Pearl's Awakening (Devil's Iron MC #3) (11 page)

Being with Abraham is something that I did not imagine was going to happen again. Here we are though, diving right back in.

I knew as soon as I woke up and Markus was gone that he went to deal with Abraham. I don’t know what was said or how Markus approached it, but I do know that he made a point of telling him that they needed to be together in this. That they together need to be the ones who own me and that was how it should be.

When I saw Abraham’s shiner I thought that Markus might have forced him back here, but the words that he spoke to me changed my thoughts. When he talked about his apprehension and fear of taking me and owning me with the baby, I knew that those fears were real to him. Markus and I had some of the same issues when we began playing, so we both understand them.

As I stand up and turn towards Abraham he takes me in his arms and plants another passionate kiss on me. “I have missed you, Little One. Nothing will ever come between us again.” Kissing down my neck and working his way back to my ear, he continues, “Markus and I will own you together and work through any issues that might come up to make sure that you are taken care of and given everything that you could possibly need or want.”

“I know that you will both do your best to give me everything that you can.” As I brush my lips against his, I move past him going to the dresser in the corner of the room. Opening the drawer, I pull out some yoga pants, a t-shirt, and a sweatshirt. Pulling the t-shirt over my head, I stride back to the bed and sit on it. Shaking the pants out they are quickly snatched away from me and Abraham is kneeling in front of me looking up at me with those haunting blue eyes.

“Little One, no one said that we were done. Why do you think that you may get dressed without my say so? You seem to forget some of the rules of us being together. Do I need to remind you about them? Hmm?”

“No, Sir, they just slipped my mind. I apologize for assuming that you were done with me.” Reaching for the hem of the shirt I try to pull it off over my head but am stopped with a hand on my stomach and look at him, waiting.

“Girlie, we need to re-establish our bond and then establish the boundaries and rules of this new relationship. We will start establishing the relationship with Markus because there will be rules that you will follow when we are all together. Then each of us will give you particular rules that you will follow with us alone as well. Do you have questions about this so far?”

“No Sir, I don’t have any questions.”

“As much as I want to bury myself in you again girlie, it is late and you are probably ready to check on the girls and get to bed. Let’s get our clothes on and head out. Doc should be here by now and we will be able to get the keys and head home.”

Standing he helps me off of the bed before bending back down to help put my pants on. Slowly running his hands up my legs he sends shivers through me as he dresses me. Then when he pulls the pants over my hips he stops himself on the marks that he has just left on my skin. Rubbing them gingerly with his fingers he growls as he bends slightly and kisses each one. “I love seeing my marks on your skin, Pearl. I cannot wait until you are wearing our ink.”

Reaching down he grabs his pants off the floor and slides them up his legs. I look to the sweatshirt that I had placed on the bed longingly. Abraham sees me and instantly knows what I am about to ask for. He reaches to the sweatshirt and helps me into it before finding his boots, shirt, and jacket.

As we get out of the office, Abraham pulls the keys out of his pocket and locks the room up tight. Walking through the Dungeon, it is well past two and many of the customers have gone home for the evening. Tugging out of Abraham’s hand as we pass the locker room, I look up at him. “I need to go and get my purse and use the restroom before we leave, please.”

“Ok girlie, I will go see if I can find Doc and the keys, I will meet you by the door in ten minutes.” Turning to walk back towards the bar he stops a few feet away from me and charges back toward me grabbing me and taking my mouth with his again. “I have missed you so fucking much Pearl.”

As he strides away again, this time he doesn’t stop, but I sure wait to see if it might happen again. Turning to the locker room door I push it open and as soon as I make it through the door frame I see Ember crying. “Ember, what is it?” comes out quietly as I approach her and reach for her.

As her eyes look up to mine the tears do not slow and she is having a hard time catching her breath. Gently I coo into her ear again, “Ember, shh hon, stop your crying, you need to tell me what has you so upset.” Stroking up and down her back her cries only increase as I try to calm her.

Fuck! I think about when I have been like this around Markus or Abraham and realize that most of the time their dominant stern voices have snapped me out. Grabbing onto her hair, which is still in a ponytail behind her, I pull quick on it and change the tone in my voice before biting out, “Stop that crying right fucking now, Sweet Thing! You need to breathe. Calm down so that you can tell me what has you so fucking upset.”

Easing my grip off of her hair only happens after I hear her breathing even out. I run my hand over her shoulder as I come to sit in front of her. “Now, tell me what has you so troubled.”

“It’s really nothing Ma’am. I just had an incident in the parking lot when I was trying to leave earlier and don’t feel safe going home right now. I will just sit here for a little while longer and get one of the security guys to walk me out. I don’t want to trouble you any longer with my problems though, Ma’am. I will be fine, please just go about your evening.”

“No Ember, that will not be happening. What about your son, where is he at this evening?”

“He is with my mom for the night, thankfully. I will just get myself together and head out to the bar for a little while, before I go home…”

“No, Ember” I say lifting her chin up as I add on sternly, “You will not do that. I will get one of the brothers to come and take you home and sit there with you until morning.” Opening the locker, I grab my purse out of it and take my cell phone out, quickly calling Markus.

“Hello, Pearl. What is it? Are you okay? I only left you an hour ago, what has happened?”

“I’m fine Markus. We were on our way home and I found Ember in the locker room. She mentioned that something happened in the parking lot as she was trying to leave and now she is saying that she is scared to go home. Could you please find someone to get her home safely and stay with her until the morning? I know it is not my place to ask this of you, but…”

“Of course it is your place, you are our old lady. I like that you are stepping up to take care of one of the girls. I will call to see if anyone can come up there and check it out.Thanks for taking the lead with this, it is exactly what an old lady should do. Let me talk to Abraham, Sweetling.”

“Oh Shit”, is out of my lips before I can stop myself.

Glancing toward Ember I walk quickly to the door and start to pull it open as I hear from the phone still at my ear, “Sweetling, we don’t fucking like hearing that kind of language.”

“Sorry Markus, I got caught up in the locker room with Ember and forgot to meet Abraham. Just hold on a second, let me find him.”

Turning to Ember I regain the bite in my voice that was lost the second I started talking with Markus. “Stay here until I get back.”

Pulling the door the rest of the way open, I slam into Abraham on my way through it. “Sorry, Sir” crosses my lips as I see the concern in his eyes fade. “Ember was in here crying and talking about how something happened to her earlier in the parking lot, I am not sure what happened yet. I am on the phone with Markus trying to help with the situation and he would like to talk to you about it.”

The worried look returns to his blue eyes as he glances into the locker room and sees that Ember is still sitting on the bench. “It’s okay Pearl, I was just worried when you didn’t get to the door on time. Get yours and Ember’s stuff together and meet me out in the bar in a little bit. Markus and I will figure something out and see what needs to be done.”

Getting off the phone with Markus I turn off the computer and lock the door up behind me again. I loaded the security feed onto the computer in the office of the Dungeon trying to see if there are any clues as to what happen to Ember in the parking lot.

The video was blurry at best, but I did see that there was a man who got into Ember’s car. It looked like he put something in the car and then took off. His vehicle was an older model truck, which I could not get the plates off of.

Striding down the hall, I make my way towards the bar and see Ember and Pearl sitting together. Doc is hovering nearby staring at the women with a worried look on his face.

“Doc, did Prez send you to watch over Ember? I thought he said that he was sending Country over to take her home and stay with her.”

“No, Prez didn’t fucking call me.” Looking towards the girls he goes on,“Why the fuck would Ember need someone to watch over her? Country will not get anywhere fucking near her with his fucking problem keeping his fucking dick in his pants.” Looking back at me momentarily before he asks, “What the fuck happen here tonight?”Turning back to the girls, I almost miss the look of fear in his eyes as he starts walking away.

“Ember,” rushes out in a deep bark as he pauses until her eyes hit his. “Why the fuck do you need someone to watch over you tonight? What the fuck did you do now?”

As his voice and tone register with both of the women, I am about to step in but am beaten to it. Pearl rises up off her chair and plants herself in front of Doc. I am seeing red knowing that anyone being this close to Doc when he is so pissed off never ends well. As I am trying to move myself in between Pearl and Doc I miss something that Doc says directed at Ember, seeing only Pearl’s hand fly through the air before connecting with Doc’s cheek.

Fuck, this shit is escalating real fucking fast.

“Fuck you Doc, don’t you ever talk to her that way again.” Shaking her hand out from the sting Pearl goes on. “She is not yours to do with what you will, you do not fucking own her. I don’t see a collar, tattoo, ring, or any other sign of ownership on her. You don’t deserve to be in the same place with her acting like that, let alone thinking that you can treat her with such disrespect and fucking disregard.”

“Little One, back the fuck up and shut the hell up.” I rumble at her knowing that her temper is getting the best of her as well.

Knowing that Doc is near to his breaking point I step in between them and look into the eyes of a man ready for fucking murder. “Doc, I am not sure what the fuck is going on here, but you need to back the fuck up away from the women and stay the fuck away from this situation, seeing that it gets you so fucking wild and worked up.”

I have seen Doc serve in many different roles over the years being with the Devil’s Iron, but I have never seen him this quick to anger. He is usually quick to act, but always thinks through the options and outcomes before making his move. I have never seen him this fueled by emotion.

I wonder what the fuck is going on between him and Ember to cause this change in him. As he takes a step back I don’t see the anger in him relinquishing one bit. He needs to calm the fuck down, because I don’t need to have this fucking scene going on here.

As I look around to see that the bar has really cleared out, I am thankful that is the case. I catch movement by the door and see Country striding towards me. “Country, we need you to take Ember home and watch her tonight while we try and figure out what the fuck happened tonight. Can you do that?”

“Yeah, of course Tank. Prez called and told me that much, so I brought the truck so I could get her home.”

Turning around I see that Ember is now up and off of her chair standing next to Pearl. Country leans over to give Pearl a hug and sticks out his hand to Ember. I guess he has never met her before, which is definitely not the case with Doc.

Wondering what the fuck happened between these two doesn’t last long because when Ember reaches out to shake hands with Country, I am shoved to the side and Doc crashes down on Country with his fists flying.

“Don’t fucking touch her, Country. She is mine.”

What the fuck is going on? Pulling apart my brothers I notice that Ember and Pearl have both backed up and are now watching the scene from the opposite side of the bar.

Finally getting Doc off of Country with Shadow’s help, we force him back against the wall. “Calm the fuck down, Doc. I am not sure what the fuck is going on between you and Ember, but now is not the fucking time to be bringing up old demons. Something happen to her tonight, and I need to figure out what the fuck that was. I don’t need you acting like some kind of fucking caveman going off all halfcocked. Stand the fuck down.”

Turning to Shadow, I let him know to stay on Doc and not let him back over by the girls. As I make my way towards them, Country has picked himself up off the floor, dusted himself off, and is watching Doc out of the corner of his eye.

“Let’s get the girls out of here and I will come back and deal with him. Country come on.” Reaching the girls, I wrap an arm around Pearl and nod for Ember to come with us as we make our way outta the bar and head towards the door. As we are approaching the door we hear Doc yell out, “Ember, we will talk, this shit is not fucking over.”

Getting Pearl safely into her SUV, I claim her mouth with mine before heading over to make sure that Ember and Country are all set to go.

“Ember, I am not sure what the fuck happened in the parking lot earlier tonight, what the man that broke into your car did, or why Doc seems to be out for blood, but I will be over to question you more about it tomorrow. Country will stay with you until then to make sure that you are safe and sound.” Turning to Country I give him a nod as I close the door and return to the Dungeon to find out what the fuck is really going on.