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Sapphire marched into the clearing with Isaac and stood in front of Elmer’s cage of branches. She raised her hand, turning it all to ash in a matter of moments, her magic no longer bound now that the battle was over. Elmer stood there, his lips now freed, red-faced and furious.

Sapphire strode toward me. “How dare you…”

“You should stop talking before you say something you’ll regret. You made a mistake, coming after my family, and I promise you will live to regret it,” I said.

“Come after you? We had no idea we’d be fighting you tonight,” she ground out.

“As soon as I have proof of what you did, I will make you sorry.”

Sapphire’s eyes blazed. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“You’re lying…”

Elmer lifted his hands behind her, aiming them at me and Iris, and screamed a spell that had been forbidden for centuries, a spell so foul and torturous even the most sadistic witch would think twice before using it. I grabbed my sister, tackling her to the ground.

Elmer’s spell hit the witch behind me.

He dropped to the ground, screaming as his skin bubbled and burned, as his body ate at itself from the inside out, liquefying him while keeping his vital organs intact until the very end, so the recipient of the spell suffered through every moment, every second of the horrific torture.

Elmer stumbled back a step, a stunned expression on his face.

Warrick rushed to us, checking we were okay, then he spun on Elmer. The witch tried to back up, turned to run, but Warrick was on him in seconds. He didn’t bother with words; he wasn’t interested in fighting. No, he tore the other male’s head from his shoulders, turned around, and roared at the stunned bystanders, Elmer’s decapitated head dangling from his fist. His red gaze slid to a horrified Sapphire and Isaac before looking at the crowd surrounding us.

“If any of you ever come after my mate, or her family, you are declaring war with me and my brothers, and we will hunt you down and tear you to fucking pieces.”

No one said anything.

“Do you hear me?” he roared.

Witches nodded, some cried, then they all rushed to leave. I stood there, pretty shocked myself. If we weren’t outcasts before, we sure as hell were now. I guess it was a good thing we preferred it that way.

My silent and seriously stunned family followed the crowds, leaving Sapphire and Isaac in the clearing with Elmer’s remains.

“Thanks,” I said to Warrick when he walked up beside me. “You do realize you can’t just tear off the heads of everyone who tries to hurt me.”

He hooked me around the back of my neck, in that possessive way of his, and looked down at me, his expression fierce. “Yeah, dove, I fucking can.”

My savage little heart lit up.

Who could argue with that?

Chapter 29

Warrick

I fisted the sheet with one hand and buried the other in my dove’s hair. Her soft, wet mouth was working my dick, her hand cupping my balls, and I had to grind my teeth to stay in control, to stop myself from flipping her over and driving into her from behind.

Her other hand went to my thigh and her nails dug in. It was that little bite of pain that flicked the switch in my brain. I reached down and hooked her under the arms and dragged her up my body.

She straddled me and I felt her slick and molten against my stomach. I didn’t have to say anything, she reached back, positioned me, and took me inside the heat of her welcoming body, stretching around me easier now that I’d had her several times.

My beautiful mate moved on top of me, her wild red hair all over the place, her cheeks dark from her own need. Fuck, I was swelling inside her already. I brushed my thumb over her clit to get her there faster. “Feel good, dove?”

“So good.”

Her head dropped back as she rode me harder, her soft hair brushing my thighs, tits bouncing, and I was overwhelmed with a feeling so fierce and deep I gasped. I’d almost lost her tonight. She’d almost died horrifically right in front of me, and there’d been nothing I could do about it.

I hooked her around the waist, my other hand going to the back of her head, and I dragged her down, taking her mouth, needing her closer. Still, it didn’t feel close enough. “Don’t ever leave me,” I said, the words torn from somewhere deep inside me.