Enchanted by Jason Halstead

Author:Jason Halstead
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: wizard, warlock, succubus, imp, demon, contract, mind control, kroth
Publisher: Novel Concept Publishing LLC
Published: 2020-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

John stood on the fo'c'sle with Red and peered over the waves. The wind tugged at the recently shortened sleeves of his robe, baring the hilt of the dagger on his arm from time to time and cooling him from the sun's warmth.

"How's the hand?" the captain of the Red Witch asked.

John flexed it and nodded. "Good. Cramps a bit if I use it too much."

"Right hand? Well, good thing you've got Steff and my sister. You don't need to use your hand."

John sputtered a moment before saying, "News travels fast on a ship."

Red winked at him and pointed off the bow. "See there, that's the Sunset Isles on the horizon. We'll be long before morning, but I won't take us in until after Dawn. No good maps of the isles, or at least nothing in the past hundred years."

"Because of Billy the One Eyed?" John asked. "According to the legends?"

She nodded. "Aye. And speaking of old one-eye, is it true?"

"Um, is what true?" John asked.

"What they say about you?"

"I've got two eyes..." John answered and shook his head. "I don't understand."

"For a mage you're awfully daft. I meant that spitting snake you've got down there. Is it as big as they say it is?"

He rolled his eyes. "Not that big," John said. "If I were too big then I'd need to seek out ogres and giants for lovers."

She grimaced. "That'd be a sight. One I think I'd rather not see, come to think on it."

John smirked. "One I'd not be a part of!"

Silence stretched a moment before she asked, "And my sister and second mate? They're all smiles and giggles since you took them in their yesterday. Steff doesn't giggle, she's mean and nasty. A foul-tempered bitch that keeps my crew in line. Except lately she's all but playing with butterflies. I have expect her to show up on deck in a dress with flowers in her bonnet."

John chose his words carefully, "Sounds like she needed a good time and a chance to let her hair down... not that she has much."

"More like she needed to be reassured Little Red hadn't snatched you away from her," Red ventured. "The two of them was tight. My sister was crew, all the same, but she was the Captain's sister too. Plus she is who she is. That girl gets something in her head and she sees it through no matter what she's told. She saw something in Steff and kept at her until Steff let her in. They been tied at the hip since... at least until you showed up."

"I never meant—"

She waved him silent. "After what you three done this morning it seems they're back together again. All wrung out though, when will they wake up?"

"They'll be awake in the morning and feeling fine," John argued. "But don't worry, they're not together... Well, they kissed once, but only because I told Steff to do it and Little Red was—"

Red spun on him. "I didn't meant together like that! What's this then? Don't tell me Mare's got my curse?"

John swallowed.

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