I was running full out, arms pumping, hands splayed wide for greater speed. The gravel dug into my bare feet, but the pain was fleeting and easily pushed aside. Mostly because my nervous system was absolutely sure I was going to get eaten, nevermind that my libido was dancing a merry jig. Brain and ovaries were not on the same page.
I could hear his creepy fucking clicking whooping call coming in from above, probably less than a mile away and closing wicked fast. It had my heart in my throat and my soul running ahead of me trying to leave my slow bitch ass behind.
My new and improved body was fast as hell, faster I think, than Rathal, but he wassupermotivated now.
Probably shouldn’t have cheated.
But damnit, I wanted the edge for once. I should have freaking known it would backfire so hard I'd come to regret it. Well, not reallyregretper se. The end to this chase was going to be all good times.
A hard and wild fuck that was probably going to alter my psyche.
Couldn’t. Fucking. Wait.
Still, I didn’t want it to be too easy for him. So I’d snuck out while Rathal was sleeping and begged, pleaded, and threatened the twins into helping me. They’d given me codes, instructions and well wishes I barely understood over their snickering laughter which probably should have been my first clue but ya know, your girl had mush brain from the great sex and the endless paperwork.
Next, I’d contacted Som’ae via my Link. She’d brought me some ground herbs, mixed them with an oil, and then handed me the bottle with a cryptic smile. When I’d asked how much the bottle costs, she’d just flicked her tiny hands at me and said, “Don’t worry about that right now. I’ll collect at a later date.”
Like that didn’t make me worried at all.
I’d slipped the bottle out of my waistband and wrapped it in my shirt before taking off my pants. I’d grabbed it again just before taking off into the maze. It was a pretty simple thing to dump the entire contents of the bottle over myself and rub it in as I ran after I’d laid the false scent trail to buy time. The herbs had dissolved into the oil, giving it a cloudy appearance, and I’d worried when it didn’t smell like anything. I figured it would use a stronger scent to cover mine, but the more I thought about that the dumber it seemed and I was glad that Som’ae was a crafty fox because I discovered—much to my relief—that the oil completely neutralized my scent. I was sweaty, dirty, and horny and should have smelled like team spirit but all I could pick up was the loamy floral smell of the garden. Which had come in handy untilit didn’t. Stupid ass gravel was loud as fuck when you moved on it and Rathal had those tall radar like ears. I was doomed from the start.
Thank god.
I swallowed back my laughter as I skidded around a corner and braced my back against the wall, breathing fast and trying to get it under control. I was having so much freaking fun. No one was going to believe me when I told them about this. And I was telling my girls the whole play by play because this shit was an epic sexy love story and it deserved to be gossiped over.
Yeah. Who was I and what had I done with ‘stick in the mud’ Callie, right?
Sweat dripped down my spine and temples and my knees shook with the effort, but the biggest physical reaction to all this was the throbbing, insistent ache between my legs.
I was a kinky bitch.
Who’d have thought?
I peeked around the corner, my night vision pretty good even though I knew this maze was pitch black dark and once upon a time my being able to see would have pissed me right off but I don’t think I’d ever been more grateful to the gray wash of my new sight.
Or maybe not.
Thanks to that gray tinted night vision I had a good view of Rathal perched on the edge of the wall where there had been empty air not five seconds ago, his jaws gaping open and the chattering, whooping, clicking sound emerging from between gleaming fangs.
My stomach dropped sharply while my heart thundered upwards and I had to swallow it back down. I sucked in a breath and held it when his song abruptly stopped and his head cocked sharply to the right. I wanted to back slowly away but I knew if I moved I was caught.
Suddenly, Rathal’s head jerked in my direction and his jaws snapped shut with an audible click of teeth.
“Got you.”
His smile was pure evil intentions.
I cursed and ran like hell.
Deep, sinister laughter nipped at my heels just before gravel sprayed against my legs as Rathal landed nearly on top of me, only missing me by a hair's breadth.
I shrieked with laughter, ducking and weaving trying to stay out of his grasp, my heartbeat now a roar in my ears.
I didn’t make it far.
Rathal’s body slammed into mine, rolled us to break our fall so that I landed on top of him rather than in the gravel and then he rolled us again and sprung to his feet.
I was thrown over his shoulder yet again.
