Page 4 of Sasquatch's Claiming
Cillian held up his hands in defeat. “All right, all right. I will get to the point. There isn’t much use in bandying words about with you or your brothers. So short-tempered.”
“Get on with it.”
“Your heart’s desire dreams about you. Every night.”
“How do you know this?”
“I know a lot. More than I’m willing to admit. And information can be just as powerful as blood.” Cillian’s eyes flashed red.
“Why watch her?”
“No particular reason. Truth be told, I was watching another and stumbled on her shrouded thoughts. I can see my sister’s, shall we call it, handiwork, anywhere.”
Confusion coursed through him. “How can she dream about me? She doesn’t remember me. Aoife wiped her mind.”
“The subconscious is a tricky beast and Sasquatch pheromone is strong indeed,” Cillian said. “She may not remember you to see your face, but your scent is imprinted into her cells. She reeks of the mate bond and it’s attracting the wrong sort of beasties to her. You need to stake your claim.”
“It’s against the law,” Ben groused.
Cillian shrugged. “And did your brother not break the law by taking Aoife as his? There is a protection spell of blood magic over this realm. Tiene and Ivar cannot penetrate it. Claim your mate.”
Heat and adrenaline rushed through him as he thought of claiming her like he wanted. Planting his seed in her and making her his and his alone. It’s what he wanted from the first moment he tasted her.
“Why are you doing this? What’s in it for you?”
Cillian grinned, his eyes flashing. “That is my secret to keep. I am freely giving you this information to let you know your cherished one is in danger. It’s only a matter of time before another claims her and impregnates her ripening body, and it won’t be the one she wants.”
Before Ben could ask anything else, Cillian melted away into mist. Like he always did, and there was no point in asking him anything else. The fact that Cillian gave him this information freely was a bit worrisome, but Ben had been feeling that she was in danger. Something in his gut was nagging at him, which is why he sat outside her apartment every night.
Ethan came crashing through the brush at that moment, out of breath, his gold eyes wild with excitement.
“What’s wrong?” Ben asked, staring at his brother who looked like he’d been wrestling with a Minotaur or something.
“Just had to get away from that council meeting,” Ethan groaned. “Boring as fuck. Aoife looks like she’s going to throat punch someone.”
Ben chuckled. “That doesn’t explain why you look like you were in a bar fight.”
Ethan grinned. “Oh, I was wrestling Konnor, the Kraken. That guy’s a gas.”
Ben cocked eyebrow. “I thought he had to be in water?”
“They’re in Thunder Bay at the Coraliane’s place. Aoife, Adam, everyone involved in this new realm, and since they’re atThe Lusty Kraken, it allows the water folk to join in.”
“It makes sense since Coraliane is a mermaid. What did Adam think of you wrestling Konnor in the middle of a meeting?”
Ethan snorted. “We snuck out.”
“Thought Konnor was a king. Kind of reckless of him.”
“Konnor does rule the depths of Lake Superior, but even he was bored with all the bureaucracy. So that’s when we started wrestling for fun out on the shoreline.
“So, you were in Thunder Bay too?”
Ethan nodded. “Tried to find you and let you know. You would’ve enjoyed sparring with him.”
Ben sighed. “Well, I’m headed to Thunder Bay now.”
Ethan cocked his head to the side. “Why?”