What the hell was Jas thinking, bringing a civilian into our compound? As if that wasn’t enough, she wants me to pick her up. How am I going to keep my hands off her for a whole evening? I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me if I want pussy, I just take a Jezebel, but since I met Gabriela two months ago when I dropped off the plate from Draco’s birthday cake, I can’t get her out of my mind. I even embarrassed myself last night. I got Tina one of our Jezebels to suck me off until the image of Gabriela popped into my mind. That has never happened to me before in four hundred and eighty-three years, my cock has never gone soft before I could find release. Soft, like a damn limp wet rag.

I tried to talk to Wulf yesterday, but Jas has him by the balls. What Jas wants, Jas gets. Fuck! This is going to be a long day.

“Hey brother!” Looking up from where I have been working on the artwork, on the tank of my new bike for the last two hours I see Ceric standing by the door to the garage smirking at me. ‘I’m not up to your shit today’ I say to myself. If he’s here to play the fool he will find my fist in his face soon.

“Whoa! I come in peace. What the hell brother?” He looks at me with a concerned look on his face.  Ceric, of all the brothers, is the jokester of the group. He is always trying to make someone laugh. He’s kind of an easy, happy-go-lucky guy, never taking anything too seriously. “I hear we’re having sweet company tonight, thought you would be happy. I hear she’s bringing treats.”

It was a standing joke between all the brothers about me and my food. They always complain that when I’m eating no one can disturb me. What’s wrong with that? I like eating and when I’m eating I like to enjoy it without anyone disturbing me. They talk but every one of them is just as bad as me.  And what the hell! Am I the only one that is concerned about a woman we don’t know anything about, coming into the compound? 

“Aren’t you worried about a woman we don’t know coming into the compound?” He was looking at me with one of his ‘up to something’ smiles. Usually my brothers were as suspicious as hell about anyone, apparently that didn’t count for when Jas wanted to invite someone. “What can a little thing like her do to us? Okay, maybe not small all over.” He jokes, with a wink at me. Ceric is a real man-whore, always ready to hook up. Damn, who was I to judge, but Gabriela is Jas’s friend. He should respect that and keep his eyes and thoughts away from her.

“Why the fuck are you looking at her? She’s Jas’s friend”. I know I’m sounding like a prick but the idea of him looking at her makes me see red.

What’s wrong with me? I had never felt this possessive about anyone, but if Ceric isn’t careful I’m going to rearrange his smile for him.

Ceric replies, “What the hell is wrong with you today? Haven’t you eaten yet or something? Damn brother; if this is bothering you so much I can always go pick her up. I heard you bitching to Wulf about it and I definitely don’t mind having that piece of ass next to me for a while.”

Before I know what, I’m doing I’m in front of him. Grabbing his T-shirt I push him up against the wall next to the door he had come through. “You keep your eyes and hands to yourself! Do you hear me? She’s not coming here for your pleasure.” My breathing is coming out in shallow pants, my voice when I spoke was a growl. I know I’m overreacting but for the life of me I can’t help it.

Ceric is looking at me with shock in his eyes, I’m usually quite mellow. It takes a lot to get me riled up but just the thought of Ceric touching Gabriela makes me want to tear him apart.

“Chill out, what the fuck?” He tries to push me back, but my arms are still on each of his shoulders holding him against the wall and I’m not in the mood to let him go yet, even though I know I’m being an ass.

Suddenly I feel an arm around my neck and the other around my waist pulling me back. I know who it is before I even see him. One guy can’t pull me away if I really don’t want to be pulled away, but Draco is our MC President I have the greatest respect for him. He’s a great leader who cares about his men. 

“What the hell is going on here?” Draco askes in a deceptively low voice. He lets go of me when he realizes that I’m not going to go after Ceric.

“Don’t look at me!” Ceric quipped. “This fucker attacked me, all I did was offer to go and pick up the sweet piece instead of him. I thought I would be helping him out, seeing as he was bitching earlier on to Wulf about her coming here.” Turning away from them I see that most of the brothers have joined us in the garage. They are all standing around looking at the three of us curiously. 

We have all been together for decades. I know that we would all die for each other if need be. I also know that me attacking one of my brothers is not like me and that creates concern. “What’s up Bjarni? This isn’t like you?” Draco asks with concern in his voice. I’m the Sergeant at Arms for the Elementals MC founding chapter, as I can keep my cool but also physically I’m the strongest out of all of us.

As Elementals, my brothers and I are more than human, we each have specific powers, depending on which element we belong to. Because of this we all must be able to control our tempers or our powers could destroy and hurt humans. My element is earth which allows me to have an affinity with all animals. At the moment, I feel like a cornered animal, and that I do not like. Never have I felt as if I’m losing control, like I have for the last few weeks. 

“I don’t know, but when Ceric started talking about the girl I started to lose my shit. It’s her, since I met her all I can think about is her. It’s driving me crazy,” I growl, looking up at Draco as he stands across from me with his hands low on his waist and his legs braced, as if he’s waiting for me to attack him. We have all been through a lot in our long lives, we always stand together if there is something wrong with one of the brothers, and it becomes our mutual problem. That is how we think. We stick together and we help each other through whatever we might be going through. We are family, nothing stands between us. That is why it is my responsibility to let them know what is going on with me, even though I don’t exactly know myself.

“What do you mean, it’s her? Is she your woman?” Draco askes with a growl. I also hear Cassius groan. I understand his groan, for some it’s a blessing to find our woman but for others, a curse. I always wished to find my other half, my woman; but now that I strongly suspect that it could be Gabriela, I’m running scared. I will never admit that to my brothers but the idea of my woman being out there, of being responsible for another being is paralysing. All I know is that she’s fucking with my mind, I think about her every minute of every day from the moment I met her at the bakery. The minute my eyes touched her I was rock hard. I wanted to bury my cock so deep in her that she would never want anyone else. I had never had this instant attraction to anyone before.

The only way to know for sure if she’s my woman will be for me to touch her. If we as elementals touch the woman meant for us, there’s a chain reaction. She will go into a fit, kind of like an epileptic fit until her man gives her some of his blood. He will then have to drink from her, which will start the bonding. They will only be completely mated once they have had sex. If the male does not consummate their union immediately as time passes, he will become more and more unpredictable, more dangerous to the males around him.

If I’m already this possessive without touching her, what the hell will I do if she’s my woman?  Just the thought of any other man touching her makes me growl in fury. 

“I don’t know but I think she might be,” I state answering Draco, seeing the shock on some of my brothers faces.

“Fuck!” Draco states looking at me with concern. “What are you going to do?” I understand his concern, once I’m bonded to my woman my life will change. Once we elementals bond we can’t be away from our woman for long, or them from us, as we must touch or talk constantly or our bodies start to feel the separation.

“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” I growl kicking the chair that I had been sitting on before Ceric interrupted me. Bion ducks as the chair goes flying over his head. 

“You will have to touch her to make sure, but once you do, that’s it!” Wulf states. He’s the only one from our chapter that has a woman. I had seen when he first bonded with Jas the struggle he went through when she was around us. Still today even though Jas is expecting their first child, Wulf does not allow any other man to touch his woman.

“Motherfucker! I’m not ready for this!” I grunt. I don’t know if I’m angry at myself for feeling scared or at Gabriela for appearing in my life now that we had so many things going on with the club.

“One way or another we will have to bring her in, if she’s yours, she’s in danger. We will have to investigate and see if she has any gifts like the other women that Merdor and Vercin are after, and if she’s like Jas.”

Celmund is our tech guy, usually anything we needed to know he can find. Celmund maintains his midnight black hair short with his all-knowing dark chocolate brown eyes and tanned skin he looks nearly Apache. I wonder if Gabriela will find him handsome? What the hell am I thinking?

Was Wulf also plagued with these types of thoughts when he met Jas? When Wulf had bonded with her we had been surprised to find out that Jas would go into trances and paint things that would happen in the future. That has helped us in certain situations and saved our skins a few times. We also found out a few months ago that Vercin the Keres MC President and Merdor his VP are after women with specific gifts. The Keres MC were also Elementals but they had gone rogue, taking too much blood trying to get more and more power. The Elementals MC and the Keres MC are in a constant war.

The only way of an elemental becoming more powerful is when he bonds with the woman meant for him. If we don’t find our women some of us start to lose some of our powers, that’s the reason why the Keres MC are hunting women with special gifts and drinking from them. We had found photos of some of the women they had been investigating, and found a woman that they had been testing,  when we had raided one of the warehouses belonging to the Keres MC.

If there was any chance that Gabriela could be one of these women I could not leave her unprotected, but if she’s my woman, our lives will change as soon as I touch her.

“I suggest that one of us picks her up as planned, not Bjarni, so he won’t be tempted to touch her before he’s ready. We’ll bring her here and suss her out.” Burkhart suggests. Burkhart is a daredevil that craves adrenalin; anything that has a whiff of danger and he’s there. Burkhart is the only brother now, with a beard not that it detracted from the ladies’ interest in him. With his rust-coloured hair and beard, his dark eyes that feel like they penetrate your soul when he stares at you, apparently going by what the Jezebels say, he’s quite attractive.

There’s no chance in hell he was picking Gabriela up, looking around I can’t pick anyone I would allow to go and collect her except maybe Wulf, and that’s just because he’s already bonded to Jas and I know no one will ever tempt him. That is one of the signs about the Elementals when bonding, once we find our woman, no one else will ever tempt us again. We are faithful to our dying breath.

 “Bjarni, are you okay with that?” this from Draco. I know it’s just a formality him asking me if I’m okay with them bringing Gabriela here. After all, the final decision is up to him. If he says no, it would be no, but on the off chance that she’s my woman he’s deferring to me.

“Only if Wulf picks her up, or I go.” I answer keeping my eyes steady on his. At his nod I exhale, happy that at least none of my other brothers would be picking her up. Not that I did not trust them, but I did not want to put temptation in their way. I didn’t want to have to hurt them.

“Celmund, try and find out as much as you can about her. I know you have done a background check before, but I want to know everything. She will be staying overnight. Once she is here we will have to try and find out as much as possible about her. Wulf, do you think we should ask Jas to try and get something out of her?” Draco looks over at Wulf our club VP, waiting for his response. Wulf is even more protective than before, if that’s possible, now that Jas is expecting. I know he is driving her crazy, not allowing her to do anything he thinks is too strenuous for her. I was surprised he still allowed her to cook. Jas had taken up the cooking of our meals when she arrived. I think if he had to ban her from cooking, there would be a riot at the compound with me in the lead. Not that I would ever hurt Jas in any way. She is like the younger sister that I never had.

“I will speak to her,” Wulf responds. Draco nods looking around at everyone

“You all know how tricky this can be, if she is Bjarni’s we need to keep her safe and keep him calm until he decides it’s time to bond with her. Bjarni, I want you to keep your shit together, are we clear?” I grunt in response, still undecided whether I want her to be my woman, or hoping that she was my woman and that I had finally found the other piece of my soul.