Chapter 13
Diesel
My eyes flew open at the first sound that hit my ears. Brynn slept soundly in my arms, her naked leg tossed over mine. I almost convinced myself I hadn’t heard it. That my mind was simply playing tricks on me. Brynn nestled closer and pulled me from my heightened, alerted state, so I turned my attention back to her. How beautiful she looked pressed against my body. How luxurious that sheet looked draped over the salacious parts of her body. She was barely covered and the fan whirling above our heads fluttered the sheet off her body, exposing to me her tender breasts and the marks I’d left behind on her thighs.
I bent down and kissed the top of her head before she drew in a deep breath.
“What time is it?” she asked with a whisper.
“Not time to wake up.”
“Then why are you kissing on me?”
I rolled her over onto her back as her eyes slowly inched open.
“What if I simply want to?” I asked.
“It’s still dark out,” she said with a groan.
“Then go back to sleep. Here, I can help wear you out again.”
I kissed down her body and she giggled that breathless little sound that made my cock ache for her. I kissed her breasts and ran my tongue around her nipples. I slid my hands down her curvy outline as my lips ventured to where they wanted to be. Brynn slung her arm over her face, groaning at the lack of sleep even as her hips rolled into me. I felt her pussy already heating. I felt her juices already dripping.
And when I settled between her legs, I couldn’t wait to feast on her body.
I didn’t know what time it was. Two in the morning. Maybe three. All I knew was her smell scent me wild and the glistening arousal between her pussy folds had me salivating. I lapped my tongue up her slit, listening to her moan as her hips rose to my lips.
Then, Brynn said something that set my heart pounding in my chest.
“Did you hear that?”
I paused my movements, moving over her pussy underneath the covers. I held my breath as my mind swirled a thousand times a second. I knew I had heard something. And now, Brynn had heard it as well. She shuffled away from me and sat up, the moment ruined as the two of us listened out.
“Did you lock the front door?” she asked.
In an instant, I was out of the bed. I heard Brynn scramble for the sheet as she searched for her clothes. I pulled my jeans onto my body and heard her beginning to pant. Not with need or want for me, but in fear. I reached for my bedside table and ripped it open, pulling out the gun I kept in there. I slipped the magazine into the bottom of it and cocked the chamber, ready to fire at a moment’s notice.
“Get in the closet,” I said.
“Diesel, are you sure there’s--”
“I’m not asking you again.”
I shot her a look and she quickly slid from the bed. Clad in nothing but her outfit she had rolled into town with, she silently slipped into my closet. I crept around my bed, holding my gun up and ready to take aim at anyone who managed to slip in unannounced. I had been so wrapped up in Brynn’s body I hadn’t even thought to leave the damn bed and lock the fucking door.
Then, I heard it.
The smallest footstep on my hardwood floor.
I turned to the closet and saw Brynn’s eyes poking out from the darkness. I put my finger to my lips, shushing her before I shooed her back in. Someone was in my fucking apartment, and unless it was one of the guys playing some sort of fucked up trick, I was about to blow them away. I turned off the only other light in my room, blanketing my entire apartment in darkness.
Then, I turned the corner and made my way into the living room.
Within seconds, I was surrounded. Something came out of nowhere and cracked me against the back of my head, tumbling me to the ground. I felt a boot come down onto my hand and I squeezed my gun, popping off a round that went splintering into the wall. My hand released the cool gunmetal as I stood to my feet, but an elbow quickly came down into my back.
There were at least three of them, and I knew then and there that Brynn was in trouble.
“Diesel!”
I heard my closet door swing open and crash against the wall. I flew up from my spot on the floor and threw punches, making my way through the throngs of people that had somehow settled themselves in my apartment. I felt blood splatter and bones crack. A couple of my fingers got dislocated trying to get back to her. I heard her struggling. Screaming. Calling out for me as a window busted in the distance.
“Diesel! Help me! Please!”
Blood pumped through my veins. My eyes bulged with anger. I felt a guy wrap his arm around my neck, trying to take me down and deprive me of oxygen. I sank my nails into him and threw him over my head, colliding him with the wall. I took a couple of steps forward before I felt something else crack against my back, sending me to my knees. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t speak. Another punch to my jaw sent me to the floor as Brynn’s voice faded into the distance.
Punch after punch. Kick after kick. I felt bruises already forming against my body as blood trickled from my lips. I felt another man wrap his arm around my neck and I tossed him forward, then dropped to my hands and bear-crawled into my bedroom.
“Brynn?”
“No! Stop it, you son of a bitch!” she exclaimed.
“Brynn!”
I look up just in time to see someone rip her through the broken bedroom window in my apartment. I scrambled to my feet, my body surging with yet another rush to get to her. I lunged for her body before the guy fell two fucking stories, falling to the ground and taking Brynn with him. I reached for a gun that should’ve been on my hip, but there was nothing there. And the second I turned around to go find the gun I stashed in my sock drawer, I was met face to face with a fucker I recognized.
Fang.
“Rex is coming for you,” he said with a grin.
“Diesel!”
I whipped my head around and watched a Black Saddle stuff Brynn into a car before he rose his gun up to me. He fired off two shots that caused me to duck, and the second I hit the ground something sharp pierced the side of my neck. The room spun and my limbs went weak, and suddenly my body felt as if it was sinking in cement. I couldn’t keep my eyes open. My body ached. The smell of Brynn’s womanhood still swirled around my head as I dropped to my hands and knees.
“We got her. Let’s get the hell out of here.”
And then, the entire world went black.