Page 9 of Knot All Is Ruined: Part 2

Letting my mouth pop off him, I grinned as I peered up. “I believe that’s the idea here.”

“Please, let me make you feel good. Let me come inside you,” Lucian pleaded.

“No, we don’t have time for that,” I teased, before swallowing him down once more.

The feral snarl that I elicited from him was everything, and I wanted to see if I could do it again. Sure enough, the same move had him shouting his pleasure to the world as his knot started to swell. Grasping it in both hands, I squeezed as hard as I could as he came shooting his cum into my mouth, which I easily swallowed down. I took satisfaction in knowing it occurred because of my doing, that I’d made him come. Taking a moment to tuck him back in his pants, I then wiped my mouth with the back of my sleeve.

Lucian pulled me to my feet and kissed me thoroughly. “My Heart, you did not need to do that for me. Every time I receive pleasure, I want you to experience it as well.”

“Believe me, Lucian, I enjoyed the hell out of that,” I shared, giving him a swift kiss. “I have to be honest, I wasn’t sure it was going to be all that enjoyable after hearing the others talk about it, but it was quite satisfying.”

“If you didn’t think you’d like doing that for me, then why did you do it?” he asked, perplexed.

I shrugged. “I wanted to see what it would be like when I decided to do it and how I wanted to. It’s rather amazing how different things are when you call the shots.”

Lucian let out a huff of laughter. “Dani, if that’s you calling the shots, then by all means, My Heart. Call as many shots as you like because that was amazing.”

Giving him a wink and another quick kiss, I pushed him back. “Shall we keep pushing on?”

“I’m not sure I have the strength after you sucked it right out of me,” Lucian said dramatically as he swung the pack onto his back. “But as any good soldier, I’ll press on.”

“What a martyr you are,” I commented as I followed after him. “At least we have a decent amount of light from the moon to see by.”

“We’re lucky it’s not closer to the new moon. It would have made getting through the woods ten times harder. Once we’re back in the Northern territory it will be easier. I know that terrain like the back of my hand,” Lucian said as we trudged on.

My feet ached, and my calf muscles burned as we entered a more hilly area. There was a slight glow on the horizon making the promise that the night was soon to be over and the sun was making its journey. I hated to admit it, but I might have pushed myself too hard to keep up when I should have just asked to slow down. Even though I’d tried to hide my discomfort from Lucian through our bond, I could tell he knew. Especially with the way he kept casting glances at me, along with how much slower he was moving.

“I don’t see any caves for us to hide in for the day, but there is some dense brush over here we should be able to make a nest of sorts in. It will keep us hidden enough and cover our scent so as to not alarm the animals. The less we can disturb the area, the less attention we draw,” he explained after I gave him a questioning look.

At this point, I didn’t care; I only wanted a place to curl up and pass out. There was a gap in the bushes like an animal had also thought of the same idea. Lucian ventured in first, army crawling his way in, then whistled for me to join him. Shoving the pack ahead of me, I slithered along the ground and was pleased to find an animal had made a hollow of sorts for us to rest in. Lucian shoved the pack off to the side and pulled me to lay on him as if he were my bed.

“Sleep. I’ll keep watch,” Lucian whispered.

Nuzzling into his neck, I let out a sigh. “Wake me in a few hours so you can sleep.”

“I’ll be fine, My Heart. We soldiers have learned to live off little sleep and are used to taking quick naps where possible. So don’t worry your pretty head about it,” Lucian instructed.

I wanted to argue to tell him that I would stand watch, but the second he pulled my hair loose and started to massage my head, I lost the will to fight. Letting out a contented little moan, I was out before I even realized it.

“Dani, we need to move. Now,” Lucian said urgently, snapping me out of the dreamless sleep I’d been in.

My eyes sprang open, and it took me a moment to figure out what was going on and where I was. Seeing the branches of the leafy bush surrounding us, it all came flooding back. Not bothering to hide our exit, Lucian grabbed me around the waist with an arm and surged out of the brush. Fighting to get free from the twigs and thorns stalled him, but the second he was clear, he hauled ass and ran. I figured he would put me down but that wasn’t the case. He just adjusted me so I could cling to him on his back like a monkey and held on.

Having no idea what set this reaction into motion, I looked around the forest but couldn’t hear a damn thing with how loud Lucian was. As much as I wanted to ask him what the hell had set him off, I didn’t want to speak if we needed to be quiet. The sun was halfway up in the sky so I’d managed to get a few hours of sleep. Still, we were nowhere close to it being nightfall. Not that I wasn’t awake and alert with the adrenaline pumping through my veins right.

Then the crack of a gun and a bullet whizzed by us and smacked into a tree, causing an explosion of bark from where it landed. That immediately had me ducking. Lucian shifted, heading to the left, weaving through the dense grove of trees to give us cover. My gaze searched the forest to figure out who the fuck was shooting at us because it wouldn’t be my guys… at least, I hoped to god it wasn’t. Whoever it was had skill hiding, but when the next shot came, I caught a glimpse of the muzzle flash.

“You better not be my unit, or I’m gonna get in so much trouble,” I muttered as I grabbed the gun out of Lucian’s holster and aimed. Letting off two shots, one where I saw the flash and another slightly more to the right just in case they’d started to move to follow us.

There was a crash like something, or someone had fallen, making Lucian duck behind a large tree and kneel. Snatching the gun out of my hand, he motioned for me to stay put and remain quiet. Nodding, I pulled my own gun free and sat with my back pressed to the trees trying to calm my breaths and listen. There was never just one soldier. The South functioned in units of six to ten soldiers per group, if not more. Either we were dealing with a rogue gunman or more people were lurking in the woods.

Peeking around the tree, I attempted to see if I could track Lucian, except the forest fell silent. So the man could move through the woods without sounding like an elephant. A twig snapped off to the left, followed by the sound of shifting soil to the right. Either Lucian was closing in, or I was trapped between two people I did not want to find me. Looking up, I spotted a branch hanging low enough that I should be able to grab onto it. Shoving my gun back in the holster, I stood, took a few steps back and ran at the tree. Making it partway up the trunk got me close enough to grab the branch.

Using all my tired arms could give me, I managed to pull myself up, wiggling until I got my foot hooked to provide me with more stability. Once fully seated, I climbed up higher into the branches letting the leaves shield me from sight. I wasn’t totally hidden, but I remembered something Lucian had told me once. He’d trained all his men to always glance up because nine times out of ten, that was something the average person never did. Letting people slip by. Holding my breath, I retrieved my gun once more and waited. Sure enough, two men appeared from either side dressed in Northern colors, not Southern like I’d suspected.

“Where the fuck did he go?” one asked in a harsh whisper.

“What I want to know is who that woman with him was,” the other countered. “We were told he’d be alone, so he’d be easy to take down on enemy territory.”