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    Zorth
    Zorth
    Zorth
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    Zorth

    By Crystal Dawn

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    They only had one night together but he knows she is his soul mate. He will search the whole world if he has to, but he's running out of time.
    She spent one crazy night with a sex god but now she can't get him out of her mind. She goes where she won't be reminded of him but is she just running away?
    Will they realize together they're unstoppable or will an ex-girlfriend and a crazy criminal mastermind keep them apart?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrystal Dawn
    Release dateDec 11, 2016
    ISBN9781370621309
    Zorth
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    Crystal Dawn

    When she’s not out hunting rogue vampires and werewolves, you can find Crystal Dawn out exploring the galaxy. She can do it all without ever leaving her computer. She kicks ass, takes names, and puts it all down for the enjoyment of her readers. At least that’s what I think she told me. Writing came as a natural outlet for her overly creative mind. She has always told stories and even written some but publishing books didn't start until 2012 with The Rebirth, was the first of the Planet Amazon books. Crystal has also been lucky to have some wonderful beta readers who keep her on track and help inspire her.Secretly, she crushes on all her sexy heroes because all her stories end happily. That is one of the things that makes writing such a joy. Knowing that it makes her reader's day a little brighter. Not that she doesn't read sad books sometimes. While still in school, she read Where the Red Fern Grows and cried like a baby. It was a wonderful book and sometimes a bit of sadness has to be put in books because that's part of life. While she reads all kinds of books at some time or another, PNR and SFR, which she writes is what she reads the most for pleasure.When she started writing, she decided on going Indie after the first two books because an author has more control. She believes Indie will compete well and continues to grow. The need to give pleasure to her readers keeps her going and she sees a long career ahead. Growing up mostly in the NW Arkansas area, it has given her a good place to set some stories and many of her characters come from there or nearby SW Missouri.The start of her stories is the easy part. Finishing them is a little harder when all the stories are in there trying to get out. She loves reading, chocolate, fine sweet wine, and traveling among a large list of pursuits. Her favorite people, after her family and close friends, are her readers who she says are some of the most wonderful people in this galaxy and the next.

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      Zorth the witch who is really a sex demon finds a mate in a white wolf cousin and must protect her from Chief and Jo's family

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    Zorth - Crystal Dawn

    Zorth

    By Crystal Dawn

    Witch Way Series

    Book 1

    Zorth

    2015 Copyright by Crystal Dawn

    Edited by Eagle Editing

    This book is a work of fiction. All contents, including

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    Dedicated to my fabulous readers.

    Zorth

    They only had one night together, but he knows she is his soul mate.

    He will search the whole world if he has to, but he's running out of time.

    She spent one crazy night with a sex god but now she can't get him out of her mind. She goes where she won't be reminded of him but is she just running away?

    Will they realize together they're unstoppable or will an ex-girlfriend and a crazy criminal mastermind keep them apart?

    Prologue

    He’d had her for one night and she’d been branded into his very soul.

    It had been early when he was called away for work and he’d been loathed to wake her. Zorth had been so certain she would be there when he returned. Had he been arrogant or just stupid?

    The witch would find out when he found her and asked why she’d left, but he knew so little about her. Once he’d looked around, he had found out that she was a white wolf.

    That made sense because he was drawn to all of those he’d met. It was more than just the blood. There were qualities that ran in that family that he admired and a few that drove him crazy.

    Zorth had gone to a few of the family’s gatherings, and she’d not been there. When he’d approached Marissa and Ariel for help, they’d tried to do what they could without offering up the females in the family to the insatiable witch.

    He was sure they knew he was something more, but he’d never shared that he had incubus blood with any of them.

    They’d run for the hills, he was certain of it.

    Chapter 1

    Searching

    He was tired, so very weary. It was no surprise as his search progressed that he lacked energy or enthusiasm for anything. An incubus demon that didn’t have sex wasn’t worth much to anyone. He wasn’t even worth much to himself. It helped that he was a witch as well and he could magically extend his energy for possibly as long as six months, but once that reached its end, he would practically be a walking corpse. An unpleasant thought to say the least.

    Most people didn’t understand the way things worked with an incubus or succubus demon. An incubus was the male demon and a succubus the female version. It was very simple really, they turned sex into energy. It was what they lived on for the most part. Yes, most of them ate food although they didn’t have to. He was a full blood incubus demon, but he also had magical talents that had led him to study witchcraft. Well, that and a certain witch that had drawn him in with her gorgeous body and exciting sexual knowledge. He’d not seen her in years, and she was probably ashes blowing in the wind since many witches, most supernaturals even, burned their dead.

    The phone rang and he answered it. Zorth, he growled into the cell phone. The gods help the fool who called if it wasn’t urgent.

    Sounds like you’re not in the best mood, the voice returned with humor evident.

    I see, Damon, you still have that talent for stating the obvious.

    And you’re still as diplomatic as ever.

    Now that we’ve reaffirmed our best qualities, why did you call?

    The truth of the matter is we need a super witch, he explained.

    Don’t you have Harry? Zorth was puzzled since he felt Harry could do anything they might need unless they came across a witch working for Chief that had superior powers.

    She’s gone.

    Gone where? Come on man, just lay it out for me. No more dancing around the subject, he growled his patience at an end.

    I’m sorry, Zorth. She was taken by another witch, and we can’t find her anywhere. The trail has gone cold. She was taken yesterday at a bar we were shutting down for dealing in the blood drug. It was a female witch who grabbed her, and they were gone in a flash. We shut everything down, searched the bar, questioned every person present, and searched the surrounding area. Harry is just gone.

    And you’re only telling me this now?

    Marissa’s here and she’ll tell you what she’s found.

    He’d never thought Damon a coward until this moment. He was handing him off to his wife? Didn’t he feel capable of handling his anger? Was he afraid he’d change him into a frog? He had half a mind to do just that. Marissa came on the line, her voice hesitant.

    Zorth? she said softly.

    Yes, he answered.

    I’m so sorry, she started.

    Sorry about Harry? he asked. He felt a pain in his chest. Was the young witch dead?

    It’s more than that. She was taken by an old witch named Serena. I believe you knew her well years ago, she observed.

    Yes, but how did you know? he wondered. Marissa hadn’t even been born or her mother for that matter back in the day when he’d met Serena.

    "I performed a show me spell. It showed me what happened and how she took Harry. If it makes you feel any better, I don’t believe she intends to hurt her. I believe she’s using her as bait to lure you."

    How did you find out her name?

    She told Harry, and she told her that she was a very old friend of yours.

    Just his luck, a scorned lover turns up in the middle of a major investigation to exact revenge. Where does she want to draw me to? He’d go, Harry didn’t deserve to be pulled into the middle of a long overdue confrontation between former lovers. He only wondered why she’d waited nearly a hundred years to have this confrontation.

    Claxton Inn, at least that’s what I understood. Does that mean anything to you? Marissa asked.

    Yeah, I know where she is.

    Want to clue me in?

    No, I’ll take care of this myself. Zorth insisted.

    He hung up without saying goodbye because he knew Marissa and she’d just keep pestering him for details until he got angry and told her off or mad enough to hang up. Why go through all that when he could just skip to the end? Packing a bag with everything he might need he hopped in his SUV. Zorth didn’t have a family take around and he didn’t like to drive others around, so it was just a plain seats five crossover. It was black, which suited him since he only used it for business. Setting his GPS, he then pulled out of his driveway. As soon as he hit the highway, he started making calls through his hands-free system. Since he was a demon, he had lived a long time and he loved his technology. It had come a long way even from the days when he and Serena had been together.

    Call Danny. It was funny that he only knew one Danny when it was such a popular name. That was probably because most supernaturals had a flare for unusual names and Danny wasn’t that.

    Hello, said a deep voice.

    It’s Zorth. I’m going to be in your neck of the woods, and I might need some back up.

    Tell me when and what you need.

    Zorth let out the breath he hadn’t realized he was holding. He didn’t know Ariel’s son that well, but he had done him a minor favor once. The demon didn’t know if he’d be willing to give him one in return or not. Damn it was good to have friends. Once he explained the situation to Danny, he became more invested when he heard the witch had Harry. It should have occurred to him they were friends since Harry was considered an honorary cousin of the white wolf clan.

    The white wolves were a bloodline the werewolves had thought long lost until Danny’s mother was found. Now they seemed to be everywhere in greater numbers than anyone could have imagined. They were loyal to a fault, to each other, friends, and even to allies. He now had hope that he would be able to free Harry and finally deal with Serena. He couldn’t say her name without memories surfacing.

    Those had been different times and they’d come together, each needing something from the other. Zorth wanted to learn magic. He had the aptitude and while he’d been born with his own kind of magic, he’d not been born a witch. He’d worked hard to blend the magic he had with the magic she taught him, and he’d done well if he did say so himself. His mistake had been getting involved on a personal level, but she’d been bewitching, pun intended. Her hair had been a vivid red like a flame, and he’d been a moth led right to it. Serena’s

    eyes had been emerald-green, bright, but filled with sensual secrets. Her body, the gods themselves had formed to torment the males of the world. Lips the deepest red, plump, and begging for a kiss. How could a sex demon resist a girl like that?

    For her part, she’d needed a protector and provider. It was a cruel world for a witch back then. Any strong male supernatural could take her and keep her to use as he would. She’d fallen for him even though he’d warned her about what he was and that he could never stay. He’d known right away that although she was tempting and lovely, she would never be the one for him for more than a little while. As soon as he suspected she was falling for him, he’d broken things off. They’d been together a little more than a year and he knew she’d taken it hard although she’d said little more than goodbye.

    It seemed she was the type to smolder. He had to wonder why she’d picked Harry. While it was true, he was fond of the little witch, she wasn’t family, a close friend, or even his novice. She had only the ties to him that hundreds of witches did in that he was, for lack of a better term, their boss. It made no sense to him and yet he was on his way. Maybe Serena had seen something that made her realize he would do the same for any of his witches. It made him feel vulnerable now that he acknowledged that weakness.

    His brain had been spinning the entire trip and while it made him feel stressed and half sick with the feeling, he was nearly there. Claxton Inn was an obscure place or at least it had been when he and Serena had stayed there. Built in the eighteen fifties, in nineteen fourteen it had already seen better days. It was a cheap and isolated place to hide out and learn magic where the rest of the world wouldn’t intrude. The place had once been a home of a reclusive wealthy merchant but had fallen into disrepair after his death. It had gone unclaimed by heirs and the small community had claimed it, selling it to a widow who made it a boarding house.

    He was surprised considering the shape it had been in, that it still stood. Zorth was shocked when he drove by it on the way to meet Danny when he saw it was now a historic building and had been fully restored to its former glory. It claimed to be the finest bed and breakfast in the area. He drove past it slowly, taking in all the details. Somewhere inside its walls, Serena threatened Harry’s safety and she’d have to be dealt with.

    Zorth drove on closer to St. Louis where he was meeting Danny, Ariel’s oldest son. Ariel was the matriarch of the white wolf clan. Danny was the pack alpha of his pack headquartered in St. Louis. He had fought an alpha challenge, a rare contest to the death, against the old alpha. He’d had his hands full trying to build loyalty in a pack where members expected to be mistreated, but he and his mate, a pack alpha’s daughter, had been bringing order to their area.

    He pulled into the bar and got out of his SUV. The witch walked past some big guys, probably wolves. The whole place was like a supernatural hangout, it was not a place where most humans would feel safe. Even the air carried a dangerous vibe and the smell of wet dogs. Not that he’d ever mention it. The odor was so strong and the vibe so intense, even a human would sense it. He saw Danny sitting in the corner with his wife and his beta. Some of his other wolves were spaced around the place for security. Danny would take no chances with his mate and if Zorth wasn’t mistaken, she carried a brother or a sister for the pup they already had.

    The demon watched them as he approached and could see the love, they held for each other. True love shone from their eyes when they looked at each other and he felt a pain in his chest at the thought that he might never find his one. He sat down in the chair Danny indicated and he felt a charge of energy as his demon powers recharged slightly by sucking the love out of the air. It might seem odd to others, but incubi thrived on this kind of emotion. They might be called sex demons, but love made a satisfying snack for them. Sex on the other hand was a meal.

    Zorth, Danny nodded in greeting. He’d forgotten that Ariel’s sons were both over six foot, broad shouldered, and well-muscled. It was easy to forget when they weren’t around, and she was on the small side of average. They weren’t as tall as he was, he was a giant few came close to in height or in muscles, but they weren’t small by any means.

    Danny, Dru, he acknowledged. It’s nice to see you, but I wish it were under more pleasant circumstances.

    Tell me again why they took Harry and who Serena is. It makes no sense that an ex-girlfriend from a hundred years ago takes what’s basically your employee hostage. Why didn’t she find someone closer to you? Danny asked.

    Because Zorth allows no one closer to him. Harry’s as close as anyone. Everyone likes Harry and Zorth is always protective of those he considers his. Aren’t you Zorth? Dru asked.

    I suppose you’re right. One’s as good as any. I wouldn’t want any of them to be hurt and I feel awful that Harry was taken like this. She’s been through enough and come through better each time. Harry’s matured and she’s been coming into her magic. Someday soon she’ll be perfect to be Cherry’s second, he replied.

    I suppose you plan to go in and you want some back up in case things get out of hand? Danny asked.

    That pretty much sums it up, Zorth said.

    He discussed everything with Danny including what they’d need to do to find Serena if she managed to take him out. He didn’t think she could, but he hadn’t seen her in a century. Zorth remembered when he’d met her how impressed he’d been with her magic, but he knew now she’d been a low-level witch then. It had all been smoke and mirrors and she’d played him like some snake oil salesman. He knew more now, and he’d blended his two magics which she’d never see coming since no one knew he was a demon. All demons had some magic of their own, but as a royal demon, he had more than most.

    The plan was decided and the time to act was now. He allowed Danny and his men to leave before him while one stayed behind to watch over Dru. She and Zorth ate a meal and spoke of people they both knew. Dru had grown close to Ariel before she’d mated Danny and she wanted to know about her and the two children she’d had. It was nice to relax, but soon he’d have to leave. He was just killing some time pleasantly, while Danny and his wolves got into place. When thirty minutes had passed, he said goodbye and left Dru and her guard behind.

    His drive back to Claxton Inn passed quickly and he found himself parking near the door in no time. He didn’t search around because someone might see and realize he had backup nearby. Zorth knew anyone would recognize him since his appearance and size made him stand out like a sore thumb. He went straight to the front desk and secured a room for the night.

    Hello, I’d like to get a room for the night, he told the young desk clerk. He was barely more than a boy with a smooth face that looked like it had never needed a shave. The youngster wore his hair halfway down his back. It was curly and dirty blond and he looked at him with big blue eyes that widened once he got a good look.

    I-I, let me check to see what we have available. Do you have any preference, Sir?

    The largest bed available, he replied.

    We have a king on the third floor. It’s actually the honeymoon suite so it will be higher than the other rooms, the boy said.

    How much?

    One hundred and fifty for the night, less if you want it for more than one night.

    One night will do.

    That will be a one hundred and sixty-five dollars with tax.

    He handed him the money. That’s less tax than I expected.

    That’s because we’re not in St. Louis. It’s higher there.

    Zorth grunted and the boy counted out his change, giving him a receipt and his key, and sending him on his way after telling him how to find his room. The demon could feel magic in the air, and it only got stronger as he went up the steps to the second floor. The magic drew him up to the third floor and it seemed to saturate the air. He took his

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