I feel a tear escape from the corner of my eye. “I am sorry.”
“So am I.”
I can feel it in my heart and there is no denying I have chosen Jayden each and every time before. I feel the love I have for him in my very soul, and I know without a doubt that given the choice, he would be my preference. However, to break this curse for once and for all I must choose Kieran and I believe the me, from three hundred years ago, would have chosen the safe option rather than the obsessive, infatuated alternative to marry. Thus, when the witch put the curse on me, it was when I was already betrothed to Kieran.
He stands up and pulls me up with him. He says softly, miserably, “Come, it is almost three o’clock, the witching hour.”
Silently I walk with him to the door. Outside I see the full moon high up in the sky, illuminating everything it shines upon. Dark clouds are gathering on the horizon. Lightening bounces around within them and I hear a low, angry grumble across the distance.
As if we are in a funeral march, we walk along the passage, and then toward his car.
Quietly, he opens the door for me, and as I step forward to get into the car, he says desperately, his voice is soft, wishful, “No wait.”
Pulling me by the arm away from the car unexpectedly, he turns me toward him.
Unsure, I look up at him.
The light in his eyes shifts and I see him hesitate for a moment before he lifts his hand to my face. Gently he touches his palm to my cheek.
I lean my face into his hand, and I close my eyes for a short moment.
Slowly he leans down toward me, as he pulls me into his arms. My eyes glance at his lips for an instant and then his lips are on mine. Lips I have wanted to kiss since I met him.
I feel my heart beat so fast, I fear it might bang right through my ribs. For a second, just a small second, I consider Kieran, but an abrupt wave of bliss erases the thought from my mind instantaneously. Jayden pulls me into him tightly, and I feel him pressed against me. In his kiss, I feel his desire, his need and his yearning.
Suddenly, I am pushed back into the side of the car, and then I hear him moan deep in his throat, the sound rumbles through his chest. It sounds primitive and full of longing.
My arms move up to his shoulders and my hands tangle in his hair by themselves. I pull him closer into me. He folds his hands around my thighs, and he pulls me up against him until my legs fold around his hips. His hands move up against my legs, over my hips until he wraps his arms around my shoulders, and he crushes me to his chest.
Then I feel it. It is the oddest, strangest sensation I have ever experienced. It bubbles up from the pit of my stomach, past my lungs, through my throat and then it bursts out of me. I murmur against his lips, “I love you.”
Never have I thought of saying it to him before. I did not wonder if I should say it now, I just said it and I meant it. The feeling in me is so familiar; it feels natural, ancient and bursting with memories.
He pulls away from me, and there is a blaze of hunger burning in his eyes. “Say it,” he demands.
I know what I have to say. “Jayden, I choose you.” Doubt fills my mind as I belatedly remember Kieran’s caution to be patient.
I wait to die.
Apprehensively, I frown as I see the sky around me get clearer and brighter and the frightening and terrifying shadows around me dissolve away.
With an exalted sigh, Jayden says softly, “At last, you have made the right choice.”
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A SHADE OF WITCH
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROSALINE SAUL writes dark urban fantasy stories, with a hint of love.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-One
Chapter Fifty-Two
Chapter Fifty-Three
Chapter Fifty-Four
Chapter Fifty-Five
Chapter Fifty-Six
Chapter Fifty-Seven