Jamie held Dane in his arms and stewed. She was not as asleep as she had been, but she was still out. Pi said she didn't sleep long normally and that she would wake soon. She said that she would have a headache for a couple of days, but otherwise be fine. He wanted her awake now and without the headache. He kissed her forehead again.

When his mother and brother came in, Damon looked at Dane then at Devin. Devin walked to his brother and held him. It would be all right between them.

"I'm sorry, Jamie." Damon hugged him too. "I don't want anything to happen to either of them. I don't understand what she can do, but Mom said she's brilliant and that without her she wouldn't have been able to solve the murder of three children. I'm really sorry. I love you guys so much and I don't want-"

"I won't hurt your family, Dr. Grant," Dane said as she sat up. "Never. I'm really tired and if you guys don't mind, I'd like to go home."

"Yeah, about that. There's a slight problem with you going home, Mrs...Dr...Dane." Captain Tucker smiled at them as he continued. "I just got a call from one of my officers and it seems you've had a break in. The place has been trashed and nothing was left untouched. I'm just on my way there now. If you'd like to wait until in the morning, I understand. It'll still be there."

*CHAPTER 13*.

Dane cried herself to sleep. Jamie walked out into the hall, went to the kitchen to get a beer, and found Pi sitting in the dark. He almost stepped out again to leave her to her quiet when she spoke.

"Missy Dane like my daughter. I love girl so much I hurt when she does. I don't think I can leave her, Mister Jamie. What I do now?"

"What do you mean, Pi?" Jamie sat down across from her as he asked. "Why would you have to leave her? She needs you now more than ever."

"She think no man want her. She say that man who say he love her only want in her bed. I don't think Missy Dane believe that, she just say it to make hurt not so bad. That man she married to, he cruel to her. He try make me stay away and Missy Dane tell him to go to Hades.

She tell him that Pi mean more to her than ten of him. He slap her. She hit back and knock him on his b.u.t.t. He never hit her again."

Jamie burst out laughing at that. Dane had one h.e.l.l of a punch and decided he'd be more careful in the future. He did not like that Wallace had hit her, but was happy to know that she could stand up for herself.

"I don't think you have to worry about me ever hitting Dane, Pi. I'm in love with her and while I will tell her that to get into her bed, it's not the only reason." He grinned when she did.

"But tell me what has you so sad. And why you think you have to leave her. Do you want to return to China?"

"No. I want to be with her. I want to...will you let me have place close to her?" She looked at him with tears in her eyes. "I need Missy Dane and she need me. I won't be problem." It took Jamie a few seconds to realize what she meant. She was not leaving Dane. She thought he would make her leave Dane. Well, h.e.l.l. He reached out and took both her hands into his.

"Pi, if you don't want to live here with us too, then I can understand. I had hoped that you knew that you are as welcome here as Dane. She's my life, and with her comes you. I need you to be here for her when I can't. There's plenty of room and if not, then we'll get a bigger house.

This house was just something I got as part of the college tenure."

"Missy Dane have big house, but she don't live in it." There was so much hope in Pi's voice.

"Her granny leave it to her. It not far from here. She said too big for two people, maybe she sell it. It have big, big kitchen too. It have pool room too to change into white room for her. Missy Dane's granny need quiet room too."

"Pool room?" It took him a second to understand what she meant. "You mean pool house? I understand the white room. Dane said it gives her somewhere to go. Is that what you mean?"

"Yes. Missy Dane get sick again if that man don't let her build it." This time, there was anger, hatred in her voice that he was shocked by. "She tell him lots that she need down time, but he don't listen. He keep pushing her, but she have no room to go to. You tell her not to go to man again. Tell her you need her here for babies."

Babies. He wanted to have babies with Dane. Lots of them. They had not been using any kind of protection and he was almost sorry for that, but he could not help but hope that she would get pregnant with their child. Seeing little Paddy made him ache to see Dane swollen with his child.

"This man, what's his name? And what does he have that makes Dane help him? Does he have some secret that she...has he threatened her?" Something occurred to Jamie. "With exposure. Has he told her if she doesn't help her he'll expose her?"

"Don't know. He is bad man. I don't like him and he know it. I told him I put a hex on his c.o.c.k so it never rise, but Missy Dane tell me behave. I hope his twig and berries fall off and some little mousey eat them for dinner."

Jamie laughed. She may be difficult to understand at first, but Jamie was getting better and better at figuring her out. He knew that he had to make her know how much he needed her to stay too.

"Pi, we'll both talk to Dane in the morning. Then we're going to discuss where we'll all live.

I don't care where it is so long as the three of us are there as a family, all right?"

It took Dane several minutes to wake up. She started to roll over again and snuggle down into the blankets, but they were too heavy. She tried pulling and tugging, but it would not budge.

Finally, she sat up and jerked them.

"All you had to say was, 'James, I'd like more blanket, please.' I don't mind sharing, but to be jerked awake is kind of hard on the system." She was suddenly lying back on the bed. "And speaking of hard...good morning, love."

The kiss was hungry and before she could stop herself, she was feeding him. His mouth could do so much in such a short span of time. When Jamie's tongue slid along hers, she moaned.

"Is there ever a time when you aren't hard? James, we should get...oh my, that feels so good. James, please, I have to go to...I have to go to...somewhere." His chuckle skated along her nipples.

"I need you. And this is the first time I've had you in my bed. So this is as good a time as any to break it in."

She realized she was naked about a second before he took her nipple into his mouth. He sucked at the tip so hard, she knew that she'd come if he kept it up. When she tried to run her fingers into his hair and hold him there, he pulled her arms above her head and held them there.

"You can't touch me. I want to make you so hot that as soon as I touch your pretty p.u.s.s.y, you go off. I plan to take my time this morning and you aren't going to rush me. Just feel me." He worried her nipples and b.r.e.a.s.t.s until she thought she'd scream at him. Then when he started down her ribs and along her belly, Dane wanted to wrap herself around him and hold him tight. His mouth was like a hot blade, sliding along her skin and leaving a trail of heat in its wake. When he whorled his tongue in her belly b.u.t.ton and nipped at her there, she nearly came up off the bed.

"You like that, don't you? Hummm, you taste so good. Are you wet for me, Dane? I can smell your heat, your wet heat."

When he slid his fingers into her curls, she tried to close her legs to him. No one had touched her like he did. No one had ever cared if she was wet. James seemed to love it.

"James, please. Just take me. It's hard to hold on when you do that. Please, come inside of me. I need to feel you deep inside."

"I know you like to control, but not when we're in bed. I want you to feel what I'm doing to you. Feel what I'm feeling when I touch you, when I'm tasting you. Center on me, Dane, and what I'm feeling for you."

She tried to block it out, but the more he touched her, the more of his body that touched her, the harder it was for her to pull back. It frightened her, these feeling she had for him. It made her want to pull back more, but he was not letting her.

"James, please. I don't want to hurt you. I just want you to have s.e.x with me. Please, I'm afraid."

"Dane, I'm not going anywhere. I know you can feel this, me touching you. Center on us, focus on us, and I'll catch you."

His fingers were everywhere. His mouth would burn her here and when she regained her hold, he'd be scorching her somewhere else. He'd nip at her hip then her breast. His fingers would slide into her heat and then he'd touch her with his tongue. And always, he was telling her what he felt, how she tasted, how hot her skin was.

It was too much and not enough. She wanted to let go, and she was having a hard time not.

Fear of his rejection, fear of hurting him, but mostly she was afraid of what he'd figure out.

"Dane, let go for me. Let me in, baby. Let me have all of you." He suckled her c.l.i.t as he f.u.c.ked her with his fingers, two then three of them sliding in and out of her. She was riding his face and his hand, so close that she was aching for it. Then he slid his finger into her tight hole, slid into her a.s.s, and she lost the hold.

His love poured into her, over her, and through her. His touches became more, more heat, more love, more everything. She knew the moment he felt it, the moment that she was feeling him. His smile was like the sun coming out on a cloudy day.

"James, I love you. Please, I need you. I love you."

When he sat up, she whimpered, thinking he was leaving her. He moved to the edge of the bed and looked down at her. Then he stood and removed his boxers. Her mouth watered at the sight of him. His c.o.c.k was long and thick, the head dark in his need. Reaching up, she smoothed her thumb over the tip to catch the drop of c.u.m there. Taking it to her mouth, she moaned at the taste. It was salty and hot, just like the man. Sitting up, she wrapped her fingers around him and licked him. His hiss had her pulling back.

"I would love to feel you take me into your mouth, but I want to be inside of you in the worst way. Later, later you can have my body and do whatever you want, but now, I want to come inside of you."

Leaning down, he kissed her again. Moving onto the bed, he lifted her legs and put them over his shoulders, lifting her a.s.s up off the bed and giving him the perfect angle to enter her.

"Watch me. I want you to see me move inside of you. Feel me and how good it feels to have you clutching at my c.o.c.k. I want you to come with me, Dane. I want to feel that tight sheath of yours milk me and pull me deeper into you."

He nudged her entrance and then rocked into her. Opening to him, she felt how hard he was holding back, how he wanted her to come first. Tightening her pelvic muscles, she closed her eyes when he groaned. His control slipped just a little more. She moved again, tightening around him, holding him inside.

"James, come. I want to feel you come. You're so close, let me feel it, please." She begged him, her voice deep with her own need.

Holding her legs high, he moved his free hand down her body and pinched her c.l.i.t. Rocking harder, his b.a.l.l.s slapping against her a.s.s, she felt him stiffen. With a roar, he came. She felt his hot c.u.m splash into her and she came with a scream. Her body bowed up off the bed and he surged harder. Each stroke of his c.o.c.k sent wave after wave of sensation through her. As soon as her climax started to slow, he'd touch her again, surge into her again, and she'd soar up and over again. When he finally lowered her legs and collapsed on her, she started to slide into a sated sleep. She barely moved when he rolled to his back, taking her with him, did not even register when he pulled the blankets up over them.

Someone was shaking her and she smacked out at them. When the covers suddenly disappeared, she sat up quickly to blast whoever woke her. Jamie stood in front of her with the covers in one hand and a gla.s.s of tea in the other.

"Pi said you need a gla.s.s of iced tea to wake up. I'll give it to you if you get out of bed. It's freshly brewed and it has a lemon in it." He sipped it and made the most comical face she'd ever seen. "There's no sugar in it. s.h.i.t, how do you drink this stuff?"

"I love it. Now hand it over and n.o.body gets hurt. I need that like a druggie needs a fix. And for as much as I drink of it, the added sugar would make me as big as a house. James, I'm not kidding, give it over."

"No. You get up and kiss me and I'll give you a drink. If you lay there much longer, looking totally delectable, then we'll never leave this room. Pi is about to bust downstairs. I've had to bribe her with all sorts of things to get her to let you sleep this long. It's almost three o'clock.

Time's wasting, woman. Up!"

When he walked out of the room with her tea, she yelled at him to come back. When he stood just inside the doorway, she tried to seduce him to the bed by cupping her b.r.e.a.s.t.s and trying to look s.e.xy, but he shook his head.

"You've worn me out," Jamie said with a grin. "I might need to have a separate bedroom to keep up with you. Come on, get up and we'll play later."

"James, if you leave the tea on your dresser, I'll have to get-" He was suddenly on her. His mouth covered hers and invaded her with his tongue. Cupping her breast, he rolled her nipple between his thumb and finger and pinched hard. Pain and pleasure, something she never would have thought to be something she'd enjoy, surged through her body.

"Our dresser. Everything about us is 'ours.' Say it, Dane. You're mine and I belong to you.

From this point on, it's 'us,' 'our,' and 'we.' I love you and you love me. Today starts the new us. Understand?"

She looked at him, his eyes dark with need, his c.o.c.k pressed hard against her body, his hands touching her, soothing her, and she did love him. Reaching up, she ran her fingers through his hair and brushed her lips over his.

"I love you, James. I don't know how you moved into my heart, but I'm glad you did. Ours, yes, I understand. But if you don't give me my tea, I'm going to have Pi put a hex on your twig and berries." He burst out laughing.

After getting out of the shower and having her tea, Dane felt like a new person. She was sore, her body ached in delicious places, and for the first time in a long time, she actually felt rested. She was walking into the bedroom when she realized she had nothing to wear. Going to Jamie's closet, she was just pulling down a shirt of his when Pi walked in.

"Mister Jamie said to bring you clothes. Said that you not run bared b.u.t.ted when we go out.

Missy Dane, we go see houses today. We look at granny house too, yes?" She took the shirt and pants from Pi and sat on the bed. Her granny's house. She'd forgotten about it. Living in the house meant that she'd be taking what had been left to her, all of it.

"We'll look at it." Dane pulled on her pants before continuing. "I don't know if you'll like the kitchen. It's very old. I know Grandmother said she was remodeling, but I don't know what she had done. We'll add it to the list we have today or tomorrow. We have to go by the apartment and see what's there too. I'm sorry about this, Pi. I know we had all of our things in storage, but Captain Tucker said everything was destroyed. We'll need to find somewhere quick to live, I guess."

"Mister Jamie say we live here till we find house." There was a tone there that Dane decided to ignore. "Then we all live together. I like Mister Jamie. He good man. He very good to you."

"Yes, but that doesn't mean we'll stay together. I'm not exactly easy to...you know that people get scared around me. I don't want to get hurt again. Nathan...I don't know...I love James, Pi, but I don't know if he'll be able to stay with me."

"He good man. Love you. That's all that matter. Come, we go now. I wait all day and I want to find house."

*CHAPTER 14*.

The apartment was trashed. Everything was destroyed just as they had been told. Food from the cabinets, cushions from the sofa, and chairs had been sliced open. Even the mattresses were cut up and tossed around the room. Jamie let Dane walk around and see it all. He'd asked his brother about it and Damon said that it would give her closure.

"There isn't anything here to save, is there? The only thing they didn't destroy is the answering machine. Oh, and there was that one towel that was still in the hamper. I don't even have any clothes to wear now. Pi and I will have to go to the storage place and pull out some of our clothes we had there. We hadn't planned to live here long anyway. Now this just makes it sooner, I guess." Dane had said this twice now. Jamie wanted to hold her, but didn't want her to be overwhelmed more.

"That's a good way to look at it. Maybe we could go shopping too. I'd love to help you find some s.e.xy little undies and nighties to wear. Something I can tear from this very tasty body.

Hummm, too bad Pi is just down the hall. I could press you against the wall and have my way with you, starting with that very wet p.u.s.s.y of yours." She turned and looked at him. Jamie nearly did do what he had hoped would be a tease to make her smile.

"James. All you have to do is touch me and I feel like I'm going up in flames. I still want to taste your c.o.c.k. I want to take you into my mouth and feel you come down my throat. I've never wanted to do that before, but with you, it's all I can think of."

"Christ, woman!" He adjusted his c.o.c.k before he hurt himself. "I'm hard as rock and we are in no position to do anything about it. I want you. Do you think if we told Pi to stay away for...I don't know, an hour, she'd do it?"

"No. She has her mind set on finding a house. But think how much better it'll be when we do get alone. But tonight, I am going to have your c.o.c.k in my mouth. Count on it." Count on it? He could barely breathe. How the heck did she think he was going to count anything? Pulling her into his arms, he kissed her. Her mouth opened under his and his tongue tangled with hers. Reaching under her shirt, he slid his hand up and filled it with her warm breast. Her braless state made him moan and he tugged gently at her nipple.

"Lift your shirt for me. I need to taste you. And you have to be quiet this time. If you scream now, the entire neighborhood will come running."

Pulling her shirt up, she wrapped her fingers in his hair and held him to her breast as he tormented her nipple. Biting and nipping at her tender flesh had her rocking against his c.o.c.k in the most erotic dance. Sliding his hand down her a.s.s, he buried his two fingers against her heat and heard her hiss her approval.

"Dane, I need you. Now, I need to f.u.c.k you hard. I don't care who sees us or hears us. I need to be inside of you now."

Picking her up, he headed for the closet. It was the only place where the doors still shut.

Taking her inside, he stood her on her feet and reached for her snap and zipper as she began pulling at his belt. When she had his pants undone, she reached inside and wrapped her hand around him. He nearly came right then.

"Turn around. This is going to be dirty, hard, and fast. I'm not going to last once you clamp over me."

Jerking her pants down to her ankles and not bothering to pull them off, he opened his pants and pushed her forward so that she was bent to her waist. He reached around her front, rubbed his fingers over her c.l.i.t, and nearly sobbed with relief to find her wet and ready. Using his free hand, he guided his c.o.c.k and slammed hard into her.

When Dane braced one hand against the wall and the other fisted in her mouth, he pulled nearly out to the tip and slammed home again. Over and over until he knew she was close.

Leaning over her as he rocked into her, he bit her shoulder and pulled her c.l.i.t. Her climax rocked over him, pulling him with her. Hearing her whimper and scream behind her hand gave him something more and he slammed hard into her again, feeling a second climax hit him hard.

Never had that happened before. Over and over he pumped into her until the last tremor faded away. He leaned on her back and held her beneath him.

"You're going to kill me, I swear. As much as I'd like to apologize for the quickie f.u.c.k in a dirty, trashed closet, I think if we'd have been in a bed, I'd be dead right now." Her giggle made him smile. He would have laughed, but he was sure he didn't have the energy. Pulling out of her heat, he pulled her to him and held her.

"We'd better get dressed," Jamie told her regretfully. "Pi will be wondering what we're up to for so long and I'd hate to have to explain how you raped me in the closet. She'll be upset with you for messing up her well laid plans."

"Me! I did no such thing. I was looking for clothes to wear and you-" Kissing her quiet seemed the best solution. It was that or take her again. His body was certainly willing even if his c.o.c.k was not.

They were just coming out when Pi walked in the door. Her knowing smile had Jamie blush like a man...well, a man who just got his world rocked. Wrapping his arm around Dane, he winked at Pi.

"Well, ladies, how about if we go find us a house? I, for one, think we've done all we can here. Insurance will take care of the rest. Pi, where to next?"

Devin answered his phone, though he did not know the number. He was aware that as an attorney, his clients needed to get in touch with him, but it was Sat.u.r.day and he was at home.