RAFE'S LAIR (4 page)

Marie smile up at the big idiot who thought he could just kiss her like he owned her. Riiight. Marie hauled back and punched him right in his cocky mouth splitting his lip open. Still smiling at him the
entire time.

Aw, hell he just might be in love.
Ethan thought as he wiped the blood off his mouth. He looked at his fingers and then back at the firecracker that'd just decked him like she was a prize winning boxer. Pushing his fingers in her mouth, he said.

    "Now kiss it better."

                                    CHAPTER 6

      Ed had just come into Lair to have a few drinks, find him a sub...or three. Have himself a nice quiet, relaxing evening to help him unwind. Not clean up the mother of all me
sses. Shit why did things always have to be so damn dramatic in the supernatural world? Why couldn't he have been born an imp or maybe an angel? No scratch the angel bullshit, their lives were almost as dramatic as his. And who in their right mind wants to be immortalized to look like half naked chubby little baby things? They were just creepy if you asked him. Although it was far easier watching after pathetic humans than oh say
vampires
for instance.

Of all the vamps he thought would do something this damn stupid, Rafe would have never crossed his mind. N... E.. V.. E... R! Ever, in fact if the Fates themselves had told him Rafe was going to all but kill his mate, he would have laughed in their creepy
cute little faces and told them they'd lost their damn minds. It's a good thing they didn't divulge that little tidbit of info to his lowly self though. He probably, no,
would be
a pile of ash at their tiny little feet instead of here saving one of his closest friend's ass. Yay for our side!

Ed wasn't saving Rafe from the counsel; he could give two shits 'bout those holier than thou fucktards. Yes, he was going to do his duty and inform them of Rafe's royal fuck up, but he wouldn't let them do a damn thing
to Rafe about it. Ed would deal with Rafe himself. He owed the vamp that much. Not to mention Rafe was too important to keeping the supernatural community safe. They couldn't afford to lose such an honorable League enforcer. They really couldn't afford to lose a League period, but hey, Rafe was still one of Ed's favorites anyway. Although he would never admit that to the vamp, or anyone else. First, he had to save Rafe from himself. And then he had to save Rafe's unfortunate little mate from Rafe.

Ed walked
through the club without anyone or anything knowing he was even there. There were some perks to being a demon. First one being? He could walk through two worlds at once but not totally be in either one. Yeah ninjas had nothin on him. He was the ultimate sneak attack. Awwww yeeyah. Well him and angels, but again he was way cooler 'cause everyone knew demons were bad ass lookin. And they sure as hell didn't think demons wore diapers. Check and Mate kiddies.

Ed walked right up behind Rafe while the rest of Raf
e's fool crew had their thumbs up their asses. Well would ya looky there? He had two vamps who'd found their mates. Yippee. He only had the patience to deal with one Romeo at a time though. Mm kay. So Ethan could just friggin wait till Ed was ready to deal with his punk ass. Now that Ed knew what the hell was going on, he'd pay closer attention to the little minions.

Thanks for the no heads up there Fates. Not
! Ed thought looking up at the ceiling and giving them a thumbs up with a big goofy grin on his face.

Looks like Ethan's mate had him pretty well whooped already thankfully. Literally, sweet little honey had just cold cocked the dip shit right in the jaw. Good girl. Note to self. Buy that girl a drink, cause Fates knew they all wanted to do that to the
cocky bastard.

Anyhoo, time to make a vamp go sleepy bye

    "Say goodnight Rafe." He said in Rafe's ear letting Rafe actually hear him.

Ed reached out, fully phasing into the mortal world, and touched Rafe on the shoulder. The dude immediately dropped li
ke a ton of bricks effectively releasing the girl. Yep. Demons rock and he knew it. Ed caught her before she could hit the ground. She didn't deserve any more pain than she was about to feel. Poor thing, she was gonna wish he'd just let her die before Ed was done with her.

He could see her spirit pulling away from her body and he held both against his chest cradling her. Keeping her from going too far before he could get her put back together again. She looked at him, seeing his true form, and she cocked he
r head in confusion. Damn, no fear. Nice sweetness. She then looked down at her body in his arms and quickly looked back up at him. Yeah she didn't like
that
much though. He didn't blame her. He wouldn't either if he was her.

    "It's okay sweetness, I'll
put your little Humpty Dumpty back together again. It's gonna hurt like hell, but I promise when I'm done you won't remember a thing and you'll be all better again."

She then looked over at Rafe lying sprawled on the ground, her blood still on his mouth,
then back to Ed again quickly. Her eyes were pleading with him and her face was all squished with fear. Yeah she was definitely Rafe's mate. Even after he'd killed her, she was still more worried about Rafe. Lucky bastard. Ed was gonna make sure that mother fucker suffered for being such a dip shit.

Ed laid Rafe's mate down next to him staying close so he could keep her soul from slipping away. If that happened, they were all fucked. He'd never be able catch her and Rafe would go insane when he came to and
she was dead. Rafe would have to be executed then. Once a supernatural found its mate, it could never live if the mate died. And there sure, as hell was no way the Fates were gonna help on that one.

Sometimes Ed hated those insane little nymph wanna-be's.
Yeah they looked like harmless little girls, but every supernatural thought they were friggin evil whether they admitted it or not. At least that was Ed's opinion anyway and his opinion was the only that mattered in his book.

    "He'll be okay, I promise
. He's gonna feel everything you do though, cause I'm an asshole like that, but he's a big boy. He'll deal. Now you just look at me sweetness, and I'll take care of the rest."

She did exactly as she was told. That's a girl. Yeah Rafe would pay dearly for m
aking Ed do this to her. Ed kept his hand on the girl's chest to keep her soul hovering right above her body. And reached over to Rafe to revive him just enough to make him feel what he'd done to his mate, but not enough for him to be able to do anything about it. Rafe groaned coming to.

    "That's right asshole, wake up. You royally fucked up buddy. You
’re a lucky sum bitch I like you, but I always come through at a price you know. And I will so make you pay for this one." Ed looked back at the girl. "Here we go sweetness. Oh and I'm sorry in advance."

Ed bent down and kissed the girls blue lips calling on his awesomeness as a demon to jump start her life once again. Kinda like you'd jump start a truck. Her body jerked and then she about blew his ear drums
out. Yeah they'd be ringing for a while thanks to her superb set of pipes.

Ava screamed an ear piercing scream that Rafe felt all the way through to his cold soul. This thing was killing her! He had to be the devil himself. He looked like he
was
fire. Not
on
fire,
was
fire, but with horns and claws and he was burning her body to ash. She was completely surrounded by fire, his fire.
Him!
She had to be in hell now. But she didn't know what she'd done while she was alive to be sent here.

Please stop! I'm so sorry for whatever I did to deserve this. Please, I'll do whatever you want, just please stop hurting me!

Ava was trying to talk to the devil, but she couldn't make her mouth work. Probably cause the evil thing was kissing her. She tried to fight him off but her body wouldn't move.
God please help me!
She cried out with all her being even though she couldn't talk. She could see Rafe lying next to her, his body tight almost to the point of snapping. His face was contorted in pain and his mouth was open screaming just as she was. Why couldn't she hear him screaming? Why was he in pain too? The devil wasn't touching him.

Please stop hurting him. He didn't do anything! Let him go damn you!
The devil sat back up straight and smiled at her.
I'd love to smack that smile off your face asshole.
He laughed at that.

    "Damn girl, I don't remember the last time I've been shocked and amused by a human. And twice in one night, by two little human females. I am so going to enjoy watching Rafe fall all
over himself trying to get you back. Give him hell sweetness; he deserves every bit of it."

Ed touched the girl
’s heart and forced it to start beating again. Her whole body jumped off the ground with the force of the impact going into her chest. Yeah, she'll feel that one in the morning. Sorry sweetness. Consolation prize? So would Rafe and Ed was going to damn well be there to see it. Thanks for playing boys and girls.

Ava felt a slam rock through her body and it splinter apart like an explosion.
Great! The evil devil turned her into a bomb and he killed Rafe and Marie with it.
And that was the last thought she had before everything went black.

Rafe felt so much pain he could barely
breathe. It wasn't his pain he knew it wasn't. It was his beautiful's. Ed was here and he was killing her. When the hell did he show up? He had to stop the demon now before it was too late. Rafe saw Ed move more into his line of sight. The demon smiled at him and touched his head and Rafe saw exactly what he had done. Ed wasn't killing her he was
healing
her. Rafe had killed her! He'd lost it and bit her right there in the middle of the club. He'd been kissing her. She'd tasted so damn good he'd kissed his way down to her neck.

He'd only wanted to
breathe in her scent while he'd tried to calm himself down. He'd had to bury his face in her neck cause his eyes were glowing and his fangs had shot down into his mouth with a vengeance. He couldn't let her see him like that. He'd scare her to death and any chance he'd had to make her his would be gone. He was trying to protect her until he had the chance to explain what he was and he couldn't do that until he knew for sure she wouldn't run screaming in terror. Oh yeah, and that whole going to the counsel thing and getting permission from the elders. But that he couldn't make himself care too much about. He had to keep her at all costs.

Ed was back in his face again. He'd stopped his little show and tell of Rafe's big fat oopsie.
Thanks buddy.

    "Yeah that's right asshole you owe me one hell of a payback now. And you owe her an eternity of groveling for the pain you caused her." Ed said jerking his head in Ava's direction. "She won't remember a thing not you or even coming to this club.
Especially
not you. But you will. Every damn thing. And you'll know you lost her cause you’re a dip shit."

No
! Rafe tried to scream. He tried to move to grab his mate.
Mate
. That thought slammed into his head with the force of a runaway freight train knocking the breath out of him again. She was his mate. That's why he'd lost it. Everything that he was needed to get in on the action when it came to her. She was the one thing meant only for him.

    "Give this vamp a cookie; he's smarter than he looks." Ed said sm
acking Rafe upside the head. "Yes dumb ass. Took you long enough to figure it out though, and look at what its cost you."

Keep it up fireball, when I can move paybacks will be a bitch.
Rafe thought at Ed realizing the demon could hear his thoughts. Ed just grinned at him. He got up and picked up Rafe's mate's limp body.
Don't you dare you ugly goat. Put her down. dammit bring her back to me. Ed I'll fucking kill you!

Ed turned back to Rafe and grinning again said, "Yep kinda figured you'd want to do that.
That's why you still can't move while I gotta do what I gotta do. Don't you worry your pretty little head though, once I get sweetness here safely home and away from you. Then you and I can have all the fun you want. Be back in a jiffy cupcake."

With that,
Ed winked blew Rafe a kiss and was gone with both girls. The club came back to life again. Rafe picked himself up off the floor feeling like he'd been used as a punching bag. Marcus and Nate looked at him like he'd grown three heads.

    "Mind telling me
what the hell just happened." Marcus said to him. About that time, Ethan started freaking out.

    "Where the hell is she? She was right here in front of me."  He said looking around them and even under the table. Gesturing wildly.

Really, dude? Under the table? Well actually, in this club you really never knew. So yeah look away dude under every table just to be sure. Marcus looked back at Rafe raising a brow. Rafe said one word and that was all the explanation that was needed.

    "Ed."

    "Ooohhh" They all said in unison nodding their heads and splitting back up to get back to work.

Ethan was grumbling to Nate as they were walking away. "Man and I was just about to have her kiss my boo boo all better too." He said wiping the blood off his mouth again.

    "Don't look at me old man; I sure as hell ain't kissing you better." Nate said shaking his head.

Ethan went after him acting like he was going to hug him. "Aw but pookie kins I need you."

And that's when Rafe tuned them out. He turned to Marcus.

    "You
look like shit man. Why don't you head out? You need a break. We got this for the rest of the night. If I need ya I'll call.” Marcus told him.