Natural Magick (13 page)

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“
I didn’t see it, your mark. Where is it, baby?” Dominic asked her quietly.

He was holding her tight now, close to him, and when he shifted and stood up, she did as well and faced him. She had wrapped a sheet around her body and she dropped it. There was a gentle stirring in the air, a small hum of magic then he felt it when she dropped the hold on herself and turned around to face him and let him see her fully for the first time.

Her eyes were glowing again, brightly this time, lighting the room as well as herself. The vine did indeed start at her thigh and wrapped around it and moved up her hip. She turned around so he could see her spine where it was growing up it as if her bone were a trellis, drooping here and there from the weight of the leaves. A single vine broke off from the mass and curled up her hair line and across her jaw to come up her cheek to her ear and curve below her left eye. Yet another vine ran along her shoulder and down her arm to her bicep, once again wrapping around the muscle with a small curl drooping to her elbow and midway down her forearm. The vine was an intricate and beautiful work of art, and looked as real as anything ever seen in nature. The vines were dark greens and browns, as big as a thumb. The leaves were large and open with varying shades of green. But it was the flora that grabbed one’s attention. There were hundreds of flowers in different stages of bloom, all in shades of reds, yellows, pinks and blues. The opened flowers were as big as a fist; the buds were as long and as thick as Dominic’s thumb.

Dominic reached out to touch her, and was surprised to find heat coming from the vine and flowers even before he made physical contact with her skin. He spread his hand along her spine and the leaves moved, disturbed by his touch, he realized. He bent down to smell one of the flowers and the sweet scent of nutmeg and cinnamon wafted to his nose. He jerked back in surprise.

“
Christ! It’s your scent. I smelled it that first night. You smelled of cinnamon. I tried to blame it on the pantry, but it was your mark.”

She started to step away from him, but he wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her to him. He cradled her under his chin and held her. “No, Piccadilly. Not again. You’re mine, I told you. Let me hold you. I need to hold you, baby.”

He was awed at what she had shown him, and wanted to just keep her there close to his heart and with him to protect her. He scooped her into his arms and carried her to the bed where he laid her down and joined her. He covered them both with the comforter and pulled her closer still to him. He could feel her crying, the soft sniffle and the stiff way she was holding her body. He held her, whispering in her ear, kissing and soothing her as best he could until he felt her relax and fall into a fitful sleep.

Dominic did not sleep, but mentally reached out to Aaron and Sara and the other magical women in the Kiss. He told them what he knew, her name, her family’s discovery of her and of the vines and their movement when touched. Everything she had shared with him. Mel was going to contact her other relatives, Shade was going to contact her mother, the Queen of Forest, Fiona. They would meet with Piccadilly in the kitchen in a few hours’ time. They were all willing to work with her and for her. Then he told them about Sherman.

“
I don’t know a lot about him from before. But from the way she talked about him, I’m sure it’s the same man from the cave when Shade had been hurt,” Dominic told Sara and Aaron.

“
Yes, I believe you’re right. Dominic, did he...had he touched her, sexually?” Sara asked him.

“
No, my lady, he did not. Nor will he ever. None of them will, not ever again, I assure you. She is mine. I have claimed her and we have mated. She thinks to leave me, to leave to protect us from him and the others. I can’t let that happen. She’s mine and I mean to protect her.”

“
Well of course she’s yours. And we’ll all protect her. She is as much our family as you are, Dominic. Let us get to work on this and we’ll see you at last light. And Dominic, don’t let her out of your sight. She is a crafty little thing.”

Dominic grinned at the warning from Aaron. They both had taken quite a beating the last time she tried to get away from them, one he did not think either of them would forget.

Aaron was impressed with the young woman’s courage and strength, he’d told Dominic when Dominic begged him for his help to protect his mate. And Aaron told Dominic that he could do no less than to help her, because—and none of them were under any delusions that it was anything but her—had it not been for Pete and her magic, the children would not be here.

Two hours before sunrise, Dominic woke Pete up. He dreaded telling her what he had done. Knew the only way to fight against evil was to combat it with all you had at your fingertips. With a power base of the magnitude he knew Sara’s family had, he had no doubt that they would triumph against whatever forces Pete’s family thought they had.

“
Baby, I need you to wake up. I want you to meet with some people, my friends, our friends. They can help us, help you. Come on.” She rolled over and snuggled deeper into his, no, their bed.

He kissed her along her shoulder and then rubbed his hand down her spine toward her firm ass. Need rumbled through him.

“
Piccadilly, I told them all about your family. Aaron is expecting us upstairs soon.”

Her eyes opened wide in surprise. “Dominic, what have you done? They’ll think I’m a freak. I need to leave before my family gets here. I can’t involve your friends in this. My family is a bunch of evil men, and my mother is too, as well as a whore. And Sherman is powerful and I believe him to be a tad off his rocker. I have to go.” Pete jumped up and was rushing around the room looking for clothing.

Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how one looked at it, he had torn most of her clothes from her last night, and they were in tatters all over the room.

“
Pete, have you any idea what people would say if you told them your lover and mate is a vampire, that one of your friends is the cousin of the Queen of Magic? That Aaron, our master, is a vampire, and the friend of a pack of werewolves? Honey, freak left the building when Elvis did. These are our friends and they want to help us,” he said.

He was distracted by her nakedness and every time she bent over to pick up another button, he nearly groaned out loud. She was just straightening up when she caught him looking at her ass. Putting her hand on her hip, she turned to glare at him. He finally lifted his gaze to her face and grinned at her.

“
What do you think you’re doing just lying there? We’ve made a mess of this room and I need you to help me get dressed,” she demanded.

“
No. Not yet.”

He was suddenly standing next to her and behind her. He was as naked as she was. He pushed his cock against her ass and cupped her breasts as he stood behind her. He began pulling and tugging at her nipples, which had hardened to stiff peaks the moment he touched her. He could smell her instant arousal. His cock hardened incredibly harder.

“
Lean into the chair. Put your hands on the back of it for me.”

When she moved forward to do as he asked and she realized what he was going to do, her body wept for him.

“
That’s it, baby; now spread your legs wide for me. I’m going to fuck you like this. Take you from behind and make you come. Are you sore? I can…I will try not to be so rough, but I need to be deep inside of you.”

She moaned when he leaned in to nip at her ass cheek, just breaking the skin and then licking the tiny wound closed. Being this close to her heat, it was all he could do not to drop to his knees and taste her again, suckle from her pussy until he had his fill of her. Standing, he bent his knees slightly and slowly entered her from behind, moving into her wet, hot pussy, and stopped. His body was so close to spilling inside of her he needed a moment to gather himself.

“
Dominic, if you don’t move inside of me, I’m going to hurt you. You know I can, too.”

Her voice was husky with her need. Heat from her surrounded his cock and his balls tightened up closer to his body. He put his hands on her hips and moved deeper within her.

When he was seated fully inside her, he began to slide in and out, gripping her hips hard. There would be a mark, a deep bruise, but he did not care. He was mesmerized by the slickness of his cock as it moved in and out of her, wet with her cream and hard for her body. His need to mark her, to fill her with his seed, was paramount to anything else at the moment and he moaned at the thought of shooting his cum deep into her womb. He shifted to his left slightly and watched her breast jerk with each slam of his cock into her.

“
Oh, Christ, Piccadilly, you’re so tight. Every time you bent over to pick something up, it was all I could do not to come all over myself. But this is so much better. Slamming deep in you. I love being buried deep in this pussy. Soon, love, I’m going to fuck this sweet ass of yours. I’m going to fuck you here until you scream.”

He stuck his thumb in his mouth to wet it and pressed it hard against her tiny rose. When her body jerked tight against his, he nearly lost his control. His movements became frantic as his need to come and bring her to with him moved over him.

“
Please, Dominic. Harder. Fuck me harder. I’m so close, so very close. I want to feel your cum inside me. Now, please, now!”

He started slamming into her, hard and fast. Each time he slammed deep, he would feel her sheath pull him tighter. When she stood up, leaned into his chest, bringing her hands up to his neck, he cupped her breasts and pulled hard on her taut nipples. He suddenly needed more and pulled from her. He jerked her around to face him, picked her up by her ass, slammed her against the wall, and entered her again just as she wrapped her legs tightly around his hips. Pete wrapped her hand around the back of his head, grabbed a handful of his hair, and yanked his head back, exposing his throat.

“
Bite me! Fuck, Pete, bite me hard!”

She sank her teeth hard into his throat right where the pulse was pounding as hard as he was into her. She broke his skin and marked him with her bite, bruising the tender flesh. Dominic felt his blood fill her mouth. He jerked his head forward, pulling his own hair, and bit her at the closest place he could sink his teeth. Their release roared through them, their mutual climax nearly violent.

CHAPTER TWELVE

Pete took her shower first, not allowing Dominic to take one with her or she said they would never leave the room. He really didn’t think that was such a bad plan, he told her. He could very well stay in this room with her for a few hundred centuries, but the others were waiting on them.

Dominic gave her one of his shirts to wear, but there was nothing they could do about her panties so she ended up in a pair of his boxer briefs. They were miles too big for her. He seemed to take special pride in that, because of him, she had no underclothes. She continued to glare at him every time he grinned at her.

When they walked into the kitchen, everyone turned to them. Pete, as she had asked him to call her around the others for now, stepped behind Dominic to hide from the group gathered there. Dominic simply reached behind him, pulled her into the front of him, and kissed her hard on her neck.

Dominic looked directly at Aaron and said to the room in general, “I’ve...we’ve mated and bonded. She is my mate. As my master, I ask for your blessings.”

A mated vampire couple, Dominic had explained when she had asked, meant that they had only had sex. Couples could and did live for centuries like that, never taking blood from the other. The non-vampire of them, most of the time a human, would never age, but they could die if mortally injured. The blood exchange was what bonded them both mentally and physically, and also made them both vampires.

“
Welcome to my Kiss, Piccadilly Fresno Bartholomew.” Aaron stood and embraced Pete with a kiss to each cheek. Aaron then did the same with Dominic.

Pete glared at Aaron first, then at Dominic. Dominic flushed and glared at Aaron as well.

“
Don’t be mad at Aaron. He means well. He needed as many details about you as he could get...I told him everything so he could get as much information about your family as he could. I didn’t know he was going to blab it to everyone and his brother.”

She was embarrassed, not mad at him. Dominic seemed to realize this, kissed her quickly on her nose, and grinned like a loon. She so wanted to smack him silly.

“
Poo on them, all men can be such asses sometimes. I think it’s a perfectly lovely name. Come now, meet the rest of your new family, dear. I’m Elizabeth; this is my mate Phillip. We’re Mel’s and Shade’s grandparents. Shade is our son’s daughter, who is no longer with us. This is Savannah and James, they are Mel’s parents and Savannah is our daughter. Colin and Shade you have met. Duncan is the nicest man I’ve ever known, but he claims that he knows you best of all. This is Penny. She is the most wonderful cook. Speaking of which, you must be starved. Let’s get you some food while we talk.”

They had to adjourn to the dining room as the women had to eat. When Duncan set a large plate of food in front of her, she looked up at him. He just winked at her and said, “Its home cooked, miss, just for you.”

It took her several seconds to realize he was referring to the conversation that they’d had once when she was installing the computer for him.

Pete toyed with the amazing amount of food that was before her. It wasn’t until Dominic whispered in her ear that if they continued for an eternity like they had just before they left his lair, she would need to keep up her strength. She could do that by eating her breakfast. Aaron laughed at that and when he had chanced a glance at his own mate, he sobered up quickly. Sara had the most deceptively sweet look on her face.