Team: Alpha (Knights of Ares)

by Honor James

  “Better than good. Great. It would be awesome if you’d just cave and ask Mik to marry you,” he said softly next to her ear. His eyes met her when she jerked around and was grinning. “Babe, I see it in your eyes, on your face every time. I know you don’t love me any less, just not quite the same as you do Mikhail. I’m fine with that. Now all you have to do is convince big, bad and terrible there to be your husband by law so we can get hitched too.”

  Daisy grinned devilishly, “Or you could make him think that you and I are getting married and I spring it on him last second that he’s marrying me?” It would be about the only way that it would work. Hugging Gareth she sighed. “I love you Gareth, I really do but you're right. It is different. I don’t understand how or why because I don’t love you any less, but it’s different. So yeah. I think that we need to convince him that you are marrying me, and then I will just spring it on him.”

  “Hmm,” he watched her. “You sure? Because I don’t want to screw with him too much on something like this love. Anything else fine, I’ll take him on again and again and twirl him about. But this is about you and him. Are you really sure you want to pull that particular Siberian tiger’s tail?”

  “Honestly Gareth I don’t know what to do. If I tell him that I want him to marry me before we have things already in motion he will find a way out of it. He will second guess everything and say that you need to marry me because of Honey or something like that. Help? What do I do?”

  “Alright, alright,” he hugged her to him. “Be calm for one. If he sees you like this he’ll know something’s up. So be calm, relax and take a breath. We both know Mikhail and he’ll be watching you for any signs of what’s going on. He can’t always get an accurate read off me, so he’ll look your way. You need to remember the after sex glow, the feel of all your muscles so relaxed you’re like Jell-O.”

  Gareth turned her around to face him, “I will think of something and later, we will talk. You will need to ambush him so we may need to set something up. Let me do some figuring, putter with a few ideas, and then we’ll talk. In the meantime, darling Daisy, just be you. Show him your love; be with him and keep him distracted. You know what I mean by distracted don’t you?” he cocked an eyebrow at her.

  Daisy grinned, “You bet I know what you mean by distracted. I happen to really, really love distracting both of you boys.” She admitted softly. “I’m so very happy to be able to distract either of you anytime that you want me to.”

  Gareth narrowed his eyes and gave a grunt, “I just bet you are.” He gave her a squeeze and kissed her so she knew she wasn’t going to get any crap about it. “Alright, let’s break this up,” he waved a hand towards the door of the gym. “I’m starving and I’ll bet they are too. Why don’t you go and talk them into giving it up and I’ll go call in a Chinese order. Thomas and Antonio can go pick it up so we don’t pay the delivery fee.”

  “Sounds like a good, solid, sound plan to me.” Daisy said with a smile. She walked into the room and wrapped an arm around Mikhail looked up, “Should we all call in Chinese and make Thomas and Antonio and Honey go pick it up?” She looked at the two men and grinned, “She loves going out with you boys, don’t you Honey?” When her daughter nodded happily Daisy felt happiness invading her life again and felt like it was where they belonged. “Good. Let’s make our order.”

  Mikhail walked with her into the hall, his arm around her waist, his hand warm on her hip. “So is it you that came up with this plan?” he asked quietly. “Or did you have daddy G giving you some tips on how to weed down the number of guys in the house?”

  “A woman never reveals her secrets.” She teased him. Leaning her head on his shoulder she smiled happily. “However, if you must know, Gareth did give some ideas on the matter, however I was the one came up with getting Honey out of the room as well.”

  “Very interesting plan,” he said softly. He stopped them both, turning her to put her back to the wall. Mikhail stepped in closer to her, “So why exactly did you have to come up with a way to get them out of the room?”

  Leaning up on her tiptoes she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close. “I was thinking that you and I should neck. I want and need to feel your hands and mouth on my body. Maybe we should shower and clean up while they worry about getting us food?” Okay, so she was more than slightly insatiable, but she had missed these men so very, very much.

  Licking his lips he nodded slowly and pressed a kiss to her lips. “We can do that, preferably in a room that has a damned good lock on the door. Maybe in the gym, I’ll reset the code and keep them out that way,” he smiled slightly.

  “Except it seems that Honey tends to think like you do, and that kid would be in before we knew it. Can you think outside of the box in choosing the numbers?” For a child that wasn’t his, Honey thought and acted remarkably like Mikhail, eerily so. If she didn’t look just like Gareth she would swear the child was Mik’s.

  He blinked once, twice and then smiled very slowly. “Darling, I can do one better,” he assured her. Grabbing her hand he tugged her up the hall, fast. She was nearly jogging but she wasn’t going to complain. In the gym she watched him shut the heavy doors and then do something to the panel. “I pulled the processor,” he said holding up a board. “They’ll have to cut through that with a torch which would take, roughly, two weeks. Plus without it, it can’t be hacked and therefore Anton can’t even break into it.”

  Daisy laughed and threw herself into his arms. Hugging him close, she grinned, “Goodness you are such a smart man. What did I ever do to deserve you?” She asked him happily and brushed her lips over his neck and then cheek. “Naked Mikhail, you and I both need to strip as quickly as possible.”

  “Well that right there is why you deserve me. You tell me to get naked and then throw your naked body at me. It’s great incentive to keep being around you,” he said with a chuckle. Pulling his clothing off, he dropped everything in a pile to the side.

  Laughing, she shook her head and grinned, “Less talking, more stripping. Please.” She added happily. “And I am seemingly always telling you to get naked. You should tell me sometimes too you know.”

  “I would if I could ever get a word in edgewise,” he said kicking his jeans off. Stretching his arms up Mik cocked a brow at her. “I’m naked, why are you still dressed?” he asked softly. He began to stalk towards her slowly. “This is not right Daisy. Get naked now or I’ll tear you out of those clothes and you’ll have to figure out how to get upstairs for more.”

  “Oh honey we both know that you won’t let the others see me naked. I’m tempted to let you tear the clothes off of me because that sounds damn sexy.” She pulled off her top and then kicked off her pants. Standing naked she grinned, “No underwear. It’s such a waste of time.”

  “That it is,” he agreed taking her hand and pulling her with him towards the showers. Inside he turned one on and got them to where he wanted them obviously. He tugged her under the water, thankfully it was warm.

  Daisy kissed Mikhail, pulling his head down to meet hers and demanded that he give her everything. She wanted everything, needed everything from him. Pulling back from him she was panting. “Against the shower wall. Pick me up and let me take you in.”

  His eyes were hooded, the look was hungry but all he did was slowly, ever so slowly, lick his lips. Then she was in the air, back to the tile and his cock sliding into her pussy. He was teasing her though, keeping her weight braced in his hands as he slowly lowered her, inch by tortuous inch.

  “You are killing me Mikhail.” Daisy’s voice came out as a pant and gasp. “I do not know how you are able to go so slowly when I’m burning up inside. I want you. Fast. Hard. Just need you anyway that I can have you. Please.” She begged.

  Chuckling, he pressed a kiss to her cheek. “I can go slowly because I know you want me. I can go slowly because I know just how good it will be when I can no longer go slowly.” His lips drifted over her skin and to her lips. A light brush and the
n he kissed her, his hands dropping her fully onto his cock.

  Her legs wrapped tightly around him, she held him close and shuddered as he took her. This was what they both needed; him buried deep inside of her body and reconnecting. She kissed his back and shuddered, a full body shiver that had her body clenching his cock tightly, demanding even more from her lover.

  Mikhail’s hands landed on her hips, pressing her back to the tile. He moved hard, fast, his cock sliding in and out in ever increasing speed. Their gasps and sounds of flesh slapping drowned out the sound of the water falling.

  Daisy’s whole body clenched, she gasped and with her nails raking over his shoulders and back as she came again. Her whole body climaxed in that one intense moment of being with Mikhail.

  Chapter Sixteen

  It had been a long two weeks. With a mission in the middle screwing up their down time they’d only been home a couple days. The weather was too hot to do any work so they were all relaxing on the porch. The barbecue was going, ribs and burgers. All the odds and ends ready and waiting. The only ones running about in the heat were Daisy, Gareth and Honey. Thankfully they were doing it under and around the sprinkler.

  Daisy laughed and shook her head. "Okay. I need a break. I am going to go and cool off or warm up with Mik. Try not to drown your daddy." Daisy told Honey before giving her a hug and kiss on the top of her head.

  “If you want to cool down I wouldn’t sit with Mik,” Marius teased her with a grin. “You two get within ten feet of one another and it’s absolutely amazing the place doesn’t go up in flames.”

  “I nearly had my eyebrows come off when we got back from the mission,” Thomas commented with a laugh. “Those two colliding was like a star going supernova. Explosive.”

  “I was just amazed they didn’t tear their clothing off right there on the front walk,” Dieter joined the conversation.

  “They likely realized where they were and didn’t want to give us a show,” James threw in his two cents.

  “All the gagging and whimpering was a damned good clue,” Mikhail muttered darkly.

  “Yeah, you big babies. I thought that you boys were going to go out or something? Seriously I really wouldn’t mind it at all if you went out you know.” Looking to Mikhail the woman smiled when she said, “We will put Honey to bed and then we can go and play a bit; test out that new soundproofing and all that.”

  “I think they should take Honey to dinner and a movie. I’m sure I heard they were all dying to see that new Disney flick. Desperately,” he added, turning his head to throw the men a look. “Honey! You want to take the uncles to dinner and a movie tonight?” he asked loudly.

  Honey turned to Mikhail and laughed. "Yes!" She shouted happily. "Do I get to go with only them and not you and daddy G and mom?"

  “Yup,” he told her. Leaning forward he smiled, “You round the others up and then you can take them to town. And the choice of the movie is yours as long as it’s PG or under. No horror flicks Honey, I mean it.”

  “Oh come on daddy, really? I love horror movies.” Honey’s face was downtrodden and she huffed out a breath. “All right, if I have to.” She grumbled. “I don’t like it though but okay.” She mumbled.

  Daisy grinned and looked at Mikhail, “You do know she’s going to try to talk them into seeing that horror flick she’s been talking about nearly non-stop about, right?”

  “Anyone takes her to a horror flick and there will be hell to pay,” he said clearly. “If she comes back and stays up the night with all the lights on, each and every one of you will stay in her room with her. You will stay there tonight and every night until she can sleep again.”

  Snickering, Daisy saw the looks on the men’s faces and the pout on Honey’s lips. “Well I think you just guaranteed a PG-13 or less movie at least. No horror films which is very good indeed.” Leaning in, she watched their daughter take off to shower and change and whispered against Mikhail’s ear, “So, whatever will the three of us do while she’s at the movies with her uncles?”

  “Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that.” Mikhail stood up and stretched. “You guys better get moving. She’ll insist on five star dining you realize.” Chuckling when they all tore into the house, or attempted to, he waved to Gareth. “Get up off the ground and move the sprinkler. We’re trying to encourage the new grass to grow not drown it.”

  Daisy laughed and gave Mikhail a kiss on the cheek. “Come on out and play in the water with Gareth and I. Let’s see just how wet we can get.” The double entendre was not lost on anyone. “Because I really, really want to play with you.”

  “Uh, you go and play with Gareth, once he moves the sprinkler. I’m going to encourage Honey to rake the uncles over the coals at a really high end restaurant. And then at a drive-thru on the way back. But, once they are moving, I will come and play with you. Promise,” he looked down at her. Leaning in he kissed her gently, “And I know just how wet you already are.”

  “Good.” Daisy ran her hand up his chest and pulled him close again. “Tell them two movies.” she whispered against his lips. When she released him she smiled. “Go. Get them moving. Quickly. Please.” She said with a nod.

  “Yes ma’am,” he smiled and gave her a snappy salute. Turning, he jogged back up the stairs and into the house.

  “Come on woman,” Gareth called out to her. “Come out here and play with me. Or rather, come out here and help me up. I think I’m stuck.” He chuckled, “Daisy! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Gareth laughed even more.

  Daisy laughed and walked out into the wet grass, no, more mud than anything. “You do know that Mik is going to have a heart attack when he realizes that the boys didn’t sow the seed grass, right?” She giggled at that and shook her head. “Remind me to make sure that they get out of here on the day he realizes that. Either that or make them do it tonight when they get home.”

  “They better do it tonight. He’ll be out here in the morning poking around to check.” He sat up with a groan and made a face, “He’ll kill them if he finds no seeds.” Getting to his feet he tipped his head, “Maybe I should do it while they’re all getting ready.”

  “I will help you. Come on. I think that they propped the bags over by the shed. You get the spreader and I will move the sprinkler. That way we get it done sooner rather than later.” So that she could jump her men the minute that the guys left with Honey.

  “Hose my back end off first will you,” he requested getting to his feet. Turning he looked over his shoulder at her. “I can feel something sliding down towards my crack. It’s really not a pleasant sensation. So, love of my life, get it off, get it off!”

  Daisy grinned and took the hose. She got his back nice and clean, only to shove the cold hose and water down his shorts. She couldn’t help but laugh at the explanative that he muttered. “Language mister man, whatever would your daughter think?”

  Whipping around he grabbed the hose and stalked her. “She’d be offering me helpful tips I’m very sure.” Covering the end of the hose with his thumb he sprayed her. Catching her around the waist as she screeched, he shoved the hose down the front of her shirt and then raced off laughing.

  Daisy gasped with the cold water rushing down her body and pulling out the hose went off chasing Gareth. The seed laying would wait. Now it was all about revenge. Sweet, sweet revenge for her sexier-than-sin man.

  He was going fast, not as fast as he knew she could. He was playing with her and, when he turned right where the pool had finally gone in, she knew it. The shit eating grin on his face told her he was toying with her. “Whatcha gonna do babe?” he taunted.

  “I’m thinking to hell with sowing the grass seeds. I say that we should jump into the pool and as soon as everyone is gone we should get naked in the pool. What do you think honey?” She asked and approached him slowly.

  “I was thinking about that as well,” he told her relaxing his pose slightly. But he was still watching her closely. “From the sounds of things we’ve got about ten minute
s before they leave. I can hear them heading for the front door.”

  “So do we wait in the loungers like good adults, or do we jump in fully clothed?” Daisy ran her hand over the lounger in question. “I will even let you have your own lounger, for now, if you wanted it.”

  He headed straight for her and climbed onto the lounger she was on. Crawling over her, he leaned in and kissed her. Settling himself over her, Gareth nipped her lip, “Not going to go anywhere else,” he said. “Not when you look so damned sexy.”

  “Good because I have you exactly where I want and need you.” She bit his lower lip lightly and grinned, “Are we getting harder?” Her hand moved to the front of his jeans, fingers lightly brushing his growing erection as she did so. “How long do you think until they are gone? I love our daughter dearly but I need some adult time in the sun with my men, and she needs some time with her uncles. Win-win in my book.”