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It’s been a couple of weeks. Why should he want to talk about it now? Actually, he’s a pirate—why should he want to talk about it at all?
“What exactly do you have to say?” I ask, curious as ever.
Riden says nothing. I can see him searching for the words, but nothing will come to him.
“Here is all that needs to be said,” I say. “I’m a prisoner on this ship. I’m also the only woman on the ship. You got a little lonely, and I got a little crazy. That’s it. It was stupid, but it’s over, so let’s move on.”
Should I ram him into the wall? He’ll be knocked unconscious like Draxen, but if he sees me do that, he’ll beverysuspicious when he wakes. How many women have the strength to do something like that? Riden already knows something is off about me. What if he guesses?
Paranoia must be setting in. I need more sleep.
“I don’t think so.”
“What?” I ask, coming back to the conversation.
Riden knows I heard him, so he doesn’t bother repeating himself.
Has he gotten so used to arguing with me that it’s all he can do? Even when I speak the truth? Why is he so adamantly pressing the matter?
I decide to cheat. Right now my curiosity is more powerful than my revulsion, and I have plenty of time before I lose myself.
I home in on Riden. On his mind and his heart. I can feel his frustration. Both with himself and with me. I just don’t know why. I can sense feelings and desires. But I can’t read minds, helpful as that would be. I never know the whys behind people’s intentions.
All I know is Riden wants to kiss me again. Right now it is his greatest desire, and he can’t hide it from me. I feel it as though it were my own emotion. And though I’m sure it’s merely because he hasn’t had some alone time with a woman in a while, this is most definitely something I can use to my advantage.
Forget knocking him out. I need Riden’s greatest desire to become sleep. Once he’s asleep, I can keep him that way with my song. There’s enough in me for that.
But there’s only one way to change what he wants most. I have to give him the first one, so he will be satisfied and think of something else.
I swallow. For some reason, the thought excites me. Must be the thrill of the game.
So how to start?
“You don’t think so?” I ask. “What do you think happened, then?”
A deep, stormy gray surrounds him. He feels guilty. That’ll be the betrayal to his brother, no doubt. He wants to be assuaged from that guilt. He wants to get what he wants without the consequences that’ll come with it.
Typical pirate.
No responsibility. Just selfish desire.
“I think,” Riden finally says, “there is more here than either of us is willing to admit.”
“More of what?”
His frustration flares, as does the desire. Interesting how they’re tied together. But I can’t hold on to this anymore. Time to let the siren go again.
“What did you do?” he asks.
I quirk an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”
“You… you just changed. You looked off for a moment, but I thought I’d imagined it. Now you look yourself again.”
Nobody has ever been able to tell when I’m using my abilities before. Riden couldn’t have actually noticed the difference, could he?
“Well, Riden, if this conversation has been any indication, you are clearly not at your best. Perhaps you should get some rest.”
“Sleep is the last thing on my mind.”
