Blood and Magick (The Witch's Monsters Book 4) by Sarah Piper

Author:Sarah Piper [Piper, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Two Gnomes Media
Published: 2022-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

22

HALEY

Harder,” Jax demanded.

“I… I can’t. I can’t take another minute of this… this pounding,” I panted, sweat burning my eyes. “It’s too much. You’re… too much.”

“Your excuses are too much. And frankly, I’m tired of them. You think you can take on the Army of the Dead? Melantha? You can barely throw a punch.”

“Jax, I—”

“Hit me,” he said. “Fucking harder, Haley. Do it.”

Frustration surged. My fist rocketed into his face, but he dodged at the last second and my punch glanced off his rock-hard jaw.

“Close, but not close enough, angel,” Jax taunted. “You need to give me more.”

Watching from the sidelines beneath a gnarled, leafless tree, Hudson growled in warning. But my gargoyle had learned his lesson about interfering an hour ago, when he’d swept into the clearing and stolen me away from my ruthless trainer and the two of them nearly came to blows over their differing opinions on what constituted training and what constituted torture.

At the moment, wincing over my bleeding knuckles and the arms that now felt like overcooked lasagna noodles, I wasn’t sure where I stood on the matter.

It’d been three nights since the fae had refused our alliance. Three nights since Evander left us. Left me.

My thighs still burned from those wild hours we’d spent in the cave, and every time I took a step now, I felt him inside me again, stretching me, claiming me, grinding my body into the stones beneath us, the very act calling up that ancient, primal magick that still simmered in my veins.

At some point, I’d fallen asleep, curled up in his protective embrace before the fire. But by the time I’d awoken a few hours later, he was gone. No goodbyes. No promises about when I’d see him again, if at all.

Evander, our captor-turned-friend. The brother of my first love. A dark fae who’d somehow slipped into my heart deeply enough to kindle the same sort of feelings inside me as the others… And in the end, he’d left, just like he’d told me he would.

I didn’t know whether he’d gone to rally Keradoc’s old generals, or whether anything I’d said about uniting the rebels had gotten through to him. I just knew that he was gone, and I missed him in a way I hadn’t seen coming—a new hollow in my heart, right next to the one that belonged to his twin brother.

The guys and I had hiked our way down the mountain after that, setting up camp in the forested area that bordered the base of the Razorbacks, slowly making our way back toward Amaranth City. Since our descent, I’d spent my nights alternating between sparring with Jax, keeping Hudson company on his perimeter checks, and spilling my blood in a vain attempt to conjure another spell for Elian. With each passing hour, my magick was getting stronger, my spells more responsive… but nothing seemed to work.

I hadn’t felt Elian’s presence since that night with Melantha. Not even a flicker of those silver eyes or the barest whiff of his bergamot-and-rain scent.

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