Gathering Storm by Jess Parry Page A

she heard a lilting voice whispering “Mine, always mine”.
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    Gathering Storm
    6 CHAPTER Six
     
     
    The stranger pulled Siobhan up into his arms making his way through the crowd undisturbed out into the night. He carried her to a small park near the club sitting down onto the cool wooden bench. Delicately, he reached trembling hands to Siobhan’s face brushing her loose hair to the side. He silently took in the sight of his beloved before him, as Siobhan’s unconscious body trembled violently in his arms .
    Pulling her closer to him he lightly laid his forehead onto hers. Her brow was covered in a light sheen of sweat a s heat came off her in waves. Pulling his head back, he touched her check ; Siobhan whimpered softly as she leaned into his hand. Growling gently he touched his lips to Siobhan’s as he felt her arms instinctively wra p p ing around him.
    The stranger looked up as the air shimmered around him as Marcus appeared snickering.
    “What the hell were you thinking?” the stranger angrily hissed at Marcus
    “That I wanted to have some fun” Marcus shrugged his shoulders as he took in Siobhan lying in the stranger’s arms. “No harm, no foul, Ash”
    “Foolish that is what you are, where are the others?”
    “Simon has them, he would have kept her safe, if you hadn’t of displaced his energy with her earlier”
    “She is not to be touched, Simon is lucky I didn’t expel him for what he was about to do” Ash replied firmly as he looked back down at Siobhan
    “He got lost in the moment, she has a seduction of her own if you haven’t noticed brother” Sighing Marcus reached out to take Siobhan out of Ash’s arms
    “I’m not your brother” he replied hoarsely as he pulled Siobhan closer to him “Just give me a minute”
    “Take as long as you like, but she’ll wake soon and best not see you before she truly remembers. Did you not learn the last time you let your impatience take over? You lost her immediately as I recall… you held her one moment and then nothing the next. If that is what you want, fine by me as I was able to spend a hundred years causing havoc among these fools.” Marcus waved his arms widely around him as he looked about
    “Shut up, just shut up, I’ll give her to you” rising slowly Ash handed Siobhan over to Marcus.
    Marcus cradled Siobhan in his arms grinning . “She is lovely; you must forgive Simon for the temptation to taste”
    “Touch her and I will kill you”
    Throwing his head back , Marcus bellowed laugh ter before turning carrying Siobhan away; he reached over lightly touch ing his finger to her lips. “Time to wake young one, let the night soothe you; your mind will hide the event’s you saw tonight”
    Siobhan stiffened in his arms as her eyes shot open ; she sucked in a greedy breath of the cool night air. “Wh..what happened?” Siobhan whispered hoarsely at Marcus.
    Marcus looked down into her face, noting the color rising to her ch eeks erasing some of the pallor . Her eyes were brighter than they should be and he grumbled at that . “You got a little over heated on the dance floor, lovely I brought you outside to get some air”
    “There was a man, he wanted to hurt me” The images were fuzzy in Siobhan’s mind shaking her weary head trying to clear it. “We were dancing, Simon and I, then he was gone…green…all I can remember is green” Growling in frustration Siobhan pushed at Marcus trying to wiggle out of his embrace.
    Chuckling, Marcus let Siobhan down. “Simon saw something that caught his attention and he left you on the floor. I was making my way to you, when a couple of guys started handling you improperly, love. I don’t recall anything green”
    “No, you were not there; I know you wer en’t. Where are Jason and Sarah ?” Siobhan stumbled away from him. She knew something was wrong, but her mind kept jumping over what had happened in the club. It was sinister, that much she knew as tremors ran up and down her