“Another sign the created was here.” Aran replied, as Ash walked back in the room.
“Anyone up for a trip to Jessie’s house?” Dee held up the name and addresses of the two women that were missing. “Jessie seemed to be the most effected. We should check on her first.”
A beautiful, new, deep blue BMW sat in Niko’s parking space.
“Your new car I take it.”
“Uhuh.”
“Why is it blue?”
“Because it will look good sitting next to your Charger.” She shook her head as she got in the car, waiting for Aran to get into his to follow them.
They pulled up in front of Jessie’s house ten minutes later.
The curtains were pulled and the windows were painted black with a white cross on them.
Chapter Twenty-five
Dee watched as Aran left his car and approached the house. He knocked on the door and called out Jessie’s name.
“Shouldn’t we go with him?”
“No, he can handle it. I want some time alone with you. If he needs help, he will send out a mayday.”
Dee shook her head and looked at Niko, who was slumped behind the wheel of the car.
“He’s ok. He let me have his body so I could speak with you. Your pathway to the male is not finished yet, but your pathway to me is complete. Look inside. You will find the path.”
“Who are you?”
“You know who I am.”
“Your Niko’s beast side. How can I be talking to you?”
“When he bit you, it formed a mental pathway. You exchanged blood. More, you exchanged genetic material.”
“If you’re his beast, how do you talk? How do you know what genetic material is?”
“Do not judge me by the standards of your world. My appearance to you may be one you would consider an animal, but on my world you would be considered a grossly undeveloped species. Although Niko’s planet claims to be the home of true science, we studied genetics and manipulation before they could even say the word much less form the thought.”
“Sorry, guess finding out we are not alone, and that we are also out of our depth with the other races, has been a bit of a shock.”
“No worries. We will take care of you.”
Dee rolled her eyes. “Spoken like a true male.”
“Thank you. You are beautiful. To be given one such as you as a mate is an honor.”
She blushed. “Thank you. That is some compliment.”
“I only speak the truth. I wish you to understand that I will never hurt you. Neither of us will hurt you.”
“Why do you speak as if you are separate?”
“We are to a degree. To some degree we are two beings occupying the same body. To another degree, maybe the same degree, we are interchangeable. Neither matters when it comes to you. We are of the same mind. We will always defend and protect what is ours. Dee, you belong to both of us.”
He brought his hand to her face and caressed her cheeks. Those deadly claws lay gently against her. She caught his hand and turned it over. What could have been deadly was fashioned to bring pleasure and nothing more. She kissed the palm of his hand.
“When I accepted the male, I accepted the beast. I do not fear you.”
She felt the soft flutter of a kiss in her mind, before she felt Niko’s lips on her. Niko or the beast, she didn’t really care. They both kissed liked gods (Marvel gods).
“Aran needs the both of you. I will come back later.” The door that had opened was now closed in her mind.
Niko rose up in one fluid motion. “Did he scare you?”
She gave him a look that would have put him in the grave if it could kill. “Of course not. He’s simply you. The two of you should get that fact straight.”
She exited the car and went to the door of the house. She listened before she pushed the door in.
“They are in the basement.”
She simply nodded her head and started for the back of the house. The basement door was by the kitchen where she had hoped it would be. She flicked the lights on. Darn males. They could see in the dark.
She walked down the stairs to find a crazed Jessie, with a rake in her hands, pointed at Aran.
“She is convinced that I am an alien and that I am here to rape her and then eat her. I told her that I was with Rena, but she would not believe me, because Rena is not here. She said she would believe it if Dee were here, because she did not take shit from anyone.”
“I always knew you were watching me Jessie, even when you didn’t want to say hi.”
“Dee, is that you?”
“Yeah it is.” She turned to Niko and whispered, “Call Dante. Get us some Rowl. Bags of it.”
“He said you were dead and that I was going to die a terrible death like you.”