Control

Chapter 34

Mikaela woke up curled into Dom’s chest with Leon pressed up against her back. She could feel their love for her and it warmed her heart. It was early and she had preparations to make. She slipped from their grasp and put on her clothes. She looked at her men and then quietly went downstairs. The dogs followed her out the back door and to her home.

She walked into the dojo and looked over her collection of swords. She picked her weapon of choice. It was an Egyptian blade with her family’s name in hieroglyphics etched into the steel. It was a gift from her grandfather. She moved over to the chest of drawers and pulled out a pair of black biker shorts and a sports bra that tied in a knot in between her breasts.

She glanced at the picture of her beloved best friend, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. ‘Give me strength to make it through this, baby.’

*You’ve always had it.*

‘You’re still here!’

*I’m nearby. Go get ready.*

She ran out the door and into the guest bathroom. She turned on the water in the shower, stripped off her clothes, and bathed. When she was finished washing her body and hair, she got out and toweled off in front of the mirror.

The bruises looked bad but her dark skin disguised them well and she felt no pain. She ran her hand over her flat stomach and smiled. ‘This is for you and your daddy.’ She braided her long hair and slipped on her clothes. With one last look in the mirror, she picked up her sword and headed out to the beach.

The sun was rising over the water and she stood to watch the beauty of it. She set down her sword and performed her routine Kata. A series of punches, kicks, and flips came after her warm-up. Mikaela sensed someone approaching but did not stop her workout. ‘I so don’t need this right now.’

“Where did you learn how to do that shit?”

“Everywhere.” She bit out as she did a high sidekick.

“It’s impressive.” Her observer sat at a safe distance and watched.

“How are your injuries, Letty?” She asked in a somewhat disinterested tone.

“On the mend.” Mikaela turned towards her for a moment during her routine and Letty saw her bruises, stitches, and mending cuts. “Who the fuck worked you over?”

“I did. The bruises at least. Don’t ask.”

“Okay. What about the cuts? You didn’t have any of that shit when I saw you a few days ago.”

“I was attacked. Don’t ask.”

“You don’t share much, do ya?”

Mikaela stopped for a second and took a couple of deep breaths. “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know we were fucking friends.”

“Mroaw. I was just curious. You don’t need to bite my head off. You asked Leon to bring me here, remember?”

“Yeah. I wanted to see all of you reunited with Vince.” Mikaela read Letty and picked up a variety of emotions. She zeroed in on one in particular. “How was your reunion with Vince?” She had a smirk on her face that made Letty blush.

“How did you know?”

“I fucking know everything. I could tell you every damn thing that you are feeling right now but I don’t have the time.” She started throwing a multitude of uppercuts, jabs, and crosses in a flurry of motion.

“Are you going to tell?”

Without interrupting her stride, she responded dryly. “Letty, who the fuck am I going to tell? You don’t have any commitments with anyone here and you are entitled to find your happiness wherever you can. We all are.”

“Did you find yours?”

“It found me.”

Letty saw the ring on her finger and a tinge of jealousy ran through her. “I guess you two are hitting it off. You’re engaged already.”

“Yeah. I’m knocked up too so draw your own conclusions about me and fuck off.”

“What? We can’t have a conversation?”

“As you can see, I’m busy right now. I don’t have time to get into the ‘you stole my boyfriend’ shit with you.”

“You didn’t steal him. I know what went down. Leon told me. I won’t lie to you and tell you it doesn’t hurt but I did leave him.” She got quiet and watched her moves. “You said it right that first night. I had to do what was best for me.”

“Is that Vince or was that just comfort?”

“I’m not sure yet but I know it isn’t Leon.” She whispered. “I’ll only ever think of him as a friend and I don’t know why I am confessing all of this to you.”

“I have that affect on people.” She bent down, retrieved her sword, and removed it from the scabbard. She got to her feet and held it in both hands.

“Are you going to war or something? Is this a normal workout for you?” Letty’s eyes grew large at the sight of the blade.

“To answer both of your questions yes and yes.” She moved into a lethal dance of swings and thrusts that had Letty mesmerized.

“That is fucking awesome. Don’t worry. I won’t ask.” She smiled.

“Tell you what. If you insist on sitting here and running your mouth, why don’t you make yourself useful and help. Go over there, grab some coconuts, and throw them. I need targets.”

Letty glanced back at the trees a short distance off and nodded her head. “Okay.”

~*~
The guys both sensed something was off as they began to wake up. Their eyes snapped open and they found Mikaela missing. “Shit.” Dom got up, looked in the bathroom, and came back out. “She’s not up here.”

Leon was looking out the window and his eyes widened at the sight of her graceful yet deadly movements. “She’s outside getting ready.”

Dom went to Leon’s side and looked at her going through her routine workout. “I guess her arms and legs feel better. Did you see that flip? She cleared my head with that once. Damn, she’s amazing.”

“Yeah she is.”

Still watching her through the window, Dom continued their conversation from last night. “Leon, you said you came back early because you felt that she needed you. How do you explain that?”

“I don’t know. I just knew it.”

“You want to fuck my woman?”

“Yes I do. I know she doesn’t want anyone but you. I know it will make her feel guilty since she’s carrying the baby but I have an overwhelming need to be inside of her.”

“If you touch her in a sexual way again without my permission I’ll kill you.”

“I know.”

Both men saw Letty approach Mikaela from behind while she was on her game and preparing for battle. “Oh shit.” They said in unison and headed downstairs. When they were in hearing distance, they could tell Mikaela was radiating animosity and Letty was being inquisitive but trying to engage in idle conversation. They heard her agree to throw targets at Mikaela for practice.

“You ready?”

“Yeah.” She held her sword center and at waist level waiting for a target to strike at. “Vary the heights you throw them at.”

Letty threw a coconut at Micki’s chest. She stepped back as it flew at her and cleaved it in half. One after another flew at her and they all met with the same fate. The last one was coming in high. She ran towards it, left her feet, and did a single somersault in the air. When her feet were aimed at the sky and her head was looking up at the ground, she swung the blade. Her feet met the ground and the 2 halves landed on either side of her.

Letty was clapping with a smile on her face. “That was a thing of beauty. Damn, that was bad ass!”

Mikaela returned her smile and gave a slight bow. “Thanks. I just hope it is enough.”

“Enough for what?” Letty asked as she walked up to stand in front of her.

“Well I guess since you’re going to be here I might as well tell you. I’ve got an overbearing family that is coming to retrieve me. I’ve been away too long and they want me back.”

“You’re going to need all this shit I just saw you do to change their minds?”

Mikaela’s smirk matched Letty’s. “They are hard headed.” Her face grew serious. “I have a fight coming. It would be best if you stayed indoors until it’s over. Keep Vince inside too. Both of you are still healing and I don’t want either of you to get hurt worse.”

Letty’s eyes locked on hers. “What are you looking at here?”

“Three individual fights.”

“Why three?”

“One member from 3 of my 4 grandparents bloodlines. Two of them are coming because I dishonored the family. One is coming to challenge me for leadership of that family.”

“I don’t understand.”

“The dishonor thing is for having an illegitimate child. The leadership is pretty straightforward. Either I return to run the family or someone will try to replace me.”

“Sit down.” They both sat and Mikaela stretched her legs. “Leon says you’ve been here for quite awhile.”

“Yep.”

“So you ran your family from here. Why can’t you keep doing that?”

“I can if I win but they feel like the head of the family needs to be seen and heard. I’ve only communicated to them through a 3rd party for a little over 2 years. They put up with it because I had something to deal with. Now that I’m done they think it’s time to come back.”

“Are we talking Italian mafia here?”

“They can be transparent in a conversation, can’t they?” She laughed at the look on Letty’s face.

“What is the rest of your bloodline?”

“The 2 coming are Romanian and Egyptian. My last one is Apache Indian. Forget about all this and remember to stay inside with Vince. I don’t have much time. A couple of hours at the most. Tell Vince that he owes me and I want him to stay out of it. Pass it on to Brian as well. Go on.”

Letty got to her feet and her brow furrowed. “Mikaela.”

“Yeah?”

“Be careful. I don’t want Dom to lose his lady and his baby. He deserves to be happy. So do you.” She walked towards Brian’s house to deliver her message.

Mikaela watched her talk to Brian at the door. She could see him argue but Letty silenced him and they disappeared into the house. She looked back to the water and she spoke aloud to someone she usually only spoke to in her mind. “Rob? Are you still here?”

“Yeah. He’s still here.”

She scrambled to her feet at the sound of Dom’s voice. “Dominic…I thought you said he wasn’t in your head anymore?”

“He isn’t.” He pushed Leon towards her. “He’s in him.”

Leon had no idea what they were talking about but Mikaela stood in front of him and he felt her eyes burn into his. She found something in his gaze and the next thing he knew she had thrown herself into his arms.

“Leon, you probably don’t realize it but you aren’t quite yourself right now.” Dom smiled at the confusion on his face and wondered briefly whether it was Rob or Leon that wanted to bed his mate. Either way she needed both of them here. “Leon?”

Her arms were wrapped around his neck, his were around her waist, and his eyes were closed. “Yeah?”

“Do you have a condom?”

His eyes snapped open and he looked at Dom over her shoulder. “What?”

“You heard me!”

Mikaela disengaged herself from Leon and turned questioning eyes to her mate. “Dominic?”

“Come here, Mick.” She walked up to him and he saw pure innocence and curiosity on her face. He had tears forming in his eyes when his hands came up and untied the knot holding her top together. He looked at her breasts as they sprang free and his fingertips ran over his marks. “I love you.”

“I love you too. Why do we need a condom? It’s a little late for that, don’t you think?”

He smiled at her naïveté. “It’s not for me, baby. It’s for him.” He pulled her shorts down her legs and lifted each of her feet out of them. When he stood back up, he saw a mixture of shock and hurt in her eyes.

Tears formed in her eyes and her voice shook when she whispered to him. “You’re giving me to him?”

“Never. You belong to me always and forever.” He cradled her face in his palms and tried to calm her.

“You’re going to let him…let…him…”

“Mick. Your dead friend is the one I owe for giving me you. I’m giving a dead man the chance to fulfill his last wish. He always wanted you and you wanted him.”

“But…I’m yours. I love Rob and Leon but you are my heart and soul. I don’t…” She was shaking her head in his hands.

“Mick, baby, I love you but please do as I ask. Both of them love you.” She buried herself in his chest and he hugged her to him tightly. He whispered in her ear. “I’ll be right here. Let them love you.”

He sank them down to their knees, and then he sat cross-legged, and lowered her head to lie on his calves. She laced her fingers through his, looked into his eyes, and then closed hers. He turned his attention to Leon and whispered to her once more. “Bend your knees and spread your legs, baby.” He stared at his friend and tilted his head towards her. “Here she is. Just like you’ve always wanted her.”

He walked up and stared at her naked, shaking body. He looked at Dom and Mikaela’s tear-filled eyes and then his eyes took in the object of his obsession, her smooth pussy. His eyes closed for a moment and he knelt between her legs.

He looked at Dom’s face and had nothing to say but Dom did. “You better enjoy this because it will never happen again.” Leon pulled a condom out of his wallet and tore open the package with his teeth. He unbuttoned his jeans and pushed them down to his knees.

Dom kept his eyes on Mikaela’s tears. It warmed his heart that she knew her beloved friend was in her new friend and she still did not want him in her body. Why was he letting him? Did he feel like he owed Rob? Was he fulfilling his dying wish? Or was he trying to free his friend of his lust for his mate?

Either way, he was letting it happen and it killed him to see Leon position his cock to enter his wife’s pussy. ‘She is my wife!’ Her hands gripped his like a vise, tears were flowing from her clenched eyes, and a whimper escaped her throat when she felt his head rub against her clit trying to prepare her for his unwelcome entry into her body.

“No.” She whispered softly and felt his cock stimulate her enough to get her wet. ‘Dominic! No!’

‘Mick. It’s okay, baby. I’m right here.’

‘I don’t want him in me!’

‘Leon loves you, Mick, and…’

‘Not Leon. I don’t want Rob in me!’

Leon pushed his cock into her and her eyes snapped open. “NO!” She brought her feet up under his arms and pushed him away from her. He landed on his back and when he scrambled to his knees, she locked her eyes on his. ‘Rob! Are you making him do this?’

*Baby, we both want this. He lusts and loves you as much as I do.*

‘Don’t you do this to me! Don’t you dare ruin what we had just to get your rocks off before you move on!’

*Mick, I love you. I always have.*

‘If you love me, then get out of him and don’t do this. You are going to ruin our relationship and his friendship with Dom.’

*Baby, you need me for today. You called for me.*

‘I need Dominic and I called for Leon. Go!’

“Micki?” Leon saw her tears and didn’t know how to respond. She smiled at his bewildered face and he began to move towards her. “God, you are so beautiful.” He leaned down and kissed her gently on her parted lips.

“I’m glad you think so now get your dick away from me.” She took in his embarrassed face and smiled again. “This man is my life. I do love you but I won’t let him feel the way he’s feeling right now ever again. I wouldn’t mind thinking about it later but not when I’m carrying his child. I don’t mind the touching though.” She grinned at Dom and then her face went stone cold.

“Leon, back off. We have an early arriver.” He quickly withdrew, she grabbed her clothes and they both dressed. Dom could feel his mate’s anger grow as he held her hand and they waited for her first challenge to show his face on the beach.