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The wind was the first thing to hit my senses as my short black hair whipped around my face before finally settling on flying out behind me at a harsh pace. Trees zipped past me in a blur and it was in my nature to be scared from my unknown surrounding and I immediately latched onto Jaxon as if my life depended on it, my arms wrapping tightly around his waist as he returned the tight grip pulling me in even closer into his hard body. A musical laugh boomed from his parted lips as he held onto me tightly back.
'You're safe Olivia, look around.' He commanded and squeezed my waist to reassure me.
Cautiously, I looked around, eyes squinted from the harsh wind blowing past me in precaution of not getting anything in my eyes. It took not even a moment to recognize the old jeep in front of us and the solid, off white rectangle we are standing on could only belong to the caravan.
'Why did you flash us up here?' I spoke, voice raised louder than usual so my words didn't get carried off into the wind. A laugh left my lips as I braced my unstable feet on the surface, legs slightly bent so I could keep my balance and not fall from the roof from the bumpy gravel road we are currently driving on.
'Why not?' He responded casually and I felt his shoulders shrug from behind me as he looked at the dry nature zipping past us as we flew along the road.
'Cause we could fall and die.' I said in a duh tone, yet the grin on my face couldn't bring me to care.
'Pessimistic,' he commented.
'Yet true.' I replied with a small laugh.
'You won't fall, I promise.'
'Wow, now that is reassuring. I can't possible die now can I?' I sarcastically stated with a small shake of my head. I placed my hands on top of his and pried his grip from my waist, taking a small step in front of him. Standing by myself with the wind rushing past me felt surreal. My heart was racing from the danger that could arise from this and the adrenaline coursed throughout my body.
I don't know how long I stood there, bracing myself so I wouldn't fall over, feeling free almost like a bird. The bumpy road only turned rougher as we headed further down the gravel road making it more difficult to balance on. My heart plummeted to the bottom of my stomach as one particular harsh hole in the road sent me flying towards the ground. I landed on the roof with a harsh thump, my heart beating wildly as I stayed frozen on the one spot staring out in front of me breathing heavily.
Then, I started laughing. A pure, genuine laugh from the rush I just experienced. The first real laugh since Ben's murder and it made me feel alive once more, like that only a mere week ago my younger brother wasn't taken from the world. I turned and looked behind me, seeing Jaxon sitting on the roof looking at me with a blank look, however a small smile danced on his lips. Shakily on my hands and knees I crawled to where Jaxon was and sat next to him, mimicking the upright position with my legs bent and knees pointing to the sky, however my hands rested on the roof to help me keep my balance unlike Jaxon who casually had his hands resting upon his knees.
'This is cool,' I spoke to him after a moment of us not talking. 'Better than inside the stuffy caravan.' Jaxon nodded his head in agreement and I flopped backwards, lying down so I was facing the sky. The sun was high in the direct center of the sky, indicating it was around twelve noon. The hot rays beamed down on us, however instead of it being the sweltering heat of summer it was just right from the cold wind whizzing past our exposed skin. I closed my eyes and just relaxed, soaking up the peaceful feeling, knowing that once we reach Malara, there won't be much peace left.
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Two hours later, we had final reached out destination, a mid-sized clearing just outside the main city of Malara. The clearing couldn't have been bigger than 100 meters squared, and in the space were seven caravans, the jeeps and supplies. Upon arrival, Jaxon lost his playful mood and turned serious, his blank face making an appearance as he ordered men around to set up and clear the loose branches shed from the many trees surrounding the clearing. To my surprise, nobody had used their sorcery to make a clean and relaxing living environment for the next two weeks. Everything was done by hard manual labor, and later Jaxon explained that he needs his men fit because magic isn't always the solution to life problems and manual working was an effective way to do that.
The plan was simple. In two weeks' time we invade Malara and in the meantime, both myself and a few of Jaxon's men were to travel into the city to investigate who the boss was with absolutely no leads at all apart from the basic fact of if the government was behind this, then they had to be in the city of Malara. I had to admit, I was filled with nerves as I thought about the plan. Nothing had been set in stone and we were pretty much winging everything. The only set plan was seizing Malara in two weeks.
'Olivia,' a gruff voice sounded grabbing my attention. I looked up from my position on the ground, a branch in my hand and I added it to the small pile in my arms as I cleared the space around Jaxon and my caravan. I saw a man standing in front of wearing a low hanging baggy white singlet top and black trackie shorts. His long straight hair fell to his shoulder in one large blonde wave as his light blue eyes pierced into mine, a scowl plastered on his hard face and strong arms crossed over his marked skin.
'Jaxon needs to see you.' His voice sounded detached and bored as if he wanted to be anywhere but here. His tall frame loomed over me and I took a small breath, trying to not appear intimidated by the man.
'Where is he?' I asked, my voice strong and semi confident.
'Follow me.' He turned on his heel and at a fast pace started walking back from the direction I presumed he came from. Quickly throwing the loose branches off into the dense bushes and trees surrounding the clearing, I jogged up behind the man and followed him as he led me to the direct other side of the clearing and into the trees.
The snapping of dry twigs and leaves under out feet filled the awkward silence as we walked, small branches poking into my legs as I clumsily tried to avoid the overhanging trees.
'Where are we going?' I finally demanded, stopping following the man when the clearing was out of eyesight.
I heard the man sigh as he haltered his steps and turned to face me, a bored expression on his face. 'To Jaxon.' He stated in an obvious tone.
'Where is he?' I asked, folding my arms as waited for a reply. Immediately a scowl laced the man's face and he looked straight pissed off how I stopped us.
'About a minutes' walk away, there's another small clearing.' I hesitantly nodded my head and frowned when the man's scowl was replaced with a smirk of amusement. 'You scared to walk through a bush with a man?' His words trying to taunt me.
'Can you blame me? I don't even know you?' I pointed out to him.
'I'm Matt.' He said after a moments silence before turning on his heel and continued walking in the direction we were originally heading.
'Yeah, cause that helps,' I muttered under my breath, shooing mosquito from my face as I hurried to catch up with him. I couldn't help but smile slightly when I heard matt laugh in amusement to my sarcastic comment.
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'Fucking took you long enough,' Jaxon muttered when we stepped into the small clearing. When I say a small clearing, I wasn't joking. It was maybe four meters squared if we were lucky and like the larger clearing it was surrounded by thin leafless trees.
Immediately Jaxon closed the distance between us as he flashed a few feet over to me, appearing by my side causing me to jump, still not used to the flashing. His arm hooked around my waist protectively as he pulled me into the center of the space. He pushed my body in front of his and adjusted his other hand so they were both wrapped around my waist and his chin rested on the top of my head as he stood behind me. I couldn't help as the something appeared and I melted into his embrace, leaning back on his hard body as his grip tightened slightly. I felt shocked that Jaxon openly showed the type of affection in front of the two men who accompanied him and Matt who brought me out here. I felt slightly uncomfortable under their questioning eyes but shrugged it off.
'What do you think?' Jaxon murmured, his jaw moving slightly on my head as he spoke.
'Of what? Another clearing?' I felt confused, having no clue what he was talking about. I felt his chest vibrate as he chuckled in amusement and I heard a gasp emit from Matt as he stared gob smacked at Jaxon and myself.
'You can laugh?' He questioned Jaxon, his rough voice filled with curiosity and dumbfound.
'Any imbecile can laugh, dick head.' Jaxon muttered to him. 'For our caravan.' He spoke again, his tone changing and I knew he was talking to me now.
'Um, I guess but we already have a spot?' My statement sounded more like a question as I spun in my spot to face Jaxon, raising my eyebrows to let him know I have to clue what he's talking about.
'Yeah but I want a little more privacy,' he smirked down on me, his tone dropping down a pitch as his thumb rose to trace my lip teasingly. My stomach tightened with his words as my heart fluttered, thinking about how his touch made me feel. My eyes met his that eyes danced in amusement at my semi flustered state and my eyes left his snapping towards the men watching on with curiosity at out interaction.
'Pervert,' I finally muttered and poked his stomach not wanting to expand under the watching eyes and ears of his men. 'But it might be a nice idea.' The words came from my mouth before I could even stop them. Unknowingly when I had spoken, my eyes were tainted on his covered torso and one hand played with the hem of his shirt.
'Fuck,' he let out an uneven breath and I couldn't help but fell a bit of pride for being able to make a man as controlled as Jaxon to become flustered from a comment I has said. Before I knew what was happening, his rough fingers slipped under my chin as my face was tilted upwards only for his lips to meet mine a second later. My fingers curled around his black tee shirt as my head faced up, standing on my lip toes to press my lips harder into his. His tongue swiped my bottom lips as just as I was about to grab him access, a laugh snapped my out of it.
'Get it on,' a man grinned at the two of us, laughing along with the others and clapping his hands from laughing so much. Immediately Jaxon sobered up as I took a small step away from him. His arm linked around my waist and I mimicked him, linking my arms around the bottom of his torso also.
'Olivia, obviously you know Matt.' Jaxon stated and nodded his head towards Matt. 'This is Jarred and Tom.' He said nodding towards Jarred and tom.
My eyes flicked to who Jaxon said was Jarred. He was just over the average male height and had the standard short brown hair that just casually moved where it wanted to. His cheeks carried some excess fat as they puffed out slightly, the look on his intimidating figure amusing. His body also had excess fat to it but underneath the thing layer of chub, Jarred was packing some muscle as his built looked strong. His fierce brown eyes danced with amusement as he smiled at me, his happy personality contrasting immensely with Jaxon's making me wonder if this guy was far too happy, or if Jaxon was far to emotionless.
Probably both.
Tom was considerably short compared to the most of Jaxon's men and his face instantly clicked in my mind. He was the man I asked why my name wasn't on the list to do tasks, and he told me Jaxon didn't want me working cause of my injured wrist. His muscular arms crossed over his broad chest as his dark eyes with murky pupil watched on in amusement from our actions.
'How's your wrist?' He asked, the grin not leaving his pale lips.
'Good, thanks.' I muttered and subconsciously wriggled it. Sam had taken the bandage off claiming it was okay to start using it again on day three of lying in bed.
'These are my most trusted men.' Jaxon dryly stated as if the process of introductions were a bore and a waste of time.
'Excuse you,' Tom tsked at Jaxon. 'We three are the only people he can call friends.' He changed his tone to one of amusement as his eyes locked with mine, the others nodding in agreement as I heard Jaxon scoff from behind me.
'We're the only ones he can't scare off.' Matt added in.
'They are going to help us on the search.' Jaxon ended the conversation there as he changed topics to one that instantly caught my attention. 'If I'm not with you in Malara, one of these man always will be. If you go anywhere, and I repeat anywhere, if you don't tell me, you tell them.' His voice was so authoritative I was almost starting to grow accustomed to it yet I couldn't help but feel only slightly intimidated to agree with him.
'I mean it Olivia. No going anywhere by yourself. It's too dangerous, especially if people know who you are and want to harm you indirectly as well as directly.' A sharp thud shot through my chest as the memory of Ben's murder was brought up and I quickly tried to shake it off as Jaxon's eyes bored into mine. The remaining feeling of an ache in my chest remained as the thought stayed with me and I nodded my head in an unconvincing way. We both knew I wouldn't stick to it. He sighed and ran a hand through his midnight black hair. 'Let's go get the caravan.' He eventually spoke.
'Bye boys.' Jaxon smirked and flashed us back to the main ground.
'How do you plan on taking the caravan all the way out to the new spot?' I questioned after I got over the ignition shock of flashing.
'Simple,' and he flashed us back, the caravan now filling the cleared out space.
With the caravan now unfolded and set up, it only just fit into the small clearing., Jaxon opened the door and took a step inside, ducking to fit his height under the small narrow doorway. I followed suit, stepping into the stuffy room and straight away moved to open the small windows to try and circulate some of the air. The bed was unfolded and at the far end was small double bed for the two if us to share. The small sink (with no running water) and kitchen bench top and cupboards were complete opposite the bed and a small single clothes cupboard was next to the door. I had to admit that the caravan itself wasn't very luxurious, but I felt quite excited to be somewhat camping for the first time in years.
'I think,' Jaxon's voice quietly came up behind me and a rough hand was placed on the exposed skin just below my denim shorts started and traced a small pattern onto my skin, instantly making me halt my actions and the buzzing to erupt on my skin. 'We should try this bed out.' His lips pressed onto my exposed shoulder before heading towards my neck, small wet kisses left all over my skin as shivers ran down my spine. I hummed in agreement loving the blissful feeling the something created.
'Agreed,' I muttered and turned around, planting my lips directly on his, my tongue swiping at his bottom lip. Access was granted almost immediately and my tongue entered his mouth and we fought for dominance. The familiar feeling of courage swept through me as I grabbed hold of his shoulders and pushed him towards the bed. Shocked by my actions I won out. He sat on the edge of the mattress and I instantly sat on his lap, legs on the outside of both of his as my hands supped his chiseled jaw in my small hands.
'Fuck,' Jaxon groaned, tightening his hold on my waist as I took his bottom lip between my teeth and tugging lightly on it as I looked him directly in his eyes. His white pupil clouded over from my action, only making my confidence grow. As Jaxon went to kiss me, I moved my head backwards, away from him as I teased. His eyes shot open and his eyes furrowed together when he couldn't find my lips and I sat there smirking at him.
'Olivia,' he growled out and I laughed from his frustrated expression.
'Jaxon,' I mocked his growl, only becoming even more amused from his harsh glare. My amusement however disappeared though when his hands cupped under my bottom and he flipped us over so my back lay against the half decent mattress, my body spread out underneath Jaxon's large frame as he pinned my hands above my head leaving me to surrender to him.
'Fucking tease,' he spoke under his breath as he lowered his head down level with my neck, giving me one singular kiss that had my body crying out for more. He loved his face back an inch, the warm puffs of air falling onto my skin causing goose bumps to arise as I stared up helplessly at him. 'Do you take pleasure in teasing me?' He asked and I stayed silent, watching him intently as his eyes bored into mine. He took the corner of his lip by his teeth and the first thought to flash through my mind was sexy. His black curly were tussled from my hands mere moments ago as it flopped down covering the sides of his face.
'Hmm?' He questioned, encouraging me to answer as I stayed silent to test his patience with me.
'Olivia,' he cooed, placing another single open mouth kiss on my neck. I turned my head to the side giving him more access to my neck but came up disappointed when he pulled back once again. 'The teaser doesn't like to be teased?' He questioned me with a knowing voice. He blew out air softly onto where he just kissed, my skin now feeling cold from where he had just kissed my neck and I groaned in frustration as he continued teasing.
Three loud thumps on the door made my body jump underneath Jaxon's in shock. Jaxon muttered some curse words under his breath and his eyes filled with annoyance and anger as he lifted his head, keeping his body pressed firmly into mine.
'What?' He snapped at the door, his voice low and dangerous as we awaited the answer for the interruption.
'Sorry Jaxon, but we have a visitor.' The voice spoke, the nerves in his voice clear.
After a moment's silence Jaxon finally spoke, pure annoyance written across his face as a scowl laced his face. 'I'll be at camp in a moment.' He finally grunted out.
No reply was given so I assumed the man had left and started the minute walk back to the other clearing. I felt the grip loosen on my wrist as Jaxon let out a heavy sigh, clearly frustrated from out interruption. I tugged my hands lightly from Jaxon's grip as he looked down on me. I cupped his strong jaw in my hands and lent my head upwards, closing my eyes and I placed a heavy lingering kiss on his lips, leaving us both breathing heavily when we parted.
'I'll hurry back.' Jaxon's whispered with a smirk on his face as his eyes clouded over even more with a look of want in his eyes. His left eyes dropped into a wink before his body flashed away leaving me in a flustered and frustrated state on the caravan bed as I eagerly awaited his return.
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