Aaron's Kiss Series Boxed Set (Books 1 - 7) (104 page)

It was several minutes later when there was a hard knock at the door. Kyle reached out to see who and found Aaron and Colin just beyond. He knew they were reminding him, and he also knew as soon as they smelled her, they would know that they had truly bonded, mated for all eternity.

“Give us a few minutes, we’ll be right there.” H
e was reluctant to wake her, but he needed to get to shelter soon.

“I’m sorry old man, but it is nearly ten now, much longer and we’ll need to find something closer to here. A good reason to find a house in town to renovate I think.” H
e knew what Aaron was doing, he was letting Kyle tell him in his own way, and he was grateful to him.

“We’ve truly mated, bonded in the way of our people. I’m in love for the first time in my entire existence. Oh Christ Aaron, how will I make her happy?”
His mind just caught up with what his heart had been telling him since he first met her, he was in love with Madison Shelby Harm.

“Making her happy will be much easier than you think, but if you’re a crispy fritter, it will matter not. Move it in gear, I have a mate to please myself.”

Kyle gently moved Maddy to her back and began to wake her. When she opened her eyes finally he smiled down at her, her returning smile was more than he could have hoped for.

“I have to leave, it’s getting late. Come to the mansion today. I want you to stay with me, please? Stay with me for the day.”

“I have to file with the courts and do some work to finish this case. But I will come by before you…I mean you know before you have to…eat?”

“You are my only source of food love, but I’ll be fine tonight, with my age comes the ability to go for several days without feeding. You’ll need to eat more and drink lots more though.” He didn’t want to bring up anything to sour the mood but had to tell her. “Maddy, we still need to talk about some things, all right.”

After they both dressed, she agreed she would come there after she was finished in town. She was dismayed to realize that one of the stockings had torn, but he promised to replace them and wanted to see her in nothing but silk and thigh highs for the rest of their lives together.

“That isn’t the least bit practical, but I promise we’ll work something out,” she told him with all the practicality that was his Maddy. With another scorching kiss, they opened the door.

“Welcome to my Kiss, Maddy. You are now truly a child of mine.” Aaron hugged her tight, too tight as far as Kyle was concerned and Colin kissed her cheek.

“Just great! Well Daddy dearest, get my mate home before too much longer.”

They left shortly after that and Maddy and her escort Eon, this one the pack member she’d been expecting this morning, went to file her win and to petition for the money from Schaller and Schaller for Danny.

Chapter Twenty

“Congrads, Miss Thing!! That had to feel good.” Mary Smith had been filing at the court house forever it seemed and knew everything and everyone and their business.

“You have no idea. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if they counter, or file yet. That’s a great deal of money and you know Mr. Schaller. Mary, I’d like you to meet a friend of mine, Eon, Eon this is Mary Smith.” Mary had told her that Schaller had moved out of his family home the year before he graduated from college and had set up housekeeping in a cheap apartment to establish himself an address other than home just so he could get as much government assistance as he could. Cheap did not do justice to Sherman Schaller.

“I know Eon, he and I hang out at the same kinda meetings don’t we young man? Straighten up like I told you, never will get a girl hanging your head down between your legs.”

“Yes ma’am. I was…we are…I’m escorting Ms Maddy today.” Eon hadn’t been with the pack long he’d told her, just a few years and until then, he’d not known he was a wolf. Maddy liked the young man and his painful shyness around her was sort of cute.

“Good for you. Escorting a pretty lady like Maddy is a good job to have. Don’t let that big vamp scare you, he’s a pussy cat. And don’t you worry any about that with the money either,” Mary told her. “Hamish already filed a lean against the business for midnight Friday. They’ll pay or every payroll check they write will bounce. Wouldn’t you just love it if they don’t?”

“They’ll probably charge each person the bounced check charge knowing those two.”

After a few more minutes of exchanging gossip and wondering how someone so mean could be married to such and such, or about how ugly another person’s baby was Maddy and Eon took off for her borrowed truck.

Just a few more weeks, she thought and my little baby will be running like a top. And to have Danny fixing it for life, well that might not be so long, it was over thirty years old. She really wouldn’t hold him to that. He needed to make a living as well as anyone else.

She walked around the lot twice before she realized what she was doing. The truck wasn’t there. She went back inside and retraced her step out again and still the truck wasn’t where she thought she’d left it. She looked down the street.

“Maybe that guy Danny drove it home forgetting that he leant it to you.” Eon had walked beside her every step of the way and never once complained.

“Ummm, maybe. But wouldn’t he have noticed when he got back to the shop that my car was there? I’ll have to find a payphone and give him a call.” She didn’t want to call him and tell him his car was gone, what if someone had taken it.

“I have a cell. You can use it.” She took the phone and dialed the number to the shop. He did indeed have the truck, but he said that Kyle had told him to take it home that she wouldn’t need it anymore.

“Well, did he tell you how I was supposed to get home without a car?” She was hot and frustrated and just a little embarrassed. She thought she knew why he hadn’t told her, they had sort of gotten side tracked, but that didn’t make her have a car.

“No, he didn’t. I’m sorry Maddy. Carol, my assistant is coming into town now, I can have her pick you up with the truck and take you wherever you wanna go, okay?

“No, don’t worry about it. I’ll just get a cab. Thanks so much.” She called the only cab company in town and made arrangements to be picked up. The lady said it would be a couple of hours. She handed the phone back to Eon and then the two of them went to the diner on the corner to eat lunch.

“Are you mad at him?” Eon was just finishing his fourth cheeseburger and third order of fries.

“Who, oh you mean Kyle? I don’t know. It seems that one day I am the next I’m not.” And she did too. Mostly it was mad, but after this morning, she was finding it harder and harder to stay angry.

“You’re his mate now. I can smell him on you. It’s strong, the scent.”

She looked at Eon then flushed. “I don’t know what to say to that. Other than sex, is there another smell you’re talking about?”  If he could be blunt so could she, she figured.

“Blood. But not just that, you give off a, don’t know, a
back the fuck off I’m claimed
smell too. Other vamps, especially males would be able to know as soon as they were near you that you are claimed. It’s the same with mated wolves too. You gonna eat that?”

She moved her plate over to him. He polished off her half eaten chicken sandwich in two bites.

“What does it smell like? I mean is it nasty and that’s why they stay away?” This was the most information she’d had about this whole thing from anyone.

“No, the sex, the smell of…you’re…you know, completion is arousing for us, all supers, I guess. But the mated smell, that’s more primal, more earthy. So, is he not answering you?” Eon could change subjects almost faster than she could keep up. It took her a few seconds to catch up this time thinking about what he’d just told her.

“Answering me? I’m not sure what you mean.” She must have looked really confused, because he laughed at her before answering.

“Alpha said that you hadn’t been doing this for long. Kyle? Did you try reaching him telepathically yet?” He didn’t have to talk to her like she was ten years old, she thought. Then it suddenly occurred to her what he meant. Of course!

“Oh my god, the mind melt thingy. I forgot about it.” Closing her eyes, she pictured him in her mind, and formed the conversation to have with him.

“Kyle, Its Maddy Harm.”

“I know love, I feel you when you talk to me. Did you miss me already?” S
he could feel his humor at her. Well how the heck was she supposed to know if it was her or not. It wasn’t like she was calling him on the phone and caller id showed who was calling in.

“Miss you? No. Right now I’d like to smack you. Can you tell me where my car is?” S
he felt him then, the warmth and need he had for her.

“Your car? You don’t… holy fuck! I didn’t tell you! Shit baby, I’m so sorry. I was thinking about something…you know that’s all I thought about since I left you. You sipped from me, drank from me. Do you have any idea what that me—”

“Focus Kyle, car! I had to call a cab to get around and poor Eon is eating me out of my next year’s income.”

“Car, right. We bought you one, a car. A company car, it’s…fuck baby, its right there in the lot. It’s the dark green Hummer. The keys, the security guard has them. You’ll love it, it has GPS and voice activated everything. Honey, I’m so sorry.”

“A new car? You guys bought me a new car? A Hummer. Let me go look at it, I’ll call you…I’ll hummm…let me touch you later.”

“Oh baby. Fuck, I’m hard, don’t tease me like that. You are always able to contact me, just say my name or think of me.”

She got up and ran to the door. The waitress barely caught her before she darted out. She hastily paid the bill and left the restaurant. In her excitement she forgot all about Eon, but luckily he didn’t forget her and stayed with her.

The Hummer was sitting right where he said it was. It was a smaller version of its older brother, and in a beautiful shade of forest green. She wanted to wait by the car while Eon went to retrieve the keys, but he made her come along with him. She skipped and hopped back and forth all the way in and out of the court house. After Eon opened the doors and checked it out, he handed her the keys. With a squeal of delight, she got in.

“I can feel your excitement. It’s almost as good as being with you right now. So do you like it?” K
yle touched her gently not wanting to startle her again apparently.

“Are you nuts? It’s beautiful, and so sexy. Where can I go, Oh,”
she thought excitedly
. “I have to go to one of the sites, I have to meet Mr. Ontag there in twenty minutes, and I can use this GPS thingy too. Oh I love it! Are you coming with me?”

“No, you’ve worn me out today. And just in case you’d like a repeat performance tonight, I’ll need to rest. You would wouldn’t you, like a repeat performance?”
Wave after wave of sexual heat washed through her, over her. She felt sexy and warm, soft and wet all at the same time.

“Oh you bet! I love you. Good night.” S
he broke off the connection, not even realizing what she had said to him.

Maddy had been out at the site for nearly an hour with Mr. Ontag walking around one of the last three buildings that needed to be purchased when Eon walked over and handed her his cell phone and simply walked away.

“Hello, this is Madison Harm, may I help you?” She was confused, but she was also a professional.

“Ms Harm, this is David, David Wolff, there’s been an accident. Can you come down to the hospital? Danny…Danny March is asking for you.”

She could hear the hitch in his voice, and something else. He was emotional, but why she didn’t know.

“Of course. What’s happened? Can you tell me that much?” She walked over to her car, thinking to leave as soon as she could let the client know that something happened.

“Carol Martin, Danny’s assistant and friend was killed this afternoon. Danny is taking it pretty hard. He asked me to give you a call, I hope that’s okay.”

“Yes, of course. I have to let my client know and I’ll be right there. Oh, Eon is with me, is it all right if he comes as well?” She was shocked, first of all because David had said that she had been killed, and secondly because Danny had asked for her.

After letting Mr. Ontag know that she needed to go, she and Eon loaded up in the car and went to the hospital, thankfully not getting lost once.

As soon as they entered they were overwhelmed by the amount of people there. Danny saw her he came and engulfed her in a huge hug. She wasn’t much of a touchy feely, but the hug felt good and she returned it with as much vigor as he gave.

“She called me,” he sobbed in her neck. “While it was happening, she called me to tell me that someone was trying to run her off the road and that she didn’t know who it was. She was my friend. I’ve known her my whole life. Why, why would anyone do such a thing to her?”

He was sobbing, and her heart hurt for him. His partner Russell was leaning against the wall looking like a man who had been pole axed. 

That could very well have been me
, she thought. If not for the new car, it would have been…Maddy had reached for the box of tissues on the table in front of her and froze.

“They ran her off the road? Where did this happen at?” Sitting back she looked at him, the box of tissues forgotten in her hand.

“Out on Washington, out near downtown, you know where that is,” he asked taking the box from her hand. “She was running errands for me and the shop. She didn’t know the car she said, her voice was so frantic. I had Russell call David on the cell, but he didn’t make it. She was already dead when David got to her.”

Maddy looked around the room, so many people and she knew so few of them, trusted even less of them. She’d been run off the road where she lived, on her street. What to do?

“Kyle, I’m so sorry, but I think I might be in trouble. And I don’t know…you have to tell me who to trust.” S
he tried to calm herself, tried to sound reasonable and in control.

“What Madison, what’s going on? Where are you?” S
he could hear the worry in his voice, his was strained and hard. There was no joking or humor now.

“I’m at the hospital, with Danny and a lot of others. Carol Martin, the assistant for Danny’s shop was run off the road today. She’s dead, Kyle.”
She shuddered at the sound of it. “
I think it was meant for me. I should have been driving that truck, but you had Danny take it back. Carol was driving the truck that I should have been in. She was killed near my building on Washington Avenue. They killed her instead of me. Oh, Kyle…”

“Okay honey, stay calm.”
Warmth and a feeling of complete security washed over her. “
You said there were a lot of other people there, who do you know?”

“Eon, but he was with me, David Wolff, the cop, and Danny March. That’s it. I’m so scared, what if I’m right?”

“Love, I’m going to have contact Aaron.”
He told her softly
. “You go to David, tell him just what you told me. I can’t come to you, not for another couple of hours, baby. I want you to stay with David. All right? Don’t leave his side.”

“You believe me? You believe that it might have been for me?”
She didn’t know whether to be happy about that or terrified, relieved that he didn’t blow her off as some crackpot, or terrified that he believed someone wanted her dead.

“Yes. Of course. I’m going to go and find Aaron right now. Go to David. Tell him everything, okay? Stay with him, I know I keep saying that, but I need you to stay safe.”

“Yes, I will. I’ll find him now.”
She felt the open connection with him, the support and warmth coming through that connection.

David was with the family, Carol’s family where taking her death understandably hard. She stood just out of sight, but close enough to keep David where she could see him. As soon as he stepped away, she gently touched his arm and gestured for him to follow her to an empty room.

“I think that that accident should have been me. I should have been driving the truck today but Kyle sent it back with Danny. They bought me a car you see, a company car and I really like it. It has GPS and a…and a…” She took a deep breath before continuing. “I’m babbling. I’m so sorry. I contacted Kyle with that mind thingy and he said to stay with you, to not to leave your side. I don’t think he meant for me to follow you in the bathroom, do you? I’m doing it again, aren’t I?” She sat down on the chair, sat down hard and burst into tears.