FLAMES‘AND YOU ARE TELLING ME BECAUSE?’Fuck, I don’t know he was the only guy in B&A who actually listened and paid attention and maybe gave great advice.“I’m lonely”, I snickered sarcastically knowing full well he was holding in a chuckle.And all this was fucking laughable from my point of view, me…the loose screw who shot his way through everything training a woman I hated to fight, using methods that were effective and at the same time driving me crazy.In the marines, our commander didn’t teach everyone the same fucking thing otherwise that was as useless as telling a cat to eat hay.No. He assessed us through a series of tests. Locked some of us in a room without food for days with only a pistol being your friend and from that he’d conclude what training this soldier needed and what this training another soldier needed.What this soldier’s kryptonite was.And what fucking drove a soldier to be in the Marines in the first place.Mia Tonelli’s kryptonite was Bryant Knox.Her dr
MIA‘I THOUGHT WE START GUN FIRING TODAY’, I mused.I had slept like a baby last night; my body getting rid of all the knots and aches I had garnered during the day.Right at this second despite the circumstances, I felt like a polished powdered baby bum fresh and definitely with more fire than I had the previous days.The birds twittered, the trees wavered slightly taking along with them the evidence that it had stopped snowing with the droplets falling on me and Andro now and then. The sun might have spewed its great light on us but I kind of missed the fat icy snowflakes we had received for days now.The snow beneath my feet had dropped an inch than yesterday and with the thawing of the ice on the trees when I looked up, I could see a mountain peak past the trees. Shining at the snow cap like a beacon and the sight was breathtakingly beautiful.I wanted to stay here.I mean it wasn’t much but I could understand why anyone would want to lock himself up in here forever.The air was f
FLAMESFUCK ME.I kissed her.She had fucking killed it and I was proud of her, damn proud than I ever had of anyone and then a surge of panic engulfed her.She could hardly breathe, could hardly hear me and maybe that pushed me to do it.Or maybe I had been dying to do that and this was the dick in me taking advantage of the moment.Taking advantage to taste her, find out that she was nothing special and go back to building up my resentment for her.Her lips trembled beneath mine, her uneven breaths made her whole-body tense and I took her bottom lip into mine, sucking, tasting, savoring, feeling its tightness, its plushness.Then like someone had flipped a fucking kill switch in me, I gripped her neck reeling like a lovesick swain that had discovered how good pussy tasted for the very first time.All inhibitions left from me, I pushed her harder to me, to let me in, to let me feel her.Damn, to kiss me back.I teased her mouth, teased her entrance, if only she could open her lips, j
MIAWRONG.ALL THIS WAS wrong but I couldn’t help myself. My body betrayed me the very minute he put his hands on me and there was no stopping this.I don’t think I would be able to and neither would he.I rubbed circles on my clit, moaning out loud as the emotions overwhelmed me. Sex wasn’t supposed to feel like this. I had done it with Bryant and it didn’t feel like this.With Bryant it was pain, intensified pain and humiliation and with Alessandro—he was watching me now, in front of me, naked to the toe, his dark eyes doing things to me I didn’t think were possible.I travelled south, plunging one finger inside my wet core as he watched, as he licked his lips like he was dying to put his mouth on me and honestly that very action made me come—or maybe I had for the hundredth time in the day.My eyes glided down his mouthwatering muscles, down the abs that started moving when he fisted his length shuddering like I was.And his length? I-he was beautiful. Tall, built like how military
FLAMES‘ANDRO, DON’T SHOOT’Mia’s voice beckoned from behind me but my aim was on the man standing on our porch breathing ruggedly with a black eye peppering his face, a few cuts on his face and let’s just say he was barely alive.Killing him would be doing him a favor especially because he hadn’t triggered any of the alarm systems near the cabin and especially because he’d found us.This cabin, us, we were well hidden, away from the town, in the middle of nowhere, not a fucking person would find us here, except the men from B&A and I sure as hell didn’t know him. Never seen him in my entire life.He moved an inch towards me, trying to cross the door and I held the gun to his fucking forehead.The first shot was a warning, I wouldn’t miss the second shot.One more inch and I would put a bullet between his eyes.He gazed behind me, to the woman standing behind me and I pressed the gun deeper into his fucking skull.MINE.She was mine.“Stop!”Mia’s hand landed on my arm, her fingers to
MIA‘I KILLED HIM’NO.My father, the last I saw him was when Bryant came to fetch me. He was seating on his favorite beige couch, one leg crossed over the other, his lips hidden by the moustache with grey hairs just down his nostrils, his eyes unfocused on me and his ears bleak to my screams.I wasn’t his favorite daughter, I knew that. But even if he had betrayed me, he was still my father. The man who contributed to me being here, the man who acted like a mother and father to me for all eighteen years of my life.I had wished death on him. So many times, but I didn’t actually mean it.He was my father.My father.And now as I raised my head to look at the man who had been inside of me hours ago, a tight knot formed in my heart, tears welled my eyes and needles pricked my throat, it hurt.Flames didn’t speak after that.Instead, he stood there, his dark eyes searching mine, his chest heaving just as mine was except mine beat with resentment towards me, towards him, towards everythin
FLAMESTHE INCESSANT HUMMING DIDN’T STOP.THE NIGHTMARES DIDN’T STAY BACK.“Leave! It was one job, I gave you one job. Look at your brother, are you seeing that? Did you see the burnt skin on him? He could have died, you could have killed him!”“Dad-It was an accident. I’m sorry, okay? I’m sorry!” A step forward and they all looked at me with ire. Like I was the devil incarnate.My father turned away clicking his tongue, my mother, the woman who’d always been on my side couldn’t even look at me.The humming roared, the walls caved in, my hand stretched out at the unconscious boy on the disgustingly blue-covered bed, machines hauntingly beeping around him reminding me how much of an ass I was as a big brother.Diego opened his eyes, he whipped his head weakly looking at me and I could never get that image out of my head.Skin charred, flesh distorted like melted plastic, half of his face burnt beyond recognition. That green in his eyes he’d inherited from my father all gone and, in i
FLAMESI LOVED YOU FIRSTHer crystal blue eyes met mine, her smile a light tease like the cadence in her voice. I reached for her hair pushing the few strands back, touching her cheeks, feeling her warmth wash over me like the scorching hot Florida heat.Blood spurted through my veins as I reached for her. Her body molded into mine, her scent shot up my nostrils and my hands found her hips.The dip in her waist, the bulge of her hips, the smoothness of her skin which was like touching satin for the first fucking time. This was nirvana, this was bliss.Pure perfect bliss.Unfortunately, when I opened my eyes, I was alone in a shitty apartment up in Miami, a massive boner, tons of pain pricking my body and cold water drizzling down to the floor doing nothing to calm the heat that evaded my chest.She was there.I closed my eyes and I fucking saw her. Not her sister but her.Blonde, eyes like the fucking sea, innocence blurring her face, a killer smile, white pearl teeth. And she was loo
A FEW YEARS LATER“YEAH, yeah…fuck”I moaned loving the feel of him moving in and out of me while he enjoyed the show like he always had.He let me take over at times and this was one of those times where I sat in his arms, his hands on my back as I bounced my titties off his dick.The bad thing about it is that it didn’t feel half as satisfying like when he had control over everything and he knew that.“Had enough?” he asked, I slapped his cheek.“Fine you win you can take over”He chuckled,“I thought you would never ask”Holding me in place, my head towering his and our eyes locked on each other, he slipped his dick in me again taking control over everything.Then just as fast and rough as he always was, he thrust once in me and I could feel him all the way in my womb, all the way in to my hilt hitting that spot that only he could reach.“That felt good, didn’t it?”“Don’t gloat, just make love to me like how I like it”His thrusts increased, stretching my insides, forcing my walls
FLAMES“WE ARE GOING BACK to Austin, Texas”, Bates spoke over the phone.“Miami’s not good enough for your playboy ass?”I would miss him but I also knew Miami was never the kind of forever he wanted for him or for Cannon’s kid.“My playboy ways are over Flames. It wounds me that you think I’m still the same fucker you are”“Fuck off”, I laughed and he laughed too and together we were drawn back to our days when it was just me being fucking grumpy at everything and him being the annoying little fucker that buzzed in my ear like a pesky mosquito.“There’s still room for you in B&A, YOU KNOW that”“I know but the kid’s been a lot and I think it’s time I put down my Glock and focus on what matters”“Yeah and what is that?”“Family. I might have a family of two but I love it because it’s so much than I ever had when I was a kid”It was the first time he was admitting that even if we all knew his life story. I could particularly relate to the word family because soon enough I was starting
MIAI LAUGHED.Andro twirled me around bringing me back to his arms as we danced the morning away.The song we were dancing to was something between the lines of ‘baby mama’ and ‘I’ve been pregnant FOR way too long’.“You did not tell me you could dance like that, mister”, I poked my FINGER on his bare chest and what I felt was a brick of hardened muscles.“I’m a man full of surprises”, He said cockily, hands on my waist, eyes so glued to mine I felt like a mushy mud puddle.“Do the guys know you dance?” I teased, he hit me back with a hard,“No”“It’s not a bad thing if a man dances, that doesn’t mean you are weak”“It doesn’t but the last thing I want is for my men to think I’m weak. Believe it or not, they look up to me and I’m the glue that holds them together. If they know I dance or I have a weak spot for anything, they’ll relax and that’s the last thing they should be doing”“I’m I your weak spot?”I was.I knew I was.He had assured me of that in the last few days I had almost
MIAI’D HALF THOUGHT THAT WATCHING a chick flick with a stone-faced guy was the last thing I would have to face for the day but no.Right now, I wasn’t in the room with Pindrop seated on the couch and half explaining the things about the movie that he didn’t understand. That was too good of a gift to ask from God.So instead, He brought this man and trust me hell hath no fury like a scorned Alessandro Petrakis.“Thirty-three calls, fifty messages, five bouquet of flowers and nothing. I had to rush all the way home because my heavily pregnant woman is throwing a tantrum so tell me what’s wrong right fucking now or I’ll show you just how much agony you put me through for not answering my calls”He thundered; I didn’t flinch because this was how he acted when he was mad.I was mad too; I had no right to be but I was because he—he was in Germany with my sister.Alessandro’s eyes searched mine, the bowl of fruit salad resting on top of my bump shook with my hands.I wasn’t scared of him.R
FLAMESEVERY time I landed my ass in this summit there was always the rare occasion, that one I would have to listen in on bullshit conversations about leadership or two, pretend the suit I wore to this function wasn’t choking the life out of me.And the suit was really fucking tighter than the last one I had worn last month.Seated next to the CEO of Alpha security didn’t help my cause either.Elliot Guzman listened to every goddamn word the host spoke, pausing for a second to jot down what he found important and what he needed to change in his firm.The dude was so uptight, I had hated Alpha security the minute I met its leader. And there was that rivalry between us that we both failed to acknowledge.While Guzman scribbled shit in his dandy notebook, my hands itched on my screen.The fuckers I had told to keep an eye on Mia had been MIA. AND WHEN THEY DID TEXT me right this second, they sent a picture of them enjoying pizza with…was that?The fucking guy from Mia’s apartment? The f
MIAI HAD BURNT A LOT OF BRIDGES with him by leaving him but he was here, he was asking how I felt, he was massaging my feet, he was listening, he was acting jealous even if he would have rather died than admitted that and name any woman who would have resisted that.I hadn’t had him for too long and something in my mind and heart—like a kill switch just snapped and I went in for the big prize.A shudder racked my whole body when our lips connected.Sparks might have buzzed and scintillated between us as I took more of his scent, as my fingers found his terse jaw and as uncomfortable as it was I had to move and so I moved.Onto his lap, dry humping against his crotch like a wanton.And maybe I was a wanton woman for wanting him to do dirty things to me a few feet away from the kitchen counter where I had caught Lucy and Blaze going at it like cats on heat.But that’s the thing, I didn’t care.I wanted him.I loved him.He smelled so nice, he looked nice.All muscle and brawn, all hand
FLAMES“HOW’D I DO?”Rakkon’s grin was so wide I could see it beyond the screens and it chuffed me.“Don’t gloat just bring them home”, I sighed getting off the comms.I had one man down and one family to break the news to and honestly this was the part of the job I hated. To have a family entrust me with their delinquent only for him to wind up dead.“I’ll make the call”, Blaze appeared behind me, understanding wedged between his usual cold stale aura.And if the lady’s perfume he had on was any indication, I might have got the hint he was fucking someone in the parking lot before he showed his ass here.I didn’t have time to think about that. Hey whatever kept him happy was fine by me.“I’ll check on Mia”Holy gave me a curt nod of understanding, Blaze stood beside me with that hard and blunt face he wore like a mask.“Word of caution though, your sister’s here”I turned to him with a gutted look.Lucy. Here? Fuck. I thought she was home for the summer after months of attending show
MIA“SAY SOMETHING, ANYTHING”He’d freaked out the minute we stepped into the parking lot and even when we got inside his car the situation hadn’t changed.“I don’t- “The ringing of his phone from the dashboard cut him short and he picked it up faster than I had ever seen him. To avoid the conversation and mostly to avoid the news.I was the one who should have been shocked anyway.I was the woman who was going to push three of his babies out of me and that…would hurt like a fucking bitch.“Situation? What do you mean one of them got fucking shot? They are bloody rookies they should have had someone looking after them. Ooh, right.I’m not going to grovel at the kid, Holy. He made a mistake, granted I shouldn’t have fired him but he needed a time out to cool off. Yeah, call him in, loop him in on the situation and get him on the field. Well, he’s re-hired damn it!”And when he had thrown his phone somewhere in the back seat like soggy spaghetti he didn’t like, I was still there locked
FLAMESTHE TEAL COTTON AND LACE CHEMISE STOPPING MIDTHIGH ON HER didn’t make her look less pregnant but she did look fucking gorgeous and it took every fiber in me not to give in to the feral urges.And my favorite thing in the world I had discovered was placing my hand on Mia’s tummy, protecting the kid in there and sort of assuring him his daddy got this.Mia’s face snored in front of mine, I pulled the covers even higher to cover her sleeping body.“I would have dropped anything for you, Mia. Anything you would have asked me of, I would have given you but you left as if we were nothing, I was nothing and damn it I want to hurt you too but how can I when you are giving me the most precious gift a man like me doesn’t deserve”A child.A bouncy baby girl.The thought brought a smile to my face and I grinned in the dark.The clock to Mia’s right on my nightstand read 0300 hrs. I hadn’t slept a fucking wink and I would have gladly put the blame on little miss snores next to me but someh