said the women of the Sisterhood were more powerful than the men bound
to them. You changed it to ‘in service’ but I felt something was wrong when you
said it.”
Nicole got to her feet, crossed her arms and stared out at
the water. She wanted to be furious with him. But as sincere feelings of
devotion and loyalty flowed from him and wrapped her in a protective, loving
cocoon, she couldn’t stir up anything stronger than mild annoyance. Then even
that slipped away. However, she wasn’t ready to let him off her hook just yet.
She knelt beside him on the comforter and poked his
shoulder. “You lowered the block for me to feel your honesty, but there was
something…an omission of truth. Is this it? We’re now bound together forever,
whether I like it or not? For better or for worse?” The hurt her words evoked
sliced its way directly into her heart, and she immediately regretted them.
“That was part of it. But you’ve misunderstood. I am bound
to you. To protect you at all costs, including my life. But if, after today,
you choose not to have me in your life, so be it. I’ll make myself scarce and
you can go on with your life. But if you ever have need of me or my services,
all you will have to do is say my name.”
“But I can choose to have you in my life just as well,
right?”
“Right,” he said, a bit more hopefully.
“And what else? You said being bound to me was just part of
what you’d kept hidden.”
“It’s about your role in the Sisterhood.”
“Go on.”
“There is always a Great Mother of the Sisterhood here at Shadowling.
And there’s always an apprentice who lives here with her. Adrianna is the Great
Mother’s current apprentice. One day soon, the Great Mother will pass and
Adrianna will ascend.”
In a flash Nicole understood. Somehow the knowledge had
always been there, waiting to be awakened. Waiting for him to awaken her
to her destiny. “I’m the next apprentice. I’ll be living here, learning from
Adrianna.” A small part of her mind was still ready to rebel against having her
life flipped upside down, but as the seconds passed and she let her intuition
take over, she felt the rightness of it all.
“Why you, Brett? Why not some other master wizard?”
“It was a logical choice,” he said, staring up at a passing
cloud. “I’m the great-grandson of the Great Mother.”
She felt his avoidance of the whole truth as clearly as the
sunlight. He no longer had a block of any kind keeping her out of his mind, but
she wanted to hear him say what she was picking up. “And?”
“And once I saw you, I couldn’t stand the thought of any
other man binding himself to you.”
She turned his face back to her. “You make it very hard for
a girl to resist you.”
He shrugged and gave her a crooked grin. “If you’ll permit
me to be in your life, I’ll do my best to keep on making it very, very hard every chance we get.”
Her gaze skipped down his body and his cock gave her a
salute. She shifted in order to do what she had intended when they first got on
the sandbar. She ran one fingernail up and down his sex. “So, just to make sure
I understand how this is going to work, if I order you to let me make you come
in my mouth, you can’t refuse, right?”
He smirked at her. “Right, but remember what I said, I can make you work for it.”
“Right,” she said with a smile and lowered her head. Her
lips enveloped the head of his cock as she strummed the sensitive sac at the
base then dipped lower to apply pressure to the nerve center just beyond. His
body tensed, but then he parted his thighs so she could do it again more
easily.
But she made him wait for the replay until she slid her
mouth down his engorged penis, licking the length of him and scraping him with
her teeth on the return glide. Down, hold, scrape, up. Again. And again. With
the next upward stroke, she sucked hard and pressed her fingers against the
little nerve bundle she’d found.
His groan came from