Fierce Enchantment (22 page)
He swallowed hard then kissed her softly. “You don’t need to thank me for any of that. I will always be grateful for having you in my life. I didn’t take a chance. I didn’t risk anything. We might not have done things in the order we should have, but we ended up where we needed to be. Together.”
She grinned then kissed his chin. “I think I should be on top this time.”
He laughed then rolled onto his back, his dick perking up at her words. “Anything you desire, my pixie.”
She rolled her hips and winked at him. “Better get used to saying that, wizard. For a long fucking time.”
“For eternity if I have anything to say about it.” He lifted his hips, and they both moaned.
He might have been the wizard, but he was utterly enchanted by the pixie in his life and soul. The fierceness of their love and the path to their future had shown him that happy endings weren’t filled with easy decisions and rainbows, but with sacrifice; love transcended realms.
He had his Faith.
He didn’t need anything else.
The End
Coming Next in the Dante’s Circle World
Fallen for Alphas where two wolves from Hunter’s Pack find their mate in a special novella.
And coming in 2016, Amara will find her path in An Immortal’s Song.
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Dust of My Wings
Book 2:
Her Warriors’ Three Wishes
Book 3:
An Unlucky Moon
The Dante’s Circle Box Set
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Book 3.5:
His Choice
Book 4:
Tangled Innocence
Book 5:
Fierce Enchantment
Book 5.5:
Fallen for Alphas
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Book 6: An Immortal’s Song (Coming Soon)
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan never thought she’d be a writer. Not really. No, she loved math and science and even went on to graduate school in chemistry. Yes, she read as a kid and devoured teen fiction and Harry Potter, but it wasn’t until someone handed her a romance book in her late teens that she realized that there was something out there just for her. When another author suggested she use the voices in her head for good and not evil, The Redwood Pack and all her other stories were born.
Carrie Ann is a bestselling author of over twenty novels and novellas and has so much more on her mind (and on her spreadsheets *grins*) that she isn’t planning on giving up her dream anytime soon.
Redwood Pack Series:
Book 1:
An Alpha’s Path
Book 2:
A Taste for a Mate
Book 3:
Trinity Bound
Book 3.5:
A Night Away
Book 4:
Enforcer’s Redemption
Book 4.5:
Blurred Expectations
Book 4.7:
Forgiveness
Book 5:
Shattered Emotions
Book 6:
Hidden Destiny
Book 6.5:
A Beta’s Haven
Book 7:
Fighting Fate
Book 7.5
Loving the Omega
Book 7.7:
The Hunted Heart
Book 8:
Wicked Wolf
The Talon Pack (Following the Redwood Pack Series):
Book 1:
Tattered Loyalties
Book 2:
An Alpha’s Choice
(Coming Aug 2015)
Book 3:
Mated in Mist
(Coming Soon)
The Redwood Pack Volumes:
Dante’s Circle Series:
Book 1:
Dust of My Wings
Book 2:
Her Warriors’ Three Wishes
Book 3:
An Unlucky Moon
The Dante’s Circle Box Set
(Contains Books 1-3)
Book 3.5:
His Choice
Book 4:
Tangled Innocence
Book 5:
Fierce Enchantment
Book 5.5:
Fallen for Alphas
(Coming Soon)
Book 6: An Immortal’s Song (Coming Soon)
Montgomery Ink:
Book 0.5:
Ink Inspired
Book 0.6:
Ink Reunited
Book 1:
Delicate Ink
Book 1.5
Forever Ink
Book 2:
Tempting Boundaries
Book 3:
Harder than Words
(Coming June 2015)
Book 4:
Written in Ink
(Coming Soon)
The Branded Pack Series:
(Written with Alexandra Ivy)
Books 1 & 2:
Stolen and Forgiven
(Coming Aug 2015)
Books 3 & 4:
Abandoned and Unseen
(Coming Sept 2015)
Holiday, Montana Series:
Book 1:
Charmed Spirits
Book 2:
Santa’s Executive
Book 3:
Finding Abigail
The Holiday Montana Box Set
(Contains Books 1-3)
Book 4:
Her Lucky Love
Book 5:
Dreams of Ivory
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From New York Times Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan’s Redwood Pack Series
There were times to drool over a sexy wolf.
Sitting in the middle of a war room disguised as a board meeting was not one of those times.
Gina Jamenson did her best not to stare at the dark-haired, dark-eyed man across the room. The hint of ink peeking out from under his shirt made her want to pant. She
loved
ink and this wolf clearly had a lot of it. Her own wolf within nudged at her, a soft brush beneath her skin, but she ignored her. When her wolf whimpered, Gina promised herself that she’d go on a long run in the forest later. She didn’t understand why her wolf was acting like this, but she’d deal with it when she was in a better place. She just couldn’t let her wolf have control right then—even for a man such as the gorgeous specimen a mere ten feet from her.
Today was more important than the wants and feelings of a half wolf, half witch hybrid.
Today was the start of a new beginning.
At least that’s what her dad had told her.
Considering her father was also the Alpha of the Redwood Pack, he would be in the know. She’d been adopted into the family when she’d been a young girl. A rogue wolf during the war had killed her parents, setting off a long line of events that had changed her life.
As it was, Gina wasn’t quite sure how she’d ended up in the meeting between the two Packs, the Redwoods and the Talons. Sure, the Packs had met before over the past fifteen years of their treaty, but this meeting seemed different.
This one seemed more important somehow.
And they’d invited—more like
demanded
—Gina to attend.
At twenty-six, she knew she was the youngest wolf in the room by far. Most of the wolves were around her father’s age, somewhere in the hundreds. The dark-eyed wolf might have been slightly younger than that, but only slightly if the power radiating off of him was any indication.
Wolves lived a long, long time. She’d heard stories of her people living into their thousands, but she’d never met any of the wolves who had. The oldest wolf she’d met was a friend of the family, Emeline, who was over five hundred. That number boggled her mind even though she’d grown up knowing the things that went bump in the night were real.
Actually, she
was
one of the things that went bump in the night.
“Are we ready to begin?” Gideon, the Talon Alpha, asked, his voice low. It held that dangerous edge that spoke of power and authority.
Her wolf didn’t react the way most wolves would, head and eyes down, shoulders dropped. Maybe if she’d been a weaker wolf, she’d have bowed to his power, but as it was, her wolf was firmly entrenched within the Redwoods. Plus, it wasn’t as if Gideon was
trying
to make her bow just then. No, those words had simply been spoken in his own voice.
Commanding without even trying.
Then again, he
was
an Alpha.
Kade, her father, looked around the room at each of his wolves and nodded. “Yes. It is time.”
Their formality intrigued her. Yes, they were two Alphas who held a treaty and worked together in times of war, but she had thought they were also friends.
Maybe today was even more important than she’d realized.
Gideon released a sigh that spoke of years of angst and worries. She didn’t know the history of the Talons as well as she probably should have, so she didn’t know exactly why there was always an air of sadness and pain around the Alpha.
Maybe after this meeting, she’d be able to find out more.
Of course, in doing so, she’d have to
not
look at a certain wolf in the corner. His gaze was so intense she was sure he was studying her. She felt it down in her bones, like a fiery caress that promised something more.
Or maybe she was just going crazy and needed to find a wolf to scratch the itch.
She might not be looking for a mate, but she wouldn’t say no to something else. Wolves were tactile creatures after all.
“Gina?”
She blinked at the sound of Kade’s voice and turned to him.
She was the only one standing other than the two wolves in charge of security—her uncle Adam, the Enforcer, and the dark-eyed wolf.
Well,
that
was embarrassing.
She kept her head down and forced herself not to blush. From the heat on her neck, she was pretty sure she’d failed in the latter.
“Sorry,” she mumbled then sat down next to another uncle, Jasper, the Beta of the Pack.
Although the Alphas had called this meeting, she wasn’t sure what it would entail. Each Alpha had come with their Beta, a wolf in charge of security…and her father had decided to bring her.
Her being there didn’t make much sense in the grand scheme of things since it put the power on the Redwoods’ side, but she wasn’t about to question authority in front of another Pack. That at least had been ingrained in her training.
“Let’s get started then,” Kade said after he gave her a nod. “Gideon? Do you want to begin?”
Gina held back a frown. They
were
acting more formal than usual, so that hadn’t been her imagination. The Talons and the Redwoods had formed a treaty during the latter days of the war between the Redwoods and the Centrals. It wasn’t as though these were two newly acquainted Alphas meeting for the first time. Though maybe when it came to Pack matters, Alphas couldn’t truly be friends.
What a lonely way to live.
“It’s been fifteen years since the end of the Central War, yet there hasn’t been a single mating between the two Packs,” Gideon said, shocking her.
Gina blinked. Really? That couldn’t be right. She was sure there had to have been
some
cross-Pack mating.
Right?
“That means that regardless of the treaties we signed, we don’t believe the moon goddess has seen fit to fully accept us as a unit,” Kade put in.
“What do you mean?” she asked, then shut her mouth. She was the youngest wolf here and wasn’t formally titled or ranked. She should
not
be speaking right now.
She felt the gaze of the dark-eyed wolf on her, but she didn’t turn to look. Instead, she kept her head down in a show of respect to the Alphas.
“You can ask questions, Gina. It’s okay,” Kade said, the tone of his voice not changing, but, as his daughter, she heard the softer edge. “And what I mean is, mating comes from the moon goddess. Yes, we can find our own versions of mates by not bonding fully, but a true bond, a true potential mate, is chosen by the moon goddess. That’s how it’s always been in the past.”