KISSED BY WATER
The Watchtower Chronicles #3
Delwyn Jenkins
Released Sept 24th, 2015
Momentum
Charlotte McLaren is tired of being
the good girl - the shy, gentle soul that everyone tiptoes around in case she
startles. She wants to be strong and decisive, as powerful and independent as
her Witch-sisters. She’s determined to join in the fight against their enemy
and to do that she has to challenge everything she’s been taught to believe.
Tristan, a Watchtower Knight, has
spent three agonizing months locked in a hell of dark magic - and he emerges a
changed man. No longer fun and carefree, there’s a darkness in him now that
stalks and prowls, just waiting to escape. A darkness he’s desperate to keep
from everyone he cares about, especially the lovely Charlotte.
But his water Witch lures him with
her innocence and determination, making demands he’s not sure he can fulfill.
His honor demands he walk away, but his heart already knows it’s too late.
EXCERPT
Tristan followed Charlotte
She licked her
lips – a nervous habit he normally found endearing. Right now it just set him
on edge. “Tristan, I want to ask you something.”
No. He knew what
she was going to ask and he couldn’t let the words leave her lips. He was
afraid if she gathered the courage to make the request he wouldn’t be able to
deny her. And he had to.
“Charlotte
The dejected
slump of her shoulders was akin to a slap, and he felt the pain of it right
down to his soul. She took three breaths, then four, and on the fifth she
straightened her spine and looked him in the eye. “I haven’t actually asked
anything yet.”
“You don’t need
to.” His heart slammed against his ribs and the need to say yes warred with the
necessity of saying no. “I can only think of one thing that would charge your
energy with that particular mix of fear, determination and want. You intend to
trigger your Quickening, and with the connection we’ve forged, you’re
considering me as a partner.”
She stared at him
and he sat quietly, allowing her the time to come up with a considered
response.
“Do you have any
idea how hard this is for me?” Her voice was steady but her agitation rolled
off her in waves.
“Yes, I do.”
Before he could stop himself, he reached out and he placed his hand over hers.
“I know you, Charlotte
There were so
many reasons he was a bad choice for her – he was a womanizer, incapable of
forming relationships that lasted more than a couple days. He was a Knight,
bound to the service of the Watchtower and compelled to live his life in the
World Between. Charlotte
And knowing all
that, he still would have been bastard enough to say yes before his foray into
the dark. Regardless of the sensible reasons they were wrong for each other,
right now the only thing keeping him in check was his need to protect her from
the darkness.
He couldn’t tell
her that, of course. So he stuck with the most obvious truth. “You need a male
who will care for you, Char. One who will lead the dance slow and easy, who
won’t push you further than you want to go.”
“You total idiot.
You don’t see me at all, do you?” She took a couple of unsteady steps and her
voice rose. “Do you think that’s who I am? Some timid rabbit that has to be led
around on a ribbon because she’s too stupid and cowardly to go after what she
wants?”
“What? No, of
course not –”
“Be quiet! I’m
talking now.”
Tristan clamped
his mouth shut. Charlotte
She stalked
closer, her body almost vibrating with rage. It was Charlotte
“What I want,”
she said, her voice low and seething, “is to live. I want passion and
excitement. I want to dance in the rain and kiss in the moonlight. I want
reckless and edgy, not boring and safe. A lot of things changed while you were
asleep, Tristan the Seducer. Don’t presume to know me or what I want anymore.”
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Delwyn Jenkins likes radical career changes. After
serving in the Australian Navy for ten years (and being exceptionally
disciplined) she switched to a full-time university Arts student (where getting
out of bed before 11am proved traumatic). She’s worked as a teacher, an editor,
and now writes full time - a career she plans to stick with for as long as
anyone wants to read her stories.
She’s an avid reader and movie-goer, an amateur belly dancer, and
a disinterested cook. She live on the beautiful south-east coast of Australia
where the changeable weather suits her mercurial nature.She writes sexy,
sensual paranormal romance as Delwyn Jenkins and also writes erotic romance
under the pen-name DJ Michaels.
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The Watchtower Chronicles Series
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