Juniper sniffled as the bath she was sat in steamed, Raphael sat on the toilet besides her while washing gently at her cheek.

There was a bandage over the long cut that traced her cheek bone, Raphael focused on cleaning around it.

They'd both been quiet since arriving to where they'd be staying, Raphael refused to stay in the same house they'd been attacked. He had multiple properties, this one a large two story villa.

Later on, when she wasn't in a mess if emotions she'd be excited that there was a pool.

Bear lied on their bed, the bathroom door open so she could see him without getting nervous with him out of sight.

Blinking tiredly, Juniper finally focused on her mates handsome face.

He paused for a moment, meeting her gaze with pain written over his face.

"We'll be okay right?" Juniper croaked softly.

His eyes softened, leaning forward and brushed his nose against her own.

"We'll be okay," his tone was confident even if he felt exhausted with everything happening around them.

She sniffled again, "I think he needs a cone." Juniper waved her braced wrist over to their dog who licked at his stitches.

Raphael turned and snapped his fingers, Bear quickly pausing when he realized he was caught.

Brushing his fingers over her brace, Raphael kissed it gently.

"I want you in here," the blue haired woman whined quietly.

Raphael shook his head a little before smiling smally down at her.

"I'll..." she trailed off as she thought. "I'll take my brace off if you don't," her eyes perked up as she thought of an adequate threat.

Raphael immediately scowled. He stood up quickly after, yanking his sweatpants that he was wearing down with his boxers.

Juniper hummed in pleasure while openly watching.

Raphael scoffed before sinking himself in across from her. Immediately, she waded over into his lap.

Nuzzling her head underneath his chin, Juniper spoke quietly.

"I told them you'd kill them," she trailed her fingers over his broad shoulders.

Inhaling sharply, he glanced down at her mass of hair.

"Juniper... when you were there they- did they..?" he trailed off.

Frowning tightly, she shook her head. "No, they just beat me up a bit."

"It wouldn't have changed anything for me if they did," his arms tightened around her waist suddenly. "I just would've had to find a way to bring them back from the grave to kill them all over again."

Pushing her back a little to glanced at her stomach that was bruised heavily, he exhaled loudly through his nose.

"I never should have left," he hissed.

Shaking her head, Juniper felt her hands trembling. "Don't say that."

He shut his eyes tightly, the self loathing rolling off of him in waves.

"Please don't do that," Juniper whispered as her lips wobbled with emotions. "I just kept telling myself that you'd be there and you were-" her voice cracked.

A shuddered breath racked her, "When she walked through the door... I-I thought-" Juniper wiped her face as she held in her tears. "I thought I'd never see you again."

He shushed her gently, cradling her face and pressing a long kiss to her forehead.

"You're allowed to cry, Juniper," he husked quietly.

Whining a little, she shook her head.

"I'm tired of it," her words were muffled into his neck. "No more tears," she insisted only to look up at him with watery eyes.

Huffing quietly in mild amusement, he brushed her hair behind her ears.

"So beautiful," Raphael trailed his fingers over her collar bone. Juniper shivered a little and proceeded to press her chest tightly against his own.

They lied there in the bath, entwined with one another for almost an hour. It didn't matter if the water was cooling because their combined heat kept the other warm.

It was overall quiet between the two, their hands rubbing over one another before Raphael sat up.

Juniper who'd been falling asleep against his chest groaned in displeasure.

"I need to wrap up your leg," he blinked hard to wake himself up.

"Don't-" Raphael lifted Juniper up out of the tub abruptly like he always did.

This time he was more careful not to jostle her even as she continued to protest.

Juniper grumbled quietly as he held her up with one arm underneath her ass. He unclogged the tub, grabbed towels, and shooed Bear off their bed albeit more gentle than usual.

They'd moved his dog bed into their new room for now, Raphael laying Juniper out on the bed.

She squirmed at not only her nakedness but the cold nipping at her. Of course the berserker took notice of this, trailing his hands over her figure while drying her gently.

"You're treating me like a baby," she scowled as he slid a shirt over her head.

"You're my baby," he rasped.

Juniper's chest fluttered despite herself.

Once he was dressed himself, he picked up her parted thighs to lay them over his own as he sat on his haunches.

Tugging out the bandages, he quickly got to work.

Resting her hands by her head, she watched him closely. His dark gaze drifted up to her, back to what he was doing, then back up her gray eyes.

"Stop looking at me like that," Raphael mumbled as he tightened the bandage with the utmost care.

"Like what?" she breathed.

"Like you want to fuck me, gorgeous."

Juniper smirked a little, her mind fuzzy with tiredness.

"You're lucky I'm all beat up, otherwise I'd be on you like white on rice," she smiled playfully while shutting her eyes.

Raphael hummed, "I don't know about lucky." He brushed his lips up her front, kissing up her throat.

Pushing himself above her, he observed her as she hummed quietly.

"I don't know what I'd do without you," Raphael admitted. Resting his face in her hair, he bathed himself in her scent.

"I'd still be fucking miserable like I was before you showed up," he allowed himself to curl around Juniper. He saw her brows furrow when he didn't lay on her chest to sleep but obviously he didn't want to hurt her even more.

Juniper turned in his arm so they were chest to chest instead, her arms wrapping around his to fall asleep.

"I love you so much," Raphael croaked while holding her tightly.

Juniper mumbled it back, albeit a little incoherently considering she was drifting off to sleep.

~

A few days later, Juniper was more healed as she hobbled through the kitchen. Her wrist was better, just bruised as well as her ribs due to the healing elixirs given to her.

However flesh wounds always take a bit longer even with magic, so the cut on her cheek was still healing while it was currently scabbed over.

Her thigh still throbbed a little and since it was deep it would take the longest to heal.

Raphael who'd been doing work in his office, heard his mate moving around in the house.

Immediately he stood up to go find her, scowling as he found her going through one of the cabinets.

"Juniper," he snarled lowly and didn't hesitate to snatch her up. She squealed in surprise before glaring up at her berserker.

"Damn it Raph," she rolled her eyes.

"You're not supposed to be out of bed," he husked.

Raphael himself had demanded bed rest, even though the doctor said it wasn't necessary.

At first, Juniper didn't mind it since she was so tired that moving too much seemed impossible. But now on day four of healing she was stir crazy.

And she couldn't even argue with Raphael because she could feel the worry pouring out of him through the bond.

"What do you want? I'll get it for you, just please rest," he stressed quietly while shifting her in his arms to reach for the cabinet.

"I want you to take a deep breath and relax, Raphael," she hummed with a furrowed brow.

Pausing he glanced down at her, "I am relaxed."

"That's bullshit, you look like you're ready to pull your hair out."

He huffed quietly and grabbed something he knew she'd eat and began trekking back to their bedroom.

"Raphael," she groaned as he laid her down on the bed. She wrapped her legs around his trim waist, halting him from leaving back to his office.

"You've been working too much."

Immediately he shook his head, "No. I have to make sure the coven is falling apart without the oracle to lead them."

Juniper tilted her head as she let him continue.

"I could trace her magic back to where she came from outside of the island, I sent a couple demons back that way. We killed most of them. But since they weren't an official group I don't know how many members are left. Not only that, I don't know how many other enemies of mine they told to fund this hunt for you."

His mate hummed while pushing herself to sit up. Scooting closer, Juniper grabbed his hands.

"It sounds like you got them. We knew you were always going to have people going after your power. But, we also know that no one else knows I'm part berserker now that the group is dead. No one knows about the baby, we can manage this now. You've got this place locked down tight, no one is going to try anything right now."

Her words made sense in his mind, he knows he's being paranoid. But he also wasn't willing to risk Juniper, at all.

His train of thought was cut off as Juniper tugged him down by his hands, Raphael sucked in a breath as he knelt over her on the bed.

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"I miss your touch," Juniper admitted boldly. Anything to get Raphael's mind off of this.

"I touch you," he rasped quietly as his breath got stuck in his throat.

"Not how I want you to," Juniper peaked up at him while nibbling on her lip.

Raphael groaned lowly and dropped a hard kiss on her lips, dragging his tongue over them greedily.

She moaned quietly, holding onto his shirt tightly. "I'm not," she sucked in a breath between kisses. "I'm not going to break, baby."

Moaning quietly he trailed his lips down her throat, all she'd been wearing since they'd gotten here was his t-shirts. He slid his hands up, massaging her hips gently while tugging her closer.

Slowly, he pulled away. "I know what you want and I'm not budging, baby," he mumbled softly.

Juniper immediately pulled away with a scowl. "Why not?" her thighs tightened around his hips while tugging his erection closer to grind against it.

His fell eyes shut, a low rumble vibrating her chest as they were flush together.

"Not today. Can't hurt you," he shook his head. "I'd hurt you... I'd be too rough.

Juniper moaned at the thought, head falling back. "That's what I want."

He too moaned at her enthusiasm, "I'll give it to you baby I promise. When you're healed."

Juniper frowned tightly and abruptly pushed him up.

He rose a brow, leaning back to look at her in amusement as she was thoroughly pissed at him.

"But if I said I'll be okay then I'll be okay."

Raphael couldn't help chuckling at her. "It's cute when you throw a tantrum."

Juniper gasped, "It's not a tantrum! You haven't seen tantrum." Her eyes rolled as she rolled over to grab her phone, pouting behind it as she tried to ignore him.

Scoffing, he pushed it out of the way and pressed his lips just under her ear.

"Don't be like that, pretty girl," he husked lowly. Juniper's breath hitched as she licked her lips slowly, raking her nails down his back.

Her mouth fell open while she ground her hips against his thigh that was flush against her cunt. He snarled at how eager she was to get off, he spared a hand to aid her hips.

Mewling softly she was glad to feel something after feeling as if Raphael had been depriving her for so long.

"I c-cant-" Juniper whined while her back arched.

"Yes you can," Raphael urged her on- yanking her harder against his slacks. "Drench my fucking thigh like you will my dick yeah?"

"Y-Yes please," she whimpered breathily.

"Gods you're a fuckin' gift you know that? God damn perfect," Raphael could feel her arousal seeping through her flimsy underwear and inhaled deeply, practically drooling at the scent.

"I want more," Juniper panted. "I want this," she slid her hand down to cup his throbbing member.

"Oh fuck," he hissed.

"Want it bad Raph," she cooed in his ear. Nipping his earlobe she hummed.

"I can be on top," she taunted. They both moved frantically to chase their highs, desperately. "You'd like that?

"Fuck! I'd fucking love it baby."

Suddenly Juniper cried out as she came against his slacks, her thighs tightening around him. Her eyes shut tightly while moaning, Raphael growled in satisfaction watching her.

Just seeing it pushed him over the edge, burying his face into her hair.

They both panted quietly, Raphael glancing between them at the large wet spot on the crotch of his pants and against his thigh.

"We're always ruining my damn pants," he husked.

"Maybe you'll just have to walk around naked now," the beautiful woman underneath him giggled.

"You'd love that huh?"

His phone rang and Juniper growled. "I'm going to throw that thing in the ocean."

He grumbled while reaching to grab it, holding it between his ear and shoulder he rolled onto his back.

While answering it he began rustling out of his pants.

Juniper groaned as her leg ached, still she rolled over and helped him out of the soiled trousers.

Raphael suddenly paused, "Why the fuck are you calling me?"

~~

they are settling down a tad hehe