Stepbrother Bear - Complete (8 page)

CHAPTER
SIXTEEN

I placed two fingers on Aiden’s
shoulder and he whirled around to wrap his arms around me and kiss me deeply. I
stumbled back, my mind crying out protests like
Hang on a second,
and
I
changed my mind
and
this doesn’t feel right
. I’m pretty sure it
didn’t feel right for Aiden either, but that wasn’t going to stop him from
groping my breasts and putting his mouth to my neck in heated lust.

The thoughts
dispersed. I didn’t want to be into it, especially not when there was so much
going on out there – so much horror that could have been inflicted on our
family – but at the same time I needed it. Our poisonous escape.

Aiden pulled
the sofa cushions out and threw them on the floor. Then he threw me down on the
floor with them, lifting up my dress and running his hands all over me as we
kissed.

As my hands
pressed underneath his shirt, I realized that maybe this wasn’t as disturbing
as we were both afraid it to be. There was something deeper between us here. I
didn’t just want Aiden to fuck me because he’d been making fun of me all these
years and it was a way of clawing back some acceptance. That was just a
charade. The first layer. Behind it, I realized that this thing I had now with
Aiden hadn’t been building when we were younger. It started on this very night.
I had seen him in pain, and I had seen him fight against our enemies with
courage and strength. He wasn’t a teenager. He was a man. This was brand new to
me, and I was brand new for him.

Soon enough,
there was no clothing or friction between our bodies. He entered me and I
wrapped my legs tightly around his back as he did so. I could see by the face
and the way he continued to gently caress me, whilst fucking me hard at the
same time, that this was a complicated experience for Aiden. For part of him,
he had his bear, his inner animalistic need to have sex – his brutally hardcore
attraction towards me that was like a thirst that would never end. He was aware
of that – it was what drove us to the floor here.

But there was
something else too. And I don’t mean his ‘feelings’ for me or any of that
stuff. But I knew that this act of intercourse was doing something to his
psyche on another level. You could say… It was changing him.

I really
began to wonder, if he’d ever been this close to anyone before…

My neck
drifted back. I could feel the head of his penis was starting to take over me.
Even though he’d been fully aroused as we began, I could feel his cock
expanding further. The sensations were becoming too much for us. I knew he was
on the verge.

I let my head
tilt back off the side of the cushion, and he went down there with me. He
grabbed my hair with both of his hands, and squeezed it, so hard. So
unbreakable. I blindly reached up with my mouth and locked it on his chin,
biting down as he came inside me. We both shuddered for a moment, our moans in
union together, and then he rolled off me and lay beside.

We stared up
at the ceiling together.

“Something’s
happening here,” he whispered. “Can you feel it?”

I didn’t
answer him.

He already
knew that I could.

CHAPTER
SEVENTEEN

As much as I would have liked to, we
couldn’t lie there forever. With so much on the line already, perhaps we should
have been ashamed we did in the first place. I could tell Aiden wasn’t going to
open up any further about what that meant to us. He was withdrawn once more. I
was a little disappointed perhaps the encounter had distanced us, but then I
thought it was a superficial distance. Neither of us could deny the chemistry
between us.

A few minutes
later whilst we were putting on our clothes again, Aiden said, “We best get out
of here now. I don’t think there’s anything to be gained from here.”

I spied the
white remote on the ground.

“What about
that button they gave you? Are you going to push it?”

Aiden shook
his head. “It’s a dumb idea. I’ll see if Jared knows of any other way we can
get in contact with the agency. There’ll be something we can do.”

“Right…”

He helped me
to my feet and then turned back to the door.

“I’ll make
sure there’s no one around,” he said and walked to it.

My eyes
lingered on the fallen remote. I decided to pick it up when he wasn’t looking.

He soon
turned. “Let’s go.”

With no
pockets to keep the remote intact, I decided to leave it behind.

As his back
was turned I put it on the floor once more, and then followed him out.

There were no
further incidents as we went back to the ladder and climbed out. The place
appeared to be deserted.

Aiden led me
around the sides of the buildings again, until we approached the hole in the
fence. We ducked our heads through it and approached Jared in the car.

“Stop,” Aiden
said suddenly.

He was
looking down into the darkness of the road.

“What is it?”
I asked.

Suddenly
there were lights emerging from the horizon. I heard the faint hum of vehicles
approaching.

“We have to
get out of here,” Aiden said. “Now.”

We rushed
back to the car and hurried inside it.

“Come on,”
Aiden said to Jared. “Get us out of here.”

“Did you get
what you were after?” Jared asked.

“No time to
talk about that,” Aiden replied. “We need to go now.”

“What? Were
you caught?”

“Shit…”

I stared out
to the horizon again.

Motorcycles.
Dozens of them.

Jared started
the car and we backed out into the road and made a u-turn.

Both Aiden
and I turned and looked out the back window.

They were
almost upon us.

“Hurry up,
man,” Aiden said. “Step on it.”

Jared
accelerated.

“Who the hell
is that?” I asked. “The soldiers?”

“I can’t see
from here,” Aiden said.

Out of
nowhere there was a white flash and we ducked just in time as a bullet went
through the glass.

“Shit!” I
screamed.

I grabbed
hold of Aiden’s hand as he peered over to Jared.

“Jared?” he
began. “Jared…”

I heard the
thud sound as Jared’s lifeless body caved into the dashboard. The car was
veering off the road and towards a paddock.

Full speed.

“Oh shit,” I
cried. “Oh no… I’m so sorry…”

“It’s not
your fault,” Aiden snapped. “I should never have brought you into this.”

“It
is
my
fault,” I said.

“Why?” Aiden
demanded. “What did you do?”

“I pushed the
button…”

PART THREE

CHAPTER ONE

Even with my eyes shut tightly and my
hands over my ears, the sound of the car slamming into the oncoming trees split
through my brain like a falling axe. The impact caused the car to violently
rebound, sending us off on an angle, the adjacent trees crashing into Aiden’s
side of the car. He dived on me just as it did so, acting as a shield between
me and the glass.

After a
moment we were stationary, but I could still feel the hum of the car’s engine.
Opening my eyes, Aiden crawled across me to unlock my door and push it open. 
My face was contorted in a permanent wince. The shock of the collision was
railing inside of me. A feeling I couldn’t feel. A thought I couldn’t think.

I felt his
hands at my waist, unbuckling the seatbelt. He then put his hands underneath my
arms and guided me a little to the open door.

I smelt
gasoline. Motor oil.

Smoke.

Finding some
strength, I crawled over onto my belly and began to slide myself further out
the door. My hands were reaching through the open air. Almost touching the
grass on the ground below. I closed my eyes again. Struggled with my left knee
to get it elevated. Then my right. I reached out a bit further, but just before
my fingers found the earth, I pair of giant hands ripped me from the seat and
hoisted me over a shoulder.

Not someone I
knew. Not a friend.

My eyes swung
round as the man carried me back to where he’d come from, and all I could see
was the car with Aiden climbing out of it. He fell to his knees once he was
free, exhausted and out of breath. His eyes met mine. He opened his mouth as
though he was about to say something, but no sound came out. No sound that I
could hear.

As the man
carried me away further, shadows began to hit the ground surrounding Aiden. I
watched them approach from all sides. Tall, towering, shadows. Aiden wasn’t
given the same immediate treatment as I was. I watched as he was kneed in the
chest and kicked a couple of times. He then took a fist to his forehead and a
foot was placed over his fallen neck.

I watched it
all.

So quickly.
So fast.

Gloved
fingers unbuttoned a dark jacket to produce a silver object, its shine
reflecting briefly in the moonlight. The gun was then pointed at Aiden.

And I knew he
was about to die.

CHAPTER TWO

My assailant set me down on the back
of one of the motorcycles stalled in the area behind the crash.

Before he
turned, I managed, “Don’t kill him.”

The man
looked back to me briefly. His beard and sunglasses hid any emotional response.
“Stay there,” he said. Then he went to confide in a couple of his fellow
bikers.

I looked back
to where Aiden was. The gun was still there being held over him, while its
owner barked his questions at him. I could hear Aiden was answering him, albeit
in a quieter voice, but I couldn’t make out what either of them were saying.
Any second it seemed Aiden could get a bullet in the head. And there was
nothing I could do about it.

 The man who
grabbed me was now returning. His face was pointed right at me.

“What’s your
name?” he asked gruffly.

“I’m … I’m
Bianca.”

“And the
fellows you’re with?”

“That’s
Aiden. Who you’re talking to.”

The man
looked over his shoulder. “Your boyfriend?”

“No,” I
mumbled. “I mean. Well. No. He’s my brother.”

He looked
back to me, “Not so confusing, is it?”

I just
stared.

“What about
the other one? Did you know him?”

“Not really,”
I replied. “His name’s Jared. I think … you killed him.”

The man
nodded. “And what are you doing out here?”

“You … were
shooting at us. We crashed.”

The man
laughed. He moved closer to me.

“What kind of
answer is that?”

“I don’t
know,” I mumbled.

“What were
you doing outside Fort Pacific?”

“I … we…”

I didn’t have
anything else. How could I explain it to him? I didn’t know anything about him.
It was too long of a story.

The man knelt
down beside me, and took off his sunglasses.

His gaze was
so wooden I still couldn’t tell what was going on behind it.

“Which one of
you pushed the button?” he asked.

“What?” I
gasped. “What button?”

“Was it you?
Or was it him?”

“I don’t know
what you’re…”

GUNSHOT.

The man was
immediately on his feet as I sat up to see what had become of Aiden.

He had rolled
off to one side with the others chasing him.

“Aiden!” I
screeched.

Moments later
Aiden had shifted into his bear, and was thrashing his arms about in defense.
He got to his feet properly and grabbed the guy holding the gun, and lifted him
up into midair. The gun went off again but it somehow missed Aiden. He then threw
the man several hundred feet away from him.

“The
tranq-gun!” the man beside me shouted. “Now!”

Aiden was
still defending himself from the oncoming crowd of bikers.

They were
forming a ring but keeping their distance.

The man
beside me held his hands in the air to catch the large rifle, and then
immediately proceeded towards Aiden with it.

Aiden growled
vehemently, aware of the man approaching.

I got off the
bike and hurried towards the crowd behind him.

“Don’t make
me do it,” the man with the tranq-gun said earnestly. “Come back to your human
form.”

He hoisted it
on his shoulder and aimed it square at Aiden, as his bear continued to back
away.

BOOM!

Our crashed
car suddenly exploded with a giant fireball rising from it and particles
scattering in all directions. Everyone dropped to ground, including me.
Everyone, but Aiden.

He bounded
over the group of bikers, even trodding on the fallen man with the tranq-gun
who cried out in pain. By the time he reached me however, he was his human
self, and pulling me up from the ground.

“Quickly,” he
urged me.

We rushed to
the nearest bike and I climbed on the back of it whilst Aiden twisted the
ignition.

“Son of a
bitch!” someone cried. “After them!”

Our bike
ripped up the grass as it tore its way around in a u-turn back towards the
direction of the road.

I heard the
sound of bullets firing though none came into contact with us or the bike.

My arms clung
to Aiden’s chest, and through the wind and cold of this timeless night, we
vanished once again.