Witch Hunter by Holmes Steffanie

Author:Holmes, Steffanie [Holmes, Steffanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780473334192
Amazon: B010QW8EEK
Goodreads: 26806241
Publisher: Bacchanalia House
Published: 2015-09-20T07:00:00+00:00

Ulrich

I ascended the jail steps two at a time, desperate to escape that cold place, although what I really wanted to do was escape the truth that had just been revealed to me. Ada’s voice pleaded with me over my shoulder, but I closed my ears. My chest felt as if someone were squeezing it in a vice, the muscles clenched tight, never to move again.

Ada is a witch.

A real witch. She even freely admitted it, as if it were an honorific title, like Lord or Lady or Master. I’d had many women in my chamber before, all of them quaking with fear at the sight of the torture devices, but not a single one had ever admitted to being a witch.

Of course, it would be Ada, the only woman I’d ever met who made me feel like I didn’t want to be alone. Of course she would be a witch, and she would do something as unnatural as create fire from thin air.

But that’s exactly why you feel like this, my father’s voice screamed in my head. She’s hexed you with a love spell, and you were weak enough to fall for it. You were always a weak man, Ulrich.

I couldn’t go back into the torture chamber, not with the memory of her writhing against my cock still fresh in my mind. I couldn’t go outside, for I would be mobbed by the villagers, wanting to know if I had elicited a confession … which I guess I had done.

I lifted my hand to my mouth. The scent of her was still on my fingers. I felt sick. I needed to cleanse myself, to drown my disbelief in alcohol.

Witches are real. And Ada is one of them.

I’d spent my entire life certain that witches were a myth, a fairy-tale told to scare children into behaving and Christians into tithing. But I had seen her light that candle. And that one, tiny flame had altered everything.

I dashed into the chamber and grabbed my clothes, pulling on my breeches, tunic and cloak in the stairwell so I didn’t have to stay in a space that still smelled like Ada. I neared the top of the stairs and pressed my ear against the door to the hall. I could hear voices on the other side. Elder Ernust was holding court, loudly discussing arrangements for Ada’s trial. The last thing I wanted to do was to get caught up in his plans.

My chamber. The Elders had given Tjard and I a small cabin at the rear of the hall to use for our lodgings. The roof leaked and a family of rats had taken up residence beneath the bunks, but at least I could be alone there.

I pushed open the door and stepped into the hall, setting my mouth into a grim line, an expression that said, don’t speak with me. The hall was filled with the village elders, who would act as jurists or beadles at Ada’s trial. I elbowed my way through the crowd, shoving one old man so hard he fell over a chair and crashed to the ground.

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