Sacrificed (Book Six of the Castle Coven Series): A Witch and Warlock Romance Novel
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CHAPTER TEN
THE WHOLE STORY was pieced together easily enough. After Hailey freed the demon possessed Wiccans, they turned on their Templars with an utter lack of mercy. One of the casualties of the attack was the Templar man with the black hair and the white beard who had almost killed Hailey. She was unsurprised to discover that he was someone that the Magus Corps had been after for some time. The actual hierarchy of the Templars remained a mystery, but he was a man who ranked close to the top.
The people who were rescued from the Templar’s rule were being helped and healed at the Castle, though some of the closer covens had offered to take people as well. There were requests coming in from covens all over the world. People were looking for their friends, their children and their lovers.
Hailey had to talk to some of them. She had to tell some heartbroken people that their loved ones were not among those rescued, but often she could deliver joyful news as well. She still smiled when she heard a woman’s sobs of joy from hearing that her lover was recovered.
Some days later, she finally managed to find the time to go looking for Liona. She felt her heart squeeze a little when she realized that Liona was packing up to return to Rome.
“I have a great deal of work to do after all,” she said. “I’ve been away from Rome for quite some time, and Lucius should be home for at least a while. Perhaps we can convince Asger to come with us.”
“Are you ever going to tell us what you see now that your vision is clear?” asked Hailey plaintively.
Liona turned to her with a smile.
“You have your ending. You, Kieran and Piers walked out of the Shadow Walk Prison whole of heart and soul after freeing a hundred people from the bondage of the Templars.”
“Did we change anything at all?” Hailey wondered.
“The Templars have been dealt a heavy blow. They know that tactic will no longer work. There are now a hundred people in the world who would have been lost to it without you. Some of them are exceedingly powerful witches and warlocks. Others might have an untapped potential in them we cannot see. You have changed the world, dear one, and that is all I will say.”
With that, Hailey had to be content.
She could see a little of it already. Asger had many questions for Kieran about what had happened to the organization he had ruled for almost a century, and the answers did not please him. Hailey wasn’t sure, but she thought it would be very unpleasant to be in the high command of the Magus Corps for a little while.
For herself, she had come to a decision on a very important matter. She didn’t know if it would change the world the same way that Liona said she had done in the Shadow Walk Prison, but she knew that it would change her life forever.
She spoke with Kieran and with Piers about it, and finally, on a full moon just six weeks after their return from the Shadow Walk Prison, Hailey bathed herself thoroughly, dabbing just a touch of musk behind her ears and at her pulse points.
In the dimness of the shower that now belonged to all of them, she asked herself if she was ready. She found the answer was yes.
Stripped to the skin, she entered the bedroom where Piers and Kieran waited for her naked on the bed. There were no power games that night. There was no speech at all. Instead, it was only touch and mouths, moans and sighs.
She thought she would never get enough of them. She would always love the feel of Piers’s hair in her fingers. She would always adore the press of Kieran’s muscled thigh between her legs. Their mouths traveled all over her body, making her gasp and moan. She wasn’t sure whose fingers brought her to her first climax. Her second, she was reasonably certain came from Piers. They loved the taste and feel of her as much as she loved the taste and feel of them.
She was a woman drowning in love and pleasure. She could think of fewer promising beginnings. When she was nearly wrung out from ecstasy, Kieran held up the white silk blindfold.
“Are you sure?” he asked, the first words he had spoken in hours.
Hailey smiled, nodding shyly.
“Completely,” she replied.
The blindfold was knotted over her eyes with tenderness and care. Now she could feel their hands and their mouths and their bodies, but she couldn’t see them at all. In short order, she lost track of who was kissing her and who was lapping at her neck. It was exactly as she had wished.
She reached for them, bringing them so close that they were almost one being. She knew she was ready for what came next.
Hailey felt one man pull her to his chest, holding her so that her back was pillowed against him. As his mouth toyed with her ear, the other man knelt between her legs, spreading her slick folds with his fingers. When she felt the tip of his blunt, bare cock, she whimpered.
The first thrust was so smooth and so sweet her nerves immediately sang. She had climaxed so many times already. She wasn’t sure if she could do more, but here was her body insisting that she could.
“I want you,” she whispered, reaching back to bury her fingers in one of her lovers’ hair.
“I want you,” she whispered, laying her hand on her other lover’s hip.
It was a perfect rhythm that rocked her now. He thrust into her with gentleness and care, his breath roughening as they sped up.
She felt the other man’s hand slide between their sleek bodies, seeking and finding her clit. She could have tried to guess who was who. She didn’t.
The waves of pleasure rolled over her, rising higher and higher with every swell. Her climax broke over her like a spring rain. As she trembled, the man above her groaned, spilling inside her as well. She reveled in the heat and the wetness inside her. The meaning of it, the fact that she was now immortal, was lost to the pleasure and the sweetness of the moment.
Still blindfolded, she was lifted and carried to the shower. Only when all three of them were under the streaming water was the blindfold removed.
“I love you,” she said softly. “I love you.”
Piers and Kieran kissed her softly, murmuring love words in her ear.
We’re home, she thought, joy rising to fill her like an infinite tide. Forever.
THE END
I hope you enjoyed getting to know Hailey, Kieran, and Piers. I’m a little sad to leave them! Though their story has concluded, more romance is on the way in RESCUED: Silver Wood Coven Book One, coming soon.
RESCUED
Silver Wood Coven Book One
Templar Michael Charbon has been watching the young witch for months. Homeless, beautiful, and living in Central Park, she seems to charm everyone she meets. They shower her with kindness, and yet he never witnesses magic. Only when he rescues her from a rapist, does he understand why: Summer has no memory, not even of her real name. Though he barely resists her inexplicable pull on him, he would gladly break his vows to make her his own.
Magus Corps Major Troy Atwater is surprised to hear from Michael. But their long past together puts Michael’s word beyond doubt. Troy collects the beautiful, young witch from the Templar, before her strange attraction drives half of New York wild. A powerful warlock in his own right, Troy manages to veil her seductive appeal, so that he and the coven can help her. But a passionate bond quickly envelopes them that goes far beyond her charms.
For her part, Summer’s head is swimming. With barely a memory, she can hardly comprehend the ancient world of Wiccans and Templars. More than that she finds herself torn between two very different men. But as the extent of her powers reveal themselves and her deadly past returns in painful snippets, she finds that she isn’t meant to be with Michael or Troy. She must have them both.
Excerpt:
RESCUED
Silver Wood Coven Book One
Warmth and the scent of wood smoke surrounded Summer as she opened her eyes and saw a crackling fire. Beneath her was a sinfully soft down comforter spread over a mattress, although she wasn’t in a bed. She was curled on her side, her back pressed into against a broad, hard chest, and a heavy arm circled her waist.
“This is nice,” she murmured, watching the flames through half-closed eyes. “How did I get here?”
“I carried you,” Troy said softly in her ear. “You fainted in my arms, and I couldn’t let you go.” He paused. “You look beautiful in the firelight.”
Summer shifted onto her back so she could see his face. The fire loved him, too, and streaked his thick black hair with glowing gold.
“Is this the curse talking, or you?”
“Me.” His gaze moved all over her face. “Do you remember anything?”
“Floating. Pain. More pain.” She watched him prop himself up on one elbow. “And weirdly-behaving water. That’s all. Did I say anything this time?”
“Nothing that made any sense.” He rested his hand on her belly and rubbed his thumb across the dent of her navel. “Except that I would make a fine mate.”
She’d said that? She felt her cheeks flush. But his hand on her belly was moving insistently, and it made her bold.
“You’d make a fine anything,” she said lowly. Warmth flickered to life beneath his broad palm, as she covered his hand with hers. “I know it’s only been a week, but it’s time to find out now, isn’t it? About us, and how it could be.”
“I already know.” He lifted her hand to his mouth, and pressed his lips to her palm. “Let me show you.”
Troy rolled on top of her, bracing himself with his hands to keep the bulk of his weight off her as he settled his lower body between her thighs. As soon as he dipped his head she met his mouth halfway, her lips parting as she accepted his hungry kiss. He used his wicked tongue to stroke hers, and worked an arm under her to lift her up in a sitting position before his hands got busy unbuttoning her blouse and sliding it down her arms.
“Oh.” She broke their kiss with a gasp as he unclipped her bra and covered her bare breasts with his hands. “You’re fast.”
“I’ve been thinking about this every night since we got here. Believe me, this is slow.” As he stroked his fingers over her nipples he watched her eyes. “It’s a good thing that couch can’t talk, either.”
“Really.” She smiled as she pulled his shirt over his head and dropped it before she ran her hands over his tightly-muscled chest. “If it could, what would it say?”
He leaned forward to whisper against her ear.
“Stop rubbing your cock, and go give it to that beautiful lady in the next room.” He drew her hand down to the thick bulge in his crotch. “She’ll know how to play with it.”
“I can’t really remember.” Summer cupped the heavy length of his erection, squeezing it a little before she reached for the button of his jeans. “Maybe I should do a little hands-on research.”
“Now who’s fast?” Troy teased as he took her hand away and lifted her up to stand with him so he could strip off her jeans and panties.
He hissed in a breath when she leaned closer to rub her curves across his ripped abs. He lowered his head to touch his brow to hers as he cradled her breasts and massaged them. She pressed herself against his erection and slowly gyrated. He hissed again.
“You have a hundred years to stop doing that.”
MORE BOOKS BY HAZEL HUNTER
THE SILVER WOOD COVEN SERIES
Rescued (Silver Wood Coven Book One)
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THE CASTLE COVEN SERIES
Found (Castle Coven Book One)
Abandoned (Castle Coven Book Two)
Healed (Castle Coven Book Three)
Claimed (Castle Coven Book Four)
Imprisoned (Castle Coven Book Five)
Sacrificed (Castle Coven Book Six)
THE MAGUS CORPS SERIES
Dominic (Her Warlock Protector Book 1)
Sebastian (Her Warlock Protector Book 2)
Logan (Her Warlock Protector Book 3)
Colin (Her Warlock Protector Book 4)
Vincent (Her Warlock Protector Book 5)
Jackson (Her Warlock Protector Book 6)
Trent (Her Warlock Protector Book 7)
THE SECOND SIGHT SERIES
Touched (Second Sight Book 1)
Torn (Second Sight Book 2)
Taken (Second Sight Book 3)
Chosen (Second Sight Book 4)
Charmed (Second Sight Book 5)
Changed (Second Sight Book 6)
THE EROTIC EXPEDITION SERIES
Arctic Exposure Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Desert Thirst Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Jungle Fever Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Mountain Wilds Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Island Magic Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
THE ROMANCE IN THE RUINS NOVELS
Words of Love
Labyrinth of Love
Stars of Love
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