Ghoster

by KJ Dahlen

  He crept over to the bed. Staring down, he saw that long thick hair spread out over the white pillowcase. He wanted to grab it by the fistfuls, maybe while she—he shook his head. Damn, James she’s an innocent, you can’t be expecting that. Someday, soon though.

  He felt her hand on his arm and his gaze focused on her face in the low light. “I didn’t mean to wake you.”

  Sydney laced his fingers with hers. “I wasn’t really asleep. I napped for a couple of hours, but really, I was waiting for you.”

  He smiled. “I couldn’t wait to get here. I almost broke the speed limit a few times.”

  “Wow. Just to see me?”

  “Yes, just to see you.”

  “So can I ask?” She bit at her lip looking nervous suddenly.

  “Yes, you can. Oden thought to sneak in on us while we were at the pads on the safe.”

  She gasped as she stared at him wide eyed.

  “He is now locked inside his own safe.” Nodding, he patted her hand. “The books are in other hands now. Verifying them in the morning, the authorities will be going there to let Oden out...”

  She sat up higher in bed.

  “They will be locking him up elsewhere though. Clayton Connors will be arrested inside the police station in front of the entire police force that he ran with an iron fist. Noah will be arrested right there in his District Attorney’s office and dragged down the hall in cuffs. Jeremy will be apprehended while making a speech at about ten a.m. in the town square in front of the press. The charges will vary. Murder, attempted murder, fraud, money laundering, illegal transport of guns. Over state lines fencing and theft. I could get winded by all the various charges if I listed them all.”

  Her eyes widened at the list as she placed her hands over her mouth. She nodded and leaned forward as she heaved a huge sigh of relief. “Finally, they will pay for all that they did.”

  James laughed. “Well, actually. You may have enjoyed what Theo did.”

  She looked curious. “Tell me!”

  He shook his head. “He convinced Oden that he was there to kill him.”

  Her eyes rounded.

  “Even I half believed it. The poor man pissed himself, he was so scared.”

  Blinking her eyes, she stared at him as if to discern if this was true or a joke. Then she laughed loudly. “Oh, wow!” She kept laughing. “I wished I’d been there. If ever anyone deserved it, that man did!”

  He watched her beautiful face. Her laughter was like music to his ears and he realized he hadn’t really heard it like this before. He decided he wanted to hear it a lot more. After her moans of pleasure that is. James stood up and took off his shirt. Then he undid his jeans and pulled them down.

  In awe, Sydney reached out and placed her hand over his briefs. Her eyes rounded. “So hard.”

  He nodded. “From the moment I first saw you. Hard all the time and every time I look at you.”

  Timidly, she reached in and grabbed his cock.

  He gasped at the feel of her soft fingers and his body even quaked. “No woman has ever affected me like you do.” He grabbed her up off the bed and kissed her hard.

  His arms tightened around her as their lips locked. His tongue took up residence in her mouth and didn’t seem to want to leave. Every time Sydney inhaled, it was his breath she took in, and with each exhale, she gave him hers in return. A sense of contentment and belonging washed over her, just being with him, but then she needed something more. The burn began slowly in her stomach then spread throughout the rest of her body.

  He must have sensed it because he laid her down on the bed and shifted their bodies until he lay on top of her. As good as he felt, she needed more.

  He wore no shirt but kept his boxers on while she wore a borrowed t-shirt and her underwear. Way too many clothes, she thought, as she needed all of his skin on hers. Just like the first time. Breaking their kiss, she raised her arms and he pulled off her shirt. The moment he did, his gaze fixated on her breasts. They were well rounded and full, and he greedily cupped them both in his large hands. Lowering his mouth, he covered her nipples sweeping his lips and tongue back and forth over them both.

  She arched into him as her entire body tingled and heated up. She was also getting truly wet between her thighs. James had such a hot mouth and seemingly a skilled tongue too.

  She used her hands to push at his boxers. He must have gotten the message, his mouth remained on her breast, but she could feel his hand between them as he pulled them lower.

  She was able to push them down for him the rest of the way, until he could kick them off.

  “Better?” he asked. His breath hot against her tit.

  “Not quite.”

  He must have read her mind because he reached for her underwear and pulled them down past her hips. She raised her knees and he tugged it them the rest of the way off. Instead of returning to her breast, like she thought he would, he scooted lower along her body, spreading her thighs. He raised one leg over his shoulder and stared right at her.

  At the intense heat in his eyes, Sydney shivered and gushed some more.

  Lowering his head, and without breaking eye contact he licked her from stem to stern. “Better now?” he asked.

  Her body nearly convulsed. “Oh, yes.”

  James chuckled and lowered his head again. His tongue licked her a second time, she was already wet and didn’t see that condition stopping anytime soon. The flat of his tongue pressed against her opening then unfurled inside her as deep as it would go.

  “Oh damn, oh damn that’s good,” she crooned.

  He began pistoning his tongue in and out of her. Her muscles contracted, she grabbed ahold of his head and pressed his face down on her opening. Not wanting him to move an inch. But then she felt a finger added to his tongue. A finger that flicked at her clit while his tongue stroked inside her too.

  “Ahhhhh,” she screamed as the river she’d been holding onto broke the dam and cascaded all over his tongue. The more he tongued her the more she came, until she was crying for him to stop, her body couldn’t take it anymore. Instead of her hands holding him to her now, her legs were clamped around his head but she was trying to push him away at the same time. Talk about mixed signals. Her body was no longer her own, her mind couldn’t function properly they needed direction only he could give.

  He smiled as he rose up along her body kissing her skin all the way.

  Her body flushed as she panted breathlessly and she knew she was rosy pink all over.

  James paused and looked down at her body in the low light. “So dammed sweet. Your skin is so creamy and when pink, I just want to lick you everywhere.” He then rose further up. “I gotta have you now.”

  Nodding her head even as she gasped for breath from her climax, she so agreed with this.

  He settled between her thighs and entered her slowly at first as he stretched her with his cock. All that thick luscious male flesh slid deeper into her. He opened her legs wider twining them around his waist so he could dive even deeper. They soon got each other’s rhythm and there was no stopping them then.

  Sydney had never felt so full or satisfied in her life.

  “Next time, I’ll do slow and easy, I promise,” he whispered with his hot breath brushing against her ear before he took a little nip.

  “No, don’t change a thing. I love this,” she whispered back. Her body went into convulsions as she came harder than she’d ever had. It shocked her as she had just climaxed. She never knew it would be like this, never guessed.

  The man didn’t pause once either, he kept plunging into her even through her second climax.

  “The heck with slow and easy. Do it just like this and I’m good.” she managed to speak and hoped it came out in coherent words.

  It must have because he replied, “Anything you want, sweetness. Anything you want.”

  She opened her mouth and bit down on the only part of him she could reach, his shoulder. It was just a light biting as feeling overwhelmed h
er. She had never bitten or nibbled on anyone. It was scary and wonderful at the same time.

  His cock pulsed with her small nipping, his body hardening even as she’d pressed into him, his strength engulfing her, then with a savage roar, he came.

  She released her hold on him and licked the bite mark with her tongue as her body gave vent to her own emotions and she joined him in that endless dive over the cliff of oblivion.

  When she licked him again, he came harder while whispering her name in her ear.

  Her body arched into him, as the full heat of him invaded her core, warming all the cold places inside of her that had been there for so long. She could feel his heat. It was the sweetest feeling in the world.

  He moved the kiss from her mouth down to her neck then her beasts, nuzzling his face between them.

  They both lay there for a long while.

  To Sydney this was pure bliss. He filled her all while taking away that empty feeling she’d had inside her for years. He simply filled her up in all ways possible.

  When she had come into the file room at the courthouse and saw him three days ago, she never knew it would end up like this. Heaven. Pure heaven. As Sydney held his head to her soft chest, she fell into a blissful sleep.

  Chapter Twelve

  James awoke to a huge booming sound as the building rocked.

  He bolted up and was out of bed into his jeans before Sydney even opened her eyes. He had been in wars and under attack at all hours, so his reaction was reflex still. He grabbed his shirt and his weapon; sat on the bed and tugged each boot on. Then he dashed to the door.

  “James!” Sydney called out.

  He didn’t stop. “Stay in this room until I or one of the MC comes to get you. Do not leave on your own.” He went out and shut the door.

  Running down the hall, he could see many were doing the same. Running and shouting was happening all over the compound as he came out to the main lobby.

  Deke stood there with no shirt on and his weapon raised. “Fuck!” he swore.

  “What and how many?” Bastian came in and stood next to him.

  “Zipper told me it was missiles they were launching,” Deke informed them.

  “What the fuck?” Sam barked as he came in.

  They all looked out through the tall windows next to the doors.

  “The building is guarded against almost anything with a Teflon based material,” Deke explained while not taking his eyes off the lot and the tree line. “Three fucking layers of it and a stainless steel lead mix that will take fire and bullets. Even a bomb couldn’t get all the way through. But fucking missiles?”

  “It’s the Raiders isn’t it?” Bastian asked.

  “We think so.” Deke nodded. “One of my men took a bullet and said he saw their cuts.”

  “Dumbasses, wearing their cuts while attacking another MC,” Sam grumbled.

  Deke shook his head. “They expect us to die Dad, so they assume there will be no retaliation.”

  “Incoming!” Zipper yelled over the speakers.

  The men all stepped away from the windows and stood along the walls as the next one hit the building.

  The boom shook the rafters. And smoke filtered in through the ventilation system.

  “Fuck!” Deke yelled. He tapped the com next to the door. “Zipper, are all the women and children down below?”

  “Yep, they even got Sydney down there, we almost forgot about her.”

  James looked around then stepped up to the com. “Is Sarah there too?”

  “Let me check,” Zipper said.

  They waited as they could all see smoke coming from the front of the building somewhere.

  “Yeah, she’s there,” Zipper came back.

  James nodded and looked around at the men. “Then where is—?”

  “Theo!” Bastian cut him off.

  They all gathered at the window where they could see Theo creeping along the side of the lot near the trees.

  “Fuck, he is gonna get himself killed!” Sam exclaimed.

  “Maybe,” Bastian said.

  “Maybe? He’s insane to go out there,” Deke yelled. “Fuck!”

  Then Theo disappeared from sight.

  “Now they are in huge trouble.” Bastian smiled.

  James nodded. “If you cannot see him, it means he sees you.”

  Then they saw a launcher drop out of the tallest tree across from the gatehouse and a man dropped down after it. hitting the ground hard as he then laid still.

  “Down he goes,” Bastian stated.

  Then another was picked off and seemed to break his neck too, when he hit the ground.

  Suddenly, there was a roaring sound.

  They all looked at each other wondering what was coming at them now.

  “Damn! These arrivals are wearing blue cuts!” Sam exclaimed.

  “Let me see,” Deke got in there. “Yeah...It’s the Blue Devils.”

  Gunfire erupted and pure mayhem ensued for the next five minutes as men screamed and some tried to flee as they came out of the trees. Only to be met by bullets as they dropped like flies.

  Someone unseen was also picking the Raiders off who tried to get onto their bikes.

  “Theo again!” Bastian laughed.

  Soon, the noise died down and the smoke got thick then drifted over the lot.

  Deke’s Cell rang. He stared at the screen then tapped it and tapped speaker phone.

  “Hey Deke,” came a voice.

  “Hey Ryder,” Deke replied.

  “So now we’re even. I saw Flynn being arrested and his men. Unfortunately, I had to kill his son, when he attacked me on my own turf. They won’t be finding him for like ever though. Then half the cops in town suddenly took off on vacation or some shit. I wonder why? So, now we got less Raiders too as you can see. Any that refused to come here and do Flynn’s bidding, we will parley with.”

  “I get it,” Deke replied.

  “The code man. The code.” Ryder hung up.

  They all watched for several more minutes then Zipper came on the comm, “All seems clear out there. Except for the dead bodies and I see a cleanup crew arriving. Damn Deke, you got friends in like really low places.” He chuckled.

  “Damn straight!” Sam beamed.

  “Dad that was not a compliment,” Deke chided.

  “Nah, it was. I’m taking it.” He slapped his son on the back.

  Then the smoke started to thin out.

  Bastian watched the lot.

  James stood beside him watching too.

  “Dammit, did he get hit?” Deke asked as he too, stepped to the window. “Shit, this will hit Cricket hard. She can’t do another funeral for that man.”

  “We should go and look for him,” Sam suggested.

  “Look for who?” a voice asked from behind them.

  James spun around, as did the rest of them.

  Theo looked like he had just took a leisurely stroll in the park, not a hair out of place, not a mark on him. Only he would have been strolling with two rifles strapped over his back and an empty ammo belt.

  “Well fuck!” Sam exclaimed. “How in the hell?”

  “Never mind, dad.” Deke placed his hand on his arm. “Don’t even go there it will do no good.”

  Bastian grabbed Theo’s arm and patted it. “Fuck, that was—”

  “—crazy!” James yelled at Theo, angry as hell now. “It was fucking insane! They could have picked you off before you got to the trees man.”

  Theo stepped back from Bastian and raised a brow at James. “It’s all in how you play the game, Captain. I happen to play it well, is all.”

  Then there were yells and screams as the women came pouring into the room. Each grabbing up their man and hugging them.

  “Theo!” Sarah shouted as she ran and jumped into his arms. With a rare smile, he then kissed her soundly.

  James looked around and saw Sydney leaning against the doorway, looking upset. He walked over and wrapped his arms around her. “Everything is
going to be okay. They put the Dells down and they are in custody now.”

  “O-ok...”

  He laughed and smoothed her hair. “It’s all done now, sweetness. No more running.”

  She gazed up at him. “Oh, there will be running. Just me running to you.”

  James grasped her face in his hands and kissed her soundly.

  They were all cleaning up the compound. Sydney had cleaned, swept and helped all she could. Then a crew came in. Apparently, Cassie had called in all her people from the Redemption Houses to help.

  So finally, Sydney stumbled back to their room and went in.

  James was still gone to Saratoga City. He had to meet with the many authorities there and see the arrests for himself. He’d called and asked to speak to her earlier in the afternoon and Zipper brought her the phone. He’d told her that Oden had a broken nose from when he’d fainted and came out of the courthouse in cuffs. He did not yell or fight but was a different man than he’d been just the day before. He looked beaten down in ways that had nothing do with his busted nose.

  Then James went on to say that Flynn was going up for murder charges for her mother and host of other charges and he would never see the light of day again. He kept barking about his useless sons and asking where they were.

  Well, two of them had already been shipped out to county then they would head to max after the Morgan’s fully pressed charges for their attack on the Garage. And of course, James had already sent the file of their other crimes to the Marshals.

  Stretching out on the bed after a shower, Sydney winced as her entire body hurt. Her muscles were in kinks now. 7 hours of running and cleaning would do that to a girl.

  The door opened and closed sometime later as she groaned and opened her eyes.

  “You okay?” James asked as he sat down on the bed and caressed her bare back. She wore nothing. Yes, she’d done that on purpose after her shower, hoping she would get his hands on her skin ASAP when he came back.