hundred yards straight ahead. The water is good to drink. I will meet you there in half an hour. If you need me for any reason, just yell, I will hear you. I'm not going far."
He gave me another quick kiss and walked in the opposite direction. I was smiling to myself as I walked ahead to find the stream. I found the stream easily enough because I stepped in it.
Damn, I would be glad when I developed my better sense of sight. It was a nice evening for early May but I had a feeling walking around with a wet shoe was going to make it feel a lot colder tonight. Well, there was nothing I could do about it. I found a nearby bush and took care of business and went back to the stream to drink some of the water. I sat there listening to the sounds of the night. I opened one of the power bars and started eating, while I closed my eyes and tried to do as Roberto taught me and focus on one sound at a time. Cool, I thought to myself. I think I could hear an owl hooting in the distance. I wondered if it would be possible to hear Roberto on his hunt. Out loud I said, "Ummm, I wonder if that's even ethical." I jumped out of my skin when a strange voice answered,
"Don't care nothin' about ethical. I prefer my women immoral."
I opened my eyes and my heart stopped when I looked into a pair of red glowing eyes.
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I opened my mouth to scream my head off and he clamped a hand over my mouth. It was hard to make out any features on him because you couldn't focus on anything other than the red glowing eyes. He reached into his jacket and took out a cloth of some sort and tied it around my mouth. There went any hope of screaming for Roberto. I got an impression he was tall as he bent over and picked me up because it seemed that I was pretty high up in the air when he hoisted me over his shoulder like a freaking sack of potatoes.
He began walking away from the stream at an easy pace. I could only hope Roberto came back early and when he didn't see me he'd start tracking us. All I knew was that DAMNIT I was getting really tired of getting kidnapped. I tried to wiggle hoping maybe he'd drop me and I could make a run for it. I knew the likelihood was almost nil but I was desperate. I stopped wiggling when he put a hand on my wiggling behind and began to rub and make some grunts that kind of scared me. He moved his other hand down and I so didn't want to know what he was doing. We were walking for a while when he stopped and dumped me into a boat. Since my hands weren't tied, I scrambled at the bottom of the boat to find something to hit him with.
I felt something that felt like a paddle and grabbed it, stood up and swung with all of my might.
The creature caught it in with his hand. "So you fancy a game of cricket, do you? Or maybe you like to play rough. Were you a bad girl?"
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He laughed when I sat back down fast.
"No, well don't worry luv, I'm not into that." He looked at me with a serious expression. "That is unless you are because I've never had a Sensay before and ummm, I'm not sure what will get your juices flowing so to speak and it's been a while since I had a woman that just about anything will get my juices flowing right now."
He came closer and as he did the moonlight struck his face and I sucked in a deep breath because he was gorgeous. He had long dark hair that hung in his face, giving him a dangerous look, high cheekbones, a chin that was chiseled out of marble and a full pouty lower lip. He had to stand close to seven feet. He was wearing jeans and a bulky coat, despite the rather warm evening. The only thing that distracted from his good looks was those eerie red eyes. He reached down and pulled up a rope and knelt down in front of me. "I wish I didn't have to tie you up but I don't think I can trust you to stay put. But maybe you like being tied up. You are a Sensay after all. The legends say that you go wild when you're excited."
He grabbed my arms and swung me
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