Category: Wicked Wednesday

Hello. Happy Wicked Wednesday and welcome to, Witches Say The Darndest Things. I’m the head witch in charge, Siren Allen and all month long I’m sharing scenes from my paranormal novels that feature witches.

Today, I’m sharing a scene from my naughty fairy tale, Into The Darkness. You’ve never met a witch like Celeste. She’s straight outta the bayou and can curse you just as quickly as she could hug you. She has a heart of gold that will turn black if you cross her. Prepare yourself for the wicked witch of the South.

Once Upon A Time…

There lived a witch by the name of Celeste Dubois, who was tired of her sister witches disturbing her eternal slumber with their cries. Lately, they all called out to her with the same plea, ‘stop Rip Van Warren, the witch hunter’. Unable to ignore their cries, she lures Rip into her world, where she keeps him as her prisoner for twenty years. She had every intention of torturing him for those twenty years. But the heart wants what the heart wants.

For twenty years Rip Van Warren is held captive by a beautiful bayou witch. He should hate her. However, their time together has made him rethink his vendetta against witches. All of his life he thought magic was evil. Celeste has taught him that it’s a gift to be treasured, almost as much as he treasures her.

When an unexpected threat enters their lives, Celeste is forced to send him back to his own world in order to protect him. He awakens in the middle of the swamp, confused and dazed. His memories of the last twenty years are foggy. Yet, there’s one person he’ll never forget, the witch he left behind. He’s desperately seeking a way back to her. However, the witches of New Orleans aren’t willing to help a famous witch hunter.

Will the dark witch and the dark hunter have their happily ever after?
Or will he return too late to save the witch he loves?

Rip stared around Patsy to find Celeste heading in his direction. Her curves were clad in a long dark green dress that was sleeveless. She wore no head covering today. Her long black hair fell over one shoulder.

Rip mustered up every ounce of hate he could for her. It still wasn’t enough to fill a teaspoon. What was it about this witch that called to him: his mind and his body? Celeste smiled at Patsy when she reached her side.

The older woman bowed then turn and walked down the hallway, same direction Andre and Kalina had gone. Rip stared at Celeste. She stared back at him. Awkward silence surrounded them for a few moments before Rip decided to speak up.

“Are you here to apologize?”

Celeste frowned. Even that looked good on her.
“Apologize? For what?”

“The interrogation room. For slamming my head into the table while I was cuffed to it. For sending me into a coma.”

Her frowned deepened. “You’re a prisoner. How did you expect to be treated?”

Not like a fucking punching bag. Rip opened his mouth to say just that.

She raised her hand before he could speak. “Don’t answer that.” Looking down at the floor, she massaged her forehead and sighed. “Let’s start over. Okay?” When she raised her eyes to him, she wore a slight smile on her face.

His heart fluttered. He was a man. His heart wasn’t supposed to be fluttering. What the hell was wrong with him?

“I’m sorry, Rip, for what I did to you.”

He forgot all about fluttering hearts. She’d apologized. His eyes narrowed. She
was up to something.

“I went too far. I was wrong. But my heart was in the right place. You have a family. You have people you care for. If something was to happen to them, you would do whatever you had to in order to fix it, right?”
When she said it like that, it sort of made sense. But she was a witch.

“Yeah, I’ll do anything for my family.”

“The bayou witches are my family. It’s my duty to protect them.”

“Those dark witches were killing innocents.”

Celeste nodded. “I know. And they had to be stopped. But killing them wasn’t the answer.”

“Should I have talked to them instead, tried to reason with them? Witches aren’t very reasonable.”

“No, I don’t suggest you reason with them. I suggest you stay away from them, period. We handle our own. We don’t need witch hunters interfering.”

“Okay.” Rip shoved his hands into his pockets. “What would you have done to stop those witches? Mind you, they were making voodoo dolls of local officials whose policies they didn’t agree with. They were also threatening a local business owner and her brother. They were putting dead animals on her doorstep and sending her threatening letters, telling her she would be next.”

“They were what?”

“Oh, you didn’t know? But you’re the witch queen. How could you not know what your flock was doing?”

She clasped her hands together and tilted her chin up. “What they were doing doesn’t matter. It wasn’t your place to interfere.”

“Those officials have families. Like you, they have a right to come home to those families. They have a right to live…”

“Witches do too.”

“Which is why I didn’t kill the ones who weren’t a threat to society.”

“But you took their power.”

“Only to prevent them from becoming a threat in the future.”

“That’s the point. You don’t have a right to change someone else’s future. You are not God.”

“I…” Rip snapped his lips shut. No, he wasn’t God. “I help people.”

“You also hurt people.”

“I guess you’re a saint.”

“No, far from it. I know my flaws. I’m working on them. But I don’t kill. I don’t have the right to end another person’s life.”

Witches weren’t people. They were abominations. They were a disease that needed to be eradicated. His family had suffered for generations, were still suffering, because of a witch.

“However,” Celeste told him. “Neither one of us will change our views any time soon. So, I suppose we call a truce.”

“A truce?”

“Yes.”

“How will this truce work?”

“I will refrain from torturing you. And you will…”

“Be released immediately?”

“You will talk to me about your life.”

“What?” Rip chuckled. “You can’t be serious.”

“I never joke,” she told him with a straight face.

“Must be a boring life you lead here.”

Her frown returned. He must’ve hit a soft spot.
“Do you agree?”

“Do I have a choice?”

“You can say no.”

“Then what happens?”

“You spend the next few years in the dungeon.”

Having a bedroom upstairs would be nice. However, he didn’t trust her. And he didn’t negotiate with witches. Soon, his family would realize he was missing and began looking for him. His brothers were resourceful. They would figure out a way to free him. He just had to be patient.

“I choose the dungeon.” He smiled at the shocked look on her face.

“Are you serious?”

“I never joke,” he repeated her words from earlier.

Her eyes turned black. Sh*t.

“Fine,” she said in that deep voice she got whenever she started to look possessed. “Follow me.” She turned and walked away.

His feet began to move. Not because he told them to, but because she was controlling him, again. He would get free one day and when he did, he would show her how it felt to be controlled by another. They stopped when they reached the end of the hall. Kalina stood with her hands on her hips.

“Celeste!”

“He wants to be in the dungeon,” Celeste told her.

Kalina looked at him. “Is that true?”

“No. I want to leave this sh*t hole and…”

“Silence,” Celeste yelled.

His lips snapped shut. He was lucky his teeth didn’t crack.

“Being kind won’t work on him,” Celeste told her cousin.

“I see that now. But, torturing him is not the answer.”

“I’m not going to hurt him. He’ll remain in the dungeon at night and work in the forest during the day. That will be his punishment. He’ll get days off his sentence if he shares information that I need.”

“How long is he sentenced for?”

Celeste turned to stare at him. “That depends on how he behaves.”

He was going to be there for a long time.

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Coming 4/27/2018 – Mate Of Magic!

Hello. Happy Wicked Wednesday and welcome to, Witches Say The Darndest Things. I’m the head witch in charge, Siren Allen and all month long I’m sharing scenes from my paranormal novels that feature witches.

Today, I’m sharing a scene from my naughty fairy tale, Cinderella And The Wolf Prince. Trust me, you’ve never met a Cinderella like this one. Don’t believe me? Continue reading to find out. Enjoy!

THE PRINCE
Wulf St. Jamison is a cursed prince who’s finally found his princess. Or, at least, he thought he had. After spending one night in his masked female’s arms, he awakes to find her missing from his bed and from his life. No one seems to know who she is or where she came from. Was she real or just a creature his broken mind conjured up?

HIS PRINCESS
Cinderella Dupont only has two more months of servitude before she’s free to claim her inheritance and leave her hateful stepfamily behind. After playing the role of obedient daughter for so long, she craves one night of pleasure. She finds that in the arms of a handsome stranger, only to find out later that he’s the prince.
When he shows up at her door, she assumes he’s figured out that she’s the female behind the mask. That’s not the case. He’s there to hire her, the most powerful tracker witch in the land, to help him find his mate.

THE HUNT
Unable to say no to the prince, she pretends to help him search for the female he claims he’s unable to let go. Working by his side, day after day, she finds herself falling for him and toying with the idea of telling him who she really is.

As dark forces descend upon them, will he forgive her for her deception? Or will her stepmother’s vile declarations turn him against her forever?

Especially since everything her stepmother says about her is true.

She was growing more and more nervous by the minute.
Thankfully, Kara was seated next to her. If her friend wasn’t there, Cindi had no idea how she would be able to endure being this close to him. Her mysterious lover. The long-lost prince.

She couldn’t believe she’d slept with the long-lost prince. Wulf had barely said a word. But he kept making growling noises, that had her feeling both scared and strangely excited.

“Sorry to interrupt your girls’ night,” Quentin said. “But, this couldn’t wait. I even skipped breakfast to rush here. The staff usually has some pastries out. This morning, they didn’t. How disappointing. Don’t you hate it when there are no pastries?”

“Yep. That’s what we hate,” Cinderella muttered under her breath.

Wulf chuckled. The first non-growling noise he’d made. Somehow, it still sounded like it had come from an animal. She loved it. Wait. No, she didn’t.
Clearing her throat, she said, “Sorry, Sir Quentin, but I would really like to lie down.”

Yeah, she sucked when it came to hosting royals. Kara was no better than her.

“Perhaps you should just tell Cindi what you want her to do,” Kara said.

“Right.” Quentin rubbed his hands over his blue pants.

He looked so professional, like a royal should. Wulf. Cindi glanced in his direction to find him staring down at the floor. He looked unkempt. His hair hadn’t been combed. His shirt wasn’t buttoned properly and his shoes were untied.

Who wore tennis shoes with a suit? Yet, he made it work. He looked delicious. Oh no, she was starting to feel aroused. His gaze swung to hers. He inhaled, nose flaring. Time stopped.

It didn’t slow down. It stopped completely. That little voice in her head, the one focused on self-preservation, screamed for her to run. She didn’t have to. Because Wulf stood up, and stormed from the room, knocking her vase to the floor in his haste.

The others in the room sat there, too stunned to speak. Of course, it was Quentin who found his voice first.

“My cousin needs some air. He uh, doesn’t like to be in confined spaces for a long period of time.”

“He’s only been sitting here five minutes,” Kara pointed out.

Cindi glanced at her friend. “But, he’s spent years, centuries, in a cage. Being here, in this time, will take some getting used to.”

Understanding dawned in Kara’s eyes. “I didn’t even think about that. Poor thing. Will he be alright?”

“He will. In time. The queen and I believe that him finding a mate is a good thing. Maybe this female will help him feel more at home in the present. You know, help him feel grounded, like he belongs.”

“He feels like he doesn’t belong?” Cindi asked.

“This is all new to him. Some of our slang, some of our day to day activities, are foreign to him. He just needs a little time to catch on. And now that he’s found his mate, he needs her. A mated wolf will go mad if he doesn’t have his mate by his side.”

Broomsticks. All this time she’d been selfishly thinking of herself, not realizing that he would suffer. In her defense, she hadn’t realized it was the lost prince she was sleeping with. However, that changed nothing.

She still didn’t want to be mated to him. She had her own life. She wanted to live it the way she’d planned. She’d been waiting to be free for so long.
One night of pleasure wasn’t going to rip her dreams from her. Not now. Not ever. She was a witch. She would find a way to help Wulf and retain her freedom. There had to be a way.

She just needed time to think. Without him around. Because seeing him, it made letting him go, hard. And it wasn’t supposed to be hard. She’d only spent one night with him. Geez! Kara bumped her leg.

“What?”

Kara chuckled. “Sir Quentin asked you a question.”

Her friend was finding this entertaining. Cindi focused her attention on Quentin. “Sorry, sir. I was lost in thought. Thinking of all the horrors, Sir Wulf must’ve faced.”

“No worries, Cinderella. This situation has been difficult for us all. I was saying, well, I want to ask you to help him find his mate. But, you must keep this between us. Your stepmother must not know. I know you and Lady Katherine are not that close.”

“Never had been. Never will be.”

“Good. I mean, well, good is what I mean. She too is looking for the girl.”

“What?” Cindi and Kara both screamed in unison.

“Why?” Cindi asked. “How does she even know the girl exists?”

“What does she plan to do with the girl?” Kara asked.

“According to someone I trust, she’s going to use the female to set an example. The girl wasn’t supposed to be working the room she was in. I guess she was making money on the side. Lady Katherine will punish her for that. Then she’ll hand her over to Wulf, if he pays the mate price.”

“I’d forgotten about the mate price,” Cindi groaned. “Which is a small fortune.”

“The money isn’t an issue. If Lady Katherine harms Wulf’s mate, I fear he will lose it. He hasn’t… his mind isn’t… he’s not well. He will be. In time. If his mate is harmed, there’s a chance he’ll destroy the mansion and every witch in it. Then he’ll proceed to destroy every witch, wizard and wolf in the kingdom. If he tries that, he’ll have to be put down.”

“Sh*t,” Cindi muttered under her breath.

“This went from bad to worse in less than one minute,” Kara stated.

“There’s hope.” Quentin scooted to the edge of the couch and clasped his hands together. “We’ll find her first. Once Wulf has her, he won’t let anyone hurt her. And if we have to pay more than the asked for mate price to appease Lady Katherine, we will.”

Cindi sighed. “You really want Wulf to find his mate, don’t you?”

“I want him to find happiness. He deserves it, after all he’s been through.”
Cindi nodded. Guilt was eating away at her.

“We’d be happy to help,” Kara volunteered them both. “Right, Cindi?”

Plastering a fake smile on her face, Cindi agreed. “Of course. We just need something that belongs to his mate to use in our tracker spell.”

“Right,” Quentin agreed. “We have something. Or, he has something.”

“He does?” If they kept talking in unison, Sir Quentin would begin to suspect something.

“He does. However, he won’t show it to me. Only to you, since you’re doing the spell.”

What could he possibly have? Fates, please don’t let it be what I think it is. She could feel Kara glaring at her. Refusing to look in her friend’s direction, she kept her gaze on Sir Quentin.

“Whatever it is he has, I need it, so I can begin the spell.”

“Do you know how long it will take to track her down?”

“Um.” Cindi fiddled with the edges of her shirt. She really hated lying. And wolves could sense those kinds of things. “I can’t say for sure. I know wolves have great noses. If he hasn’t been able to sniff her out, that must mean she’s hiding.”

“Yes, but only because she fears Katherine.”

“Right. A witch who doesn’t want to be found, won’t be easy to track down. Therefore, I can’t give you a definite answer.” There, that was the truth.

“Understood. I’ll go get Wulf, so he can give you whatever item of hers he has.”

Cindi kept her eyes on Quentin as he stood up and walked out of her living room. She kept staring in the direction he’d went until she heard the front door open then close. Only then did she turn to Kara.

“I have totally f*cked up,” Cindi whispered loudly.

“Witch, you are f*cked to the moon and back.”

“What am I supposed to do?”

“I don’t know. What does he have of yours?”

“It can only be one thing.”

“The panties.”

“Those damn panties. Broomsticks.”

“This has to be the Fates bringing you two together.”

“Shut your mouth. Never say that again. The Fates wouldn’t do this to me. They know my heart and my dreams. I’ve suffered too much for them to do this to me.”

“But he’s here. With your panties.”

“You say that like he’s here with a wedding ring.”

“No, that’s what the humans across the ocean use. I guess wolves use underwear.”

“You’re not funny. None of this is funny.”

“You have to admit it, it’s kind of funny.”

“No.”

“A tad bit.”

“No.”

“A smudge.”

“Witch, no. This is a catastrophe. Be quiet. They’re coming back in.”

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