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  “Oh, Gareth,” was all Kat could say. “Did you see your king, anyone you knew?”

  “Yes. My second, Leto. He found me in the city when I was being attacked by the demons—”

  “Wait—you were attacked by demons!”

  “Ssh, do not concern yourself, Katrina. I came out of it fine, plus Leto was there to help me.” Gareth could not help but feel pleased at her concern for his welfare. “I was weak and my magic left me, but Leto cut down the demons I missed. My king and most of Herion’s people are safe in the mountains, but with each day that passes, the darkness moves forward.”

  “Your magic left because your body is weak from being pulled through time. This is my fault, my stupid fault for casting that love spell,” Kat said, misery evident in her voice.

  “No, it is not. Did you ever think, Katrina, that the spell would not have come through time and space unless it was fated to?”

  “I don’t know, Gareth, but I saw how much pain you were in. I couldn’t even touch you!”

  “But you fixed it, Katrina. I felt your power when you whispered the spell in my ear to make me sleep. And now I can’t feel the pull from the tear between our realms.”

  Katrina smiled. “I cast a spell, and I put a kind of bandage over the rip in time. It won’t hold long, but I knew if you were pulled back again, you might not survive it. Hopefully it will keep you here until we can figure out how to get you back safely and with full strength.”

  “It seems I have to thank you once again, Katrina,” Gareth said with a smile. He held the palm of his hand up to her, and he watched her eyes sparkle when a Silver Star pendant on a black ribbon appeared in his hand. “For you, the woman who plucked me from through the stars.”

  Kat took the small piece of jewelry from his hand and fastened it around her neck. “Thank you. It is beautiful! There is one more thing, Gareth. A decision I made.”

  “And what is this decision?”

  “When you go back through to Herion, when we find a way to get you there safely, I am going along. I will help you save your world,” Kat stated in a firm voice.

  Gareth watched her go back to making them breakfast and felt a surge of pride fill his chest. Katrina, the one once dubbed Scaredy Kat, had found her way to who she truly was in such a short time. He felt something else intermingled with that pride. Gareth was in love with Katrina; the feeling surprised him and filled him with joy. But how could he leave her behind or send her back to her realm when Herion was free from Genesis’s hold?

  * * * *

  Okay, I made the decision to go with him to go to Herion, Katrina thought to herself as she sat on the edge of the bed. Why is this next step so hard for me to take? After making breakfast for both her and Gareth they had spent countless hours pouting over the spells in her books to find a way to get then both back to Herion without the weakening effect it would have. Kat watched while her books did the same for her as they did for Gareth when he first touched them. It pleased her immensely to know that her powers were growing now she stopped being afraid of what might happen.

  She had made them an early dinner, and after they ate, she showed him how the shower worked and he cleaned himself up. She had no clothes he could wear, so while he showered, she washed his clothes, and as they dried, she shaved him with one of her pink razors. He did not seem to mind the attention she gave him, and Kat never realized how erotic it could be to stand between a man’s legs and shave him. After he went downstairs to go over her spell books once again, Kat prepared to take her own bath with other intentions in mind. But now there she sat on her bed unable to figure out how to begin her seduction of Gareth. She had it all planned out in her head, take a bath, lotion her skin to make it soft and smell like flowers.

  She went to her drawer and pulled out one of the few pieces of lingerie she owned to put on, a red nightie that shimmered like the gossamer wings of a fairy. Against the light brown color of her skin, the red went perfectly. But she still did not move off her bed. It’s not like you never had sex before, dolt, she chastised herself furiously.

  “Maybe it’s because this time you care about him more than you want to believe?”

  Kat gave a small squeak and almost fell of the bed when Mystique spoke up. “Why do you keep doing that?” Kat whispered furiously at the little pug sitting on the floor. “How did you get in here anyway?”

  “First, the door was cracked, and second, I could hear your thoughts from outside. He is important you so why not just go down there and let him see you in that? Trust me, you won’t have to do anything more,” Mystique replied with a smug tone.

  “This is ridiculous. Here I am getting sex tips from a dog,” Kat muttered under her breath.

  “Hey, little girl, you don’t see me having problems with my sex life, do you?”

  “Mystique, I don’t want to know. I really don’t.” She held up her hands to stop the little dog from talking. “Make yourself scarce pug. I have to go practice the magic of seduction.”

  Kat watched amused as Mystique walked out of the room grumbling about humans and their dumb sex lives. She stood and went in front of her standing mirror to look at herself one more time. She put on her bath robe and firmed her shoulders before walking down the stairs.

  Gareth was sitting on the sofa with a cup of coffee in one hand and turning the pages of the spell books with just a magical flick of his finger. She remembered how his finger felt inside her this morning, how excited it made her to watch him lick his finger after having in inside her.

  Gareth looked up and smiled as she came in the room. He looked at her standing there in her bathrobe. Kat felt her breath catch and some of the nerve she built up start to waver.

  “Is something wrong, Katrina?”

  “No, nothing is wrong, Gareth,” Kat replied, slowly slid the belt of the robe loose, and let the terry material fall off her shoulders to the floor. She watched his eyes widen in surprise and then darken to a deep green with arousal.

  “My mouth has suddenly got very dry. What manner of dress is this, Katrina?”

  Gareth looked at her as if she was some delectable dessert, and she was enjoying it. Kat walked slowly toward him, the light coming from the window as the setting sun cast shadows across the room and sent slivers of light through the sheer material. “This is called lingerie, and a woman wears it to seduce a man when she wants him to make love to her. Will you make love to me, Gareth?” Her voice was soft and sexy, weaving a different kind of magic in the room.

  “The women in Herion do not wear things like this.”

  “No women, just me, and you didn’t answer my question. Will you make love to me, Gareth, warlock of Herion?

  “I’ll answer it this way, Katrina.” The words rumbled from his chest like the growl of a lion before he pulled her down to his lap and took her lips in a searing kiss.

  Chapter Six

  Kat kissed him in return, and her eyes closed at the first contact of their lips. Gareth’s arms wrapped around her, and he took the kiss even deeper. His tongue grazed her teeth before he slipped it into her mouth to taste her. She could drown in his kisses. She loved how he sipped and teased her mouth. She pressed herself more intimately against him so she could feel the bulge of his arousal.

  A groan rumbled deep in his chest as she moved wantonly against him, letting her know it affected him the same way. “Katrina, let us go to the bed before I lose whatever thoughts I have left.”

  “No.” She nibbled his lips as she spoke. “Right here, right now.”

  Gareth moaned and kissed her again. She reveled in the way he devoured her mouth while he caressed her through the silky, sheer material. It was hardly a barrier to keep him from her full breasts. He filled his hands with the soft mounds, massaged them with a strong firm motion, and let her nipples bead to hardness against his fingers.

  “Yes, Gareth, just like that. I love how your hands feel on me,” Kat whispered the words and pushed herself more firmly into his palm. The feel of his touch
was something she craved.

  She pulled her shirt off in one smooth tug and flung it aside. Gareth sank his hands in her hair. He pulled her back so he could bury his face into her chest and took her nipple into his mouth. He sucked and played with one before moving to the other to give it the same attention. Kat held his head to her, and her head fell back in pleasure.

  “You taste so good, Katrina. I want more of you,” Gareth said against her skin.

  He took her lips again in a hot, hard kiss, which melted Kat to the core. How can his lips make me this hot? she wondered vaguely in the back of her mind. Her body reacted to him with a puddle of wetness that pooled between her thighs. Trying to ease the ache he had created, Kat pressed herself against him. His groan of pleasure told her how much he approved of what she was doing. His hands traveled up the back of her neck, and she sank her fingers into his hair once again and held his head while he feasted on her lips swollen from his kisses. Kat took the lead from Gareth and caressed his muscled chest. She moved against him, letting her nipples touch the thatch of hair on his chest and she gasped against his mouth as pleasure flowed through her. Like a sleek cat asking to be petted, she rubbed against him and enjoyed the sensations of flesh touching flesh.

  She tore her lips way from his and trailed kisses and tiny licks down his body until she reached the waistband of his pants. With deft fingers, she unsnapped the clasp, undid each button with a torturous slow movement, and let her fingers graze his hard cock through the material. Gareth jerked response to her touch and a sexy smile crossed her lips.

  “I want to taste you. Can I, please?” Kat asked with a sexy purr. She watched as he swallowed and only nodded. With his help, they got his pants and boots off, and he sat, his length hard and rigid. On her knees between his legs, Kat leaned over, flicked her tongue out, and licked the tip of his cock as if she were testing the flavor of one of her ice cream treats. She licked and kissed her way down and then back up his manhood while watching the pleasure cross his face and his hands clench and unclench against the sofa cushions. She took his hard cock in her mouth, let her soft lips slid down and up with a gentle sucking motion.

  “Oh, by the gods, Katrina, your mouth feels wonderful.” His words came out on a breath.

  Kat took her time pleasing him until she herself could no longer bear the sweet sensations running through her body and causing her skin to feel as if it was on fire. She loved his length in her mouth and did not know she could have such pleasure just by doing this for him. He pulled away from her when he could not stand it any longer and she stood in front of him. She let her sheer red panties fall to the floor. She loved how his hot gaze followed the line of her body, taking in every curve and dip of her womanly figure. She slid her hands up his chest to his shoulders, and she climbed over him once again to straddle his lap, her smooth thighs trapping his. Her small hand took his cock in her grasp and guided him to the entrance of her pussy. As she took him inch by torturous inch, a low moan escaped them both. It was as if their bodies were made for each other.

  “You feel like hot velvet wrapped around me,” Gareth said softly, his emerald gaze capturing hers.

  Kat began to move slowly and watched his eyes darken in pleasure and his fingers tighten on her hips and grip the smooth skin of her thighs. She lifted his hands to her breast, silently pleading with him to play. He obliged, caressing the pert voluptuous globes and sucking on her nipples as she set the pace of their love making.

  Her head fell back in pleasure as both sensations assaulted her senses at once. Her hips bucked against him and she took him deeper inside herself. “Oh, Gareth, I want more. Let me take more.”

  “Ride me hard, Katrina. Take it all,” he said between clenched teeth.

  He grabbed her hips, pulling her against him hard, and Kat cried out in pleasure. Their pace picked up and soon their moans and cries of ecstasy filled the air.

  Her womanly nectar flowed down his cock as they moved. “Oh, oh I can’t stop, Gareth. I’m going to come!”

  “That’s what I want, my love, fall with me.” He took her nipples in his mouth over again and sucked deeply.

  The sensations drove Kat to her orgasm on a shaky cry of pleasure. With her release, she felt Gareth let go. He pounded inside her until he groaned against her breasts and fell over the edge of reality. Kat didn’t know how long they sat there in a sensual haze. She occasionally shook as mini aftershocks flowed through her. Every time she spasmed, Gareth moaned because the sensation was doing delicious things to his body.

  “Katrina, are you trying to kill me?” he pleaded.

  “I can’t help it,” she said against his neck with a giggle.

  “I like that I can do that to you,” he said and kissed her shoulder.

  She lifter her head from against his shoulder, and a small gasp escaped her lips. “Gareth, look!”

  When his eyes opened, both Kat and Gareth looked around. The room was filled with a colorful aura. Blue danced with pink, purple, orange, and red, and they watched as the aura shimmered and covered their still-merged bodies until it was like they absorbed it back into themselves.

  “What just happened?” Kat whispered in wonder.

  “Magic, Katrina. That is what we have, what we are—pure magic,” Gareth responded before he claimed her lips again.

  * * * *

  Gareth lay in bed later that night with Kat snuggled up next to him. He listened as the rain hit the roof of her house and the glass of the window. He was so contented there with her, his body satisfied with their loving. But he could not sleep. Herion and its people who lived in mortal danger filled his thoughts. Earlier, he lay between her legs with his head propped against her thigh while she caressed his back and combed her fingers through his hair. He felt like purring as a lion would when being groomed by its mate. But even then, his mind dwelled on his king and the families that now hid in the mountains, protected by magic that could not hold out for long against Genesis’s dark magic.

  Katrina wanted to go with him, and he knew he would need her magic along with his to cleanse the Gem of Chale. From the time he had sensed her power, the true power inside her, he had known he would need her. There was a difference now. He loved her, and he did not know if he could put her in danger. Genesis’s wrath would be unmerciful when he found out that Garth was alive, and he would direct it toward Katrina if she came with him. The thought of her in danger chilled his heart but he had no other choice. I will protect her, he thought firmly, even if it takes my life, she will not be harmed.

  Kat turned and slid her soft hands around his waist, very close to where his cock had settled between his legs. Her touch alone and the feeling of her soft breasts and curves pressed against him caused Gareth’s manhood to tighten in arousal. Her face was so close to his he could feel her breath against his cheek. Her tiny snore caused him to grin once again. He turned toward her and kissed her shoulder, little open-mouthed kisses that let him taste her skin. Kat murmured in her sleep, and her hand slid to his already hard cock and took in it her grasp.

  Gareth closed his eyes and he trembled when he moved his hips to let his cock slide between her fingers. Kat’s eyes were still closed, but he could tell the difference in her breathing. She was awake but trying not to show it, maybe in hope that he would continue the exploration of her body. He gladly obliged, trailing kisses from her shoulder to her breast and filling his mouth with as much of the smooth globe as he could. Kat arched, and her hands buried into his hair holding him to her and encouraged him to take more. Gareth’s hands went down her smooth torso and slipped between her thighs. She was already warm and wet when he touched the sensitive bud of her clit and slowly rolled it under his thumb.

  A low moan escaped her lips. “Gareth, please.”

  “Please what, my love?” Gareth whispered between placing kisses on her lips. “Touch you like this? Let my finger go inside you like this?”

  As he spoke, he let his two fingers slip inside her and press deep into her warm,
waiting pussy. Katrina spread her legs wider, trying to take more of his fingers. He slid them in and out of her body over and over again, all the while rubbing her clit.

  “Yes please, like that baby, more please more,” Kat gasped.

  Gareth felt her tremble and rise to meet his fingers each time he slipped them inside her. Trying to keep his fingers inside, her pussy clenched and flowed around them. He could feel her release coming from how her body moved and shivered and her breath panted out of her body. Gareth took her nipple in his mouth and suckled as he touched her, sending her spiraling over the edge on a cry from her lips. He did not let her catch her breath. Instead, he lifted over her and drove his cock into her still-quaking pussy. Straining for control, he closed his eyes at the sensations that assaulted him. Kat was warm and wet, enclosing him like a glove. When her legs wrapped around his waist to bring him closer and her hips rose to meet his thrusts, he lost whatever control he had left.

  “Katrina, I want to be gentle with you, to please you!” Gareth said on a tortured moan.