For a brief moment Rafe seemed pained. Aislinn realized that she had done something. She needed to think. But if he was listening… She did her best to clear her mind and try to understand without thinking anything specific.
Rafe wasn’t surprised at all. He knew she would learn quick. But he was annoyed when he felt the wall go up and was thrown from her thoughts. He would have to get to her quickly when this was over. And he needed to shake her up more. Her spirit wasn’t completely broken yet. “You see, Arnauk doesn’t realize that the real danger is sitting between his legs,” Rafe chuckled. “Jenna was easy to manipulate. She truly believes that when she gets rid of Cullen that I’ll take her as mine and together we’ll run the two territories. The woman is blinded by ambition. She has no idea what’s important.”
“Fine, so what is important?” Aislinn said, deciding to play along. Carefully keeping her guard up and watching as Jenna ran her tongue along Cullen’s shaft. She felt chills run through her body. She wanted to rip the woman’s throat out.
Rafe smiled and looked at Aislinn. His eyes were shining silver in the darkness, giving his face an otherworldly glow. “Power. Not political, or physical. But power like we had when we created them.” Rafe walked forward and stared at the closest set of wolves rutting in response to their leader’s example. “Look at them. Not even God himself was clever enough to create these creatures. These were made by our ancestors. Yours and mine. The power of life and change. They’re magnificent. And I’ve improved on them. If you hadn’t left so quickly you would have come to see what I mean. But now that I’ll have you back, I promise that I’ll finish.” He smiled at her in a way that she was certain was meant to be sincere.
“What did you do to me?” she whispered in fear.
“I gave you the gift of the change. Oh it’s not complete yet. But as I said. It will be.” He walked over to Cullen and Jenna. She had reached between her legs to play with herself. Her fingers danced deftly over her clit, down into her wet slit, and then back to her clit. She was trying to convince Cullen that she needed him to mount her. But he wasn’t going for it just yet.
As she reached down between her legs again Rafe seemed to get rather excited. At first Aislinn figured it was because he was getting off on watching the woman toy with herself. But then she noticed that the movements of Jenna’s hand were real consistent with any kind of masturbation that Aislinn could think of.
Rafe smiled at her pleasantly. “You are a bright one. Our children will be amazing.”
“So what’s going to happen when she does whatever it is she’s going to do?” Aislinn asked hoping he was one of those moronic bad guys who liked to monologue before his big plan could come to fruition.
“His death is the signal for the others to attack. First his own men that I’ve gotten to, then my men will come out of hiding. It’s exceedingly simple.”
Aislinn closed her eyes. There had to be something she could do. Fuck it, if he can get into my mind because he wants to I should be able to get into someone else’s.
“In time, pet,” Rafe said with that awful smile. “I’ll teach you in time.”
Aislinn thought back to the earlier vision. The one that showed her Cullen’s friend and she realized that there had to be a couple of lycans who had finished rutting and were sleeping off their exhausted energy lying around here somewhere.
Rafe glared at her and she glared right back. She turned away from watching Cullen and Jenna only to hear Rafe call after her that it was too late.
She plunged into the darkness outside of the circle of stones and willed it to be as she had seen it before. Suddenly the forest in her mind lightened and shifted. She looked around and managed to find a couple of sleeping wolves. She knelt down next to them. She didn’t really know what she was doing. She tried touching them, hoping that something would just happen like it had before. There was nothing. But the woman stirred. Something had happened. Aislinn touched the woman’s face and closed her eyes. She brought into her mind pictures of what she had seen Jenna doing and tied a fearful emotion to it. The woman suddenly sat upright as though she had awoken from a bad dream. Jenna didn’t know if it had worked but she leaned down and did the same thing to the man. When he sat up and looked at the woman they spoke to each other. Aislinn couldn’t hear what they were saying and she was feeling drained. She looked around the clearing for more sleeping lycans. Everyone she found she woke in the same fashion. Aislinn was unsure how many she had touched when she dropped out of the vision into darkness again.
“NO!,” she screamed into the black. “I need to know what happened!”
***
The only thing keeping Cullen hard throughout the blow job was the image of Aislinn in his mind. He was praying the attack would come soon. He wanted it to interrupt the mating, buy him time to figure a way out of this. After having held Aislinn in his arms earlier that night there was no way he could go through with this. But with the prospect of an unknown enemy surrounding them he couldn’t take the chance of starting a war with the Tairneach right here and now. If he stopped this mating ceremony at this point he would need a better than damn good reason.
Jenna was bringing him dangerously close to cuming. He didn’t want to give her the satisfaction. But the relentless assault of her tongue on his cock was getting to him whether he wanted it to or not. He looked down and watched her pretty face bobbing up and down on his shaft. Her eyes half lidded staring up at him with a terrible devious glare. She seemed pleased by what she was doing, but not because she wanted to be sucking him off. Something she was thinking was pleasing her and he was afraid of what that was. Especially since he was in such a vulnerable position. Muin galla, he thought angrily and wanted desperately to say it out loud and throw her off of himself.
He noted a number of his own gathering at the perimeter of the standing stones. They looked concerned and they were watching the mating. Jenna finally pulled her mouth off of him. She had been going at him for so long her jaw and neck were sore and he was showing no signs of stopping her any time soon. She glared up at him and turned onto her hands and knees, presenting herself to him. The group that had taken up position between the stones started to advance. Cullen looked at Ranaild. His eyes were stone and Ranaild shifted his look from Cullen to Jenna in warning.
Jenna was starting to panic. This wasn’t how Rafe said it would go. He had made it sound so simple, she almost thought the plan had been hers. She had a short stiletto blade, tipped with poison held nicely in her cunt. Since it was a stiletto the sides were dull and wouldn’t pierce her flesh. But the tip would jab Cullen the minute he penetrated her. The poison was virtually instantaneous and Cullen would die, the fight would start and the Tairneach would take over.
As she watched the advancing Arnauk she knew that something had gone wrong. And then as she began to think about it she wondered why she had agreed to this anyway. It was far too obvious for her. She looked around for Rafe. He had said he would be there. Every time she thought his name she seemed to become more confident in the situation. She knew that he would come and save her.
“What is this Arnauk?” Brennus growled at the interruption in the ceremony.