The Horned Mage: Books 1-5

by Hayden Harper

  Sable was still shaking her head. “Two types of mortal magic, two types of immortal magic…a balance…well, at least you’re sane, if completely perverse, but maybe that last was a given all things considered.”

  I blushed. Then shook aside my embarrassment. I had nothing to be embarrassed about. Our relationship worked for us and we all loved each other and fuck this woman and whatever she thought about us. There were only three questions that mattered now.

  “What is Graeme? How do I find him? And how do I kill him?”

  “He’s a horned hunter,” Sable replied. “Sometimes called a Green Man or a Huntsmen. They are old fae and very powerful. They’re the ones responsible for the legends surrounding The Wild Hunt as if there were only one. You apparently picked up some of his abilities mixed with your other sires’ all wrapped up in a mortal package.”

  Good to know but not the most useful information. “And the other two?”

  “You can’t kill him. I mean that pretty damn literally—he’s damn near impossible to kill. I know, I’ve been trying for years.”

  “He didn’t take the break up well, did he?” Sarah retorted quietly.

  “Making a pair of demons his wild hunt was great for our experiment but not exactly conducive to his long term sanity,” Sable replied. “The world would be a much better place without any of them in it.”

  “What exactly was your experiment supposed to do?” Eleanor asked, her tone so mild we might have been discussing the weather.

  “To see if we could produce a changeling cambion and if so how powerful would it be?” Sable said. “Honestly they were way more interested in the experiment than I was. I just wanted to learn all the magic from them I could. It gave me a serious edge when I started traveling the world.”

  I must have been one hell of a disappointment then because I certainly wasn’t all that powerful. I was pretty good with what I had, but I was barely a capable mage and had come up against at least two individuals more powerful than me. Frankly speaking, I had a few neat tricks that were pretty handy but only for specific circumstances. I was pretty sure that in a straight up fight, Graeme would kick my ass, whether he had fire powers are not. But I did have a numbers advantage.

  “Screw the experiment,” I said. “If you don’t know how to kill him that sucks but we’re still going after him. How do we find him?” We didn’t have anything by which to track him, which had always been needed for me to use my hunting spell. To…set off my wyld hunt, I guess.

  “You’re in luck,” Sable said. “Since you have four people magically bound to you and this conveniently positioned wellspring of power right here, I’ve a ritual that will link you to him regardless of what dimension he’s in.”

  I blinked and said. “Dimension?”

  At the same time Jadeite said, “We’re not bound together.”

  Sable looked between the two of us and shook her head like we were idiots. If I was reading her right, maybe she thought we were. Not because we were actually stupid, but because she was just that smart. She had, after all, dealt successfully with a seriously old and powerful fae and two demons simultaneously whilst still a teenager and gotten away not just alive, but more powerful. And who knew what all she’d been up to since having me? At first glance she seemed laid back but the more we’d spoken the more I got a sense that this was an ambitious woman and power for the sake of globetrotting didn’t really seem her style.

  “Graeme has gone back to the Summer Lands. It’s where most of the fae dwell, especially when they aren’t here in our realm. Hell’s another dimension but let’s stay focused on our dimension and the Summer Lands for now. You can’t use your hunting magic—if I’m right that you inherited that—to find Graeme because your magic can only function in the dimension you are in. Also, you don’t have anything of his to help your girls catch his scent.

  “I have a ritual that will put you in the Summer Lands and let your magic track him down. But it needs five magically bonded participants and a power source…” She looked purposefully at Jadeite. “Any less and the ritual won’t work. Your stepmother stays Graeme’s prisoner and her baby becomes those demons’ plaything.”

  Chapter Twelve

  Jadeite stormed out of the living room.

  Lexus leapt after her while I continued to sit there, stunned.

  And then I was up and after them. Sarah and Victoria looked like they wanted to follow but stopped themselves in favor of staying with Sable and Eleanor, and maybe to keep an eye on Caroline if she needed any care. I pushed through the backdoor in time to hear the tail end of an argument shift into a shriek.

  Lexus had grabbed Jadeite by the waist and hauled her up over her shoulders like a sack of potatoes and was making a beeline for our garage apartment. Jadeite struggled and kicked and made frustrated noises with tears in her eyes. Lexus was so lean that it was weird seeing her so easily lift someone and carry them like it was nothing.

  I hurried after them, following Lexus up the stairs and into our home. “What is going on?”

  Lexus dropped Jadeite onto the sofa and stood over her, hands on her hips. “Sis doesn’t want to be a fucking grownup.”

  Jadeite leapt back to her feet and got right up into Lexus’s face. “I don’t want to be a grownup? Excuse me? A few months ago you were running around with a bunch of drug dealers and about to drop out of high school.”

  “And now I’ve got a track scholarship, started my own business, and have a family that loves me,” Lexus said. “Quit looking down on me because I’m younger and not book smart. Our mother, our pregnant mother is in danger. The child of the man we love is in danger. Quit hiding because it’s not how you envisioned it in your all-knowing mind and fucking step up.”

  The man we love? Jadeite did love me then?

  Jadeite looked past Lexus and straight into me. And I saw into her. I saw the terror in her eyes, the hurt she was experiencing, and the love she felt for me. The girl was an absolute maelstrom of raging emotions in a barely contained package.

  “It’s not supposed to be this way,” she whispered.

  Lexus cupped Jadeite’s face in her hand and gently turned her so that they were looking into each other’s eyes. “Baby, it’s not fair. I know it’s not. And it’s scary and different. But Jadeite, Mom’s worth it. We’re worth it. And we love you.”

  She leaned down and kissed her.

  Jadeite and I were both so caught off guard that we both froze up. I watched as Lexus kissed her stepsister with a gentle passion that was most definitely not sisterly.

  Lexus’s love and lust rolled off of her in a cresting wave that washed through me and I suddenly understood that she had been wanting Jadeite just as badly as I did. My own magic rose to life in response, spilling over and into all of us. Our love and lust poured into each other and into Jadeite, who felt both of us spilling into her, pouring over her confused emotions. Waves of arousal pulsed outward from me without my even thinking about it and I felt Lexus, or something that felt like Lexus, grab a hold of it and direct it into Jadeite, who gasped. And then she directed it back into me.

  Lexus was somehow using my magic on us.

  Jadeite moaned into the kiss and began hesitantly reciprocating. A single tear fell from the corner of her eye—simultaneously sad and exuberant. She wanted me. She didn’t know if she wanted Lexus. She wanted to save her stepmother. She didn’t want to taint what was supposed to be something magical between us to do it.

  I stepped forward, drawn to them both. Lexus broke the kiss and turned Jadeite into me and then we were kissing. Her lips were soft and full against mine and her tongue felt silken as my own slid into her mouth. She tasted divine and melted into me with a moan. We lost ourselves in that kiss.

  When we came apart her eyes were glistening. I looked into them and said the only thing that made any sense. “I love you.”

  Her makeup was ruined from the tears and sweat and she’d never looked more beautiful, n
ot even when she’d made her grand appearance for our date.

  Lexus was suddenly behind her and with a quick motion Jadeite’s dress started to slip from her.

  Jadeite caught the dress over her breasts. Panic surged in her eyes and her lower lip trembled.

  I was about to ask what was wrong when a flood of half-remembered voices flooded into my mind, memories that didn’t belong to me but had been carried for years. Fat girl. Fatty. Watch your udders. Go on a diet. More came, meaner and more vicious. The voices sounded mostly female but a few of them belonged to guys. And then came something more recent—the photos of me and my girls. Jadeite had visited our website and looked at their bodies. Their thin or athletic bodies that weren’t shaped at all like her.

  Jadeite didn’t think that she was beautiful.

  I leaned down and kissed her. Let her see her how I saw her, in brief glimpses that showed my desire for her for as long as we’d known each other. Little memories where I’d peaked at her out of the corner of my eye or admired her that one time she’d changed her hoodie in front of me and I’d gotten a good look at her figure. Her smile. Her ass. The way she walked and how it made her hips sway without her even meaning to.

  The dress fell away and her breasts pressed into my chest. Her bra followed, pulled out from between us by Lexus so that Jadeite was left standing only in her panties. Her breasts were glorious. They had to be a doubled up letter from somewhere halfway down the alphabet.

  Jadeite gave a sharp intake of air as I touched one for the first time, cupping it in my palm. Her chocolate nipple hardened against my skin. Movement below jerked my attention away and I looked down to find Lexus kneeling between us unfastening my slacks. She took off my shoes and socks and undressed me from the waist down, leaving me in just my boxers.

  With trembling fingers, Jadeite set about undoing the buttons on my shirt. She stopped with only a few buttons left, gasping and looking down. I followed her gaze and found Lexus’s face next to my cock looking up at Jadeite with an intense expression in her emerald eyes as she lowered her stepsister’s panties, revealing a bare and tiny sex.

  I could smell Jadeite’s arousal and fear and they made my hard on throb for her. It throbbed harder still as Lexus leaned forward, never breaking eye contact with Jadeite, to kiss her bare mound just about her entrance.

  Jadeite shivered and let out a little moan of shock. “W-what are you doing?

  Lexus smirked. “I told you shaving it all off was a good idea.”

  “But you’re a g-girl. W-we’re sis—Ohhh!”

  Jadeite cut off moaning as Lexus ran her tongue through Jadeite’s pussy, pausing at her clit to give it a moment of extra appreciation. Lexus broke away and pulled back. “I know.”

  She got up, the motion pushing me and Jadeite apart, and took us both by the hand. She guided us over to the bed and made to position Jadeite on it when Jadeite froze, her face burning as she looked away from both of us. One arm went over her breasts, adequate to cover the nipples but not much else, and the other over her sex. She was beautiful and oozed innocent sex appeal. I wanted her. I wanted her so bad that it physically hurt to restrain myself and keep from throwing her on the bed.

  “I-I’m scared,” she whispered. “And so confused right now.”

  I wanted to pull her into an embrace but knew that if I did I wouldn’t be able to stop myself. Her touch would send me over the edge.

  It was Lexus who cupped her face and kissed her trembling lips. “I know.”

  She kissed her stepsister again, more deeply this time. Magic filled the room, hot and weighty. Jadeite was scared and confused but there was more, beneath that fear and confusion…lust and jealousy. She’d wanted to be Lexus for so long. My super thin and free-spirited girlfriend who got to be in the thick of things and wasn’t afraid of the consequences. Every day that she had seen us together or that I’d been with Lexus instead of her had hurt.

  “There’s no need for any of that now,” Lexus said. “Be one with us.”

  She reached behind her and pulled me into them both, locking us into a three way embrace. Their breasts pressed into my chest and into each other and my erection was trapped between their bellies.

  “I love you, Jadeite,” I said in a rough whisper. It was all I could manage. “I love Lexus too, but I have always loved you.”

  “And I love you too,” Lexus said.

  Jadeite started to protest but I wouldn’t hold back any more. Neither, apparently, could Lexus. We leaned in simultaneously and our lips met hers in a three way kiss. The logistics of our differing heights and body styles should have made the kiss awkward. It wasn’t. It was soft and warm and wet and we lost ourselves in it and fell over onto the bed, Jadeite in the middle, Lexus and I on either side of her.

  My hand found one of Jadeite’s generous breasts while Lexus’s found the other, eliciting a moan from her. Lexus’s hand then traveled south, over her stepsisters belly to the juncture between her juicy thighs. Jadeite gasped, breaking the kiss as her body undulated and bucked.

  Lexus pulled away and I fell onto Jadeite. For a glorious moment it was just her and me, naked flesh pressed to naked flesh as we kissed. Her breasts pressed into my chest, the head of my cock teasing her entrance, her legs lifting up to wrap around me. Before they could though, Lexus was pulling Jadeite out from under me.

  I was briefly disoriented until I realized what she was doing.

  Lexus had positioned herself so that she was leaning back against the pillows and headboard and had pulled Jadeite into her so that Jadeite’s head rested just below Lexus’s perky breasts. Lexus had twined her legs around Jadeite’s and spread them as wide as she could. Her arms draped over Jadeite’s body, one hand cupping a heavy breast, the other reaching between her thighs to play with her exposed pussy. Lexus kissed the top of her stepsister’s head and looked at me with a hungry expression, offering Jadeite up to me. Her fingers stopped playing and instead spread Jadeite’s pussy lips, exposing her pink interior.

  I moved over them, kissing Jadeite on the lips and then moving up to kiss Lexus before positioning myself over them both so I could look down into their faces. Lexus’s hand left Jadeite’s breast and found its way to my cock. She guided me forward, but not to Jadeite’s entrance. Instead she began gently rubbing the head of my erection up and down against Jadeite’s clit.

  We both groaned as she manipulated our sexes, hips thrusting forward as I grew harder and Jadeite grew hotter. Lexus smirked at us and continued her teasing ministrations, working us both up. Every now and then she’d lower my cock, dragging me through Jadeite’s soaking folds toward her entrance, only to pull me back up before I could thrust inside.

  Finally Jadeite said in a rush, “Please! P-please. Stop teasing. Put it in me. Please put it inside me.”

  Lexus leaned down to kiss her stepsister’s cheek and lowered my cock once more toward Jadeite’s pussy, but she didn’t let go, meeting my eyes and giving me a firm but gentle squeeze. “Be gentle,” she whispered to me. “She’s a virgin.”

  I nodded once to show I understood and then looked down to meet Jadeite’s eyes. I couldn’t lean down to kiss her, not unless I wanted to gore Lexus with my antlers, but I could hold her dark brown gaze as my member slowly penetrated her.

  She gasped as the head pressed inside. Bit her lip as it went a little further. Squeezed her eyes shut as the first inch past the head slid in. Moaned as the rest pushed its way inside of her, head thrown back onto her stepsister, hands clenching and unclenching the sheets before surging forward to grab me and rake her nails down my back.

  Her legs slipped free of Lexus’s grip and wrapped around me as I bottomed out, ankles locking around my waist, holding me in place. “S-stay there for a minute,” she panted. “J-just like that. God, you’re big. Let me adjust.”

  Lexus didn’t just grin at us, she beamed, her whole face lit up. Her hands returned to Jadeite’s breasts and gently began to knead and massage them
.

  Jadeite opened her eyes. Tears were gathered in the corners but her eyes brimmed with joy and lust and trust and love. My magic spilled into her, mingling with hers and sending tingles over all of our skin. We all three let out a collective gasp. I never broke eye contact with Jadeite as I said, “You’re mine.”

  “Yes,” she told me breathlessly. “I’m yours. All yours.”

  I had never actually seen the change in my girls’ eyes occur before. Jadeite’s lightened slowly, burning with an inner light as my magic bonded us together and through me, her to Lexus and the others. She was a part of us now. Slowly, I pulled against her restraining legs and began to gently thrust in and out of her.

  She gasped and her pussy contracted around me. I could feel her fluids spilling over my thighs and balls. In and out. In and out. She began breathing heavily, gasping for air. Lexus dropped a hand to where our flesh made us one and began teasing Jadeite’s clit.

  Jadeite let out a choked scream as she came, pussy tightening on my shaft, fluids gushing out onto me. I picked up my pace, thrusting faster into her and rolling her orgasm into a second, and then a third, and then a fourth. It took everything I had not to explode inside of her.

  A hand gently touched my face and I looked up into Lexus’s warm smile. “Let go, Caleb. Let go and give it to her.”

  I buried myself inside of Jadeite and came. And came. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d pumped out so much seed. My arms gave out and I had to roll over or risk crashing on top of both of them. With my antlers that was a bad idea.

  Jadeite rolled with and into me, clutching my chest as we both fought to regain our breath. Lexus crawled over us so that she could bend down and lick and suck at my cock, cleaning me of Jadeite and my combined fluids. My flaccid member gave a twitch. I expected her to keep it up until I was good and hard again so that I could make love to her as well, but she didn’t.