Walker, page 19
But he shook his head at her. “No, I’m fine, really.”
“But it would be better if you weren’t this active.”
He smiled. “Some things heal much better at this level anyway,” he declared. “You and I both know that.”
“That’s an excuse,” she scolded. “Anything to give yourself permission to go ahead and do this.” The corner of his lips twitched, as he kissed her into a melting puddle again, and she sighed. “Fine. Apparently I have zero ability to resist you.”
He kissed her again and again and again, ever-so-gently, giving her time to argue, but finally she was done with the arguing and wrapped her arms around him and pulled him close.
“Just make sure you don’t hurt yourself.”
“I won’t,” he whispered, as he slowly moved over and above her, holding himself on one shoulder, even as she sent energy into the arm to give him as much support as he needed.
He smiled. “Now that’s another way to do it.”
She shrugged. “I can’t help myself. I’m a healer,” she said, with a chuckle.
“When I’m fully healed, we’ll make love with our energies entwined. I hear it enhances everything.” And when he slowly slid inside her, she shuddered, her body already warm and welcoming, stretching to receive what she hadn’t realized was missing, until all of a sudden it was there waiting for her.
She sighed with quiet joy, as he settled deep inside and slowly started to move. With her helping to set the pace, and her energy to keep him from hurting himself, he finally came apart in her arms in a gentle, slow, and loving way that brought tears to her eyes. As his big body jerked for the last time, her own responded with a release that swept through her and left her gasping.
As she lay here afterward, curled up safely in his arms, he whispered softly, “You all right?”
“Better than all right,” she declared, tilting to look up at him. “You still should have waited.”
“No way,” he argued. “No way in hell I would wait any longer for that.” He leaned over and kissed her soundly. “But I might just need to go back to sleep for a little while again.”
“Then sleep,” she whispered. “I’ll look out for you.”
He held her close, and his response almost broke her heart. “Believe me. I trust you to look after me anytime. Just make sure you trust me too.”
“If you notice, I’ve already trusted you with the most important thing. I trusted you with my heart, so there is nothing else but the two of us, together forever.”
Epilogue
Terkel looked over at Celia. “How many rooms do we have in this place?”
She burst out laughing. “It seems like hundreds, but we will obviously need to get more bedrooms ready and the plumbing updated in some of the other wings. Still, we have plenty of room for Ashley and Walker.”
“Besides,” Calum noted, as he looked over at them, “you wanted a big team, a team we can draw on, a team who could handle having families and being a part of this. So we definitely need to find room for them.”
At that, Cara walked into the room, her belly clearing the way in front of her.
Terkel looked at her and sighed, as he remembered yet something else, as he asked Celia, “Did we get any forward movement on people to help with day care?”
“Not just people to help with day care, but we’ll need … probably two nurses to work full-time,” Celia replied. “Plus, we now have a new chef for the kitchen, so Mariana can relax a little more, and we hired more full-time kitchen staff as well. They’ll come back and forth, leaving us at the end of the day, which I think is better.”
“I like that too,” Terk muttered. Just then his phone rang. He looked down at the screen and frowned. “Jonas, what’s up?”
“What’s up is that I have another job,” he barked, his tone grim. “Not exactly sure if this is your thing though.”
“Even if it isn’t, that doesn’t mean we can’t do it. We just have an extra edge on the market for something geared to our particular skills.”
“It’s time-sensitive.”
“It always is. What’s up?”
“We had an Eastern Bloc specialist coming over to England, and she’s been kidnapped,” he stated.
“Was she moving to England?”
“She was born over here, which apparently made the decision easier for her, but her parents emigrated to Russia, and she was raised over there. She has traveled fairly extensively throughout the world, but the Russian government decided she’s too dangerous to let out, that she knows too much, and she’s way too skilled to let the Western world have her, so we worked hard to get her free. To our dismay, she’s just been snagged out of Belgium,” he shared. “We’re still trying to get details, but I need a team, and I need that team now.”
“Got it,” Terk replied. “What doctor is this?”
“It’s not just the doctor herself. It’s her daughter as well.”
“The daughter was kidnapped too? How old is she?”
“She’s twenty-six. She worked with her mother and apparently has some of the skills that you guys have. That’s another reason why the mother was trying to get her out of there because the Russian government was starting to make noise about keeping the doctor and her daughter there for their own secret programs.”
“Of course they were,” Terkel muttered, with an ugly frown. “I need details, but I’ve already got somebody who can go.”
“Good,” Jonas said. “Glad to hear you’re getting more people. I wouldn’t have thought you had such a large pool to draw from.”
“This is someone who contacted me a few days ago. Obviously I have to call and confirm, but that’s my problem, not yours.”
Once he disconnected from Jonas, he quickly dialed Reid. When Reid answered, Terk announced, “I’ve got a job for you, Reid.”
“Good, I was getting a little bored.”
“Where are you?”
“Switzerland.”
“You’re heading for Belgium,” Terkel declared, and he mentioned the microbiologist.
“Oh hell,” Reid replied, “that’s Veni’s family.”
“Veni?”
“Yes, her name is Venialla, but she goes by Veni.”
“You already know her?” Terk asked.
“We met years ago. She and I belonged to a large group involved in psychic work,” Reid explained. “Like me, she popped in to see if she found any people like her. The two of us connected way back when, but I don’t think very many others in the group had any real psychic skills. If I had thought there were, I would have told you about them already. So, in the meantime, she was looking to head back to the Western world again. I wasn’t sure if that would work out. I lost track of her about eight months or so ago.”
“Guess what? She resurfaced with MI6, trying to move her and her mother back to England, but now they’ve gone missing.”
“Okay, I’m on it. Send me the deets. I’m already packed up, ready to go.”
This concludes Book 5 of Terk’s Guardians: Walker.
Read about Reid: Terk’s Guardians, Book 6
Terk’s Guardians: Reid (Book #6)
Reid Cocheran is eager to see Venialla again, after losing contact years ago when they were in the same research group. Finding out that MI6 lost her and her mother in a secret operation, while moving them both back to England, has him volunteering immediately.
Veni Baronov and her mother were caught escaping Russia where her mother, more prisoner than employee, had been working for the government. This was their one chance at freedom—before her parents’ employer discovered there was more to Veni than she wanted them … or anyone … to know.
Veni had always been independent, but sometimes a little help is needed. This time it will take a lot of help, especially now that MI6 had failed them. There is someone she can call on for help, but it requires skills she didn’t dare use—not when others want to wield them against her …
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WALKER: TERK’S GUARDIANS, BOOK 5
Beverly Dale Mayer
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