Sacrificed (Book Six of the Castle Coven Series): A Witch and Warlock Romance Novel by Hazel Hunter

Author:Hazel Hunter [Hunter, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allure Press
Published: 2015-06-04T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE KNOCKING ON the door was loud and unwelcome. Hailey roused from under Piers’s heavy arm, disentangling her legs from Kieran’s.

They were both awake, but she urged them back to bed while she stomped to the door, dressed only in Piers’s shirt. It came down to her knees, and she reckoned it was enough for anyone who cared to bother them at six in the morning.

“What in the world is it?”

To her surprise, it was Liona at the door, her face grim.

“Sorry to interrupt, but the Castle has visitors from the Magus Corps, and they seem to have brought a demon with them.”

Liona’s bald words felt like buckets of ice water had been dumped down Hailey’s spine.

“They can’t have!”

“They most certainly can. Get your men up. I figured it was better me coming for you than the Magus Corps themselves.”

Hailey thanked her friend hastily. Kieran and Piers, aware of her distress, were up, and she explained what Liona had said. Kieran in particular looked a little pale, but Piers looked positively thunderous.

“The Castle is not a Magus Corps holding. They have no right to bring danger within these walls.”

All three of them dressed hurriedly, and in less than a quarter of an hour, they were down in the training field where two Magus Corps officers and a man looped in chains were waiting.

Hailey couldn’t take her eyes off of the man who was chained. He wore nothing but a tattered loincloth. She could see the way his muscles bulged unnaturally, and how spurs of bone jutted from his elbows and his knees. The skin of his feet was thickened until it resembled horn. Every few moments, he let out a great gust of air, as if he could not breathe. He kept his face down, his hair running down around it, but she could occasionally see a maddened glimpse of a reddened eye. She could tell that he had been beaten badly. He crouched on the ground, and though he would growl if anyone came close, she could see that he ached with violence.

There were two Magus Corps officers with him. To Hailey’s surprise, she recognized one of them.

“Stephan?”

She had met Stephan when she first came to the Castle. During time off, he had come to take advantage of the Castle’s workshop resources. Though he was a major, the same rank as Kieran, he was as skinny as a rail with a mop of brown hair. His rank came from his skills at creating magical devices, things that could turn the tide of a battle or detect a hint of magical talent in a recently awakened witch. With his slender frame, Stephan made an unlikely warrior, and he looked unhappy to be there.

“Hey, Hailey. Wish we could be meeting under better circumstances.”

The man standing next to Stephan made a sound that was remarkably like a growl. He was a bear of a man, only a hair smaller than Kieran. His hair and cropped beard were iron gray, and his gaze wandered over the group contemptuously.

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