Poison Malice Twisted: A dark fae romance by Steffanie Holmes

Author:Steffanie Holmes [Holmes, Steffanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bacchanalia House
Published: 2021-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

27

Niall

“I’ve got it!” Aisling cried out.

Of course she did. He knew she’d figure it out. She reminded him of Odiana, the way she threw her whole self at a task.

And it didn’t hurt that he’d pointed her in the right direction with some of the spells he’d read in her family grimoires. He wanted to see what she could do, what her family’s power was truly capable of. Her aura shimmered with power – more than he’d seen in a living witch in his entire life – and he wanted to see her use it.

Niall put down the spell book he’d been poring over and leaned across to where Aisling jabbed her finger at a page.

“This says crystals need to be charged by the light of the moon, or their power will diminish over time.” Aisling read the page in excitement. “We never did this. We never even knew you could charge a crystal as if it’s a goddamn battery. No wonder the unit is malfunctioning. But at least this means the solution might be relatively simple. I just need to move the crystals under a window, where they’ll have some exposure to the moon. Hopefully, the recharging will still work through the storm.”

“How will you touch them without getting hurt again?” Niall looked at the red welt on the tip of her index finger, and his stomach twisted with anger. He wanted the bruises on her body to come only from him, to be marks of his possession. Thinking of the crystals hurting her made him want to throw the contraption across the room.

“I figured that out, too. I don’t move the crystals individually. I cast a charm around the whole unit and move it as one.” Aisling made a face, like she couldn’t believe she could do such a thing. “Once the crystals are charged, I should be able to touch them without a problem, and we’ll be back in business.”

Niall leaned over and planted a kiss on her forehead. Her warm skin sizzled under his lips. He placed a finger under her chin, tilting her face up, her lips just an inch from his—

I could do it.

I could kiss her and touch her and glide inside her and make her scream my name until the windows crack.

He wanted her so bad that every waking moment she crawled under his skin, and every night she haunted his dreams. Niall had lived with an empty stomach and thirst drying his throat, but he’d never known hunger like this – hunger that gnawed on his insides, that made him wish he’d been born a stone so he couldn’t feel the pain of being beside her but without her.

And now he’d done it, he’d kissed her hair, felt the softness of the strands whisper against his lips. He’d drowned himself in her fig and apple scent, and her eyes gouged holes in his skin.

Aisling’s eyes widened. “Niall…”

“I know, I know. I’m fae, you’re a witch.” But he couldn’t tear his finger from her chin.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.