Two weeks after the issue at the bakery and the retrieval of Aria, things had calmed down. We were all waiting for retaliation from the Keres, but so far nothing had happened. The strange thing about our attack on their clubhouse was that most of the men there were human. Something was going on, the Keres were taking on humans whereas before they hadn’t. That makes us believe that they are planning something big where the men will be dispensable.

We are having a party tonight and some of our other chapters are coming in; also for most of the brothers to let off some steam. I received Gabriela’s kutte yesterday. I want to make sure she is wearing it tonight, so everyone knows who she belongs to.

“Morning.” I feel Gabriela’s breath against my chest as she speaks. She is sprawled over me, I have noticed that this is her favourite position to sleep. My woman is so hot, I’m already hard even after the marathon we had during the night, only falling asleep a couple of hours ago. We both groan as she moves and her pussy rubs against my cock.

“Mmm, I can’t believe you’re up to it again,” she giggles. I feel her hand move down between our bodies taking hold of my cock. Fuck! If I don’t stop her now we will be here for the rest of the morning. After sharing blood last night my Baby Girl went a bit wild, I smile to myself thinking of the way she rode me. Placing my hand around hers I pull her hand away reluctantly, I know that she must be tender from the night we had.

“Why are you stopping me?” she asks, looking up at me with a frown. I lean down and touch her clit tenderly seeing her flinch.

“That’s why, you’re too tender. I will run you a nice hot bath and then we need to go and meet with Celmund.”

After our bath Gabriela is still in the bathroom when I pull out her kutte. I had hidden the kutte at the top of our cupboard when I had received it so she wouldn’t find it before the time. I now place it on the bed next to the amber stone chain that is identical to mine but with a smaller stone that I want to give her. All the Elemental brothers have a birthstone that contains part of their essence, when an Elemental child is born, a few weeks after its birth a ritual is performed where drops of the child’s and the parent’s blood is mixed together with sand and forged into two semi-precious stones. One is for the child and the other is for the child’s mate when they find them.

This stone protects the energy of the person that is using it, especially from the Keres and their hypnotic mind control. I am only able to give Gabriela the stone now because we have shared blood and the stone will not harm her in any way after she is carrying my essence in her veins. The stone will also sicken anyone that touches it besides the two of us.

I hear my woman making her way into the room and then stop, looking over at her I see her staring at the bed where I have the kutte and the stone with the intricate silver chain.

“Is that for me?” her voice is shocked. I see the fight she is having with herself not to cry. 

“Come here Baby Girl.” She is wearing a tight little red T-shirt that moulds her breasts and tight black jeans hugging her sexy ass. She is showing off way too much of her body. It’s a good thing she’s going to be wearing my kutte that will hide her curves. Picking up the kutte, I help her put it on, once I see how perfect it looks on her and the way the words stand out PROPERTY OF BJARNI I smile, now everyone at the party will know whom she belongs to.

Picking up the chain from the bed, I see her staring at it, then up at me. I have explained to her before what getting a replica of our stone means.  I see a tear slip down her cheek as I place the chain over her head and lay the stone against her heart.

“I give you a part of my essence to protect and enhance your energy. By wearing this amber, you will always have a piece of me with you. You are now part of my blood, my soul, my very essence. I ask that you wear this always to remind you of our bond and the love that I hold for you.” She’s now openly crying.

“You love me?” she asked, now looking down at the floor with the tears running down her face.

“Don’t cry Baby Girl, you know it breaks my heart to see you cry.  I thought this would make you happy, not sad. And of course, I love you, you are my very existence. Without you I will be completely lost.” She looks up at me, still crying but now with a big goofy smile on her face and then she jumps into my arms, hugging me around my neck. I can feel the wetness of her cheek against my neck as she nuzzles into it. 

“I love you too Bjarni.” Her words feel like they pierce my heart and entwine throughout my body into all my cells with such force that for a minute I’m sure I have lost my breath with the force of the feelings coursing through me. I hug her close, never wanting to let go.

We are still nuzzling together when we hear her phone ringing. I let her go and she heads towards the bed where her phone is lying.

“Hello!” she calls into the phone. I know that something isn’t right as soon as I see her tense and the smile leave her face.

“Why are you phoning me? Leave me alone.” My fury grows when I realise who it is, we have been looking for him since Burkhart lost him. Celmund had found the car outside a Motel, but when we got there he was long gone. Catching her eye, I motion for her to put the phone on speaker.

“You should know by now Sweetheart, that you are mine. I will never let you go. Don’t tell me that you are happy living with those low life’s!” he sneers. If I could I would push my hand through the phone and ring his presumptuous neck.

“They have higher standards then you. Why are you following me? You know I don’t want anything to do with you!” Her voice is angry as she answers the fucker.

“Well let’s say either you come willingly or I’ll make your new friends pay. How would you like to visit them all in jail?” The son of a bitch really thinks I would ever let her anywhere near him. When I get hold of him, because I will, and soon, I’m going to make him squeal, the fucker!

“You can’t touch them, so leave me alone and go back to whichever gutter you crawled out of!” Gabriela screams at him then disconnects the call. I turn and punch the bathroom door, instantly a dent appears even though all the doors in the compound are reinforced with steel. I take in deep breaths, calming the fury racing through my body. When I feel a measure of calmness, I turn and walk towards her.

“Don’t worry about him Baby Girl, you did well.  Let’s go see if Celmund manged to pick-up his location from the call.” I see she has her hand wrapped around the stone that I have just given her; this pleases me as it shows that it brings her comfort without her even realizing it. She doesn’t say anything until we are on our way.

As I guide her through the bedroom door with my hand on her ass, she asks me if his threat has any substance.

“He can’t hurt us, don’t worry okay,” I assure her as we walk into the computer room to find Celmund and Draco siting behind one of his computers.

“Did you hear the call?” I ask as soon as we enter.

“Yip. He phoned from a pay phone,” Celmund responds without turning around.

“Motherfucker! We need to catch this son of a bitch. If we don’t catch him soon, I’m changing my woman’s phone number.  I won’t have him upsetting her again.” I feel her hand on my chest trying to calm me.

“It’s okay, if this is the only way we have of catching him I don’t mind taking his calls,” she admits to me.

“You might not need to, look here!” Celmund calls, moving away from the computer he is working on. “I hacked into the cameras across the street from that phone booth, look here, when he leaves he gets into this white Chevy.” Celmund has a huge smile on his face.

“Wow! You’re really good,” Gabriela states in awe.

“Thanks Beautiful, that’s what they all tell me.” He quips with a deep laugh and a wink at her.

“Don’t give him a bigger head then he already has Baby Girl, he’s already obnoxious enough as he is,” I tease. Placing my arm around her shoulders I bring her closer to me, kissing her forehead.

“Hey, are you being mean to me? Well I guess I won’t tell you what else I can do,” he grumbles good naturedly.

“Oh Great One, get on with it and stop pissing me off!” I growl, glaring at him teasingly.  Gabriela starts giggling at our playfulness. Draco is shaking his head with a slight smile on his face.

“Well … if you insist. I have hacked into the main frame and will look through all the intersection cameras, that way I can follow his progress until I find where he’s staying. I am also waiting to link his number plate to a tracking system, if I get a hit I will know exactly where he is always. I doubt he will change cars now.” He finished with a big smile on his face.

I wouldn’t confirm what Gabriela said, but Celmund was good and soon we should have a hit on where to find the son of a bitch. He wants to monopolize my woman and threaten my brothers. Well soon he would learn who he’s messing with.

As I’m about to walk out Draco calls us back. “Celmund has received the Reba device, I want him to measure Gabriela’s energy levels.” What the hell? We had discussed this at the meeting. I told them I didn’t want Gabriela poked and prodded for their little experiment.

Apparently, the Reba device measures a body’s energetic field in the physical, mental, emotional and casual energy fields of the body. This system was developed in Switzerland also, allowing the device to measure the energy in a person’s energy centres or Chakras.

Celmund had explained that the Reba device uses a poly frequency spectrum to measure both qualitative and quantitative energy, to confront the body with neutral vibrations and that it wouldn’t hurt or affect Gabriela in any way.

“What do you mean by measuring my energy levels?” she asks looking around at the three of us.

“Draco, I don’t want her tested!” I insist, walking up to him. “You knew what my feelings were about this and you still had to mention it in front of her.” I accuse him. My anger is mounting my hands are fisted and I’m going to punch him soon for his scheming ways.

“You know that we have to know how they are doing it, and the only way is by doing this.” Draco answers calmly. “If there was another way I would do it, but there isn’t.”

“Will someone tell me what’s happening?” Gabriela questions. I nearly laugh when I see her stamp her foot.

“We had asked Bjarni and Wulf to measure your energy levels to find out how the Keres are finding the women that have gifts, but your men here Bjarni and Wulf don’t want you and Jasmine to go through the testing. Even though I understand where they are coming from and I wish I didn’t have to do this, it’s the only way. But if you don’t want to be tested we will abide by your decision.” Draco answers her, I really feel like punching him. He puts it in such a way that she will feel obligated to agree.

“Will it hurt?” she asks.

“No!” I state. I take hold of her hand and start guiding her out of the computer room.

“Bjarni wait! I want to help. If all I have to do is get tested it will be fine.” She starts to back away from me and back into the room, she looks around at Draco and Celmund waiting for a reply to her question.

“You won’t feel a thing, it’s like taking photos. I don’t even have to touch you. The issue is that I must measure your energy when you are normal and then when you are having a vision. That is what your man and Wulf have an issue with,” Celmund explains to her. Hopefully, now that she understands she will walk out of here with me.

“That doesn’t seem too bad,” she answers turning back to me. “Bjarni, it will be okay. I have had so many visions throughout the years that one more won’t make a difference. Please don’t be upset about this, it is a minor thing to do, if I can help somehow.” She is now back in front of me with her hand stroking my face. Damn woman knows I can’t refuse her anything, so I nod to her and glare at Draco.

“This better not hurt her in any way!” I growl at them so they know that I’m not fucking around.

“Cool, Sweetheart please sit down over there in that chair for me!” Celmund calls out and points to one of the chairs by the table. I pull out a chair to sit next to her but Celmund asks me to move over as he doesn’t want to get my energy levels mixed with hers. They are really pushing their luck, but seeing that Gabriela wants to do this, I go and stand by the wall and observe.

After a minute Celmund sets up a device that looks just like a camera and starts to click away then looks at his computer screen and back to clicking away. “I’m finished with these figures, now I need you to have a vision.” At his words Gabriela bursts out laughing.

“Yes Sir, is that all you want?” she teases, shaking her head. “There is only one problem, I have to touch someone to have a vision and it doesn’t look like I’m going to get any with you.”

“What about one of the prospects or a Jezebel?” Draco asks.

“She’s not touching any of the prospects!” Even though I know it would be an innocent touch, I don’t want my woman touching another man.

“I guess it’s a Jezebel then.” Draco grunts shaking his head, and walks out of the room. About five minutes later he walks back in with Gloria. Gloria seems surprised to see all of us in the room, I’m guessing she thought she was doing something else with Draco. “Draco, what’s going on?” she asks.

“Nothing much, I just need you to sit next to Gabriela for a moment. We are testing some equipment, and Celmund needs two women,” Draco responds easily, winking at her.

At his explanation, she goes to sit next to Gabriela, smiling at her and then at Celmund who is behind the device. I see Celmund nod to Gabriela and then she pats Gloria’s hand and let’s go as if she is just reassuring her.

“Okay Gloria that’s all I needed, thanks you can leave,” Celmund states while he carries on clicking the device and looking at his computer screen. Draco guides Gloria out of the room while she tries to entice him. Gabriela is sitting on her chair with that vacant stare she gets when she gets a vision.

“Are you done yet?” I want to go to my woman and comfort her. I don’t like her in distress and even though she said it wasn’t so bad, I know that some of the visions she has, drain her and affect her emotionally. As soon as Celmund nods, I am next to her, taking her in my arms and whispering to her.

“Are you okay Baby Girl?” I ask, as soon as she starts to blink her eyes and concentrates on me. She nods, placing her face against my neck. She breaths in deeply. After a few minutes, she pulls away and gives us a tremulous smile.

“Did it work?” she asks. I can see she is still slightly dazed.

“Yes, it did, thank you Beautiful,” Celmund replies still looking at his computer. “I will compare your details with Jasmine’s if Wulf ever comes around and lets us test her; and then we will see if we are on the right track.”

“Gloria’s in trouble, someone’s going to kill her,” Gabriela says in a whisper, looking at me with a haunted look in her eyes.

“What do you mean, going to kill her?” I ask, surprised at her comment.

“I saw a man choking her. It seemed like she knew him but I don’t know who it was or where, as my touch was too brief.” I can see the vision has perturbed her and that is why I didn’t want her to do this, but if what she saw is true we need to keep an eye on Gloria.

“Don’t worry Sweetheart, we will keep an eye on her now that we know she’s in danger.” Draco had come back into the room after escorting Gloria out of the room, just in time to hear Gabriela’s statement.

“Would you be able to tell us what the guy looks like?” Celmund asks.

“No, I’m sorry he was in darkness. I could just see his hands around her neck as he choked her,” she answers dejectedly.

“It’s okay Baby Girl you did well. Don’t worry about it. Nothing will happen to her now that we know.  Come on let’s go, you’ve had enough.”

I pick Gabriela up and make my way towards the kitchen. I need to feed her. I had tired her out last night and this morning we had gone directly to Celmund, before we could even eat. She must be ravenous, I know I am and with her close to me like this it’s not just for food.