Tickle My Candy Cane by Linda Mooney

Author:Linda Mooney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, erotic, paranormal, sensuous, romance, witches, Christmas, fantasy
Publisher: Linda Mooney
Published: 2014-11-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Manderly Blakeney stared at the television screen, but he wasn’t watching it. Instead, his sight was turned toward the couple kissing in the kitchen.

Something about Jonathan Mauk bothered him. It wasn’t a feeling he often felt these days, but in the past he had been keenly aware of the same warning signal whenever he was around a certain kind of person. A person who was known as a disbeliever. A person who didn’t and wouldn’t accept the possibility that witches truly existed.

A person who went out of their way to discredit any claims made by a person of the craft.

Getting to his feet, he padded in his socks over to the front window and stared out at the falling snow. Already little piles were gathered on the lights threaded around the picket fence surrounding the front yard. The result was a line of little glowing balls of ice. It made for a very pretty effect. One Emily would have loved to see.

Tight pain twisted in his heart, and Manderly grimaced. No matter how long ago she had died, he would never stop loving her. It was part of the curse of being a tempus witch. Once that lifelong mate was found, there would never be another. Emily was gone from him, and not even his great powers could raise her. Even if he could, he wouldn’t. Death was not to be toyed with because it always won out in the end.

The faint sound of giggling caught his ear. The girls were gathered in Amy’s room, no doubt talking about Tam’s great fortune. Once Mauk left, his firstborn had come back into the den to let him know she would be going over to Jonathan’s trailer tomorrow night where he promised to fix her a sumptuous meal in honor of her birthday. Manderly knew that afterwards Tam would introduce the young man to the sex hex test. He already knew Jonathan would pass. It was predestined. Yet that uneasy feeling simply would not go away. Nor could it be ignored.

However, if there was a glimmer of hope to be felt, it was the knowledge that Jonathan wasn’t a naysayer. That much Manderly could guarantee, because if he was, there would be no way the man would want to be around his daughter, much less lust for her the way he did tonight.

“So why am I getting these little tingly alarms?” Manderly murmured. “Emily, how I wish you were here. How I wish you could share with me in the wonder and beauty of what is happening to our family. Our Tam has found her heart‘s call. Our Kim is carrying our first grandchild. Em… Em…”

With the advent of Kimberly and Rick becoming a couple, Manderly knew the drought had been broken. It would only be a short matter of time before all of the girls would eventually find their prospective mates. Altogether, their search for a lifelong partner would end before next October rolled around. The close spacing was part of being tempus witches, even half witches.

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