Chandler: Bishop’s Snowy Leap – Paranormal Tiger Shifter Romance (Bishop's Snowy Leap Book 2)

by Kathi S. Barton

  Chapter 6

  “I found something that might help you guys.” Gunner came into the room where he’d been working like he’d been there for a while. “Are you all right?”

  Chandler nodded and said that he’d forgotten the time. “I was looking over the classes that I can take, and also making a list of ones that I think I can test out of. Doc Joe told me that there is at least a year or two worth of them that I can skip. What did you find?”

  “There is this guy that is making a lot of noise about how he’s innocent. He’s a mobster from way back, and he’s strongly suggesting to all the agencies that they’re not to step on his land with any kind of equipment.” Chandler asked him if he thought he might murder a mother and child. “Oh yeah. He’d not have a moment’s hesitation in doing something like that. If even half of what I’ve found from missing persons is true, I’d say that he has a very good reason not to allow anyone even within a mile of his place. But I have my ways.”

  “What did you do?” Instead of answering him, he handed him several pictures. It took him a moment to figure out what they were, but when he did, Chandler looked at him. “Are these aerial shots of his land? Is this even legal?”

  “No. But then I don’t usually play by the rules when I want something. The blank spots that you can see in the lower half of the pictures are what I was assuming are bodies. The second set of pictures are x-ray pictures of the same plots. Once I was able to show some people what I had found, they used their infrared cameras and did a little more detail. As you can see, there are bones in those blank spots now.” Not just a couple of them either, Chandler noticed, but at least a dozen. “They only need to have reasonable cause to just say fuck it and go in. This is going to give them that right.”

  “But you’re not sure that this is him? I mean, this is amazing. I’m sure that it will close a great many cases. You did a great thing here.” Gunner said that the people he was helping, they wanted to use Sasha to sort them out. “You mean find out who they might be. You’d have to ask her that, Gunner. I mean, I’d do it, no problem. But I’m still having a little trouble with focusing the people into telling me what I need to know from them.”

  “Sasha needs to be asked about what?”

  She came into the room and handed him Pip. Chandler thought that she got bigger every day. When Gunner took her from him, he tried to console himself with the fact that she was his daughter, and Gunner didn’t see her as often as he did. Gunner explained to Sasha what he needed.

  “I would love to help you out with that. In fact, I was just coming to talk to Chandler about a man that is in our kitchen. He said that he knows you, Gunner.”

  “Do you know his name?” She told him what she knew. “I don’t know anyone by that name. Is he dressed as a real person, or is he dressed like I am?”

  “Real person? I guess I can see where you’d think that you’re not real in those fatigues. But you’re a real person to me. He’s dressed in a pair of men’s pajamas that are much too large for him. One slipper, and he looks like he has had his throat slit.” Gunner stood up and asked her what his name was again. “Holloway. That’s all he gave me.”

  “Can you send him away? He’s one of my targets, someone that was selling our shit to another country.” Sasha nodded, then left them. Gunner looked at him. “Do you think this is going to happen often? Where someone from my checkered past is going to come here for some reason?”

  “I don’t know, to be honest with you. I just found out that when a person, the dead, is really pissed off and has a lot of built up anger, they can harm humans. Like the guy that went after Sasha. He was able to use a bat on her when she found his wife at the bottom of a lake.” Gunner said that he was glad for the information. “Yeah, me too. I thought that it was a vampire or something, but it turns out, he was one fucking pissed off dead man.”

  Sasha rejoined them. “He’s gone. No biggie there. I can send them away so that they don’t seek revenge. That was what he was here for, by the way.” She smiled at Gunner. “If you could give me a list of things that I need to look for on the dead that come around for you, I can narrow down whether or not you need to come around or not. I’m thinking that if they come in fatigues, they might have died next to you, correct?”

  “No.” When she nodded and didn’t say anymore, he thought that Gunner looked relieved. “They want to know if you can be ready as soon as the team is ready to go in a couple of days. That would be great. I’ll take you out tomorrow so you can have a look around the area. It’ll be from a distance, but you’ll have a better idea of what we’re looking at area-wise. They want to get a start on the land as soon as possible. However, it’ll be before the sun comes up. Mr. Gauthier will still be in bed at that time. They have to serve him about what they’re doing, but we’re not allowed to make him aware of it before we begin.”

  “You work for these people.” This time Gunner did nothing more than stare at Sasha. Chandler felt a cold chill run over his skin at the blank look on his brother’s face. “I need something, Gunner. Even if it’s only to tell me that you will be my direct contact on this. I don’t want to be left holding the bag when it turns out there are not only no bodies out there, but that I’ll the one they think started this thing as a sort of revenge.”

  “You will report to me, and me only, unless I tell you otherwise. I would like for you to wear dark clothing so that you won’t stand out from the others there. There will be a camera crew there, but they know to blur out your face.” She thanked him for that. “I know that you have a carry permit. I would like it if you were armed, as well as wearing a vest under your shirt.”

  “I don’t have a weapon. I left it at my other place.” He said that he’d get it for her. “Thanks. Gunner, are you expecting trouble from me being there?”

  “Not from you being there, no. But I always expect the worst when it comes to dealing with pieces of shit like Gauthier.” Gunner stood up. “I’ll be here at four in the morning. If you could be ready, I’ll make sure that no one knows that you were brought from this house. Nor will anyone other than me know your name. They only know you as Ghost Walker. All right?”

  “Yes. All right. Will you do me one favor? Will you please be as careful as you can be out there with me? I love you, Gunner. I don’t want anything to happen to you. Your mom would kick both our asses.” Gunner laughed. Chandler didn’t hear him do that often and was glad that his brother still knew how to do it. “I’ll see you in the morning. Do I want to know what is going to happen to Mr. Gauthier?”

  “No, you don’t.” Nodding, Gunner left them after kissing Pip on the cheek and handing her to him. Chandler didn’t say anything, as Sasha seemed to be processing what she’d just been asked to do. Or she was thinking of Gunner’s answers to her question.

  “What did he do in the service? Do you know?” He told her that he didn’t. “I’m sure that it’s going to take a woman to get it out of him. If she can’t, then no one will. But he looks haunted to me. Like...I don’t know. Like he’s ready to die and thinks no one would care if he did.”

  “You really don’t think he’s thinking that, do you?” She shrugged and told him that Gunner had a lot of ghosts with him. “What sort of ghosts? Ones that you think will hurt him in some way?”

  “No. I think they were people that he helped but didn’t make it. They don’t want to talk to me so much as they wish to speak to him. You didn’t see them?” Chandler told her that he’d not seen anyone. “Strange. I don’t know, Chandler, but I can tell you this. If he ever comes to us for help, in any way whatsoever, I think we should go well beyond what we think is safe for us and help him. If he’s asking, then he does need it.”

  “Like today?” Sasha said that today, she thought, was a test. That he was figuring out who would help him or not. “I don’t want him to test us. I want him to come to me when he needs me. I need him so much more than he needs me.
”

  “Then tell him.” Nodding at her when she left with Pip, Chandler thought about what Sasha had said, telling Gunner that they needed him. Also, he’d bet that he needed to hear that they loved him. Chandler did too. More than he could have anyone in the world, with the possible exception of his new family, he loved all his brothers.

  Concentrating on a class schedule was a little more difficult now. He wanted to call his brother and ask him if what Sasha said was true. But deep in his heart, he didn’t want to know either.

  Gunner had been gone most, if not all, of his adult life. When he’d only been seventeen, he’d signed up to go into the army. Dad and Mom both were against it, but since that was what he wanted to do, they’d both signed the paperwork to give Gunner to the army to care for. That was the way his mom had put it too. That they were going to care for him now.

  About a week later, Chandler had been sent home from school because he’d passed all the tests that were needed for his grade group. Coming home, he’d caught his mom at the table sobbing. Her face was red, and her nose was running. When he asked her what was wrong, she told him that she’d heard from Gunner. Nothing more than that, just that she’d heard from him. Chandler wanted to reach out to his brother and ask him what the hell he had done to their mom when Sawyer had found him instead.

  “He didn’t hurt her.” Chandler asked his older brother why she was crying then. “She misses him. Nothing more than that. And when he wrote to her, telling her how much he missed us as well, it hurt her heart that he wasn’t here for her to give him a hug. I think we forget, as teenagers, that adults need hugs too. Don’t you think?”

  He’d never once thought about hugging his parents after he’d turned fourteen. Now there he was, all those years later, wanting one bad enough for him to race his brother down the stairs to get one from their mom. After that, Chandler had hugged his parents every chance he got. He realized now that he should have been hugging his brothers as well, not just when he saw them and when he left.

  Chandler knew there were times when he’d been growing up that a hug would have been nice. Even now, he thought that a big bear of a hug would have made him feel much better about himself. Not just today, but there were times when he’d seek out someone to greet them for a hug. That, he just realized, was just plain stupid.

  Resolving to hug his family more often, he dug into the paperwork again. There was just too much for one person to go over alone. Getting up, stretching himself, he decided to go and find his mate. It was time for the two of them to break in their new bed that had arrived an hour ago.

  She was just putting Pip in her bed when he came up behind her. She was warm and soft, and he loved holding her. When he started to nibble on her ear, her laughter had him harder than he’d expected. It was sexy and soft, so much like Sasha’s body was.

  “I did wonder how long it was going to take us to make sure that the bed was perfect. Actually, I could care less if it’s perfect. I just want to have you inside of me.” He hissed while he rolled his hips into her bottom so she could feel what she did to him. “Chandler, I’ve been waiting for what seems like years for you to take me. So unless you want me to come right now and wake Pip, you’d better take me someplace where we can scream.”

  The baby had been moved to her own room yesterday. Sasha and himself had been awakened every what seemed like thirty seconds while they’d made do with an air mattress. Neither of them had gotten a good night’s sleep while Pip slept through the night, not waking once. The little poop head was moved when Mom told them that they shouldn’t have put her in there in the first place.

  Picking Sasha up in his arms, he carried her to their room. The bed was made. Since he’d not been the one to make it, he assumed that Sasha had been anticipating them using it soon. Had he known that, he might have hunted her down earlier.

  Putting her on the bed so that her legs hung on either side of him, he looked into her face as he slowly unbuttoned her blouse. There was no need for words. They had been touching each other every chance they got since they moved into this house. They had been using foreplay for days now, and both of them seemed to be ready for the real thing.

  “I love you, Sasha.” Chandler kissed her, making short work of not just her blouse but her bra as well. When she was topless, she leaned back on the bed so that he could remove her pants. Instead, he took one of her lovely breasts into his mouth and sucked on it hard. Her fingers in his hair were nearly his undoing. Lifting his head from her, he watched her as she undid her pants for him. “I’ve wanted you for so long, I cannot wait to see if your body is as beautiful as I have been thinking it is. Your breasts have surpassed my wildest expectations. I know that the rest of you will as well.”

  “Hurry. I need to feel you touching me, Chandler.”

  He took her pants off with her panties. He could only stare at what she was offering him. Not only was she the most beautiful creature that he’d ever seen, but her curls were dewy for him as well.

  Wanting to taste her, he got down on his knees in front of her. Spreading her legs wider, he watched her face to see the emotions that were there. Want and need were fighting for control over her. She wanted him to touch her, but she also seemed to want to touch him just as badly.

  Sliding his finger through the curls and into her, he loved it when she moaned loudly and laid all the way back on the bed. Fucking her this way, stretching and giving her as much pleasure as he could, Chandler reached down and pulled his own pants open. The cool air of the room nearly had him crying out, his cock was so painfully sensitive.

  Sliding his tongue through the wet lips of her nether region, he suckled on her clit until she cried out with her first climax. When she begged him to take her, Chandler did what he had wanted since he’d sat down in front of her. He leaned into her pussy and fucked her none too gently with his tongue. Sasha screamed several times into a pillow that was near her.

  Sasha squeezed his head tightly with her legs, begging him to release her so that she could feel him inside of her. He wasn’t ready for that. He wanted to play. Tasting her like this, drinking down her nectar, he moaned every time she flooded his mouth with more.

  Chandler fucked her with his fingers as well, stretching her pussy so that she’d not hurt when he took her. He knew his cock was larger than a human’s would be. That was why he was being extra sensitive to her needs. He didn’t want to cause her any discomfort the first time they made love.

  “Chandler, please. I’m begging you to take me. I need to feel you inside of me more than I need to breathe.” He sat up when she yanked his head up by his hair. Even his cat was afraid of her at that moment. “Fuck me.”

  He stood up, pulling his pants off the rest of the way. Not waiting for her to tense up again, Chandler filled her with his cock. He didn’t know which of them had suffered more from the abrupt invasion, her or him. His cock was strangled within her. Twisted up like it was, he couldn’t move. As soon as her hips moved, adjusting herself, he guessed, to take him, he moved too. It was both painful and pleasant at the same time.

  Taking her mouth with his, he kissed her as he took her, touching her body with his hands everywhere he could reach. Her ankles tightened around him when he lifted her ass up to meet his downward demands. Each time she cried out for more, his body seemed to understand that she meant it. His heart, still careful, didn’t want her to hurt after they were done.

  “Give yourself to me.”

  Her command was like a smack to his back. He nearly screamed out his own release when she bowed up from the bed, calling out his name over and over as she released. His back felt the rawness as she raked her fingers down over him. Blood, hot, raced down his back, and he could feel it gather on his spine.

  When she came a second, then a third time, Chandler joined her. He came so many times that he told her he couldn’t move again, he was dizzy with it. Rolling to his back, taking her with
him, Chandler moved so that he was still inside of her, fucking her slowly so that her continued climaxes had a little more punch to them than she would have had without him.

  Closing his eyes from the way the room swayed around, he held tightly to Sasha until he could see better. It helped that he knew better than to look with both eyes at the same time. Just looking out one eye was enough to make him ill to his stomach.

  ~*~

  “Are you all right?” Chandler grunted at her. “Chandler, did I kill you or not? Please answer me.”

  “I do believe that I am dead. You killed me when all I wanted to do was make love to my pretty little unsuspecting mate. Who knew you had this inner demon in you that was a wild cat.” He looked at her with one eye. “You, my dear, are nearly too much for my poor body.”

  Sasha laughed and sat up over him. She could feel his cock there, semi hard and still deep within her. When he put his hands on her hips, rolling herself over him seemed to be what he wanted. Christ, it had her crying out in delicious delight when he rolled his hips up to meet hers.

  “You keep that up, and we’ll both be dead. They’ll find our bodies connected in the most intimate way, and they’ll wonder what we’ve been up to.” Chandler laughed when she did. “You are far and away the most fun I’ve ever had in bed before. Including my BOB.”

  “You have a battery operated boyfriend? Christ, woman, you should have said something like that before. Do you still have it?” She said that no, sadly, she’d lost it on one of her moves. “We’ll get you another one. I’ve never used one before, but I’ve heard that it’s a lot of fun.”

  “Never used one before, huh? Pull the other leg, Chandler Bishop. That one is long enough, thank you.” She tisked at him. “Don’t lie to me. If you have used one before, just tell me if you really enjoyed it. I do not want any names.”

  “I swear, I haven’t ever used one before.”

  She believed him. Of course, that didn’t stop her from teasing him about it. When he rolled her to her back, making her squeal in amusement, she held his face in her hands as she kissed him several times before stretching them out to be one long, wonderful kiss.