COSMO RYKER
I narrowed my eyes and watched her try to lie to me. If I hadn't spent years training myself to detect when someone was lying to me, I might have even believed her, she was that good.
I had to admit she was quite a spunky one, if she was truly Aiden's mate, then the goddess had chosen well for him. She carried herself with the bearing of a queen and one had to admit with her well defined curves she had the body of one. She would make an amazing Luna.
Another woman would have been crying and spilling her guts right now, but not this one. True she had begged for her freedom but even then she had begged with her head held high.
With my eyes still fixed on her face, I took the cigar from my lips and pressed it to her inner thigh, against my wish she gained more admiration from me when she clenched her teeth and refused to cry out, not even when I pressed the cigar so hard that my fingers took off flecks of her skin.
" Are you ready to give me the answers I want now?" I asked, returning the cigar to my lips for a final puff, before tossing the flesh stained stump on the floor and crushing it with my food.
" I already told you, I don't know what you're talking about." She replied as calmly as she would speak to a dance partner at a dinner party, her voice betrayed no hint of pain.
I couldn't help but smile in admiration, by Jove this was one strong woman. Aiden was lucky to have her on his side. But not for long I assured myself.
" Are you sure?" Lowering my voice to the deep and husky growl that had been known to frighten grown wolves into stooling in their breeches.
"Yes." She replied in the same calm voice, no hint of fear in her voice.
I knew I could break her if I put my mind to it, I had trained for this and broken strong soldiers and ruthless killers until they were nothing but quivering and sniffling lumps of flesh, of course I could break a mere woman. But although I would never admit it, I found her intriguing and wanted to see how long she could hold out.
" I'll leave you to think about it." I said getting to my feet.
"Think long and hard, because I'll be back and next time I won't be this friendly." I added.
" WHAT." Selena shrieked, running across the room to grab my sleeve.
" We can't leave,we have to find out how she was able to work the illusion on Aiden so I can undo it." She whined.
Groaning, I rubbed my head to ease the gentle throbbing of my temple that I knew was the harbinger of a migraine, it was the same migraine I always got when I spent more than an hour in Selena's company.
If she wasn't such a good lay and so easy to manipulate, I would have gotten rid of her long ago. She was a test of a man's patience, but I guessed that was the price I had to pay for her few good qualities.
She was amazing in bed, liked it rough and could take whatever I dished out, she had an amazing tongue on her and could work wonders on a man's c*ck.
She was also an airhead, it was extremely easy to pick her brains. All I had to do was ask a few leading questions and I would have all the information I needed about Aiden's activities. She was much better than a spy.
" Lena dear." I said, wrapping an arm around her waist as she snuggled into my side.
" I'll be sure to get you the information you need." I assured her. Not if I can help it. I said to myself.
" Aiden is yours and this woman can't come out of nowhere and take him away from you." I continued. Even Aiden doesn't deserve to be shacked up with you.
" But she's trying to be stubborn, why don't we give her some time to stew and help her realize she has no choice." I finished.
" But I'm bored, can't we play torture her a little bit?" She whined.
" I'm sure I can find better ways to cure your boredom." I said winking at her and reaching out to cup one of her heavy breasts.
Smiling, she pulled my face down to hers, wrapped her hands around my neck and shoved her tongue into my throat. Cradling her bottom, I picked her up and left the room.
AVA
I waited with bated breath until I could no longer hear footsteps before sighing in relief and leaning back against the headboard.
Gingerly tracing the burn on my thigh I winced when my nail scraped the surface. Gritting my teeth, I continued to probe to see how deep it was.
I was pleased to discover that although it certainly didn't look pretty and was quite wide, it wasn't too deep and wouldn't take too long to heal. Glancing at the burn on my arm, I made the same deductions and sighed heavily before letting my mind wander.
" Where the hell am I?" I muttered.
" Who is the Blue eyed man and why do my instincts tell me not to tell him anything about Aiden and our relationship?" I questioned myself.
Although I didn't see what good that would bring me, if Selena (that traitorous b*tch) was on his side then he probably already knew everything there was to know about Aiden. I had however listened to my instincts and kept my mouth shut...and got two second degree burns for my trouble,( not to mention the pneumonia I knew I would have to deal with if I ever got out of here) and to think that he said he had been acting friendly, I shuddered to think of what he would to me when he wasn't be friendly and from all indications I pushed him to restlessness.
The goddess alone knew if I would survive his next visit.
" Please save me dear goddess." I prayed and immediately broke into silent but raucous laughter.
Was I really still so stupid? To think that the goddess could save me? The same goddess that had neglected me all my life and answered none of my prayers. Why would she suddenly take an interest in me?
If I waited for the goddess to save me, I would die here, which meant I had to save myself and with that thought in mind I began to work on the bindings holding my legs. Selena and Mr Blue eyes had been too busy shoving their tongue down each other's throats to lock the door. If I could untie the rope before they came in, I had a chance of escape.
I may not know my way around the house, or even exactly where I was, but I had to get out of this room first, I couldn't just sit and wait for death. At least if I was caught and killed in the process, I would have been killed in the act of escaping, it wasn't much of a way to go but at least it beat sitting still and waiting for death.
I couldn't believe my luck when I was able to untie both legs. I swung both legs to one side of the bed, tried to stand and fell back on the bed.(obviously I wasn't as strong as I thought I was.) I was lucky I had the bed to break my fall or I might have ended up wrecking my spine. I tried to stand again and crumbled to the floor. I found myself clinging to the bed posts to avoid falling on my face.
I was struggling to get back to my feet when the door slowly opened.
" Uh oh." I muttered stilling myself for whatever punishment came from trying to escape the smiling Blue eyed psychopath.
However the young tall reed thin young man who came in didn't even bat an eye to see me on the floor.
Placing his index finger over his lips in the universal gesture of silence, he firmly closed the door behind him and rushed over to help me resume my seat on the bed.
" Don't you worry." He said uncovering the trolley to reveal a collection of foods. Reaching into the bottom compartment of the trolley,he pulled out a garment bag and opened it to reveal a pair of pants, a shirt, and outdoor moccasins which he helped me into before handing me a glass of orange juice and a plate of scrambled eggs.
"Eat up." He ordered, efficiently and quickly wrapping the other plates in cellophane and tossing them in the now empty garment bag.
" We don't have much time and we have a long journey ahead of us." He continued.