He grinned and moved to kiss my ear, laughing at the delight of something unexpected. Thankfully, he couldn’t see my face, for I shut my eyes as I reached down to grab him, dreading the sensation. I opened my eyes and rolled them as I latched on. I found very little to grab. No wonder he felt the need to overcompensate in the way he moved and talked. There was no way he didn’t feel a little self-conscious about all that didn’t hang between his legs.
He groaned, and his entire stomach clenched as I stroked him. I concentrated all my energy toward the door, trying to calculate just how quickly I could reach it. As he moaned louder, I knew I would have no chance if I allowed him to finish. I slowed my pace to torture him before following through with my plan.
He reacted as I expected, and he rocked against me when I slowed.
“Doona stop, lass.”
“Okay.” Reaching down with my other hand, I picked up my pace once again and counted to three under my breath. At three, I yanked on his testicles with one hand and his shaft with the other as hard as I could.
Nervous and frightened, I pulled harder than intended and found myself halfway surprised the whole appendage didn’t just fall off in my hand.
I expected him to scream and then roll over on his side in the hopes that he would stay down long enough for me to escape, but my plan worked even better than I imagined. Scream he did, but only for a moment. Then he just turned white and his eyes rolled up into his head as he passed out cold on top of me.
Chapter 13
What on earth was the lass doing, and why didn’t it surprise him that she’d chosen not to wait for him and managed to escape? Baodan just rounded the edge of the pond when he saw her running as fast as she could go into the woods, her red curls bouncing messily out behind her. He’d never seen a woman move so quickly in his entire life.
He called out to her as he approached but, instead of slowing, he watched her pick up her speed as she turned to him.
Worry gripped him, something happened to upset her greatly.
“Come on, Artair, we need to reach her.” The horse sped up as he bid.
*
As soon as I rolled out from under the shockingly un-endowed creep, I grabbed my shoes and Morna’s rock and took off from the castle at full speed. I knew he would send someone after me, but it wouldn’t be Niall himself. I expected he would be out of commission for a while.
It felt good to run, and as the cool evening air hit my lungs, I delighted in the pleasant sting with each breath I took.
I neared the edge of the castle grounds when I saw the horse approaching, but it was too dark for me to tell the rider’s identity. I assumed one of the guards found me. I pushed myself to run faster although I knew I wouldn’t be able to outrun the horse.
Eventually, the horse followed close behind me, and I could clearly hear the voice of its rider. Baodan.
“Mitsy, just who do ye think ye are running from? There’s no one coming after ye.”
I slowed to a jog and then to a walk so that I moved right beside him and the horse. “You are. And there is no way in hell that I am going back inside that castle. If you try to make me, I’ll do the same thing I just did to your scum bag of a brother. Then, I’ll steal your horse so I don’t have to walk all the way to Conall Castle.”
“What?” Panic filled his voice.
I heard him jump off his horse as he rushed to stand in front of me. It forced me to stop and, as I did so, he reached out to grab both of my arms. “Let go,” I demanded.
He did so immediately, but didn’t allow me to move around him.
“Lass, ye must tell me what ye mean. Did he hurt ye? I swear I’ll kill him if he did.”
I wasn’t going to stop until I was far away from McMillan Castle. I didn’t want to talk about it anyway, not tonight. If he wanted to know, he would have to keep travelling right along with me. I’d tell him after I cooled down a little. “Are you going to take me to Conall Castle? And I mean like right now, because I’m not stopping until I’m far away from here.”
“Aye, lass. If ye wish it, we shall ride through the night and rest in the morning but, for God’s sake, tell me what happened to upset ye so.”
He walked backward and was about to trip over a stump, so I stopped for a moment and reached out to grab his hand to steady him. He mistook my reach as a desire to draw him near, and he deftly laced his fingers with mine, stepping forward to pull me into an embrace. “What happened, lass?”
I knew if things had turned out differently with Niall, I would have flinched at Baodan’s touch, but mercifully they hadn’t and I welcomed Baodan’s embrace. He carried no agenda behind it. He worried for me, and held me because it wasn’t in his nature to do otherwise.
I sighed, laying my head against his chest. With the adrenaline rush of earlier subsiding, I suddenly grew tired. “If it’s ok, I don’t want to talk about it right now. If you’ll take me to Conall Castle, I’ll tell you in the morning.”