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*Chapter 6*
Aislinn could feel herself falling through darkness. The black was throbbing around her. Somewhere in the void there was a pounding. The echo became more and more insistent, louder. Then she felt herself being moved. She was aware of the black shifting around her. Someone was trying to reach her. Aislinn could feel an urgent voice pulling at her. Suddenly the black turned into the street outside of her apartment. She felt drunk as she watched the street lights pass above her. The lights passing over her one at a time. Where am I going? She thought. Madadh-Allaidh Saobhaidh. I need to get to Madadh-Allaidh Saobhaidh. But she couldn’t make her body obey her mind. She was so tired. She closed her eyes and drifted into the black again.
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Rafe sat in the back of the long black limo. Jenna lay naked and prone across the seat opposite and large lion lay purring at his feet. She would periodically look up, agitated, at the naked lycan that had her master’s attention. But as he stroked her head she went back to her patient waiting.
Rafe growled angrily. “These lycans are becoming more troublesome than I had originally tought they would be.” The lioness sat up with interest and attention. Her large yellow eyes focusing intently on Rafe. “Look at her,” he said in disgust. “So easily manipulated. Even easily drugged. She actually believes she’ll be leading the Tairneach to glory or something. She has no concept of how inconsequential she truly is. Now Aislinn and Arnauk. They will pay for putting me in a position to have to soil myself with this bitch. I don’t like interruptions or delays. What’s worse, I had my hands on the stones themselves tonight and now I’m driving away from the power. I could feel it. I used it. It would take so little to learn how to truly manipulate the forces that sleep there. The lycans have no concept of it. How could anything like that,” he indicated the unconscious Jenna, “be capable of using the power there to its full potential?”
The lioness sniffed at Jenna with distaste. When a buzzer sounded the large cat growled and Rafe pushed a button on the panel. “Yes.”
“We’ve arrived at the address you requested,” the limo driver said.
“Finally,” Rafe growled, opened the door and got out of the car. As he looked around at the rundown buildings and the bums lying about the steps in garbage he thought it fitting that she would have ended up here. Serves her right for leaving me, he thought. The lioness stepped lightly from the limo onto the street. She paced a bit. As she walked she lifted her paws from the ground as though she was stepping in something that was burning her feet. She looked up to Rafe for orders.
“I’ll not go in that place. Go get her and bring her here. She shouldn’t be any trouble,” he said, knowing that after the evening they had she was probably completely unconscious. She was only a half-blood. She’d never be as strong as he was. None of the ones he’d found would ever be as strong as he was. Besides she had pushed herself much too far last night. If she truly wanted to get away from him she never should have shown him her potential. He had tried to get into her mind on his way here. But she was too far gone for him to even touch her dreams. That would make things exceptionally easy.
Rafe took one last look around and got back into the limo as the lioness headed up the stairs. One of the bums that sat near the steps got up and walked toward Rafe waggling a cup. This wasn’t the type of area he wanted to be seen in, so Rafe got back in the limo to wait. He slammed the door of the car just as the old bum approached. The man proceeded to start wiping the windows of the limo, hoping for a handout and Rafe sent the limo driver to deal with it.