ETERNAL SOULS-BOOK 111: WANTON RENEGADE

by D. J. Manly

  “Tyler Rose has lost his mind,” Seth announced suddenly when there was a lull in the conversation.

  Dino leaned closer to him. “What?”

  “You heard me. He’s gone crazy. It’s gotten progressively worse the last few years.”

  Dino closed his eyes for a moment. Then he opened them and met Seth’s gaze. “So, what are you doing here now?”

  Seth Murdock looked like he was about to cry. “I’m sorry, Bryce,” he said, taking out his weapon, “I have to take you back.”

  Dino regarded him calmly. “That weapon you have, Seth, won’t do you any good.”

  “Yes, it will,” he nodded, and aiming at his forearm, he shot one bullet into him.

  The impact of it threw Dino out of the chair he was sitting in.

  The other soldiers fell quiet. They all stared at Seth Murdock as if he’d lost his mind.

  Seth stood up, looking around him. “I can tell you now, Bryce Donovan was our mission.”

  Dino tried to lift his head off the floor. The room was spinning. What was happening to him? He looked up to see Seth Murdock looking down at him. He thought he heard him say, “I’m sorry,” then everything went black.

  NOT SO SWEET REUNIONS

  Tyler was sitting with Ryan in the conference room when he was told that he had a phone call on his priority phone. It had to be Murdock. He dismissed Ryan and told him to close the door behind him.

  When he was alone, he opened the phone to see Seth Murdock’s face. He was in the craft. “Mr. Rose,” he said, his voice sounding cool and formal.

  “Murdock. What’s the news?”

  “We have the prisoner,” he said.

  Tyler’s hand tightened on the receiver. “Is he alright?”

  “He’s fine, so far. He’s going to have a sore arm probably. The drug had an immediately effect.”

  “Is he secure?”

  “Yes, Sir, as you instructed. He’s in chains and inside a double locked security cage. He has yet to regain consciousness.”

  Tyler bit his lip. “Are you sure he’s alright?”

  “He’s breathing, that’s all I can tell you.”

  “And the others?”

  “We were unable to complete that part of the mission, Sir. The others left the premises and we were unable to locate them. They just disappeared.”

  “You can explain it to me in detail when you arrive. When shall I expect you?”

  “Tomorrow morning, Sir. I will bring him to the place you instructed. May I be permitted to ask what you intend to do with him?”

  “No, you may not. Take him directly there and then come to me. I will be waiting.”

  “Yes Sir.”

  Tyler closed the communication.

  Sitting back in his desk, he closed his eyes. Dino. How I long to see you. How I long to touch you. How I long to…no. He would pay. He would not be swayed by sentiment. He was his now. His torment would end.

  THE ROOM

  Tyler watched Seth Murdock as he paced up and down in front of him. “Say it, Murdock, get it out of your system.”

  “Is being a…vampire…his only crime?”

  “No,” Tyler replied.

  “He was a great man, Mr. Rose, a war hero. He wasn’t even here in Ruby City. Why did we have to hunt a…?”

  Tyler stood up. “This is between Donavan and I. I take full responsibility for what happens to him. Forget about it. Is he in the room?”

  “Yes.”

  “Is he still inside the cage?”

  “Yes,” Seth swallowed.

  Tyler nodded. “Good. Go now.”

  Seth took one long last look at Tyler Rose, then headed for the door.

  “And, Captain,” he said, “I know people think I’m insane. I assure you I’m not.”

  Murdock nodded at him and left the room.

  * * * *

  Dino opened his eyes and tried to focus on his surroundings. He recognized the room immediately. He had brought Tyler here years ago, a couple of times. The last time they were here together, they had made love. He remembered every second of it. In fact, he hadn’t forgotten anything about Tyler Rose in all these years. The pain of loving a man he could never have, weighed heavily on his heart.

  He tried to move, but then realised that his wrists and his ankles were chained together. And he was in some kind of a cage, like an animal.

  When the lights went on, his eyes flashed red. His body tensed like an animal ready to pounce. He tried to sit up but was having some difficulty. His head felt heavy and unclear. He hissed.

  Tyler walked across the room. He tried to control the emotion that gripped him as his gaze first landed on him. He looked exactly the same. His broad muscular chest heaved now with apprehension.

  Dino’s eyes narrowed, not sure who they were looking at. Then he calmed. “Tyler,” he said.

  Tyler couldn’t speak for a moment. He forced the tears back and swallowed the pain.

  “Tyler,” he said again. “What…why…what am I doing here?”

  “You are a dangerous creature,” Tyler replied tensely. “I have a responsibility to protect the galaxy.”

  He narrowed his eyes. “I can’t believe…”

  “Can’t believe what?” Tyler lifted his chin, coming closer to the cage. “Can’t believe that I would do my duty as the supreme leader and have you captured?”

  His jaw fell open. He was serious. “What’s happened to you?” he whispered.

  “You,” Tyler gave him a cold smile. “You happened to me.”

  “But I left to…”

  “Yes, you left,” Tyler said bitterly. “You left after giving me everything I’d ever secretly desired. You left without even so much as a goodbye. You left me knowing that no lover could ever satisfy me after that.”

  He didn’t realise he was screaming until Dino said, “Calm down, Tyler.”

  He was shaking. Ten years of frustration and pain ripped through him like a surgeon’s knife.

  “I can explain,” Dino began.

  “I don’t want your explanations. Your actions spoke for you. You didn’t say goodbye and you never came back. I waited and waited, thinking that surely you meant what you said to me that night. You said that you loved me.”

  “I do…” he whispered, closing his eyes. “I do love you, Tyler, more than you know.”

  He laughed.

  That hurt. Dino winced. He saw the look on his face. He knew that nothing he could say at this moment would make any difference. “Now what? What are you intending to do to me?”

  “First you will satisfy this ache you left me with. Then, when I’m through with you, I’ll give you to the science lab to experiment on.”

  “Dead, or alive?” he asked, lifting an eyebrow.

  Tyler paused. He didn’t expect that. It was humour, so typical of him. It brought back so many memories.

  “That depends,” Tyler said, struggling now to hold on to the edge of his anger.

  “On what, Tyler?” he asked him, his deep voice silky and seductive. “On how well I satisfy that ache you mentioned?”

  Tyler glared at him. “It’s too early to say.”

  Dino cocked his head. “When do I get to satisfy this ache of yours?”

  “I wouldn’t be so anxious if I were you,” Tyler told him hotly. “You will simply be an instrument of pleasure. I plan to use you. Don’t think I’ll give you anything in return.”

  He leaned back in the cage. He had given up trying to sit up. “Even the slightest touch of your hand will give me the entire world, Tyler.”

  “Give it up, Vampire,” Tyler sneered. “Your charm is wasted on me.”

  Dino smiled. “I don’t think so.”

  “Still cocky as they come.”

  “Do you plan to feed me?” he asked him. “Or will you starve me? I won’t be much use to you without any strength.”

  “I’ll get you what you need.” Without another word, Tyler turned around and left the room.

  Dino smiled.
I need you, Tyler. I’ve always needed you, and always will.

  A few minutes later, three bodyguards entered the room. When he saw the gun pointed at him, he knew they intended to drug him again.

  Without a word, one of them fired and a bullet whizzed through his shoulder. That hurt like hell. He growled at them.

  It took a few minutes for his eyes to close. He thought of Joey. His face blurred with that of Tyler’s. He smiled. You can do anything you want to me, but touch me, he whispered in his dream. Touch me.

  * * * *

  Tyler entered the room a few hours later and nodded in satisfaction. They had done exactly as he’d instructed. He had begun the design on this room the minute Seth Murdock had left on his search for Dino. Three weeks ago, the engineers had finished building it. No one asked what it was for.

  The room was adjacent to the very room where Bryce had taken him over ten years ago at his grandfather’s request. It was a relatively small room and totally soundproof. At first glance, there appeared to be nothing in the room but iron clasps hanging from every angle and a long table, just big enough for a person to lie down on. But the panel that was installed on the side of the wall made it into a virtual sexual playground where someone could be displayed at all angles and switched into various positions without ever having to be released from their constraints.

  In the corner of the room was a closet which was stocked full of every conceivable sexual apparatus ever invented. Further, with a touch of his finger, he could slide back the walls to reveal full length mirrors.

  Dino was still out from the drug. He was fully dressed, his arms spread out at his side and secured by his wrists to each side of a movable wall. His legs were spread wide, his ankles shackled and connected to rings which also extended from the wall.

  Tyler had made sure that the chains were extra strong.

  He walked over to him. His head was slumped forward on his chest. Tyler reached out and touched his hair. His hand was shaking as he stroked it. Tears came to his eyes. He chastised himself, withdrawing his hand.

  He wrapped his arms around him and buried his face in his neck. He held him tightly, squeezing his body closer to him, then released him. He turned away. Take hold of yourself, Tyler. Remember how he left you.

  But I left you because I love you, Tyler. I wanted to protect you.

  Tyler glared at him. “You’re waking up, it seems.”

  Dino lifted his head. “Yes. I’m groggy. That drug you keep shooting me with leaves my head feeling heavy.” He moved his head around, eyeing the chains on his ankles and wrists. “So, what is this?”

  “I made it especially for you,” Tyler said softly, reaching out and running a finger down his chest.

  “How nice,” he said.

  Tyler walked over to the panel and pressed a button.

  Dino looked over his head to see the ceiling become a mirror. Then he felt his legs being pulled further apart. He looked at him again. “Is this supposed to scare me?”

  Tyler shrugged. “Personally, I don’t give a damn.” He took a pair of cutting shears out of his pocket. “Especially for leather.”

  “It appears you are well prepared,” he replied, licking his lips. “But I suggest you feed me. I’m hungry.”

  Tyler eyed him. “And if I don’t?”

  “I’m liable to break these constraints and suck you dry.” He met his gaze.

  Tyler felt a hot flush move over his body. His cock did something he hadn’t felt it do in a long time, it began to throb.

  Dino smiled at him. “That turn you on, Tyler?”

  Tyler gave him a dirty look, then left the room.

  A few minutes later he came back with a glass filled with blood. “Will this do?”

  “Is it human?”

  “Yes. It came from the blood bank.”

  He nodded.

  Tyler brought it over and held the glass to his lips.

  He drank it greedily.

  When he took the glass away, a drop of blood lingered on his lips. Tyler watched his tongue dart out, sweeping it away.

  He moaned inwardly, and put the empty glass aside.

  Dino smiled seductively at him. “Horny as hell, aren’t you? Do you want me, Tyler?”

  Tyler pursed his lips. “You shut up. I’m in charge. Don’t talk.”

  “Anything you say,” he grinned.

  “This is not a joke,” Tyler snapped.

  Dino met his gaze. “I know that, my love.”

  “I’m not your love,” Tyler told him.

  Dino fell quiet and waited.

  Tyler moved forward with the shears. He leaned down and cut up the length of one leg of his pants, then straight through up to the waist. One half of his pants fell away revealing the white bikini underwear he was wearing. His sex swelled up over the waistband. He tried to ignore it, but irresistibly, he brushed his hand against it as he cut down the other side to his boot. The pants landed in a heap on the floor.

  Dino looked down at him. “Are you going to buy me a new pair of pants?”

  “No. You won’t be needing them,” he whispered, his eyes now filled with a definite tint of lust.

  “That’s clear enough,” Dino replied.

  Tyler leaned down again, running his hands up over his muscular calves and then to his thighs. He stood up. He was wearing a black tee-shirt that definitely had to come off. He put the scissors aside.

  With both hands he ripped the tee-shirt up the center. He stood back again, obviously enjoying himself. He licked his lips. “God, you’re so beautiful,” he hissed between his teeth. “I should make some sort of law against that. You could make someone lose their mind.”

  “And have you lost your mind, Tyler?” Dino asked him.

  “Don’t speak,” Tyler told him, reaching out to pinch his inviting brown nipples.

  Dino’s head went back. He sucked in some air as Tyler continued to tug on them without mercy.

  Tyler moved one hand down to his cock now. He lifted it completely out of the underwear and stood back to admire it.

  With his nipples and cock hard like that, Tyler could no longer contain his own desire. He opened his pants and withdrew his aching cock.

  Dino’s hot gaze caressed it. “How long it’s been since I’ve been able to look at it. It’s beautiful,” he whispered. “Tyler, I love you.”

  Tyler raised tear-filled eyes to him. “You left me. Look at me. I’m helpless. Even with you tied up like that, it’s me who is the prisoner.” He threw his arms around him and sobbed against his chest.

  All he could do was rub his chin against the top of his head. “Tyler, Tyler,” he said. “Listen to me. I left because Thor wanted to kill you. It was Thor that night who came to you and if I hadn’t stopped him, you’d be dead. I knew you’d never be safe if I stayed with you. And how can we be together? I’m not…I’m a vampire.”

  “Then make me a vampire too,” Tyler looked up at him, pleading. “I hate this life. I never wanted this. I’m miserable without you. Dino, I’m losing my mind.”

  “I…” he began but Tyler didn’t give him the chance to answer. He pressed his mouth against his and kissed him deeply.

  Then stepping back from him, he took his sex in his hand and fondled it with such tenderness, Dino moaned deeply in his throat. “Tyler.” Ripping the underwear, Tyler threw them aside. “I can’t wait anymore.” On his knees, he took his sex in his mouth, making sounds of pleasure as he tasted him.

  Dino’s head went back, his legs bracing himself as he thrust his hips forward.

  He felt Tyler’s hands move around to his buttocks. His fingers kneaded the flesh there as he continued to pleasure him with his mouth. He released his sex and stood up, quickly discarding his clothing as Dino watched him silently.

  Walking over to the closet of treasures, he withdrew an electronic wand that changed shapes with a press of a switch. He showed it to Dino and smiled softly at him. “I plan to torture you.”

  “So it seems,” he repli
ed dryly.

  Stopping by the panel, he pressed a switch which caused the room to be surrounded by mirrors. He pressed another which caused Dino’s legs to rise upwards off the floor, the constraints adjusting themselves at a higher level on the side of the wall.

  “You got to be kidding.” Dino laughed.

  Underneath him now, Tyler ran his lips over his buttocks, reaching around to play with his cock. Then roughly he began to prod him with the sex toy. “I know I may not be able to give you what a vampire can, but this will. This will fuck you for hours in a variety of different ways.”

  Tyler masturbated as he watched Dino’s face and body contort in the mirror on the ceiling. So sexy. As he continued to impale him with the toy, his erection jutted upward, his tongue darted out across his lips, his eyes changed a variety of hues, from gold, to green, to amber, to blood red. At one point, his jaw opened, revealing those pointed incisors.

  Leaving the toy inside him, he went to the panel. He lowered it some so that he could touch him more. Coming around to the side of him, he looked down into his face. He kissed his cheek, his chin, his mouth, his neck. He touched his chest, his nipples, ran his hand over his stomach, his sex. He forgot all about the sex toy. He wrapped his arms around his waist and laid his head on his chest.

  “This is torture?” Dino whispered.

  “Damn you,” Tyler said, stepping away from him. He took the sex toy out and turned it off, throwing it aside. “You didn’t even cum.”

  “It’s not a plastic toy that’s going to do it for me, Tyler.” He smiled at him and then winked.

  “You’re impossible,” Tyler said.

  “I know, and that’s why you love me so much,” he replied simply as Tyler walked over and pressed the button that would lower his body to the floor again.

  “I don’t love you. I hate you,” Tyler told him, half seriously.

  Dino laughed.

  Tyler folded his arms across his naked chest and lowered his head.

  He looked like a small boy suddenly. “Why don’t you release me so that I can give you what you really want?”