Finally she came closer to a massive stone door. An ancient door that had stood for thousands and thousands of years—she didn’t know how she knew, but she did.
Red light seeped from cracks around the door, the same red light that filled the cavern and blended with her wand light.
Intense pressure emanated from the door—as if something were fighting against it and trying to get out. The mere thought made her skin crawl. Whatever it was, she couldn’t allow it to be freed.
She gripped her wand tighter. Her heart pounded faster. What could she do?
Her gaze moved to the floor and she saw that she was standing in a circle. A circle ringed by a larger circle. Within the two, crude runes were etched into the stone floor. Familiar runes, but nothing like the spiritual language of the trees, the Ogham. Nor were they as beautiful as Elvin or Fae runes.
No. These were evil.
And then her gaze dropped to see what was beneath her very feet. She was standing on an eye. A lidless eye. It was moving, glowing a deep red.
Her breathing came shallower. Her limbs weakened. She wavered, felt herself begin to lose consciousness. Through her hazy gaze she stared at the eye . . .
The red of the eye was blood.
And the eye was draining that blood from her.
Copper screamed out loud. When she stopped, her breathing came hard and heavy and the darkness seemed oppressive. The dream—it had been even more terrifying than the times before.
Dazed, she expected to see the rock of her shelter above her, feel rock beneath her along with the dried grass, vine, and leaf bedding.
But no . . . she was in a soft bed, wrapped in clean sheets that were twisted around her as if she’d tossed and turned in her sleep.
Relief flooded her. She was home! She was in San Francisco.
Yet that knowledge did little to push away the fears still gripping her from the dream.
She was in the strange apartment that Silver had arranged for her to live in. Even though she was happy to be back where she belonged, she felt so alone. A strange thought occurred to her. It was the first time in a long while that she had woken without Tiernan’s body fitted snugly around her like she had every night in the shelter in the Otherworld prison.
A knock sounded at the front door, startling Copper. She sat up in bed and her heart beat a little faster. The clock beside the bed said two A.M. Who could it be?
The knock again, this time louder.
Copper stumbled from the bed, almost tripping in the tangle of sheets, and hurting her bandaged foot a little. She managed to rid herself of the sheets and sleepily staggered from the apartment’s bedroom to the front door. She peeked out the peephole and saw Tiernan in the lighted hallway.
A rush of pleasure came out of nowhere, and she quickly unlocked the door.
He pushed his way through and grabbed her by the upper arms. “Are you all right?” he asked, the dim light from the hallway showing concern on his features. “I heard you scream.”
Instinctively, Copper wrapped her arms around his waist and she pressed her face to his hard chest. He was wearing a black robe that was open down to his waist and she felt his warm skin against her cheek. He smelled so good. Of male musk and shampoo, and the clean scent of crisp linen sheets. With his mussed hair, he must have been sleeping.
Tiernan pushed the door closed behind him, enveloping them in near-darkness. The only light came through a window from one of the streetlights outside the building. He wrapped his arms around her and gave her a hug. “Are you all right?” he repeated, his voice husky with worry.
She nodded against his chest and sighed. “It was just the nightmare again.”
He slipped his large hand into her hair and pressed her tighter against him. “Do you want to talk about it?”
“Okay.” She started to draw away, but then she gave a little cry and her world spun as he scooped her up into his arms and carried her to the bedroom. He’d been doing that a lot lately.
Save for the bedroom, the apartment was empty of any furnishings, because it was new and because Copper had just arrived. There had been no time to get anything out of storage.
When they reached the bedroom, the streetlight peeked through the blinds, leaving stripes across the bed, giving them enough light to see by. He stepped over the pile of sheets she’d left tangled on the floor. He laid her on the middle of the bed, then scooted himself next to her so that they were facing one another.
“I felt lonely when I woke up without you.” Copper reached up and stroked his stubbled cheek. “I missed having you wrapped around me while I slept.”
“I missed you, as well,” he said softly. He turned his face to her palm and kissed it, sending a shiver through her. “Tell me about this dream.”
Copper sighed and moved her hand from his face to his chest to stroke the satiny material of the robe he wore.
“It started out similar to the other dreams, but it went further and was different.” The memory of it made her throat dry. “This time there was a huge cavern, and on the other side of it a door and a circle with evil runes. And an eye made of blood beneath my feet.”
Tiernan pressed his mouth to Copper’s forehead, his lips firm yet soft at the same time. “Whatever it is—if this is truly a vision—we will face it together. You will not be alone.”
She smiled, feeling a sense of warmth and comfort at his words. She clenched her hand in his robe. “Thank you,” she said just before she reached up to kiss him.
Immediately, his mouth took hers in an expert kiss, biting her lower lip and causing her to sigh. They slipped their tongues into one another’s mouths and Copper savored the masculine taste of him. The day they left Otherworld—was it only yesterday?—she’d reveled in being with him, and she wanted more. So much more.
She moved her hands up to his neck and pressed her body against his as her kiss grew more frantic, more needy. Tiernan matched her movements, his soft groans mingling with the tiny mewling sounds she made as they kissed.
To her satisfaction, his cock was hard against her belly while she grew damp between her thighs. She desired him so badly she wanted to pull apart his robe and take him now. No matter what, he was hers for tonight.
“You are so beautiful.” He trailed his lips along her jaw-line to her ear. “What do you do to me? It is as if you are seducing me with your magic.”
She laughed softly. “I’m willing to seduce you any way I can, but I think what we’re doing is making magic together.”
“If you say so, little fire.” His brogue drove her mad with desire and she tried to keep her voice steady as his lips reached her throat. He found her pulse at the curve of her neck, licked and kissed the skin. “Right now you are the beat of my heart, the blood rushing through my veins.”
Copper sighed and melted at his words. “You really do know how to seduce a girl.”
He raised his head and kissed her soundly before saying, “I do not think I am the one who started this seduction.”
“Okay, I did.” She gave him a playful grin and slid her fingers over his cock that was covered by the satin of the robe. “And I’m not finished with you yet.”
Tiernan groaned at the feel of Copper’s hand on his erection. His thoughts turned only to pleasuring her, to being deep within her. Once again he could think of nothing save Copper.
He palmed her breasts that were like ripe peaches in his hands. She took her fingers from around his cock and pulled apart her own robe so that her breasts were bared. He sucked in his breath and pinched her nipples between his thumbs and forefingers.
“Yes.” Copper could barely catch her breath. “Squeeze them harder.”
Tiernan had no problem complying and pinched each hard nub tighter. He would do anything for this beautiful witch.
She sighed and slid her hands into his hair. “Suck my nipples.”
He was used to being in command, in control, but at this moment he could only obey her orders. He scraped his stubbled cheek
down her soft chest to the sensitive place between her breasts.
She clenched her fingers tighter in his hair. “Suck them hard.”
He laved his tongue over each nipple and she gasped and arched toward his face. When he slipped one nub into his mouth and sucked, Copper pressed him tighter to her breast. “Harder, Tiernan. Harder!”
While applying deep suction to one of her nipples, he flicked his tongue over it, then bit down.
“Yessss!” Copper hissed with pleasure. “Goddess, that feels good.”
With his fingers, he squeezed her other nipple hard. Then he bit down on the nipple in his mouth and Copper cried out. “Ohmigoddess!”
Tiernan scraped his stubble across her soft skin as he moved his mouth to her other nipple and sucked it as hard as the first one. He couldn’t believe how good she tasted, how responsive she was to his touch. She was squirming beneath his mouth, holding his head tight to her breasts with her hands in his hair.
“I could come just from the way you suck my nipples.” She cried out again as he bit her. “Don’t stop.”
He kept his mouth on her while slipping his other hand into her robe, down her taut belly to her mound. He bit her nipple again, just as he slipped his finger into her wet folds.
Copper saw bubbles of magic the moment he touched her clit, just like what had happened in Otherworld. Gold bubbles that lingered between the two of them.
Sex magic.
Somehow her hurt foot didn’t even bother her. If sex made the pain go away, she was all for it.
While he nipped first one nipple, then the other, he thrust his fingers deep into her pussy and she rode his hand.
“That’s it!” She rocked her hips against him and the gold bubbles around them seemed to grow in number. “You’re so good. I want all of you again and again.”
“Come for me,” he said in a growl against her chest. “I want to feel your climax, little fire.”
Copper writhed. So close to orgasm, so close. When he pressed his thumb against her clit she gave a small cry and shuddered in his arms. Her channel clenched around his fingers and she rubbed her mound against his hand. Her nipples were raw from his rough attention to them and that added to the pleasure of her climax.
Her head swam a little as she pushed herself up to a sitting position while Tiernan reclined on one elbow. Glittering gold magic still sparkled around them and she batted a couple of bubbles away from her face.
Slices of yellow light spilled across Tiernan’s face through the blinds. His look was intense, fiery. His robe had come undone and his cock jutted out from the opening of the cloth.
Copper slipped her own robe off so that it slid down her shoulders and arms to the bed, and she was bared to him. The memory of the times they’d been together was heady, only making her want him more and more.
Tiernan’s mind was filled with the vision before him. Her long copper-colored hair was mussed, her eyes heavy-lidded with lust, and the curls between her thighs moist with her juices. Gold bubbles glittered in the air between them. As they had before, they added to the intense need he had for her and made it difficult to restrain himself. Was she using her magic to make him feel such an incredible need for her?
He pushed himself up to sit facing her. He shrugged his robe off and tossed it onto the floor.
“You are beautiful,” she said, her voice breathy and her eyes wide. She reached up and caught a lock of his blond hair, twirled it around her finger and smiled. “Still a little wavy, but I think Silver’s shampoo got the worst of it. Although your hairstyle was quite, er, interesting before. I especially liked the Pixie artwork.”
Tiernan gave a low rumble, grabbed her beneath the arms, and started tickling her.
“No, no, no!” Copper squealed and squirmed, trying to get away from him, but he was far too powerful.
He chuckled as he found other ticklish spots. The insides of her thighs, her knees, and the bottom of her uninjured foot. Copper was giggling so hard tears rolled down her cheeks and he could tell she was having a hard time catching her breath.
She threw a pillow and it landed square in his face. He growled as he tossed it aside and she tried to throw another one at him. Before she could, he pinned her naked body beneath his weight.
“Let me go, you big barbarian,” she said between gasps as he tickled her some more. “I swear I’ll get revenge on you!”
He only laughed and braced his arms to either side of her head. When he looked down at her his laughter died away and so did hers.
“Fuck my breasts.” Her eyes met his as she pushed the mounds together. “And let me lick your cock.”
Surprised, but more than pleased to comply, he rose up and straddled her chest so that he was kneeling, his thighs clamped against her sides. He pushed his erection between the softness of her breasts and began pumping his hips. Every time his cock met her lips, she swirled her tongue around its head and he groaned at the incredible pleasure of it.
He continued to thrust his hips, sliding between her breasts and feeling their softness around his length, and her tongue laving him. Sweet goddess, her tongue on the head of the shaft only made him want to pound into her wet core harder and harder yet.
“I want to taste you now,” Copper said. When he drew back, she eased down so that her face was directly beneath his erection.
“You little witch.” He braced his arms against the headboard and eased in and out of her mouth as she sucked him. “Ah, gods. Your mouth is like hot satin around my cock.”
She fondled his balls and gave a soft humming sound that vibrated throughout him. He came so close to the peak that there was almost no turning back. With effort, he withdrew from her mouth, his cock and balls aching so badly that he clenched his teeth to hold back his orgasm.
Copper’s entire being was in flames. She was ready for him, and she was ready for him now.
“Fuck me, Tiernan.” She ran both hands up his firmly muscled chest. “Drive yourself deep inside of me.”
A rumble rose up from his chest and he straightened so that he was resting back on his haunches between her splayed thighs. He looked like a Viking of old with his wavy blond hair, his finely crafted body, the fierce expression on his face.
“Turn over,” he commanded, to Copper’s surprise and excitement.
She turned so that she was on her belly, then rose up on her hands and knees with Tiernan’s hands grasping her waist. Her stomach flip-flopped and her body shook in anticipation.
“Lower your face to the bed and rest your arms above your head.” He rubbed his cock against her folds. “I’m going to fuck you deep and hard.”
Copper’s body was on fire as she obeyed. She rocked herself back so that his erection rubbed against her folds some more.
Tiernan positioned his cock right at the entrance to her pussy. He grabbed her hips with both hands and slammed himself deep inside her.
She cried out at the incredible sensation. He was so thick and long and filled her so much she could swear she felt it all the way to her belly.
The gold bubbles began floating around them again as Tiernan began thrusting his hips, his strokes achingly slow. Copper moaned as she rocked back to meet every plunge of his cock. The magical bubbles were adding to the sensations she was feeling. Her skin felt so sensitive. She’d never felt so alive and free yet captive all at once.
He palmed the firm globes of her buttocks, massaging them as he pumped his hips. “I like to see my cock sliding in and out of you, little fire. So slick with your juices.” He slammed into her harder. “Your sheath is tight and hot.”
Her extra-sensitized nipples rubbed the bed sheet with every movement as her face was pressed to the bed and her arms stretched out above her. It was so erotic how he had positioned her, the way he was taking control. The sound of flesh smacking flesh filled the room, and their combined scents were heady.
She wiggled her hips, hardly able to catch her breath with her orgasm building within her. The power of it was incre
dible. She knew the golden bubbles were intensifying everything she was experiencing.
He gripped her hips tighter and slammed his own hips harder against her ass. “Are you about to come?”
She could barely speak, but managed to get out, “Yes . . . just a little more.”
Tiernan slipped one hand from her hip down into her folds and flicked her clit.
Copper shouted, “Ohmigoddess!” as her orgasm exploded within. Some of those golden bubbles seeped into her skin, causing her climax to go on and on as Tiernan continued to fuck her. She couldn’t believe the fire in her body, the way her channel kept clenching and unclenching around his cock. It was like that one orgasm would never end.
He drew his cock out, rubbed the cleft of her buttocks with it, and then he slipped a finger inside the tight bud. “Have you ever been fucked in the ass, Copper?”
The sensation was amazing. Barely able to breathe, much less think, she shook her head. The idea of being taken like that, filled in another way that she’d never been filled before, made her pussy spasm again.
“I will.” He pumped his finger in and out of her tight rosette and his words were definitely a promise. “But not right now. Now I’m going to take you on your back.”
He slipped his finger out and rolled her over. He was between her thighs, his chest against hers, his cock pressed up against her pussy, his arms braced to her sides so that his complete weight wasn’t on her. For a long moment he looked down at her and in the dim light from the windows and the golden bubbles of magic she was able to see the untamed look in his blue eyes, his lust, his desire. Sweat glistened on his forehead and his hair was damp.
She didn’t know how he was controlling himself, not driving into her until he had pumped his come deep inside her.
He lowered his head and captured her mouth in a wild kiss that she equaled. His mouth was hot and he tasted of male and of her juices from when he’d gone down on her earlier.
Tiernan’s senses were reeling. It was an act of incredible self-control to keep from plunging again into her warmth and reaching his climax.
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