Shattered

10

KK and Brice leave the office and go look for Savana. They find her in the main hall with one of the men caressing her face. No sign of Seamons and Savana cowering away from the man. "If you touch her again you will die and it won't be an easy death, Johnston. Where the hell is Seamons?" Brice is furious. If this causes Savana to lose her trust in him then there will be hell to pay.

"He left." Johnston says straightening up. He's bluffing for all he's worth right now. He hadn't expected the boss and KK to be out so soon. He thought he would have more time to seduce the girl.

"Get the fuck away from her, Johnston. You know that she was off limits and to be respected at all times." Brice is having a hard time controlling his anger at this point. KK is the one doing the talking to allow Brice to calm down a bit. The last thing any of them need is for Savana seeing Brice lose his temper. There would be no going back from that.

Once the man moves away from her Savana runs to Brice and he enfolds her in his arms. "Did he hurt you?" Brice demands in the softest voice he can muster. Savana shakes her head. KK hands her his iPad and she writes on it. 

"He just scared me. He lied. He made Seamons leave. Seamons didn't want to, said that it was your orders to stay with me, but he said that you were the one to order him to relieve Seamons. He threatened Seamons if he didn't do what he said. Said that he had to obey an order from someone higher in the group than he was. That the order came from you and to not question it."

"Is that so?" Brice says in a deceptively calm and quiet voice. KK just shakes his head.

KK motions for one of the guards to grab hold of Johnston. "Take him to the cells. Make sure you relieve him of any weapons before leaving the cell."

"That's two direct orders you've disobeyed, Johnston." Brice says in a cold voice halting the men that were taking him down to the cells. They are none to pleased by Johnston's actions either. They already feel rather protective of Savana with all that she's gone through.

"You were warned last time. You understand what the punishment will be?" Brice demands and waits for Johnston to nod his head before motioning for the guards to continue.

"Have Seamons taken down as well for breaking orders. But he will also be participating in the punishment of Johnston. He was forced to break orders so it won't be such a bad punishment. I'll want to talk to him first."

"Yes, Boss," KK leaves Brice's side and goes to find Seamons. He dislikes the idea of Seamons being punished but he understands it as well. He also knows that Brice won't punish him to badly since he was really in a bad situation. Brice will explain the proper procedure for if that ever happens in the future.

"Let's go see if the housekeeper has arrived with your things, shall we?" Brice asks the still slightly trembling girl.

Savana nods but doesn't leave the protection of his arms. "Savana, would you like me to carry you?" Brice asks, he rather likes her in his arms and is fine with her not wanting to move, but if they are going to try on the clothes they need to.

Savana blushes but nods. That's all the encouragement Brice needs to pick her up and carry her up the stairs to her room. "You are welcome to stay in my room if you would like, but this is yours and your things will be placed in here. Okay?" Brice asks as he sets her down. He doesn't know if he wants her to stay in his room with him or not. He's not sure that he can handle another night of sleeping next to her and not touching her.

They find the bags of items set on her bed ready to be tried on. Savana's eyes open wide. Brice hands her the iPad and has her turn it on. "I thought this would be better than paper. If you are bored you will be allowed to watch Netflix or Hulu or whatever you want. You can download books or games. When fall comes we can get you a laptop for you to do your schoolwork on and take notes. I think you should really consider doing your course work online at least until you are able to speak again or feel more comfortable. 

"I've noticed that when you are around other males especially that you are uncomfortable and tense. I don't want you to become sick from anxiety. If you would like we can get a note from the psychiatrist and have him explain that it would be better to have you do online. We can go to the dean of the school and deal with things tomorrow if you decide to do that."

Savana looks at him with tears in her eyes. She hugs him tight before releasing him and writing, "I've never had so many things in my life. I don't want to spend your money like this. But my scholarship doesn't pay for the online school. It will only pay for me going there and it's full ride."

Brice lifts her face up to make sure that she's looking at him. "I wish to do this for you. I will pay for your schooling if you choose to do it online. You will need the electronics for your school work any way." Before Brice can say anything else Savana kisses him. He's shocked at first but is more than willing to follow her lead on this. He's never had a kiss as sweet and addicting as hers is.

It's only as he needs to break it off to breathe that he realizes what he just did. "Fuck." He takes a step back from Savana. He sees her broken look and realizes that she must think he's upset about her kissing him.

"That's the best kiss I've ever had. Are you sure that you've never kissed any one before?" Brice does the best he can to salvage the situation. He breathes a bit easier when he sees Savana's broken look turn to one of happiness.

She shakes her head. 

"Savana, I am beyond honored that you allowed me to be your first kiss. It was hands down the best kiss I've ever had. It's also very addicting, I think that I could happily die if I was able to die kissing you. But I never wanted you to feel like you needed to thank me by using your body or giving me sexual favors. Not even kissing. I fucked up by doing that."

Savana shakes her head no before taking the iPad and writing furiously on it. "I wanted to. I've wanted to since you brought me here last night. You might not see yourself as a hero, but you are mine. A damn sexy one at that. I'm sure that you have no trouble getting females into your bed. I was being entirely selfish, Brice. I wanted to know what it was like to kiss you. Soon enough you will be bored with helping me or I'll be better and you won't want me near you. I know you never intended to kiss me." Savana ignores the tears that leak onto her face as she types furiously.

"I just wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed by someone that would know what to do." That was the main reason she was going to let Grant kiss her. She knows that he had a lot of practice.

Brice gently lifts her face up after reading the message she wrote. He wipes her tears away. "I didn't want you to feel like I expected anything from you, Savana. I don't. I wanted to help you, like I wasn't able to help my sister. I had a hell of a time sleeping last night because I wanted to hold you and do a hell of a lot more.

"I didn't want to kiss you, because when it comes to beautiful females I don't have a lot of self control when they are receptive to my advances. I'm afraid that now that I've tasted your kiss that one just won't be enough." With that Brice leans down and gives her another kiss, this time leading as she allows it.