Aidan followed Maeve in to the dark night as he recalled his first encounter with the dark witch...
"Are you sure? You looked everywhere?" Aidan pleaded.
"Her belongings are gone. Aidan, I'm so sorry." His mother shook her head in console. She left him to his own thoughts.
Aidan sat down in disbelief. She left. He waited over an hour. The guests left one by one while Aidan waited. She never showed up.
Aidan thought he was alone with his dishearten thoughts when a sugary voice sneered through the silence, "My, my, my, it must hurt. They way that peasant wench just left you like that." Her dark eyes glittered. Aidan recognized the petite, beautifully adorned, women. He glared at her, "Haven't you caused enough trouble already?"
She gleefully laughed as she strolled closer to him. Her eyes locking with his, "Temper, temper. I'm not the one who left you at the altar now was I?" She raised her eyebrow at him while she seductively sat down, "I'm here to chat, that's all."
Aidan eyed her suspiciously. She had turned his best friend in to a hawk after all, "What is that you want?"
"I
just wanted to give my condolences. After all that she put you
through. You must feel...betrayed." He stared at her through stone
cold eyes. She was right though. He hated her. More than this wench
who sat before him, "We both want the same thing don't we? The
girl. She humiliated me as well as you. All I want is revenge. I know
you do too. I can give it to you."
He pondered her motives, "What can I do?"
"Everyone comes home, eventually. I want you to lure her to me when she does," Rumina went in for the kill, "Land? Riches? Name your price. It yours..."
And so Aidan had been indebted to Rumina ever since then. She gave him all that and more. His fortune and land are what put him in good graces with Ceira. Rumina had checked up on Aidan every few months until they became fewer and fewer. Then she stopped showing up completely.
When Maeve first showed up Aidan didn't intend on informing his mistress of anything but when Maeve kissed him he turned his head in a daze and saw Sinbad walking away. She had done it to make the Captain jealous! She was already using him! Aidan became infuriated. He contacted Rumina and informed her of Maeve's return.
