Cursed Awakening-Paranormal Romance
An ancient evil has
returned and betrayal is everywhere. In the midst of all hell breaking loose,
two hearts-one wild and the other one still wounded will stand before hell
itself to fight for what's right and for a love forged from a Cursed Awakening.
Ivy Morgan has re-invented herself and is looking forward to the future for the first time, in a very long time. Since fleeing for her life from an overzealous religious cult, she is able to be a modern woman that is gaining her independence; so taking up with a sexy stranger named Nyx is the last thing she needs. Or, is it?
Nyx Wahpeton can't stop thinking about the young woman he’s met. It couldn't have come at a worse possible time; with the clans meeting and his family wrapped up in a centuries old war that’s nothing short of what horror movies are made from. He’s been a protector of his people and those that reside at the Reservation. There’s betrayal and evil at his front door; but, in his heart he knows Ivy is the one for him. She’s surrounded by secrets that he’s vowed to unlock, as well as her heart. However, can he keep her safe from his own secrets?
Ivy Morgan has re-invented herself and is looking forward to the future for the first time, in a very long time. Since fleeing for her life from an overzealous religious cult, she is able to be a modern woman that is gaining her independence; so taking up with a sexy stranger named Nyx is the last thing she needs. Or, is it?
Nyx Wahpeton can't stop thinking about the young woman he’s met. It couldn't have come at a worse possible time; with the clans meeting and his family wrapped up in a centuries old war that’s nothing short of what horror movies are made from. He’s been a protector of his people and those that reside at the Reservation. There’s betrayal and evil at his front door; but, in his heart he knows Ivy is the one for him. She’s surrounded by secrets that he’s vowed to unlock, as well as her heart. However, can he keep her safe from his own secrets?
Book
Cover: Artist-Kayden McLeod of Otherworlds Publicity
About Me:
Being a mother of 2
sometimes makes one wonder, "Are the monsters running around the house
scarier than the ones I write about?" I haven't answered that question
just yet! My name is Nikki Noffsinger and I am the author of Cursed Awakening
published by Evolutionary Publishing. I write all sorts of stories but my
favorites are all inspired by my love of fantasy and the paranormal. I started
at a tender age loving both books and horror movies and writing paranormal
romance gives me a vehicle.
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Excerpt
There was a knock at Ivy’s bedroom door.
“Come in.” she called glumly.
In walked Nyx. Ivy’s heart stopped. He was
absolutely gorgeous. She smiled as he bent down to avoid hitting his head on
the door frame. Her bedroom seemed suddenly very small. Ivy stood and threw her
arms around him and he didn’t waste any time putting his own around her.
“You came back!” she beamed.
Nyx smiled, “I told you I would baby! How
have you been?”
“I’m better now that you are here!” Ivy
said as she pulled him to her bed.
“Ivy, you look tired sweetheart. Come here
and let me hold you!” Nyx said as he laid down with her on the bed tucking her
into his chest.
He stretched to turn out the lamp and Ivy
rose with a start.
“I, I…I don’t sleep with the light off.”
She stammered as she looked down at him.
Nyx’s heart pounded for the misery she had
endured.
“It’s okay baby we’ll leave it on then!
Just lay back down so I can hold you!” he cooed.
Nyx snuggled her back down against him. He
caressed her face with his fingertips and couldn’t resist kissing her. How he
wished he could kiss away all her pain! Ivy rested her hands on his massive
chest. She could spend the rest of forever kissing him! His lips were gentle
but powerful. As his free hand rubbed up and down her back she felt tingles of
electricity going through her body. She was putty in his hands.
He pulled back, “Ivy, will you tell me why
you are afraid of the dark?”
Ivy felt the wetness behind her eyes. She’d
never feared the dark until…
She struggled for words. She had told him
the worst parts so what was one more?
“During my…pur…purification, I was put in
the dark. When it’s dark, I can’t breathe.” She admitted.
“Ivy what is purification?” Nyx asked as he
wiped away a tear that had escaped down her cheek.
“It’s a ritual to punish insubordinate and
disobedient women. When a woman is judged for it, she is stripped of clothing
and made to kneel down on shards of glass and rock salt. Next she has to hold
in one hand a bible and the other a big book of the doctrines for hours,
sometimes days. Every time the books are dropped or the woman falters the glass
and salt cuts into them and the woman is beaten.” Ivy took a breath and avoided
his face. The trembling was back; she could feel that sickly sticky
perspiration forming on her forehead and on the back of her neck. However she
had told him this much she might as well finish.
“Next the woman is put into the sacred
isolation which is basically a dark box where she is not given any food or
water. It is a fast so that the woman can meditate. The box is far away; into
the wilderness and there is no real protection from the cold, rain, or even the
snow. There are holes that are drilled for air but that’s it. It’s like being
in a coffin because you can’t move or sit up. You just lie there. Finally the
woman is taken out and stretched out upon the alter in the House of Worship and
the Elders, that 49
are able to…cleanse the woman so that she
can be welcomed back into the fold.” Ivy choked on a sob.
Nyx took a breath he was going to hate what
he would hear but he had to ask, “How do they do the final cleansing?”
Ivy couldn’t hardly speak, “They…they each
take a turn at having...sex…’putting the seeds back’ as they call it.”
Rage seethed through Nyx. He wanted blood
for what had been done to Ivy! It disgusted him of how she had been treated and
in the name of some religion made him that much more volatile.
Ivy started to pull away but he just
clutched her closer, “Remember what I said Ivy…remember!”
“Nyx, how can you even look at me knowing
what was done to me?” she cried.
“Because Ivy, when I see you…I see you; not
what was done to you! It wasn’t you’re fault and they had no right to treat you
that way!” Nyx took a deep breath and looked at her with soft and loving eyes,
“Ivy…will you let me love you?”
Ivy looked at him and could see the passion
and desire filling his eyes. Those blue eyes seemed to almost glow. Nyx bent
his head and nuzzled her neck up to her ear, “Please Ivy….will you let me love
you?”
“Nyx…I don’t know w-what to do! I never
once made love to my husband. I just laid there like I was told to do because I
was taught that sex was not to be enjoyed…it was wrong if it was pleasurable.”
Nyx looked into her eyes and placed a hand
on her cheek, “Ivy, I won’t hurt you, I promise! I…can’t explain it but I have
to be with you! I want to worship your body! I want to make you feel drunk from
it; so drunk that you never again feel hurt or unloved!”
He hovered over her lips waiting for her
answer. Ivy didn’t know really what to do! “You might not like how I feel and I
don’t want to make you….” He interrupted her with a kiss.
Nyx kissed her while he moved his hands to
the bottom of her t-shirt. He began to pull her shirt up and then lowered his
head capture her breast. He traced it with his tongue making her gasp. Nyx
began to suckle on her and she nearly came up off the bed. He kissed a trail
from each breast down to her stomach. Very gently and easily he pulled her
boxer shorts and panties off.
He alternated nibbling on her hip bones and
kissing them. Then suddenly he stopped. Ivy looked up and his face was total
adoration.
“W-What is it? She stuttered breathlessly.
He looked up at her face, “Ivy you are so
beautiful! I’m looking at you and all I see is beautiful!”
On instinct she caught a wave of modesty
and moved her hands to cover herself. He took her hands gently and moved them
away, “No Ivy, let me look at you! You are perfect…absolutely perfect!”
To prove his point he kissed the insides of
her thighs and then he began to lathe at the jewel that was obscured by tiny
auburn curls. Ivy jerked and arched. She hissed at the sensations of what he
was doing to her. Nyx licked and teased her into an orgasm. When she came; she
came hard and he held her in place as her hips bucked.
“Not yet Ivy, give it to me…I want to taste
you!” his voice was deep and husky as he went back to pleasuring her.
Ivy shattered and when she felt him slide
in two fingers she came undone! She cried out and balled her fists up in the
sheets. Ivy had never known such pleasure. When he was sure she couldn’t take
much more he moved like a predator until he was hovering over her. He pulled
his shirt off and Ivy for the first time saw how really beautiful he was. Nyx’s
tawny gold body was lean and muscular. Ivy took shaky hands and touched his
body. Her hands explored him and Nyx’s eyes nearly rolled in the back of his
head at her touch. The sensation of her touches and her fingernails on his
chest was nearly his undoing. He growled in want and need. He laid over her and
she wrapped her arms around his neck. His hair cascaded like a silk curtain
framing her face for just him.
“Ivy…I want to be inside you, but I won’t
do anything more unless you want me to!” he breathed.
Ivy was nearly panting. She wondered what
he’d feel like. She wondered what it would be like to be with someone who
cared. She lifted her legs and put them on his hips guiding him towards her.
Nyx let her push his sweats down with her feet and then smiled as he guided
himself to her. Ivy got a little afraid when she felt the head of him touching
just outside of her core. “Are you sure Ivy? I promise I won’t hurt you!” he
whispered as he kissed her gently.
Ivy nodded and tried to relax. Nyx was gentle
as he slid inside her.
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