In His Pocket: The Arcanist's Ward (Mystic Sins of the Regency Book 1) by California Dawes

Author:California Dawes [Dawes, California]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-20T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Christopher Windham spent a long and torturous night alone in the library of Crossfox Hall. He declined to come down to dinner, sending his butler only to go fetch him a good bottle of wine from the wine cellar, which he drank the entirety of whilst poring over tome after tome hoping to find some hint as to the amulet’s provenance.

“The blasted thing was probably created by the Devil himself, just to torture good people,” he muttered as he snapped another book shut and tossed it onto the mounting pile of dead-ends. If he could only find the source of the amulet and the bangle, he might be able to work out a way to break the enchantment for good and render each nothing more than mere ornamental baubles. Then Verity could certainly keep both, for all the good they would do her.

Christopher wondered at the strength of his feelings on the subject. And he felt an utter fool, a sensation that he was otherwise more or less a stranger to. What had he been thinking? He should never have used the amulet with her in the first place.

The first time was relatively innocent enough, to be sure. A sweet touch of chaste skin, a tender phantom closeness, all with the intention of bringing them closer together, of becoming something more. But the second time, there had been no mistaking the deviant, animalic lust that had overtaken him. When he felt her unseen lips part for him, when he felt her warm tongue lapping at his firm prick, it was like no encounter he had ever experienced before. She had felt otherworldly and when he reached his climax, he felt her swallow every drop of his seed as eagerly and dutifully as though she were his loving wife. That was when he knew: there would never be any freedom from his unnatural urges. His craving to have her collared and obedient and begging him for more.

Christopher had been filled from that moment on with an unrelenting need for his ward. He wanted to bind her to him forever, he wanted to take her whenever and wherever he felt like it. She made him feel not like a simple merchant of magical goods, but as powerful and content as a king in his castle. She was made to be his queen. His.

Which is why he knew it was better for the both of them that he steer them away from this path. His desires for her were dark, unnatural, and borderline obsessive. He very much doubted that a stunning young creature like Verity would be happy with a lifetime collared to her husband’s lusts. Better to nip it in the bud now than to allow a dark and tainted rose to bloom.

But damned if the sweet baggage had not bewitched him! Christopher doubled back and considered that a moment. Had she bewitched him? But no, the reports from the boarding school indicated no magical aptitude on Verity’s part, and he had exhibited none of the telltale symptoms of a typical love curse.

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