Chapter 18: Babysitting a killer
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Nick opened his eyes and seeing us, he growled.
“Nick, it’s ok, we found you and brought you back to our pack, you were really hurt,” I said. He looked at me and groaned, “f***k, can’t I f.ucking escape you.”
Without thinking, I punched him in the leg and snapped, “I just saved your a.ss you ungrateful d.ick!”
Both Romulus and Jax laughed, but Nick glared at me, “f***k you, b.itch, I didn’t need saving”
“Watch your f.ucking mouth when you speak to my mate,” Jax snarled.
Nick gave him a dirty look and said, “I don’t f.ucking care, I don’t give a f***k about any of you. I need to go.”
He tried sitting up but Jax put his hand on his chest, pushing him back down. “Don’t be stupid, with those wounds you’ll barely make it to the f.ucking toilet. Give it a day, and then it should be safe enough to shift to your wolf without damaging anything internally.”
Nick was growing more angry, so I tried to calm things down and asked, “what happened? Where’s your brother and Sarah?”
He growled at the mention of them and then snarled, “Joel’s the one who f.ucking stabbed me and Sarah f.ucking helped him.”
“What! Why would she help him? And why would your own brother turn on you?”
“Because he wants to kill people just for the fun of it and apparently Sarah wants to f.ucking help like some love sick b.itch, it was my brother who sent the video of Sarah to your boss, he wanted me to get captured so I wouldn’t be in the way.”
“Isn’t that why you kill, for fun?” I asked.
“No, I have my reasons and stop asking so many f.ucking questions”
Jax touched my arm lightly and said, “just let the moody fucker sleep.” Looking at Nick, he threatened, “we’ll be up all f.ucking night making sure you don’t try anything, and stay away from Rose, she’s ours. I’m a killer too, and I really f.ucking enjoy it, the slower the t.orture the better so don’t give me a f.ucking reason.”
Nick looked in his eyes and saw Jax was telling the truth. He looked at me and laughed, then growled from the pain.
“You have a thing for killers, Rose? Does watching a man t.orture and hurt people get that p*****. wet?”
“No!” I snapped.
He looked at my mates’ then back to me with a slight smirk on his face. “You sure? Because your p*****. left quite the damp patch on my crotch.”
I knew what he was trying to do, get between me and my mates’.
I gulped and tried not to choke on the words as I said, “don’t know what you’re talking about.”
He bit his lip and said, “sure you do, you were begging for my c***k, I said you couldn’t have it, but I did allow you to rub your p*****. on me, so you could come.”
I didn’t care if he was injured, I picked up a hairbrush I saw on the side and threw it at him as hard as I could. “Screw you! I was in heat, I couldn’t help it or control it, it’s all your fault!”
He rose an eyebrow, smirking even more, and I ran out of the room crying. I ran straight in to Fenris. Great.
“Hey baby, what’s up?”
I was a sobbing mess as I tried to explain, “I’m sorry, Fenris! Nick, he’s my second chance mate, I tried, I uh, I didn’t mean to, it just happened, and then I felt a wolf inside my body and I—”
He held my arms and said, “woah, slow down, you’re not making any sense, what’s going on?”
Through my sobbing and blubbering he somehow managed to understand as I explained everything, and he pulled me in to his arms and held me tightly.
“Rose, I’m sorry you felt too scared to tell me, you can always tell me anything, even if I lose my s.hit I would never ever hurt you. We will figure it all out together, ok?”
I nodded and whispered, “I don’t deserve you.”
“Shh, don’t say that, babe, this is no one’s fault.”
“But I humped him!” I sniffled.
He was quiet for a moment, and then he burst in to laughter, surprising me. I looked up at him and still laughing, he said, “sorry babe, it’s just the way you said that, and you can’t help your wolf taking over while you’re in heat.”
“Can I sleep with you tonight.”
“Of course you can,” he kissed my nose and took me to bed.
When morning came, I went down to have breakfast with the kids when I saw Nick on the stairway going down too. He must have shifted because he looked much better, he was still moving stiffly, but he didn’t look like death anymore.
Our eyes met, and he muttered, “your mate told me to eat.”
I carried on down, and getting myself some cereal, I sat where I always did in the kitchen.
Nick joined me after finding his own bowl and spoon, and I said, “what are you doing? Sit somewhere else.”
“f***k off b.itch, I don’t even want to be here, as soon as I’m done I’m leaving.”
“Good!” I snapped back.
He only smirked and then started eating.
“Are you going to hunt your brother down?” I asked curiously.
I wasn’t really expecting him to answer, but it looked like he was about to until Jax walked in to the kitchen. He closed his mouth and went back to eating.
When he finished, he stood up and Jax asked, “where the f***k do you think you’re going?”
Nick sneered at him and replied, “none of your business, move.”
Jax blocked his path and said, “no, do you even know what’s going on with the bond between you and Rose?”
Nick shrugged, “yeah, so, you don’t need to worry I don’t want her.”
“Well I do worry prick, the bond is trying to force you two to complete it, your tainted bond s.hit has wrapped itself around Rose so tight that if you die she could die with you.”
Nick looked surprised for a second, he hadn’t known that, then his face was back to being cold and cool. “I don’t plan on dying anytime soon.”
“Well you almost did last night, would have if she hadn’t found you through the bond.”
Nick looked at me then and asked, “what does he mean you found me through the bond?”
“I’m not sure, when you were dying I felt it, it really hurt, I focused on you using our bond, and it helped me locate you, I couldn’t see anything, but I could almost hear, and I could smell things nearby you.”
“So you’re my f.ucking stalker now.”
I pushed him, not thinking about the fact he wasn’t Jax and he gave me one of the most terrifying ice-cold stares. I took a step back, and he turned back to Jax. “Get out of my way.”
“No, you aren’t being left alone until we fix the bond, I’m not having Rose in danger and if that means babysitting you then so be it.”
He tried to push past Jax but he still wasn’t at his full strength yet and groaned from the pain.
“Sit the f***k down before you hurt yourself, princess,” Jax snapped.
“f***k you!” Nick snarled, but he did sit back down.
“Wasn’t so hard, was it,” Jax said sarcastically.
Nick was growing more angry, and I hissed In Jax’s ear, “stop winding him up!”
Fenris came in, and he looked coldly at Nick, matching the icy look in Nicks eyes. “Stay away from our mate.”
“I don’t want your mate.”
“Good because she’s ours.”
He looked at Fenris with contempt and said, “you guys brought me here, I didn’t come here, I don’t want to be here, so stop threatening me away from your mate as if I have any interest in the ugly weak a.ss b.itch.”
Fenris went to hit him, but I touched his arm lightly and without Nick seeing I shook my head no. It took effort for him, but he backed off and stormed to his office.
Romulus came down, grabbing his keys and came over to me. “Hey love, I got a class to train today, you going to be alright here?”
I nodded and Jax snapped, “I’ll be here, dipshit.”
Romulus glared at him and said, “exactly, I don’t think two killers is what Rose needs to be left alone with right now.”
“f***k off dickhead.”
Romulus ignored him and leaned down to kiss me on the lips. “Love you.”
“Love you handsome,” I smiled.
I turned to see Nick watching us with an expression I didn’t get a chance to read before he hid it behind that cold mask.
It was awkward and quiet when Fenris needed help from Jax with something. They didn’t want to leave me alone with Nick, but I shooed Jax off. “It’s fine, I’ll be fine, I was his captive for over a week, and he didn’t hurt me.”
Reluctantly they left me alone, well, not quite, the rest of the pack was still around. It was the weekend so I didn’t have work and the kids were sleeping in as it wasn’t even seven yet and our kids loved their sleep.
Chantelle walked in to the kitchen and when she saw Nick sitting there, she blushed and shyly said, “hello.” Pfft, since when did Chantelle blush.
Nick winked at her, and travelling his gaze slowly over her body said, “hello beautiful.”
I rolled my eyes when she carried on over to the fridge all giddy, and Nick caught my look. “Jealous?” He asked sarcastically.
“Pfft, no, I was actually thinking she is your perfect type, slim, blonde.”
“That’s not why I f.ucking choose my victims,” he snapped.
“You made it out like it was.”
“Yeah, I’m not having anyone ruin my plans, so if they want to think the worst of me they can.”
“You’re an i.diot.” I probably shouldn’t have said that, it pissed him off big time.
“And you’re just some ugly b.itch who’s desperate to get f.ucked by any hot guy that looks her way.”
“I’ve only slept with my mates’, I was a virgin before them.”
“Yeah, well you sure are making up for lost time with three men.”
“You’re such a nasty, horrible person, I have no idea why the goddess would put you as my second chance mate. I hate you!”
“I f.ucking hate you too.”
I was so used to pushing my mates’ around, I again pushed Nick, he growled and stood up, towering over me. “Don’t you f.ucking touch me like that again.”
“Or what?” I challenged. I don’t know what it was about Nick, he seemed to bring out the worst in me.
He pinned me against the wall, his hand around my throat, and snarled, “don’t f.ucking test me.”
My feelings were a mess and I broke down in tears and tried to pull his hand away from me. “Let me go!”
“No, apologize for pushing a more dominant wolf than you.”
For a second, my mind went back to Hayden and how he had treated me, Nick hadn’t hit me yet, but he might, that’s why when he raised his hand I flinched and closed my eyes.
I opened my eyes when he let go of my throat and I saw him frowning at me. “Did you think I was going to hit you?”
I shrugged and mumbled, “you have before.”
“Once, and that was because you got all rapey and s.hit on me.”
I had forgotten all about that and blushed hard remembering what I’d done in the interrogation room. “I’m sorry,” I whispered.
“Why are you so jumpy whenever someone besides your mates’ comes near you?”
I don’t know why I told him, but I blurted it all out.
“When I first joined the pack were not nice, like the girl you just said hello to, her and her group of friends used to beat me and torment me, and then something happened with our mate bond and I moved out, I dated a man who used to beat me.”
His eyes were cold and hard, so I didn’t know what he was thinking, but he moved back from me and said, “I would never hurt a woman like that, and I’m sorry for hitting you in the bunker, you didn’t know I wasn’t a r.apist, and you just wanted information.”
I nodded, too afraid to thank him In case he said something mean.
Chantelle brought her empty plate back out and when she smiled at Nick I was stunned when he didn’t smile back, he gave her a look so cold it beat Fenris’ cold look. She looked at him confused, but scared she quickly left the room.
- Writer
