Betrayed

by Hazel Hunter

  Summer felt another wave of doubt as she slowly undressed.

  “I don’t think I can have sex with both of you standing up.”

  “You’ll only be having sex with Michael.” Now naked, Troy stepped over the circle’s frost lines and stood in the center. “He’s going to be your anchor while I use your pleasure to gain access to your mind.”

  “My old ball and chain,” Summer teased the Templar as they stepped into the circle to join Troy. “So how do I––oooh.” As Michael picked her up by the waist and held her effortlessly suspended, she glanced down. His thick erection, already sheathed in a condom, rose below her. She wrapped her legs around his waist, and gazed into his deep green eyes. “Hold onto me tight.”

  “I will, my Beauty.”

  He closed his eyes for a moment, and then turned around, so that she could see Troy over his shoulder. The warlock began chanting as Michael positioned Summer over his erection, and let her softness sink down to envelope it by slow degrees. Being penetrated so gradually and completely made her dig in her fingers behind his strong neck, and once he’d buried his full length inside her she met Troy’s hot blue eyes.

  Michael moved his hands to her hips and lifted her a few inches before pushing her back on his cock, working her on top of him as if she weighed nothing. The delicious fullness of him inside her, the way she was completely at his mercy, made her rock against him. He grunted a little as he plunged upward, his rhythm increasing. Summer began to pant as Troy finished his incantation and moved closer, his hands sketching the air around her head with signs before his fingers sifted through her hair.

  “All seeing to unseen, all of what has been, from the black to my sight, restore all this night, so may it be.”

  Summer fell into the beauty of Troy’s eyes, and moaned as Michael pumped harder, his cock pistoning in and out and keeping her tethered to her body as she felt the warlock’s power seeping into her like warm rain. The pleasure of having her body taken by the Templar while the Wiccan penetrated her mind made her writhe between them, pinned by spirit and flesh, until she felt Troy behind her eyes.

  You would see what has been hidden from all, Elemental? The old crone deep inside Summer’s mind laughed. So shall you.

  Summer tried to push Troy out of her head, but the power welled up inside her, faster than it ever had before, and enveloped him in cold green light. Outside of her mind she heard Michael grunt as his body turned to stone, and she hung in his arms, her body still skewered by his. The room around them began to fade away into darkness, and Summer desperately tried to reach out and hold something, anything to keep them in the real world. But all three of them were plunged into green darkness.

  So may it be.

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  “I DON’T WANT you shouting at Troy again,” Erica told Abel as she followed him out of the main house. “If we make an effort, we can all be reasonable, rational adults.”

  “Sex magic. With three instead of two, and one who can do things like stop time.” The Coven Master shook his head as he helped her into his car. “I’ll be lucky to have a mountain left by morning. What was he thinking?”

  “Don’t ask me. I never thought sex was magical.” She regretted those words the moment they left her lips. “Except with you, of course.”

  Abel slammed the door and faced her. “You don’t like making love with me. You fake every orgasm. You do it because you want to make me feel like a good lover, and keep me happy. I am the only man you’ve ever made love to. I knew these things, and I accepted them. The only difference now is I know why.”

  Erica stiffened. “Well, you certainly don’t have to have sex with me anymore.”

  “Or maybe now that the fucking monstrous shit is dead, you’ll stop thinking about him when we’re making love.” He leaned close and kissed her ear. “Also, I don’t have sex with you. I make love with you. Now, can we go and stop my idiot son from destroying himself, his witch, his Templar, and our home?”

  Erica had to press her lips together to keep from laughing as Abel raced along the road that led to the old house. As they passed the dirt road she had used to get to Gideon’s camp site her smile faded. That day was still a blur of fear and loathing and fury in her mind, but from the moment she’d scried Gideon on the mountain she’d known what she would do. What she had always vowed she would, if he ever came near her again. What she didn’t understand was why she had been capable of such violence. Since Gideon had brutalized her she had always shrank from anything that reminded her of it.

  “You were protecting your child,” Abel said suddenly. “That’s why you were able to do it. It wasn’t about you. It was to keep Aileen safe from her father.”

  “I suppose it could be––Abel.” Erica sat upright and stared at him. “You’re reading my mind. But you don’t have that ability.”

  “With you, darling, I do.” He glanced sideways at her. “I dipped into the sex magic book myself once or twice. Drew the circle under my bed, got you in it, and tried to sort out what had happened to you. It ended up being permanent.”

  Erica felt dizzy. “That means you know everything that man did to me. You knew about Aileen. You knew what a horrible person I am, and you still…oh, I will never understand you.”

  He stopped the car in front of the old house, shut off the engine, and reached over to pull her into his arms.

  “I want you to be my mate. If you can’t now, I’ll wait for you. I’ll wait forever for you. I love you, Erica Buchanan.”

  Abel kissed her again, and this time made it hot and sexy and entirely inappropriate in public. Yet as his mouth ravished hers, Erica felt a strange glow starting deep in her belly, and when he finally lifted his head, for the first time in memory she wanted him to put his hands on her.

  “Later.” He kissed her brow. “Now stay in the car.”

  “If yesterday proved anything, dearest, it’s that I don’t stay in the car.” Erica got out and peered at the house. “I don’t see any lights.”

  He grunted and took her arm. “They may be in the middle of something, so don’t make any noise or sudden moves when we’re inside, all right?”

  Erica felt a light sheen of sweat beading on her face as they quietly approached the house, but it wasn’t from fear or dread. She still felt the needy ache in her lower parts, and now it seemed to be moving between her legs.

  I’m past this nonsense, she scolded herself, and then saw the lecherous look Abel gave her. Or perhaps not.

  He used his spare key to unlock the front door, and walked with her through the kitchen. Erica smelled the deep green scent of a lush garden. Abel pressed a finger to his lips before he eased open the door so they could look inside.

  Troy, Summer and Michael stood naked in a spell circle, and from their positions and movements Erica could tell Michael was having sex with her while Troy moved in and peered into her eyes. She caught her breath as she felt waves of power suddenly radiate past the frost lines of the circle, and had to squint when a brilliant green light wrapped around all three of them, and the sound of a high wind filled the room.

  “Troy,” Abel shouted above the din. “The spell is out of control. Neutralize it. Now, son, before it rips you to pieces.”

  Abel’s son didn’t seem to hear him, but his jaw tightened as he fought to lift his arm and use his hand to cover Summer’s eyes. The moment he did all the air in the room went still, and the green light drew back into itself, intensifying and growing hotter until Erica was convinced it would explode.

  Abel lifted his hands and hurled a burst of power at the circle as he uttered a containment spell. That, too, contracted in on the three and then the light, forcing it into a tiny ball so dazzling Erica had to turn her head away until it vanished.

  Abel made a hoarse sound of disbelief, and when she looked back she saw only empty space where the three had been standing.

  “It took them,” he said, and turned his horrified eyes on her. “They’re gone.”

  As h
e staggered and Erica caught him in her arms, she heard something like an old woman’s voice whispering, and what it said made her blood run cold.

  So may it be.

  • • • • •

  Summer’s story concludes in REVEALED: Book Five of the Silver Wood Coven Series, available soon.

  For a sneak peek, turn the page.

  Book 5 Excerpt:

  REVEALED

  Silver Wood Coven Book Five

  The men looked at each other as if they were having a silent conversation.

  “I understand if you want to wait,” she added, feeling anxious now. “I know it’s a lot to ask.”

  “Not really.” Troy regarded her. “I was ready for this last night.”

  “I was ready in Central Park.” Michael was already on his feet and a second later tossed her gently over his shoulder. “Bed,” he said to Troy. “Now.”

  Once her mates had unwrapped their gift they took their time admiring it, and touching it, and then kissing every inch of it. Summer squirmed between them as they teased and caressed her with their strong hands, pressing her between their hard bodies until she thought she would climax just from the intensity of the foreplay.

  “Guys,” she muttered, dodging Troy’s hungry mouth. “Time to stop admiring your present and start using it.”

  As Michael pulled her on top of him Troy crouched behind her and ran his tongue from the small of her back to the nape of her neck, sending a burst of shivering delight into her breasts.

  “Did you feel that?” the warlock asked Michael as he brought his hands around to cradle her swollen mounds.

  “Yes.” The Templar drew Summer’s mouth down to his. “Do it again.”

  During all the others times they’d made love the men had felt each other’s sensations, but never hers, Summer realized, and then felt something shift inside her as a peculiar ache began pounding between her thighs.

  “It’s time.” She spread her legs as the power glowed inside her, and felt the two heavy shafts pressing against her soft, wet folds. “Come into me.”

  Michael groaned as his cockhead rubbed against Troy’s, both nudging against her entrance. They danced back and forth along her slick folds. But as the ache between her thighs mounted, she pressed down on them both. The connection was electric, and a moan rose from deep in her throat.

  “I must take you together,” she breathed, almost not believing her words.

  MORE BOOKS BY HAZEL HUNTER

  THE SILVER WOOD COVEN SERIES

  Though she’s taken the name given her by a kind stranger, Summer can no more explain waking up homeless and covered in blood, than she can the extreme attraction drawing people to her. Amnesiac, confused, and frightened, she’s not even aware that she’s a witch. But help arrives in two very different forms: the cool and restrained Templar Michael Charbon and his centuries-long friend Wiccan Major Troy Atwater.

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  Stolen (Silver Wood Coven Book Two)

  United (Silver Wood Coven Book Three)

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  THE CASTLE COVEN SERIES

  Novice witch Hailey Devereaux had resolved to live life as an outsider. Possessed of a unique Wiccan ability, her own people shun her. But that all ends when two very different men enter her life: the brooding Major Kieran McCallen and Coven Master Piers Dayton. But their training and tests are only the beginning. As she struggles to fulfill her destiny and find her place in the world, Hailey also discovers love.

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  NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

  Dear Wonderful Reader,

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