Figment of Dreams
Mr. and Mrs. Briareve

‘Remind me one more time please.’ I was finicking with my way too tight red dress, feeling slightly awkward and very exposed. Ash’ voice sounded in my ear suddenly. ‘You know what you need to do sweet cheeks.’ Oak sighed beside me, bothered by his brother’s words of endearment towards me.

Mister Perfect had a really expensive black suit on and looked like he was worth a million dollars. Why I couldn’t do this thing with Ash by my side, was still a mystery to me. The mission was clear, but I was so nervous I couldn’t think straight. I knew Kai’s mother had something to do with earth being destroyed and we were at this fundraiser to talk to her second in command, James Dearborn. He was going to be here tonight and since Oak had all the connections to his world, I would go to this thing as Oak’s date. Awkward.

‘Well, I guess we need to go.’ Oak stated dryly. Letting his eyes wander over my red dress like he disapproved. But with his eyebrows slightly raised at the end of that long look I wasn’t so sure.

He held out his arm for me to take and I grunted back at him. ‘What a gentleman.’ Sarcasm dripping from my voice like honey.

He dragged me along by his thick arm, greeting people left and right and I awkwardly greeted them back. Even though I had no idea who they were, but I was his date tonight. ‘Relax, sweetheart.’ Ash chuckled in my ear, watching us through all the security cams in the room and I was tempted to throw his nosy ass out the window. He would kill me for that though.

Oak glared at me from his height. He seemed way taller than Ash somehow but they were the same height.

We were at seated tables. Ours was a round table that sat eight Rainers, very fancily dressed with the finest cutlery and crystal glasses. Oak and I were entertaining this older couple from Dornatill to our left. Old friends of his late grandmother apparently and millionaires. Our right had two empty seats.

Around the appetizers it got filled suddenly by the latecomers. I recognised his ocean smell before I heard his voice.

‘Carina.’ He stated dryly.

I glanced to my left and there he was. Dressed impeccably in all black again and he had a girl with him. A tall blonde bombshell in a skin fitted pink dress. She looked like Miss Texas and a playmate had a baby. All blonde, booby, thunder thighs. Everything I had not. I swallowed away a lump.

‘Dosch.’ I dryly greeted him back.

Oak just gave him a cold stare and I heard Ash in my ear. ‘What’s the gangbanger doing here at a fundraiser?’

Me and Oak were having a good time anyway talking to the older couple. Conversation flowed, wine flowed too and I was honestly replaceing Oak very entertaining tonight. I needed to sneak out to grab that USB drive though. And that moment was fast approaching. To my left things were rather quiet, but there was some PDA. Conversation couldn’t really be held with that girl anyway but I hated to admit that it did bother me. Dosch was somehow, someway still someone that could get under my skin and I needed to figure that out one day.

Ash gave me the cue. He was watching the security cams in the van outside. Elia was a few tables behind me and was also occupied with her table mates.

Oak grabbed my knee and nodded encouragingly. Seeing him so open and free made me feel happy inside. The front he put up at the college was just a front, I was sure of it now. He was in his element here and I could finally see his twin brother’s good spirit in him too.

I nodded back, took my napkin from my lap and said ‘excuse me.’

I went to the corridor, heading for the toilets but made a sharp left, like Ash instructed. I was farther and farther into the Welkins estate now. My heart racing.

The study came into view finally and I glanced over my back nervously.

‘Relax sweet cheeks. It’s going to be alright.’ the signal was cracking up though. I touched my ear pad. ‘Ash?’

I guess I had to do this by myself now. I reached into my hair to get the lock pick and finicked with the door handle. It wouldn’t really budge.

A hand was clasped over my mouth and I squealed into it. This time I was more prepared thanks to Ash’s lessons. I put my foot on the door and pushed my entire body back, knocking whoever was assaulting me out of balance with an oomph. It worked and he let go. I’m sure Ash was proud of me watching this.

I turned around with a roundhouse kick, hitting my assailant in the face with a grunt. Arms raised in fighting position.

Dosch was on the floor, bleeding from his cheek because my heels could apparently do some damage. I probably had broken his nose.

‘What the fuck, Carina?’ he growled from behind his tatted hands covering his face. He sprung to his feet and rushed me against the door. ’Who taught you to fight like that? Huh? It’s hot as fuck.’ He was breathing heavy. Pupils dilated, but the blood from his nose had stopped flowing. Chest against mine and he was pressing his forearm to my neck. ‘I was just trying to drag you away from committing a felony.’

‘Well, that’s rich coming from you!’ I spat at him. Angry with his way of ‘dragging me away’. He knew about Otto. He knew this would rattle me and he did it anyway.

‘What are you trying to do here anyway? You aren’t getting in there with that needle.’ He waved at it as if it was trash. ’You are a good girl, Lux. Don’t try to be the bad girl here.’

‘Oh, like you know me now?’ I gave his own words back to him and he smiled at that. Psycho.

I wasn’t done yet. ‘I don’t have time for this. I’m getting in there now.’ I slapped his arm off, turned around with a deep sigh and reached for the needle again. He wasn’t really budging so he was essentially pressed against my back and I had little room to manoeuvre but fuck him.

‘Back off Dosch!’ I grunted over my ear but he just pushed himself tighter against my body.

‘Let me.’ He drawled, obviously happy to be pressed against me like this. He pulled out his black Visa card and swiped the door. It unlocked and I would have stumbled forward if he didn’t hold me. He kissed my neck quickly as if he couldn’t help himself and then pushed me forward with a firm pat on my ass. ‘Go on little thief of mine.’ He stepped in with me and closed the door behind him. ‘What are we stealing anyway?’

’We are not stealing anything.’ I angrily whispered at him. ‘Leave!’

He just chuckled and sat himself down on the very expensive looking couch. Everything was covered in shadows and he just looked like Lucifer on his throne in hell, smiling down at me from below.

I rolled my eyes because he was not budging. I decided to ignore him.

I went for the desk and tried to open the drawers but all were locked. ‘Goddamn it…’

‘If you need my golden fingers Carina, just shout.’ His deep voice reached me. ‘For whatever reason.’

I rolled my eyes again.

‘Why are you here anyway?’ I exasperatingly sighed while fumbling with the locks again.

‘Jealous?’ he chuckled.

He instantly knew what I meant and I snorted at that. ‘Why would I be?’

‘She’s just someone I’m fucking with at the moment. Nothing else.’

’Oh so, right below date level right?’ I slammed back at him and at the same time got the dresser open. HA, score!

‘Is that what’s been bothering you, Carina?’ he gave me his predator smile and walked my way equally as lion like. My hands at the meantime were going through all kinds of documents and files. I had my cell phone light the way for me in this dark room.

He stepped next to me, his scent engulfing me and looked inside as well. His face close to mine.

‘What are these? Names of…’ he also flipped through them quickly.

‘I’m looking for my name or other earth related items.’

‘You think she’s had something to do with that?’ he sounded angry at that and it made me smile on the inside.

‘I don’t think, I know. She’s the devil Dosch. I know it was her and I’m going to prove it. The Briareves are helping me with it.’

‘Oh so that’s why you are here with the robot twin.’

‘Jealous?’

He slammed the files down and grabbed my neck gently, but resolutely. My breath hitched at the sudden contact. Heart beating frantically. His dark eyes flicked to my lips and he licked his own slowly.

He kissed me with so much desire my head spun and I dropped a few of the files.

‘Shit! Dosch! I’m here on a mission! Stop distracting me!’ I whisper moaned between kisses and I couldn’t help myself with making some silly sounds which he enjoyed way too much by the way he was chuckling against my lips. All the while his hands roaming my body and face and I was about to loose all train of thought. I firmly shoved him back a step. My hair was flipped to one side so I flipped it back and fixed the neckline of my dress. I gave him a stern back the fuck off look, but he was just smiling at me, his thumb rubbing over his lips.

I crouched down to gather all files and then I saw it. My file. He noticed my lack of movement or words and came to check.

He glanced to my shocked face and to the file in my hands.

‘You are not serious right?’

I had my hand over my chest to stop myself from hyperventilating. She had everything in here from my birth to my elementary school. Jax and…

’Carina…’ he said with empathy and grabbed the back of my head soothingly. ’It’s going to be fine amore mio.’

Footsteps sounded in the hall. There was a USB stick in the file and I quickly gathered it in my bra. Which Dosch saw and goggled at. He quickly gathered everything and put it back in the desk. He grabbed my hand, ran for the closet and we locked ourselves in there just in time. A security guard came in. followed by Elia Welkin. I felt my blood boil. The bitch had everything of my entire life in that folder.

The closet was rather a small fit so I was huddled against Dosch and quite frankly I needed his warmth and his hugs right now. He felt it so he gently rubbed me against his chest, holding me tightly and caressing my neck and back softly. I felt a gun behind his belt and another one poking at me from the front.

After a while they left and I let out a shuddering breath. I placed my forehead against his trying to calm myself. ‘It’s all such a mess.’ I confided in him with a tearful voice.

‘Don’t cry Carina. Dios mio, it breaks my heart.’ He kissed me softly this time and I melted into his chest. I kissed him back when a loud beep sounded from my earpiece and I cried out in pain. Slapping it on the ground in shock. Even Dosch had heard it.

Ash’s voice sounded from below and I picked it up again and reluctantly put it back in my ear.

‘There you are!’ he shouted. ‘Tell that gangster to get lost and join us outside. Elia has just left.’

Dosch had of course heard that and coldly laughed. ‘That bastardo…’

We went back to the table. USB stick in bra. We had cleaned up Dosch’s face first in the bathroom and indulged in a brief make-out and grope sess that almost turned into a bathroom sex number two kind of thing.

At the table I briefed Oak about what had went down.

Dosch hand protectively placed on my thigh throughout dinner, completely ignoring the bimbo now. That was oddly satisfying to me.

Oak was giving him strange looks at that.

Dosch leaned over. ‘Come over tonight.’

I glanced at him and shook my head. ‘I need to look at that file.’

‘We can look at it together Carina.’ He drank from his glass of red wine. ‘While naked in bed.’

‘I don’t know Dosch.’

He winked and continued on with dinner.