Sophie's Seduction (5 page)

They spent what felt like hours preparing her and bringing her up to an orgasm just to stop and then let her settle down
. Both of them whispered they wanted to be in her when she came again. She shivered at the thought of them filling her with their seed.

Finally, Cade pushed her forward a little and Jackson held her still while Cade lined himself up to fill her backside
. She took a deep breath when she felt the pressure against her little hole and then let it out slowly while he entered her. Jackson praised her in a soft voice and told her to push back a little, to open her up.  She did as he asked and she felt him slid inside her smoothly. She was stuffed full. There was no other way to explain it.

Once she felt that he was fully seated inside her
, she cried out, “Someone move, please.”

“With pleasure
,” Jackson said and then held her hips while he pulled out slowly, running his cock against Cade's and creating a friction that almost sent her through the roof.

They established a rhythm
.  One pulling out while the other pushed in. She felt the tingling again in her toes and fingers when her orgasm started to build. “Oh shit,” she cried and the men began to move in earnest.

They pumped in and out of her while she thrashed her head around trying to grasp the feelings she was having
. It was overwhelming. Finally, Jackson yelled to Cade that he was ready and she felt someone touch her swollen clit and she screamed her release.  She collapsed down on Jackson while Cade fell to the side sliding out of her now sensitive ass. He rubbed her back as she tried to catch her breath, feeling safe and loved for the first time in her life. Sophie sighed deeply and then let the heaviness of her limbs flow over the rest of her as it pulled her into a deep sleep.

Sophie woke to find both men gone
.  She searched the suite and realized they were out of the hotel somewhere, so she took a quick shower and then headed out.  She had wanted to go to Bourbon Street and check out some of the shops she had seen the day before.  The sun was blazing as she stepped out onto the street and she was glad she had put on sunscreen before she left.  She slid her sunglasses on her face and began to stroll down to Bourbon.  She thought she might run into the men on her way, but she didn't see either of them.

She stopped at one outdoor shop that had jewelry for sale
.  She found a pair of earrings she knew Jasmine would like and purchased them after haggling over the price with the vendor.  Just as she turned to continue on, she felt a hand on her arm and she turned to find an old woman standing beside her.  The woman was dressed in gypsy garb, down to the bangle bracelets on her wrists to her long peasant skirt. 

"Be careful, bebe
.  Dey be watchin' you," the woman said in a gravelly voice.

"Who is?" Sophie asked confused
. 

The woman's eyes had a far off look and she said, "Beware of the bad comin', you gonna need those men of yours to live, keep 'em close."

"Who are you? What are you trying to tell me?" Sophie asked, getting upset with the woman's cryptic words.

"I am Mother Eileen and I see all."
The old woman pointed to a sign that said, 'Mother Eileen's: Psychic Readings'.

"Ah, I see
.  I don't really want a reading, thank you," Sophie told her as she began to walk away.

"Child, you don't understand
.  Da Hunters are comin'," Mother Eileen said urgently to her.

"Hunters?
How do you know about them?" Sophie asked her sharply, feeling the hair on her back of her neck stand up.

"You need to stay by your men, they will keep you safe
.  If you run, run to the woods." Mother Eileen turned and disappeared into the crowds that were now on the street checking out the various vendors. 

Sophie frowned as she thought over what Mother Eileen had said as she continued on her way
down the street.  She continued to look at the various vendors and then she spotted one that had paintings of animals.  She knew the Otherkin could change into anything they wanted to but she also knew Jackson's favorite form was a cougar and Cade's was a wolf.  She immediately saw a large, black wolf that was beautiful.  It was majestic standing at the base of a set of mountains, it stood tall, looking out over all it surveyed. 

"See something you like?"
the man sitting on a stool with the paintings asked.

"Are you the artist?" Sophie asked him.

He nodded as he stood and joined her to look again at the painting.  "Yes."

"They are all very beautiful
," she told him.

"Thank you
.  I love doing them.  I go out into the environment and paint them from memory," he said as he pointed to the wolf.  "He was one of my favorites, but he seemed so lonely out there all by himself."

"He also seems to rule over all he surveys
," Sophie said wryly.

The artist laughed
.  "Yeah, he did seem to be very arrogant."

"How much do you want for it?"
she asked.  "And would you be able to add something to it?"

They haggled over
the change and prices for a while, but the artist relented and met her offer with a nod of agreement.  She was arranging to come back and pick it up but he offered to drop it off at her hotel.  She thanked him for his kindness and then headed on down the street.  She stopped to buy a drink at a cafe, deciding to sit outside and do some people watching.  She enjoyed looking at all the people go about their lives, shopping and laughing together. 

A man came up the sidewalk and something caught her attention
.  He had on a white tank top with tattoos up and down both arms.  Sophie had always had a fascination with tattoos but never having the nerve to get her own.  He walked up and ordered a coffee from the waitress outside right where Sophie was sitting.  She continued to look over and admire his tattoos when she saw him reach for his coffee.  Her heart slammed in her chest as she saw on his left hand, the skin between his thumb and forefinger.  There was a perfect tattoo of the symbol in which she knew represented the Hunters. 

The man turned and began to head away from her
.  She reached into her bag to grab her cell phone and realized she had never plugged it in to charge the night before so it was dead.  She couldn't contact the hotel or the guys to let them know.  She made a spur of the moment decision to follow the man.  She had to get the answers she was seeking.  For her and for Jasmine.  That was why she had come here, wasn't it?

****

Jackson and Cade had gotten a call from one of their contacts early that morning.  The quietly snuck out, knowing they would be back before Sophie woke.  It seemed that time was not on their side.  Their meeting ran long as their contact was delayed, but they had gotten some interesting information from him. He was a former law enforcement agent in the county and knew about a group of people who lived off by themselves.  He told Jackson and Cade they seemed to be really odd in they had the exact tattoos in the same place.

He had a picture of the tattoo and told them that each person in
the group had it between their thumb and forefinger on their left hands.  He also told them they didn't like anyone on their land, even had guards to watch the perimeter.  They seemed to be fanatics but never caused any trouble, at least as far as the police were concerned.  Jackson and Cade wanted to get a better look at this group.  Their contact had given them a map and shown them where they were located.

By the time they had finished with the meeting, the men knew they were in trouble with Sophie and she would be up by the time they got back
.  As they entered the hotel room, Jackson called out to her.

"Soph?
Sorry, we ran late at a meeting," he said as they sat the information they had gotten down on the coffee table.  When they didn't get a response, they exchanged a look or curiosity and then Cade went into the bedroom, hoping she was still asleep.

Cade came back out almost immediately and said, "Jackson, she's not there."

Both men searched the entire suite and found no Sophie.  They decided to go downstairs and see the front desk clerk, maybe someone knew where she went.  Jackson decided to do a quick search of the workout room and the pool while Cade questioned the front desk.

When they met back up, Cade said, "The front desk clerk saw her leave about thirty minutes ago
.  She turned like she was heading to Bourbon Street."

Jackson nodded and said, "Then let's head that way
.  I tried her cell when I didn't see her and got her voicemail immediately.  I hope it's just because her phone is dead."

They headed out of the hotel and
walked toward Bourbon Street, looking for Sophie.

****

Sophie ran as if her life depended on it, which she felt it did.  Someone had grabbed her as she had followed the man with the tattoo.  She didn't remember how or what happened but woke to find herself in a locked room alone.  She had escaped and was now running for her life in the woods, just like Mother Eileen had said.  She heard cars in front of her and hoped it was a highway of sorts.

Sophie burst through a copse of trees and saw with dismay there was no highway
.  She had come upon another farm out in the middle of nowhere.  Her head swiveled from side to side as she tried to figure out where to hide.  The people behind her were catching up and she didn't have much time.

A flash of white caught her attention, she was stunned to see a young woman hanging out laundry behind the house that sat on the property
.  Sophie took the chance and sprinted in the young woman's direction, waving her arms.

"Help me!
Help me, please!" Sophie screamed as she approached the young woman.

The woman sat down the laundry she was working to hang and ran to Sophie
.  "My lands, what has happened to you?"

"Help me, they are right behind me
.  I need to hide," Sophie pleaded. 

The woman looked behind her, then back to Sophie and said, "Come with me."

They hurried across the yard to a barn and the woman ushered Sophie inside.  "Stay quiet.  I can hide you back here."

Sophie followed the woman to the back stall in the barn and the woman reached into the hay scattered on the floor
.  She pulled up a hidden door in the floor and indicated for Sophie to climb down into it.  Sophie had no other choice but to pray this woman was helping her and not part of whatever group of people had taken her to begin with.  She climbed down into the dark crawl space, which surprisingly opened up into a small room. 

The young woman leaned down into the space
and said, "Don't worry, they won't find you here.  Stay quiet.  I'll come back when it's clear." She handed down a small flashlight to Sophie.

Sophie looked into the woman's eyes
as she took the light and said, "Thank you." Her words were filled with emotion and her eyes filled with grateful tears.

The woman smiled softly at her and then closed the trap door
.  Sophie heard rustling above her and some small bits of hay fell down through the cracks.  She knew the woman was covering the door up with the hay again.  She prayed this would work, she didn't want to these people to get her again. 

****

The men burst through the trees and into the yard.  There were around five of them, all from the Family, she noted as they saw her and approached her.  Rochelle acted like it was another day in paradise out in the middle of nowhere.  She really wished she could get away from the farm and everything else that was happening.  She didn't believe like the rest of them did.  She believed in 'to each his own' and not interfering in other's lives, making judgments wasn't for her to do—that was for a higher power. 

"Rochelle, you seen anybody come through here?"
one of the men asked as he grabbed her by the arm.

She jerked her arm out of the man's grasp and said, "No I haven't
.  Why would anyone be around here? Dad's gone to market today."

The man narrowed his eyes at her
.  "Girl, you best be tellin' us the truth."

"Let her be, Bo
.  She didn't see nothin'," one of the other guys said to him.

Bo looked back at Rochelle
.  "If'n you do see somthin', you holler."

Rochelle nodded to him and the men took off again, heading back into the woods
.  She continued to act as if it was an average day and finished hanging the washing.  She didn't know who the woman in the barn was, but she knew the woman was in deep trouble if Bo and his men were looking for her.

She took her empty basket back into the house and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge, then headed out to the barn
.  She looked carefully around before she went inside and headed to the trap door. 

As she reached down to open it, she said, "It's just me
.  It's all clear."

The woman came out of the hiding spot and said, "Are they gone?"

Rochelle nodded.  "Yeah, they asked me if I'd seen anyone and then they left.  It's safe for now.  Let's just hope they don't get the dogs."

"Dogs?
Oh God help me." Sophie sat down on an upturned bucket.

Rochelle put her hand on the woman's shoulder and said, "Don't worry
.  I will help you get out of here.  I'm Rochelle, by the way."

"I'm Sophie
.  Thank you, Rochelle, for helping me," Sophie said and then clasped Rochelle's hand in hers.  "I was so scared."

"What happened?" Rochelle asked
. 

"I was on Bourbon Street
.  I saw a guy with a funny tattoo on his hand.  I was curious and followed him.  The next thing I know, I'mwaking up in a room with the door locked," Sophie told her.

Rochelle's eyes widened
.  "What did you do?"

"I got out through the window in the bathroom and ran here
," Sophie said.

Rochelle sighed and said, "Did the tattoo look like this?"
She showed Sophie her left hand.

Sophie began to back away from Rochelle
.  "Please don't hurt me."

Rochelle put both her hands out in front of her and said, "No, please, I won't, I promise
.  I am not like them.  I swear."

Sophie was wary but had no choice but to believe Rochelle
.  "Okay.  How is it you have one?"

Rochelle looked down at the floor
.  "I was born here.  My family has always been a part of the Hunters." Her eyes shot up to plead with Sophie.  "I do not believe as they do, but I was brought up being taught their beliefs."