Sex With Your Hex by Riley Ashford

Author:Riley Ashford
Format: epub

Chapter Two

One week later…

Victoria and William Brubre were wealthy, class-conscious and vain. Ginger did not want to enter their perfectly white living room or sit on their expensive leather couch or drink herbal tea sweetened with honey.

And yet, here she was…entering, sitting, drinking.

Damn it.

“As you are aware,” she said, “I am required by magical law to use my gift to help any and all who ask. To be honest, I don’t understand why you’ve contacted me. I would think Mage Honorus to be more to your liking.”

“You would be correct,” said Mr. Brubre. His nasal tone held just the right touch of censure. The man was tall and thin with a narrow face and flat, black eyes. She’d always thought of him as the human equivalent of a knife—sharp and deadly. “However, since you are responsible for Nigel abandoning his familial duty, we feel you should be the one to find and return him to us.”

Ginger’s mouth dropped open. “I had nothing to do with your son’s disappearance.”

“Hah!” crowed Mrs. Brubre. She was as tall and thin as her husband. Both wore white robes and the finest gold jewelry money could buy—nearly mirror images of each other. However, Mrs. Brubre’s outfit was livelier than her husband’s. Where he gazed out coldly at the world and everyone in it, she calculated the worth of the people and the objects in her immediate vicinity. Ginger figured she didn’t rate much on Mrs. Brubre’s Scale of Worth.

“He is engaged to Lorette Rhia of the South Rhia Clan. It is an appropriate alliance. You are beneath him.” Mrs. Brubre ground her teeth. “And it appears that is a literal reference.”

“What are you—” Sudden realization hit her like a lead fist. “He was the one at my birthday party? The one who…oh. Oh my Goddess.”

Nigel Brubre had lovingly taken her virginity? She hadn’t recognized him. Not at all. Then again, his older brothers were the ones who grabbed the spotlight. Her heart thumped in her chest. She’d been trying to find out the identity of her mystery lover to no avail. Goddess above! She couldn’t believe she’d spent the night with a Brubre. The Brubres had caused nothing but strife and hardship for her family.

Ah, but Nigel had given her a night of pleasure and of wonder that she would never forget. And now she knew why he had left her without revealing his name. Had he thought she’d attempt to get a marriage proposal from him? Or ask for bucketfuls of money? Fury whipped through her.

“Oh don’t play coy with us, young lady. You knew exactly who you were taking to your bed,” sneered Mrs. Brubre. Her pale cheeks turned an angry red. “And don’t pretend that you don’t know the boy has some idiotic notion of becoming an Ovate.”

Ginger carefully put the china cup onto its matching plate. And she clamped a lid on her temper. One spell, just one…and neither one of you will talk for a week. Truthfully, Nigel seemed sweet and patient and…he’d liked her.

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