Rage (Galactic Cage Fighters) (12 page)

She knew that Zara and Rage had been together a long time ago. But to know that it was her instead of Rage that ended things was hurtful.
It didn’t help her confidence at all to hear that he easily tired of humans. She clambered to her feet again. It didn’t matter. Once he found out she was working undercover and that she had lied to him, he won’t want to have anything to do with her again.

“Don’t let the Amazon get to you
,” Resa told her as she walked over to Rachel. Resa was her next practice match. Rachel watched as Resa changed her form into a Slurchan. The sight made her want to puke. They practiced several moves and holds until they found ones that would work on the spongy body. Finally, Resa changed back into her normal form. Thank God for that.

“You’re getting better
, Rachel.” She looked Rachel up and down. “Tipin and I would still like to have you over for dinner in our suite.”

Rachel was grateful for having a solid excuse not to go. “I think Rage wanted to spend time with me this evening.”

“Well, I overheard him telling Talon he had to go off ship and wouldn’t be back until tomorrow morning. He wanted Talon to tell you that. So, looks like you’re available after all.” She had a strange gleam in her eyes.

Damn it! “Guess so. But I need to let you know, I’m not into
… threesomes. If that was what you had in mind.”

Resa
chuckled. “Tipin will be disappointed, but we can handle it if you come as just a friend.”

“Then I’ll see you this evening.

Rachel wore her most conservative outfit,
jeans and a light blue cardigan sweater that hung loosely down to her hips. The male, Tipin, answered the door wearing a white shirt unbuttoned and a pair of tuxedo pants. He looked her up and down, licking his lips. It made Rachel extremely uncomfortable.

“Welcome
, Rachel. I am told that I cannot have sex with you this evening.” He bent to kiss her hand that he had lifted to his lips. She fought to hide her revulsion at the unwanted contact. She covered up her response by laughing with him.

She walked into the suite and
found it similar to all the other suites on the ship. Resa came out of the bedroom wearing a sheer gold dress that barely covered her breasts. “We’re so glad you finally came. I’ve made a special meal just for you. It should be ready in another twenty minutes.” She motioned for Rachel to sit on the nearby sofa.

“It smells delicious.” She took in a deep breath. The aroma coming from the kitchen was divine.
Resa was a good fighter and a good cook. Rachel could barely slap a sandwich together.

“Sit down and have a glass of wine. It’s imported from the Eastern Quarter of Theta.” She handed Rachel a large glass of red wine. Rachel pretended to take a sip, but spit it back into her glass. If her suspicions were correct, then these two had a
hand in the missing girls’ disappearances. She planned to scrape the inside of her mouth and send the sample to be tested.

“You did well with your first match. Your family must be proud
.” Tipin sat a little too close to Rachel on the sofa.

“I have no family. My parents died when I was a kid and I was raised by my
Uncle Ted. He passed away a few years ago.” All true. She had learned the best way to lie was to stick as close to the truth as possible.

“So you have no one?” he continued to ask.

“Of course she has someone.
She and Rage are an item now. Right, Rachel?” Resa asked as she sat on the other side of Rachel.

Rachel felt uncomfortable. It was one thing to go one on one with a
halfsie in the cage. It was a totally different story to be caught in the middle of two shapeshifters in such close vicinity.

“It’s nothing serious. We’re just having fun.”

“Rage looked pretty serious last night when you were hurt.” Tipin sounded doubtful.

Rachel shrugged her shoulders. “You know Rage
better than I do. Has he ever been in a relationship with a human for very long?” When both of them answered her in the negative and laughed, Rachel felt her heart sink. “It’s not serious. We’re great in bed. As soon as we’re both done getting what we want from one another, we’ll move on and part ways.”

“Glad to hear it. We have some friends that are very interested in meeting you, but they don’t want to get caught in the middle of you and Rage.”
Resa told her with a gleam in her eye.

“I would love to meet your friends. They have nothing to worry about, there’s nothing serious between me and Rage,” she assured them.

That’s when the door crashed open. Rage stood there and he looked beyond pissed. He must have heard what she had said.
Oh shit!

Chapter 13

“Let me go, Rage!”

Rachel was practically dragged behind Rage as he pulled her after him down the hallway to the elevators. Once they were inside the tight elevator, Rage turned her around and pressed her up against the elevator wall.

He didn’t give her a chance to say anything else, he took her lips in a brutal kiss. His body pressed up against hers trapping her in the corner. He then ripped her jeans into tiny pieces that fell fluttering to the floor.

“Rage?”
she whispered. She should be scared, but instead, she was on fire for him. She loved that she could make him lose control.

He didn’t answer her. He went back to kissing her.
He didn’t let up, taking almost all her oxygen. She moaned from the ache she felt deep inside of her. She wanted him, had to have him. Rachel fumbled to get his jeans opened. Once she did, his fully aroused cock sprang free. He growled as he reached between their bodies and tore her underwear away. It had been the last barrier keeping them apart.

He
gripped her hips, lifting her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist automatically. He shifted and then plunged deeply into her. He hit her core.

“Rage
.” She met him thrust for thrust, riding him like her very life depended on it. Her heels pressed against his tight ass, giving her the leverage she needed. She was addicted to him. All day she felt off kilter, lonely, empty. But now she was filled with him, and she couldn’t get enough, would never get enough of him.

She came hard, yelling out his name. When he released his seed
a moment later, he yelled back, “Mine!”

The elevator doors had opened and closed a while ago. She hoped that they hadn’t given anybody a show. If they had, well
, she just couldn’t find the energy to care. As their breathing returned to normal, Rage let her slide down his body until her feet touched the floor. She looked down and realized she would not be able to put her pants back on, since they were completely ruined.

Rage picked up the shredded clothing from the floor and pushed the button to open the elevator door. They were on his floor. He went to open
the door to his suite. “Come.”

Rachel had no choice but to follow him. She was practically naked in the hall.
As she passed him, she noted that he had a distracted look on his face. She sat down on his sofa and waited for him to turn his attention back to her. She watched him as he paced back and forth.

When he had sought out Rachel earlier, he had
done it with plans of talking to her calmly about things. He had gone to the suite she shared with Sersan. The other woman told him that Rachel had gone to share a dinner with Tipin and Resa. That was when he lost control of his anger. His beast was roaring with jealousy that another man could be touching
his
Rachel.

“Why would you let yourself be alone with
Tipin and Resa? They have threesomes and orgies. If I hadn’t come for you when I did, you could have ended up between the sheets with them now. Is that what you want?”

Rachel shivered at the disgusting image of her with
Tipin and Resa. “Of course not. I told them I was not into threesomes before I agreed to have dinner with them. Besides, who are you to pass judgment on me? You yourself told me how you and Talon had shared many women!” Rachel yelled back at him.

“That was the past. Those women meant nothing to me. Damn it
, Rachel! If I hadn’t shown up when I did, they wouldn’t have taken no for an answer.”

“I was handling the situation just fine before you barged in. I was getting information that I needed and now, I’ll be lucky if they
’ll say hello to me again.”

“What information?”

Shit! She had said too much. She got up and started heading to the door. She had made a rookie mistake in letting her emotions get to her. “Oh, no you don’t.” He grabbed her arm pulling her back into the room. “You are not going anywhere until I have the truth from you. The real truth and all of it.”

“I don’t know what you mean.”

“Stop lying to me!
I want answers. I think after what we have shared together I deserve that.”

He wasn’t going to let her go until he had some answers. She sighed and nodded her head. He reluctantly let her go.

“What’s your real name?”

“Special Agent Rachel
Kegan. I’m working undercover for the IDJ.”

“Special Agent?
What are you investigating?”

“I’m here to investigate the disappearance of eight human women.”

“What do they have to do with the GCFA?”

“Each of the missing women
were reported to have been following the GCFA circuit at the time of their disappearance.”

“Lindy?”

“Yeah, she’s one of the ones missing.”

Rage sat down on the sofa in defeat. “So everything between was made up
? It was all part of your cover? One big lie?”

Rachel
slowly came closer to him. “Not everything was a lie. You have to understand, I had a job to do and I needed to keep up my cover story. This thing with you wasn’t planned.”

“Thing?
That’s right. You told Tipin and Resa that we were just having fun and that this wasn’t serious.” He stood up and started pacing again. The beast in him rose. He felt himself getting larger, his dark eyes turning pure black. He lifted the sofa and threw it against the wall, breaking it apart.

Shit! Rachel swallowed a gulp. She had never had to deal with Rage’s
Bestial side while he was in fight mode. It was scary as shit.

“Were you even going to tell Talon that you were investigating Lindy’s disappearance?” He got angrier when she was silent. “Was he the one you were investigating?”

“He was part of the investigation, but it didn’t take long for me to rule him out. And no, I wasn’t planning to tell him or anyone. My purpose here had to remain secret or I couldn’t do my job.”

“What the hell is going on here and what do you mean by you are investigating Lindy’s disappearance?” Talon stood at the open doorway. Neither she
nor Rage heard him open the door.

“You
were right Talon, she isn’t who she says she is. Now she claims she’s Special Agent Rachel Kegan working for the IDJ,” Rage told him while pulling up a chair to sit in. He was doing his best to reign in his beast. But knowing that she had lied to him, the fact that she may not have any feelings for him at all, was tearing him apart. His beast demanded that he take her to bed and prove to them both that there was more to their relationship. He shook his head.
Control this!
he told himself.

Talon closed the door behind him as he came into the room. He looked at Rachel as if seeing her through different eyes. “Tell me.”

She looked down at her bare legs. All she had on was her over-large sweater. She felt vulnerable. “Let me put something on first.” The men nodded and let her go into the bedroom to pull her sweatpants on.

She then went back into the main living space to answer Talon and Rage’s questions.
Rachel spent the next thirty minutes telling Talon her real reason for being on the circuit. The whole time Rage said nothing. He sat in his seat quietly listening to her explain things to Talon.

“But Lindy left
on her own. I have the letter that she wrote me. I showed it to you, remember? I also have a copy of the digital video recording of her leaving the hotel that last day. I made security show it to me and convinced them to make a copy for me. I’ve watched it over and over and saw nothing of a woman being forced to leave or being taken against her will.”

“Could I see the video?” Rachel asked him.

“I’ll be right back.” Talon got up and went to his suite to get it.

“Don’t feed him any wild hopes
, Rachel. He’s been through enough. When Lindy left him, he nearly went crazy for her. They had formed some kind of bond. The separation almost drove him insane. I won’t have my friend go down that destructive spiral again,” he told her with anger in his voice.

“I don’t want to hurt him, but I need all the information I can gather to find out what happened
, not only to Lindy, but seven other women as well. All of them have family or loved ones that deserve to know what happened to them.”