Knight's War: A Witch Detective Urban Fantasy (Alice Skye series Book 5) by Taylor Aston White

Author:Taylor Aston White
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dark Wolf Publishing
Published: 2021-03-10T22:00:00+00:00

She let out a frustrated breath, irritation causing phantom pains across her chi. Her host was long gone, replaced with the emptiness she had felt for... for as long as she could remember.

“More questions?” she muttered, stroking down Vlad’s naked chest hard enough to leave marks.

He let out a hiss, but didn’t move.

“Tell me, why now?” Vlad asked, jaw clenched. “Why here?” He gestured to the rolling hills in the north of England.

She leaned forward, her lips close enough she could feel his velvet touch. Touch was something she had missed. Intimacy in one’s flesh.

“Do you crave your destiny?” She licked at his lips, but still, he didn’t move.

“Yes,” he growled. “I have dreamt of it.”

“You were born for this, gifted it. And there are those that wish to take it away.”

“I will crush them.”

“Your true self needs to be released. You were not meant for such a mundane life.”

Vlad sucked in a breath, pupils dilated as her nails dug in, drawing blood.

And still, he did not move.

“A life where you have nothing, mean nothing.” She lifted a bloody finger to her lips, painting them in red. “I can give you what you want.” She kissed him, pushing his own blood onto his tongue. “Power.”

“Answer my questions, Pandora,” he snarled, his hand reaching up to curl around her throat.

She laughed, even as he tightened his fist. It mattered not, she could easily find another host. But she liked the red-head, even if her features were slowly changing. Her nose was becoming more narrow, and her ears were taking on a slight point. Was her original image coming through? She didn’t know what she used to look like. She didn’t remember.

“Why now, you ask?” She pulled out his grasp, knowing she could only do so because he allowed her. Or that’s what she would allow him to believe. “Because you needed someone to unlock your power.”

“And that would be you?”

She reached for his pendant, the coin, the seal. The power welcomed her touch, savouring as it tasted her magic. It knew what she could do.

Her memories were broken, taken from her long ago. The magic that created the seals called to her, as if familiar. She suspected the same magic was what took away her memory, and breaking the seals would release those memories. She would know for sure why she was locked away, and who she truly was.

“How do you know this if you don’t remember?”

“I said I have no memory of my life before. But every Fae can feel where the wild magic leaks the strongest, and I have spoken with many those of mine blood.”

“Why do you want to do this?”

“Because…” Another crack as she increased the pressure. “I want my memories, and helping you will release them.”

“So you gain from my ascension,” he sniggered. “Which means you need me.”

She tightened her smile.

Patience, she told herself. She needed her memories, and only then could she become whole again.

So for now, she did indeed need him.

“Do it. I’m ready.” Sweat dripped down his face as she pressed one more time, pushing her limited power into the cracks.

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