The Power of Fate (The Triad Series Book 5) by Kate Pearce

about the rough way he shoved his hand under Rekk’s T-shirt was enough to set off his simmering rage.
    “No more!”
    With a savage growl, he head-butted the man in the stomach, smacking the weapon away.
    With a startled yelp, the soldier staggered backward, falling on his ass, and Rekk was all over him, wrenching the weapon from his hand and holding it against his temple.
    “ Rekk? I’m right behind you. Don’t shoot.”
    He stared down at the soldier’s terrified face. Had he ever killed anyone before? He couldn’t even remember that.
    Orin touched his shoulder, his voice gentle. “I’ve got this, buddy. Let me deal with him.”
    Rekk nodded once and let Orin take control of the weapon and the prisoner. Orin knocked the man out and tied him up, his movements efficient and practiced.
    “I know you want to kill him, and I totally understand why, but if he dies the rest of the Etruscan pack will know instantly, and they’ll be all over us.” Orin tightened the man’s gag. “This way he can stay put for a while longer while we get away.”
    Rekk slowly rose to his feet. “I’m not coming with you.”
    “You want to stay here and wait for the Etruscans to take you back?”
    He glanced down at the man’s weapon. “I thought to provoke him into killing me or turning the weapon on myself.”
    “What the heeze for?” Orin snapped. “I just saved your ass!”
    “Why?” Rekk demanded, stepping right into Orin’s personal space. “You and Mya were supposed to leave. What are you doing here and where is Mya?”
    “Mya is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.”
    “Whereas I am not?”
    “We are your designated bodyguards. Our mission is to get you to the Temple.”
    “I don’t want your damned help!”
    “I’m not offering you any. I’m telling you I have to complete my mission!”
    Rekk turned around and stormed off into the forest. Orin followed him.
    “Where the frak are you going now ?”
    “Anywhere that you are not!”
    Orin grabbed hold of his shirt, spinning him around. “You are staying with me.”
    “Why? So I can distort your thinking? Make you want to kiss me again?”
    “Distort my thinking? Man, you do that, but—”
    “It is wrong. I am not… worthy of your attention.”
    “Are you telling me I don’t have the right to have feelings for you?”
    Rekk growled. “You don’t have feelings! I am the problem. I make you feel things that don’t exist!”
    “Yeah?” Orin twisted his fist into Rekk’s T-shirt and yanked him so close there was no air between them. “You make me so fucking hard I can’t think of anything but stripping you naked, offering you my ass or taking yours.” He shook Rekk. “You think I want to feel like this about a man I’m supposed to be protecting with my life?”
    All the anger drained from Rekk. “No. And that is the point I am trying to make. You don’t have to feel like this. One day away from me and you will be back to normal. I corrupt everything I touch.”
    “You don’t seriously believe that, do you? You think what I feel is nothing but something you’ve created?”
    Rekk met Orin’s outraged blue gaze. “You know it’s the truth—my shields are damaged. I… attract people.”
    “So everyone you meet immediately wants to fuck you?”
    He nodded.
    “Wow, conceited much?” Orin shoved him in the chest. “Then listen up. I want to fuck you because you’re mine.”
    “Orin…”
    “Shut up.” He stuck his finger right in Rekk’s face. “You’re mine and Mya’s. When you work that out, you come and find me, and you’d better be on your knees begging to suck my dick.” Orin checked his weapon. “Now come on, we’re supposed to be meeting Mya in the next town. We can reach it through the woods.”
    Rekk tried again. “I think you and Mya would be safer without me.”
    “And I think you’re talking out of your ass. Mya and I are under orders, and neither one of us likes to fail, so get a move on,