wanted to have even near his body. He knew this wasn’t going to end well.

~~~

The ball was in three hours and she still wasn’t even close to being ready. She glanced over at Sebastian as he lounged on the bed, refusing to wear the clothes that had been sent for him. She looked at her own dress and decided that he might be right. They were more suited to a costume party than something as formal as this thing was turning out to be.

The invitations for the family had arrived that morning
, as well as instructions on how to dress. Formal was in bold letters and a good half inch wide. It also stated that there was a reception following. Following what, she wasn’t sure, and since she’d tossed her father out, she couldn’t contact Jacob either. She was as nervous as she’d ever been and eyed the empty glass of tea on the dresser.

“You could simply wear the dress that I picked out for you. It’ll make you feel better
, because there is no way I’m putting that thing on me and going out.” He handed her his glass of tea and kissed her exposed shoulder. “I’m thinking that staying home is sounding better and better all the time.”

She agreed and told him so.
“I don’t even know what to do once we get there, or if I should have made arrangements for the food. What if we get there and there’s twenty people and nothing but a bunch of overturned crates for them to sit on and nothing to eat?” He shrugged. “This is serious. This is something that’s supposed to be important and we don’t have a clue what we’re doing.”

“Who really cares? I mean really, we’re going to a ball neither of us
wants to go to, we’re supposed to wear those ridiculous clothes that no one explained to us why, and we’re not even sure that it’s going to be set up. So again, who cares? If we’re the only ones that show up, we’ll just get back in the car and come back here and make love for the rest of the night.” He wiggled his brows at her. “We can go in the woods and have some fun. You’re beautiful in the moon light.”

She let him hold her as she thought about what he
’d said. “What if we just go and stay long enough to make sure that we’re not going to be made to look stupid, then come back here and do as you said? I think I can live with that.” More than she could making a fool of herself. “I think this is stupid anyway. Who cares that we’re some king and queen of a bunch of little pixies anyway?”

Two and a half hours later
, she was pulling on the dress that he’d picked out and felt better already. When the car, a large white limo, pulled to a smooth stop in front of their home, she looked at Sebastian again. He kissed her nose and gave her his elbow. His tux looked much better on him than that ridiculous costume had.

It had been made of silk, the only redeeming thing about it
, but it had been a bright purple. The sleeves were bejeweled with all manner of sequins and pearls that sparkled around the room like a seventies disco ball. She laughed at him so hard when he’d tried it on that he wouldn’t even put on the accompanying hat and pants. She had pulled them out and put them on the bed and fell over laughing at the amount of sequins on the pants. He would have set off alarms in any airport there were so many of them. And the colors were enough to hurt your eyes if he moved suddenly. She smiled when she thought of the hat.

It had been large and velvet.
The large feather, a seriously large feather, had hung down from it nearly a foot. She had touched it once, and when it changed to the colors she had on, she jerked back from it so quickly that she fell over the box her dress had come in. It was worse than his suit had been, and she’d yet to pull it even close to her body, much less over it. She slid into the back seat after being handed in by Sebastian.

“That dress is going to look very good
lying next to the bed when I tear it from you later.” She smiled at him and let her cat purr a little. “You do that much more and we’ll never leave this limo. I can’t wait much longer to have you naked again.”

She smiled.
“You and I just made love not an hour ago. Remember? I had to take another shower so I could get the tangles out of my hair.

He nodded.
“You screamed my name so hard when you came that I thought you’d break crystal. I love it when you do that.”

She looked
down at her dress and knew that she’d never worn anything more beautiful. It was a light green silk and clung to her body like it was made over her. She ran her hand along the waist and felt the tiny little flowers that had been stitched into it. She looked up at him when he growled.

“I want you.” She shook her head and smiled.
“You do know that the longer I wait to have you, the harder I’m going to fuck you when I do.”