Even so, with such clamoring for your death, only good report from the Rebel Academy will save you.
Do not forget why you’re paying penance. If I must live with the grief of your treason, then so must you.
Your King
Willoughby dropped to his knees, as the words faded. His breathing was ragged like he was battling tears. But the Ice Prince didn’t do anything as mundane as cry, surely?
“Huh, just bask in that brotherly love,” Sleipnir drawled. His fists clenched. “Your king is a dick.”
I crouched next to Willoughby, sparkling my magic soothingly across his skin, until he raised his head to look at me. “It wasn’t hollow sentiment. I don’t care what you did before, or do you judge me on being the witch whose wards trap you?”
“You should care.” Willoughby’s voice was raspy with suppressed tears, as he gripped me by the shoulders. His gaze met Lysander’s. “Are you happy now that I’ve been revealed as the monster who you’ve always believed me to be?” He shoved me away, before stalking to the door, swinging it open. His voice was small. “Stay away from me.”
“I suggest that this means the Immortals won today.” My voice was unsteady, but I forced out the words like toads. “After all, the elf has forfeited by attempting to leave.”
Willoughby froze, before shooting a guilty glance over his shoulder at Midnight. Yet when I studied Fox’s curls and the whipping boy outfit that matched the one Robin had been made to wear, I knew that this class was Strategy, and I’d just won.
When the prize was Fox’s life, I’d play the war game.
Damelza’s grin fizzed with malicious delight, as she linked our arms like we were now best friends. I wanted to hurl.
Was there such a thing as Witch Sickness?
“Excellently played. Whatever you claim, you are a Crow. If only you hadn’t fallen in silly love, you’d have made the most brilliant Blessedly Charmed witch. Our House would’ve been the envy of every coven. Well, there’s no good crying over spilled magic.” She waved at Ezekiel. “Today is won by the Immortals.” I looked down, trying to hide my grin. Fox wouldn’t die. Sweet Hecate, we had one more day to save him… “How exciting! The outcome to the Rebel Cup will be decided on the final day: Torment Thursday.” Then she whispered like she was promising a treat, “Torment Thursday is the most dangerous and thrilling in the contest.”
My mouth tightened. “With a name like that, I’d never have guessed.”
Damelza wrenched away from me, and her expression hardened. “How are you finding this second life? Is it everything that you imagined in those long years trapped as a ghost?”
My breath hitched. Was that a threat?
I glanced at the guys who’d saved, welcomed, and loved me. They’d helped me adapt to a world and sensations that could’ve been strange and frightening, transforming them into the pleasurable and exciting, instead. I’d been dead inside, but now I was alive.
I craved my lovers’ pleasure, and their pleasure fed my craving. I’d never imagined that love or pleasure could feel like this, and I never wished it to end.
I smiled, softly. “I’m a Ghost Witch, and I’ve only just started to live.”
Panic skated across Damelza’s face, before a cool mask settled in its place. She fiddled with the feather behind her ear. “We shall see.” Witches’ tits, that was decidedly a threat. “But now, the Duchess from the Succubi Court is waiting in my study for Crave. It’s time that she inspects you, boy, to make sure that you’re pure and reformed.”
Bask’s eyes widened, and he shook his head. He stumbled backward, but Damelza gripped his arm.
“Please, don’t,” Bask begged.
I might’ve been naïve in my first life, but now that’d been knocked right out of me. Bask was my incubus. I wouldn’t let the succubus who’d broken him and his bond, sending him to this academy, return to inspect and hurt him just like Willoughby’s brother had with his letter. I knew now that I needed all my lovers, and it was their joint pleasure that’d brought me to life. At the start, I hadn’t understood just how much that was true, but this week, the academy had taught me how close I was to each Rebel.
The lessons might be Transfiguration, Warrior Training, or Divination, but in the end, I’d learned to love.
“Why in sweet Hecate’s name would you think us Immortals would let you take our lover?” I raised my brow, as Sleipnir and Fox strode either side of me, and Mist roared in agreement.
“Your second life,” Damelza shrugged. “Shall I copy your mother and burn you? What if I cast the spell to trap you in Hecate’s tree?”
My heartbeat thundered in my ears, and I became dizzy.
The agony of the flames… Then all alone and dark, dark, dark…
All right, I might’ve gone more than a little crazy. But I couldn’t go back to that twilight between veils.
Hecate, no….
Damelza gripped Bask, and he struggled to pull away from her. Yet how could I stop Damelza, when her charm controlled my powers?
At that moment, it didn’t matter if I lost everything for a second time because I couldn’t allow the Duchess to hurt Bask. I’d saved my mage lover from dying today, but the first Rebel whose craving had called to me, summoning me from the portrait had been the one secretly in danger all along.
I wouldn’t let him suffer alone, even if it killed me.
With a burst of magic that I pulled from the air, reaching into the waves of nature, I focused on fading, thread by thread, to invisibility. Crow feathers rained down around Damelza, cocooning both Bask and her in darkness. I wrapped my own magic around hers like ivy, gritting my teeth at the lashing static.
I’d never piggybacked on another witches’ magic before. Would I burn up, flaring into nothing?
Please, let me not be lost (trapped between worlds), forever…
Damelza dematerialised, dragging me along with her. Her magic pulled me too close to Bask, until I pressed against his hard chest. I bit my lip to hold back the scream, as I was electrocuted by her spell.
Then everything went dark.
To Be Continued…
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I caught Prince Willoughby’s mouth with mine, and he pressed me against the wall. I wrapped my legs around his waist.
“Strip, fae,” Sleipnir commanded, grasping Lysander by the neck.
Lysander flushed, and his golden wings flapped. His fingers hesitated over the buttons of his pants. But he wouldn
’t call the bluff first.
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The vampire’s fangs shot out, and I shuddered, as he grazed them along my neck.
“I love you, Violet.” Ash’s pupils were blown, and his gaze was desperate. “I know that you don’t want my protection.” He kissed my neck; his large hands stroked up my spine. “But just once…pretend. I’m not a hero but I could be—"
“I don’t need to pretend.” I caressed Ash’s bare chest, and his wings fluttered.
When my fingers moved towards the waistband of Ash’s jeans, however, his breath hitched.
“How can you touch me?” He rested his head on my shoulder. “When you know what I am?”
“You’re mine.” If Lucifer killed us tonight, at least we died claimed and together. “You’re family and the Brigadier. No one can take that away.”
I’d show Ash just how much I craved to touch.
I pushed open the button on his jeans, and although his breathing became harsh, he didn’t stop me this time.
I slid my hand lower again…
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The werewolf’s lips brushed across mine, and I jolted. “May I caress you…here?”
I nodded, shuddering. He drew circles over my skin, and I heated like he was touching me inside, coiling the pleasure higher.
Lower…please, touch me lower…
When I squirmed to encourage his fingers below the fabric of my ball gown, he chuckled but only continued his maddeningly slow teasing.
“Kiss her neck, prince,” the god ordered; his voice was like winding silk.
The incubus’ eyes sparkled. He was feeding from the order and my pleasure.
My crimson magic burst out, whilst I experienced each of the men’s pulsing, panting pleasure.
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Appendix One: Academy Membership
RANDOMS
Confess — Whipping Boy
Curse — Whipping Boy
IMMORTALS
Crow — Prefect
Crave
Sleipnir
PRINCES
Crown — Prefect
Crush
Appendix Two: Rebels
Randoms
Fox, mage and shifter, Immortals’ whipping boy (Confess)
Midnight, vampire/Fallen angel and Princes’ whipping boy (Curse)
Immortals
Magenta, Ghost Witch of the House of Crows, Immortals Prefect (Crow)
Bask, incubus of the Night lineage (Crave)
Sleipnir, Norse god, son of Loki
Princes
Prince Lysander, Dark Unseelie Fae, Princes’ Prefect (Crown)
Prince Willoughby, Light Elf (Crush)
Appendix Three: Professors in Rebel Academy
WITCHES
Damelza Crow, Head of the House of Crows, Principal, Professor of Memories
Juni Crow, Damelza’s daughter, Tutor of the North Wing and the Princes, Professor of Divination and Hunting
Bacchus, Tutor of the West Wing and the Immortals, Professor of SHP (Spells, Hexes, and Potions)
Henrietta Crow, original Head of the House of Crows and Magenta’s mother, Principal
REBELS WHO SURVIVED AND BECAME PROFESSORS
Ezekiel, Addict Angel, Professor of Warrior Training, Dueling, and Strategy
Prince Ambrose, Seelie Fae, Professor of Shifter and Familiar Training
Appendix Four: Characters
SUPERNATURALS
Loki, God of Mischief, Sleipnir’s father
Andro, clone of Lysander
Serenity, magical Rebel Café
Mist, eight-legged horse created by Magenta, who reflects Sleipnir’s emotions
FAMILIARS
Echo and Flair, Magenta’s twin crow familiars
Pet 9, Pocus, Bacchus’ cat Halfling familiar
SHIFTERS
Glow, Omega werewolf, Fox’s friend in the House of Jewels
Snow, Omega werewolf in the academy, owned by Juni Crow
Marcus, Archduke and dragon shifter
Rayn, dragon shifter
Appendix Five: Witch Covens and Courts
HOUSE OF CROWS
Magenta Crow, Blessedly/Wickedly Charmed
Henrietta Crow, Magenta’s mother and Head of Rebel Academy
Byron Crow, Magenta’s father
Damelza Crow, Principal, Magenta’s descendant
Juni Crow, Damelza’s daughter
HOUSE OF JEWELS
Fox, mage and shifter
Hartley, Fox’s sister
HOUSE OF BLOOD
Lux, Head of the Oxford Covens
Aquilo, mage, Lux’s twin
SUCCUBI COURT
The Duchess, broke her bond to Bask and sent him to academy
FAE COURTS
Prince Titus, Guardian and uncle of Prince Lysander
Prince Lysander, deposed prince
Prince Ambrose, Seelie deposed prince
Prince Ty, Ambrose’s ‘mongrel’ son
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ROSEMARY A JOHNS is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning fantasy author, music fanatic, and paranormal anti-hero addict. She writes sexy angels and werewolves, savage vampires, and epic battles.
Winner of the Silver Award in the National Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Finalist in the IAN Book of the Year Awards. Runner-up in the Best Fantasy Book of the Year, Reality Bites Book Awards. Honorable Mention in the Readers’ Favorite Book Awards.
Shortlisted in the International Rubery Book Awards.
Rosemary is also a traditionally published short story writer. She studied history at Oxford University and ran her own theater company. She’s always been a rebel…
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