“Sunshine, this is Burkhart. He is like a brother to me, I trust him completely. If for some reason I’m not able to be with you, Burkhart will protect you.” I can see the uncertainty in her eyes. “I ask that you try and trust him as much as you trust me okay?”
Her eyes move from him to me, after a minute or two she nods.
“It’s nice to meet you Sweetheart.” I see Burkhart wink at Aria from the corner of my eye, but even though I know he’s only being friendly I feel like physically removing him. It’s a good thing that I’ve been stuck in this room with Aria because with not being able to complete the bonding I know that my emotions are all over the place. Even when Bion comes to check on her I can’t stand the thought of him having to touch her, not that he does much anymore, except for today when he checked her throat, but after her reaction I don’t think that is going to happen again.
Since the moment that I touched her I have been sporting a hard on. I’ve tried getting relief, but it doesn’t last, I have masturbated more in this week than I have in my whole four hundred and seventy-three years. All she must do is look at me and my cock is ready to burst out of my jeans. I know that the longer it takes for us to complete our bond the more unpredictable I will become.
Aria is also going to start to feel the effects, but she won’t know what they are. I need to explain everything to her as soon as possible but with everything that has happened to her I wanted to give her some more time.
“I’m going to go B, I will keep you updated.” I don’t look around as he leaves, I just nod. Walking towards the chair that is next to the bed I sit taking Aria’s hand in mine. I notice she tightens her fingers around mine, her strength is coming back.
“I need to talk to you about something Sunshine. I ask that you keep an open mind to what I’m going to tell you. I know that it might sound crazy to you, but I promise it’s not.” I can see the wariness in her eyes. I’m feeling nervous. I haven’t felt this nervous around a woman since the first time I lay with one. But this conversation is important, she needs to believe me otherwise things will take longer than necessary.
“My brothers and I belong to a motorcycle club called the Elementals.” I see her eyes widen in surprise. “The thing is that the name of our club stands for what we are. You see each one of us can bend a specific element.” Her eyebrows have gone up at my revelation.
“I will show you. You see, I was born under the element of fire.” I pull my hand away from hers as I stand up holding my hands facing upwards. I imagine a flame on them and instantly feel the heat building until a flame appears between them. As the flame grows I start to rotate my hands swirling the flame. I can see her eyes are wide in shock, but then a wide smile spreads across her face. The one side of her face is still slightly swollen and greenish yellow from bruising.
From all the reactions that I thought she would have this was not one of them. I thought she would be frightened, but she seems happy.
ARIA 5
I can’t believe that there are people out there that can do what Brandr has just shown me. All these years I have been hiding away, and not just because I felt different, but because people usually looked at me as if I was a freak. And here in front of me is someone that is just as different as I am, be it in a different way, and from what he says all the guys here are gifted. I can’t be around a lot of people for long, to hear their thoughts all at once bothers me, and therefore my priority has been to avoid them instead.
I don’t think he was expecting my reaction, if I could only tell him about myself he would understand. He is still looking at me in surprise. If I was feeling stronger I would jump out of this bed and hug him for what he has just shared with me. I’m sure it can’t be easy for him to expose himself like this to me, but I feel such a connection to him.
I wonder what Bion and Burkhart can do? Next time I see them I will try to get Brandr to ask them to show me. Even though I don’t feel comfortable enough to be touched by one of them or to be by myself with them, they seem different from the men who had kidnapped me.
Yes, all three of them looked like they could easily hurt someone if they had to, but what distinguishes them is that there is a kindness in their eyes when they look at me. I still don’t understand why I can’t hear any of their thoughts when I have always heard every one’s thoughts who come near me? Looking up at Brandr I move my hand in a writing motion. I want to be able to communicate with him and it doesn’t look like my voice wants to cooperate.
Brandr frowns for a second before I see the realisation dawn on him of what I am trying to ask him. “Why didn’t I think of that?” I see him move towards a small chrome and black desk that is standing against a wall littered with papers, a laptop and other things that I can’t see from this angle. He rummages through a few things and then returns holding a tablet, already tapping away at its screen.
“Here you go Sunshine; this will be easier for you than writing now.” I offer him a smile in thanks as he props the tablet on a pillow by my hand. He is such a rugged dangerous looking guy, I would never have guessed how caring he could be. I’m sure he must feel the same connection that I do, I must be honest I don’t have any experience with men because of what happened when I was so young, but the way I see him looking at me I’m sure anyone could tell that he likes me, by how protective and possessive he is.
He sits on the bed next to me leaning back against the headboard while stroking his finger down my cheek. I start typing on the tablet, it’s not as quick as I would like but I finally get it all.
“That was so cool, thank you for showing it to me.” Brandr reads what I have typed out loud. Looking up at him I see him smile.
“I didn’t know how to explain it to you. I thought the best way would be to show you. I must be honest, you did surprise me by accepting it so easily. I thought it would have taken more to convince you.” He’s stroking my hair as he talks, I feel a tingling down my spine and moisture pool between my legs. What is happening to me? I know I’m still young but in all my twenty-two years I have never felt like this before. I can feel my cheeks heat with a blush. I turn my head down towards the tablet to hide my face from him. I need to tell him about myself. I want him to understand why I accepted him so easily.
After typing for a while and trying to explain to him in as little words as possible about my hearing of people’s thoughts I feel him tense behind me, his hand stops stroking my hair. “Are you trying to say that you can hear everyone’s thoughts or just sometimes or some peoples.” He asks placing his finger under my chin and lifting my face up so that I am looking at him.
I can see the concern on his face. Is he worried that I can read what his thinking? I type that for some reason I can’t hear his thoughts or Bion and Burkhart’s. I reveal that maybe because I was hit on the head that I might have stopped hearing them, possibly I’m normal again. When I look up I see his eyes are hard and his hands are now fisted. Even though somehow, I know he will never harm me, the fury in his eyes fills me with dread.
He must have seen my reaction because he gets off the bed and starts to pace. “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to frighten you, but every time I think about what they did to you all I want is to go out and kill every one of them.” His not angry at me! He’s angry at the men who hurt me. Seeing his agitation, I lift my hand calling him back, but he hesitates. I hear him take a deep breath letting it out in a whoosh. After a few more of these deep breaths he finally makes his way back to the bed sitting against the headboard as before. I place my hand on his leg that is stretched out next to me and stroke it, trying to calm him.
We sit like that for a while in silence until we hear a knock on the door. I tense instinctively, even though I feel safe here with Brandr every unexpected noise still startles me.
“Come in!” Brandr calls out.
The door opens and Bion walks in with a tray in hand. “I thought you guys might be hungry,” he says as he walks towards the bed with the tray. The smell of food reaches me
before he does and my stomach rumbles embarrassingly loud.
Both men start to chuckle at my embarrassment. “Come here Sunshine, let me help you sit up.” Brandr’s hands are under my arms from behind and he is pulling me up to sit with my back against his chest.
“If I hold the plate can you eat by yourself?” he asks. Bion is standing next to the bed now with a plate of soup in his hand. The tray that he was carrying is now placed on the bedside table with another plate on it. I nod at Brandr’s question pulling up my hand to take the spoon from Bion’s hand.
The soup hurts my throat as I swallow but I force it down. Every time I swallow and cringe in pain I can feel Brandr tense behind me. When I am about half way through I jump at Brandr’s angry outburst.
“Fuck! Can’t you give her something for the pain?” his voice is low in agitation.
“I’ve placed some drops in the soup, it will sooth and help heal the lacerations in her throat, but until it starts to work there is nothing I can do, and she needs to eat to regain her strength.” I lift my other hand up to Brandr’s arm stroking it to let him know that it’s okay. I feel his breath against the back of my neck as he places his forehead against my hair.
“I’m sorry,” he says quietly. I eat the rest of the soup trying not to flinch as I swallow, the whole time Brandr has his forehead against my head.
“Good, soon you will be up and about. How are your ribs?” My ribs are still aching but only slightly. My breathing is much easier. I lift my thumb to show him that they are fine. “That’s good, how about your head, is it still hurting you?” I remembered how when Brandr found me how bad my head had ached but that has gone away completely. The kick I received against my head wasn’t as bad as I had initially thought.
“You are recuperating very well; the transformation has begun. The worst of it now is your throat but another few days and you should be able to start talking.” Transformation, what does he mean by that?
“Do you mind if I check your throat?” At his words I tense. The last time I had felt his hands on me, even though I knew he wasn’t there to hurt me I wasn’t able to stop my reaction. Would I be okay now if he touched me?
“No!” Brandr states before I can reply. He has lifted his head and is now glaring at Bion.
“I won’t touch her Brother. I just need her to open her mouth as wide as she can and stick her tongue out. I have to see if her throat is healing.” Before Brandr can deny his request, I open my mouth as wide as I can and stick my tongue out facing Bion. True to his word, he shines a small torch into my throat but doesn’t touch me.
“It looks like it’s starting to heal.” He pulls out a little transparent bag with a few round pills inside. “Here, you can take one every three hours, this should sooth your throat.” He holds up the opened bag for me to take one, as soon as I place it on my tongue a burst of sweet lemon spreads through it.
“Does that sooth your throat Sunshine?” Brandr asks. I nod at his question and smile at Bion in gratitude as I lean back against Brandr feeling the heat of his body engulf me. His arms surround me, pulling my body closer to his front. I don’t know what is happening between Brandr and myself, he’s being very attentive and caring after having saved me. I need to get my voice back; there is so much I need to talk to him about.
“Is there anything else that hurts or that is different from before you were taken?” I had forgotten about Bion as soon as Brandr’s arms surrounded me and I felt his warmth, the way it warmed me all the way to my soul. How can I feel so safe with someone that I don’t even know? Yes, he saved me and yes, he has been by my side ever since, but I don’t know anything about him except that he belongs to a motorcycle club and that he can bend fire. Even though the whole fire bending is very cool and hot as hell, he is still a stranger.
For someone who has been isolated from everyone for so long I hope this reprieve lasts. I know that while I was in the cell I could still hear others’ perverted and evil thoughts every time the men came down to feed me. It wasn’t just their actions but also their thoughts that frightened me. I had never believed that such evil could exist until I heard some of the things going through those men’s minds.
Stretching my hand, I type onto the tablet, turning it slightly to show Bion. “You can’t hear?” Bion looks at me in surprise. “Do you mean you can’t hear what I’m saying?”
I shake my head in denial, lifting my hand I tap my forehead. “I don’t understand!”
“I think what Aria is trying to tell you is that she can’t hear your thoughts.” I turn my head slightly, so I can look back at Brandr and nod for him to know that he’s right. Leaning down he kisses my forehead “I told her about us, and she confided in me that she can hear people’s thoughts, but that she hasn’t been able to hear ours.”
“Thank the fuck.” Bion doesn’t seem shocked or repulsed like some people have been when they suspected that I was not completely normal, he just seems relieved. “Sorry Sweetheart it’s just that I would rather you not know what’s floating around in my brain.” He says with an apologetic look after his outburst.
“I wouldn’t worry if I were you, you might find that you can’t hear our thoughts, because we also are different, or it could be because you are with Brandr.” At my confused look he continues. “Two of our brothers mated with women who also have special gifts like you. We have found that their gifts change slightly when they are with their men. Maybe that’s your case too.” What does he mean my case too? I haven’t got a man of my own or mated, whatever that means.
“Bion!” Brandr calls out in an angry tone. “I haven’t explained our bond yet.”
“Well then, that’s my cue to leave as you two have some talking to do. Don’t you?” I hear Brandr grunt behind me, but he doesn’t answer. What could Brandr possibly have to explain to me?
“I will come check on you again tomorrow.” With that Bion leaves. I don’t know what this talking business was that Bion had mentioned but Brandr is sitting as stiff as a board behind me. Whatever it is it doesn’t seem as if he’s very happy about it.
“I don’t know how to explain this to you Sunshine so I’m just going to go ahead and tell you. Try to keep an open mind.” What could be so bad that makes him hesitate? I don’t know how to explain it, but it seems as if I can feel his unease deep down inside myself.
“Earlier on, I told you about my brothers and I, and how we are different, but that isn’t the only way we are different. You see Sunshine, we Elemental’s go through life with part of our soul missing until we find that one woman who completes us.” His voice is like silk caressing my skin. “You are that woman for me. You are mine. I know that you might not understand right now what I mean, but there is a connection between us that is unbreakable.” I can hear a hitch in his voice when I tense.
I guess he feels the connection between us, but I never thought that what he is saying is possible. I ask him on the tablet how he knows. I’m sure he has met a lot of women throughout his life. How can he tell that I am the one for him?
He explains the whole mating ritual to me and how he knew that I was the one before he even met me. To say that this is unexpected is an understatement, but I can’t explain the connection I feel, and the calmness that I feel when I’m with him. I have never felt this calmness before, not even when I was living with my gran. And what does being his mean?
“I know that this might be too much for you right now, but I need you to understand, since the moment I touched you that I wanted to make you mine. I can’t think about anything else except you, I have a constant hard on.” His confession shocks and frightens me. It’s one thing for him to confess that he likes me but something else when he says that I excite him. I know that there is something there between us, but I don’t know if I will be able to let him touch me like that, and what if he doesn’t want me when he finds out my secret.
I know that when he touches me my nipples pebble and feel sensitive and heavy, moisture pools between my legs. This has
never happened to me before. I have kept away from people and I have never had a boyfriend. Even at sixteen my parents didn’t let me date. I’m not completely ignorant I know what happens between a man and a woman. My gran was very open in talking about sex, but because I never thought I would find someone that would want to have a relationship with me, I had prepared myself to be single for the rest of my life.
I realise that I’m blushing at his confession, my neck and face are burning with embarrassment; my eyes are downcast. I feel his finger under my chin lifting my head upwards, so that my eyes are gazing into his. He has the lightest green eyes I have ever seen. At the moment they are piercing into my soul as if he can tell what I am feeling and thinking.
“Do I scare you?” His voice is a deep rasp that penetrates my skin, calming my jittery soul. At my nod I see him tense. “Because I’m different?” I shake my head in denial, I can’t let him think that I don’t accept him because he’s different. I know too well what it feels like to be ostracised.
“Are you scared because I told you that I want you?” At my nod he strokes his finger up and down my neck making my skin warm, I can feel my nipples tighten in reaction. “Don’t be scared Sunshine, I won’t hurt you, and I will never do anything that you don’t want me to.” I know that he’s trying to appease my concern but the thought of being intimate with him frightens me. I don’t even know him, and looking at him, I’m sure he’s had a lot of experience. What if I’m no good at it?
“Aria, you are mine! I promise that I will do everything in my power to always keep you safe. I will protect you with my life, my brothers will protect you with their lives; you are now family. As soon as you get better I will introduce you to everyone here.” I can feel my heart beating, the idea of being surrounded by people terrifies me. What if his brothers don’t accept me? I started to shake my head, but his next words stop me.
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