She Devil

Ardeth was slowly making his way up the stairs to bed, when he saw her, she was wearing a dark green satin nightdress, it clung to her body in an almost obscene way. When he went to move past her, she grabbed his arm.
“Ardeth”
“What” he growled angry at his inability to control his emotions.
“I just wanted to say goodnight, and to show you this, I was hoping it might cheer you up, you always seem so sad. And I need to apologise for earlier. I shouldn’t have lost my temper like that” Almara soothed
Ardeth relaxed, her voice flowed over his body calming him down.
“I am just tired” he admitted
“Then come, I will help you to sleep” Almara said with a smile. Before Ardeth could argue, she had entered his room. He followed her slowly wondering what she was up to this time.
She walked over to him and quickly removed his robes leaving him in just his trousers. Ardeth found he could not speak. Almara lay him down on the bed and ordered him to close his eyes Ardeth did as he was told her voice almost seemed hypnotic. He faintly heard her whisper something in Arabic before he was overwhelmed by peaceful sleep.

Almara watched as Ardeth slept, she hoped the charm worked, he needed one night’s sleep without dreams of her and his troubles disrupting him. She smiled and kissed his bruised cheek gently before leaving for her own bed.

Ardeth woke the next morning feeling fantastic; he had never slept so well in his life. He got up and dressed quickly, he wanted to speak to Almara, find out what she had done to him, he tried to ignore the funny little back flip his heart did at just the thought of seeing her. He had admitted to Rick that he was falling in love with her, after only a few days. Rick had smiled sympathetically and said nothing.
She saw him as he entered the dining room. He looked even more attractive after a decent nights sleep the bags under his eyes had disappeared. She sucked in a breath no man had ever affected her like this before, making her forget her mission.

*

Ardeth stood on the balcony staring out into the dismal London night. He heard soft footsteps behind him, but did not turn, he did not feel threatened here, for some strange reason he felt the safest he had ever felt. He stiffened as two hands ran down his back. The she-devil was tempting him again. Sure enough when he turned Almara was standing in front of him wearing a silky robe. Ardeth groaned as he realised she was wearing nothing underneath. He noticed a strange glint in her eyes.
“Are you missing Egypt?”
“Yes a little” Ardeth admitted
“Do you have a woman waiting for you?” she asked huskily
The question caught Ardeth off guard
“No the woman to chose from are all boring”
“Boring” Almara smiled sadly “But I thought men liked complying woman, meek as mice”
“I do not, I like a woman with fire” Ardeth admitted staring at Almara praying his eyes were not betraying the emotions running through his body.
“I do not understand” Almara laughed “You want a woman that loves you with passion, yet she needs to know her place and will have to take orders. Ardeth I do not think you will ever find a woman like that”
“What makes you think my wife would have to take orders?”
“All good Egyptian woman do, I respect them for that. I couldn’t do it, my temper got the better of me” Almara sighed. Ardeth realised he had never wanted anything as much as he wanted the woman standing in front of him.
“It would be a crime for any man to attempt to tame your fire” Ardeth whispered turning his back on her so she did not see the longing in his eyes.
Almara frowned and moved in front of Ardeth, she thought she caught a glimpse of something in his eyes, before he closed them and sighed deeply.
Almara raised her hand and brushed a strand of hair from the warriors face. Ardeth opened his eyes and his hand flew up and engulfed Almara’s hand in his.
“It’s late you should go to bed” he growled dropping it again as if it had burnt him. Almara didn’t reply. Before Ardeth could protest she stepped closer to him and gently brushed her lips against his. Ardeth shoved her away from him roughly and cursing in Arabic ran into the house.
Almara smiled to herself. The instant her lips touched his she knew what she was going to do. She would have to seduce the strong man. He needed to be loved, he didn’t know it but his soul was calling out to her, begging her to help him. She went to her room to freshen up. It would have to be done tonight, time was running out.

Ardeth rolled onto his back and sighed. That demon was driving him crazy. He had never felt this way before, and the need to just touch her was overwhelming. If he was honest it was scary. He had always been in control of everything his whole life, and now his heart wouldn’t listen to his heads warnings about falling in love with devils.
He sighed again and closed his eyes drifting off into a dream.
He dreamt she came to him, she watched him for a while then slowly climbed onto the bed, she placed her knees either side of him and crawled up the length of his body. Her face was so close he thought he could actually feel her breath on his cheek. She slowly leant down and kissed him.
Ardeth’s eyes flew open she was here lying above him.
“What are you doing?” he gasped
“I came to give you a kiss goodnight” Almara whispered
“I thought it was a dream” he growled angrily
Almara ignored him and slid her hand down the length of his naked body, her fingers slowly wrapped around his erect manhood causing Ardeth to catch his breath.
“No” he gasped
“Don’t you want to have sex with me” Almara asked
Ardeth finally lost control of his emotions, he flipped Almara over and used his muscular body to pin her to the bed.
“No I want to make love to you” he growled bending his head and kissing her deeply
Almara was amazed at the fire coursing through her body she was crushed beneath Ardeth’s naked frame yet she had never felt so comfortable in her whole life.
Ardeth finally let all the passion he had been repressing escape. Almara was running her hands up and down his body, turning him on and driving him insane. He sat up and quickly removed her robe, he smiled at the perfection of her body he bent his head and took one of her nipples in his mouth savouring the taste. Almara cried out and arched herself into him.
“My sweetheart, I can wait no longer for you” he apologised
“It’s ok my love, I want you” Almara replied wrapping her legs around the strong man. She almost screamed in pleasure as he entered her.
The sounds Almara was making were going to kill him she almost seemed to purr he could almost feel the noises as he kissed the base of her neck. Ardeth’s thrusts were powerful and it didn’t take Almara long to come, Ardeth almost came undone as her pussy contracted around him, but he managed to hold on, and continued to thrust harder and harder pushing Almara towards another orgasm, this time the lovers came together, Ardeth yelled Almara’s name as he exploded inside her. He sighed happily rolling onto his back pulling Almara into his arms.
“Devil, you seduced me” he growled in mock severity
“Mmmm you didn’t put up that much of a fight” Almara chuckled softly kissing Ardeth’s chest
Ardeth let Almara’s dark red hair twist through his fingers it was like blood, dark and silky. She fell asleep in his arms, Ardeth’s heart almost seemed to swell he knew he would have to convince this woman to marry him. He didn’t think he could live without her. He smiled and drifted off into his own dreams, dreams of Almara and children.

Almara dreamt a different dream, she watched in horror as a red robed man threw a knife that struck Ardeth in the chest. She watched as he stopped breathing, and as he was bled dry. She watched the book of the Med-jai unlock and hell on earth begin to unfold.
She woke with a start and knew what she had to do. She grabbed her robe and padded back to her room.
She grabbed her suitcase and began to pack as fast as she could, to her anger it was not fast enough, she only had two hands. She growled, took a deep breath and to the surprise of Evie who had been woken by Ardeth’s door closing and wished to talk to her cousin. Her clothes and personal possessions began to pack themselves. Allowing Almara to wash and dress. When she came back out of the bathroom, she caught sight of Evie watching her through the open doorway.
“Come in cousin, and do not be frightened”
Evie slowly slid into the room.
“I did not know you could do this”
“Yes It helps me in my quests”
“What else can you do?” Evie asked forgetting her fear
“Simple charms, incantations things like that. I was trained as a warrior from the day I was born”
“I’ve known you all your life and I had no idea”
“It was done in secret, the Harem was a front I was never meant for that life”
“So you protect people?”
“Put simply yes, my people protect those that need to be protected, innocents people that find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“As a group or on your own?” Evie was swamped with questions her inquisitive nature taking over.
“We usually work in twos, my partner however is unique and I doubt she would be allowed into the country” Almara laughed at Evie’s confused expression
“When I was young I found a white lion cub, she was badly injured, I nursed her back to health and found to my amazement I could understand her, she asked if she could stay with me, I agreed. And as you know I have a quite a temper and no one wanted to work with me, so the council agreed Mett could be my partner”
Evie was stunned, and fascinated, her cousin was part of a tribe that protected innocents. She had to tell Rick
“You can’t tell anyone Evie”
“But…”
“We talked about this earlier, I need to get back to Cairo as soon as possible, with out anyone knowing. Especially Ardeth”
“Did you sleep with him?” Evie asked
“Yes” Almara replied
“Then you can’t leave, you of all people know what the Med-jai are like. By sleeping with you he has made you his”
“Evie, I have had a vision of Ardeth’s death, I need to leave to prevent the events unfolding”
Evie gasped, she had never considered the fact that Ardeth may die, even when he was facing down Anubis’ army she had taken it for granted he would survive. He was a Med-jai a good guy and good guys don’t die.
“It is alright cousin, I can prevent it. But I need your help”
Evie fled from the room to get her car keys and some money for Almara, Ardeth couldn’t die, not after everything he had done to help them save Alex. It was payback time.


Evie watched with tears in her eyes as her cousin drove the car away. She knew Ardeth was going to be mad as hell tomorrow, she just hoped she could come up with some excuse as too why Almara had disappeared