Roses and Revenants: A Dark Paranormal Reverse Harem Romance (The House of Mirrors Book 1) by Cate Corvin

Author:Cate Corvin [Corvin, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

The celebration that night was raucous as Morena accepted the mantle of full-blooded witch of Bell coven, her journeyman apprenticeship complete. She disappeared under a crush of her peers until Joss lifted her up on his shoulder. Even Sophia and Samara embraced her carefully with soft words of congratulations. The older girls had passed their own apprenticeships a year before her.

Bell, Black, Thorne, and even Wolfe had joined to celebrate the newest addition to witchkind’s professional ranks. Vivienne Wolfe watched her with gleaming gimlet eyes, a circle of pearls crowning her perfectly-coiffed bun of silver hair as she studied Morena with approval.

John Bell raised a toast to his daughter, his black eyes sparkling. “To the latest and greatest of our coven, Morena Rose Bell,” he said. She downed her rosé champagne, laughing as Joss’s jokes grew dirtier while they got drunker.

The moon was full overhead when she stepped out into the gardens and let the noise ebb away behind her. Champagne sparkled through her veins as she breathed deeply, the night air thick with jasmine. There was only one more thing that could make this night completely perfect.

As though her own thoughts had summoned him, her dark protector stepped into the still night with her. Morena smiled, turning just so the light caught her ink-black hair and the shining scarlet of her clinging silk dress.

“I needed to breathe,” she said. “It’s not easy being the latest and greatest.”

Eric looked down at her, his eyes crinkled. “Well, you’ve lived up to everybody’s expectations. They said you beat Rosalind’s time.”

Morena shrugged. “The exam was easy. The spirit got its fangs caught in my boot.”

Eric laughed quietly and she bit her lip as he brushed against her, her heart thrumming in her chest like a bird. “Will you walk with me?” she asked. “I just need a moment to collect myself.”

Ever the guardian, he nodded, keeping pace alongside her as she drifted towards the gazing pond. The manor fell behind them, the warmth of the torches giving way to the cool and heady moonlight. The darkness and silence of the night fell around them like a curtain, concealing them in their own secret world.

She stopped at the edge of the water and gazed up at Eric, the moment between them as fine and sharp as the edge of a knife. Every angle of his face, the deep smolder in his eyes were hers, a face she knew as well as the mirror. His arms would always catch her, no matter how far she fell. He would always hold her candle.

She reached up, clasping her hands behind his neck, his long, thick hair curling around her fingers. “Morena,” he said. His entire body was still, as hard as marble as she leaned against him, rising to her tiptoes and pulling him down to kiss her-

His hands clasped around her arms, pulling her away. “Don’t,” he said, his voice flat and hard. Morena froze, watching the moonlight reflected in his eyes. They were wide with alarm, his arms an implacable obstacle.

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