33. Autumn
“Hey Autumn.”
I looked up to see Raven standing awkwardly in the doorway. I frowned at him because Raven was never awkward or uncomfortable around me. He usually exuded confidence in all things.
“What’s up?” I asked him as I sat the deck of tarot cards down on the table. Arie had sent them to me along with a box of a bunch of other goodies from the shop she owned along with her husbands.
I absolutely adored everything, but the cards were my favorite, so far. They gave me little tingles every time I touched them and my intuition kicked in.
“You want to take a walk with me? I have something to show you.”
That piqued my curiosity right up.
“Okay,” I said as I slowly stood up.
He took my hand in his as he led me out the door. I expected him to take me up to the house. I was confused when he started walking towards the woods.
If I was honest, I missed being in the woods and one with nature. But I avoided the woods because I was trying to be as normal as I possibly could be.
But it wasn’t really working for me and I was trying to hide it. I absolutely did not want any of them finding out and thinking they weren’t giving me everything that I needed, because they were.
This wasn’t about them, it was about me and who I was as a person.
I was a born forest witch and that wasn’t something I’d ever be able to shake.
Sometimes I just wanted to feel like I was one with the forest again.
He stopped abruptly and pointed up at something. “Look. That’s yours. We built it for you. It’s your gift for joining our coven. There’s a courting phase that we didn’t get to go through because of the extreme circumstances in how you came to be with us and everything that followed. Usually the coven is expected to buy gifts and things and take their potential family out on dates. You missed out on all of that. You’re also not materialistic because of how you were raised. So we thought since we were already doing things differently and it’s clearly working for us so why change now.”
I didn’t want gifts and thought the whole concept sounded bizarre to me. Why would they buy me gifts when they’d given me themselves as my family and that was the greatest thing they could ever give to me.
“I don’t need anything,” I whispered in a voice full of emotion. “I already have everything I could possibly ever want.”
He grinned at me. “Yeah, honey, I know you feel that way. It’s one of the reasons why you’re so perfect for us. But, just because you don’t need anything doesn’t mean we aren’t going to give you anything. You deserve the world and it’s our job to see that you get it.”
That was sweet, really, but I didn’t want them to give me things. I didn’t want there to be an unbalance in our relationships. I wasn’t able to give them materialistic things because money didn’t have any meaning to me. I had never had it, never used it, and I had no desire to start now.
This was something the guys and I had already talked about and they agreed and wholeheartedly supported me in this. They were more than happy to take care of all of the bills and everything and assured me that my living here didn’t really affect these things for them.
I wasn’t so sure I believed that but I agreed with them that I wasn’t going to worry about it.
I was living in a happy little bubble and was glad to be able to stay there.
My upbringing meant that I wasn’t a normal witch and I could stress or worry about that fact but it would do me no good to do so. They clearly had no issues with it and didn’t want or need me to change in order to fit in with my life here with them. I appreciated them more for it. It was also another reason why we fit so well together. They loved me for my differences and it truly was a beautiful thing for me to experience.
“Come on,” he said as he tugged on my hand. “Let me show you.”
I smiled gratefully at him and let him lead me where he wanted to. I’d follow him anywhere, all he had to do was ask.
When he stopped walking he squeezed my hand. “Look, baby,” he encouraged in a gentle, probing voice.
I took a deep breath and did as he asked.
And almost choked on the air as it filled my lungs.
There was a tiny house built up into a tree in front of us.
”“What?” I didn’t. Understand what I was looking at but I thought it was incredible.
A staircase led up to the treehouse and there was a deck that wrapped around it. Lights were wrapped around the railing on the stairs and the deck.
I walked up the stairs hand in hand with Raven while listening intently to him as he explained to me what I was seeing.
“You’re a forest witch and it’s always going to be a part of who you are. I know you love the big house and especially the greenhouse but we wanted you to have a space that was just yours, all yours. So we built this little treehouse for you. Obviously I don’t want you to move out here or anything but I thought it would be great for you to have a space where you could just be and feel like you’re connected to your roots again.”
Tears pricked the backs of my eyes. This was the most thoughtful thing he could have ever done for me.
“How did you know?” I whispered in a hoarse voice full of emotions.
He smiled kindly at me while he brushed away the tears on my cheek with a gentle finger. When he pulled his hand away he licked the wetness from his fingertip.
“Honey, I pay attention to everything about you,” he told me. “I’m borderline obsessed with you. If you aren’t going to tell me what you need then I’m going to try my best to be a mind reader so I can figure it out.”
I had noticed his obsession with me. I just thought it was normal behavior though because I was equally as obsessed with him.
He opened the door and pulled me inside.
It was one room and not a large space but a seriously cozy one. The space was filled with a very large L shaped sofa covered in pillows. The floor was covered in a fluffy rug that looked like it was some kind of an animal fur. There were lights strung up everywhere and a fireplace in the corner of the room that would keep the space nice and cozy in the winter when it was freezing outside.
Windows were everywhere, which helped to keep the space from being too dark. And there was a set of French doors that opened up onto the deck.
“This is for me?” I asked in awe and wonder. “You built me a beautiful treehouse in the woods. Are you for real right now?”
He sat down on the couch and pulled me down into his lap. He pushed my hair back from my face and cupped my cheek. “This is all yours. I know you’ve claimed the greenhouse as your own and I love that but now you have something that really just is all yours. And you’re out in the woods where you belong but not too far from the house so it’s still safe. Do you like it, are you happy?”
Was he for real right now?
I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and pressed my forehead to his. “I’m more than happy, Raven. I love it. Thank you so much for this. It truly is amazing. I am so blessed with the coven I was lucky enough to have found. You guys are my everything.”
It truly was amazing and I was so grateful for all of them.
I had never experienced love before but I was pretty sure this was love that I felt for this man. Love that I felt for all of them.
He pressed his lips to mine in a gentle caress. “You’re welcome. I just want you to be happy.”
He pressed his lips to mine again and kissed me. It started out gentle and sweet but quickly turned into a tangle of tongues that left me panting and gasping for breath.
“What do you want, baby?”
I squirmed on his lap. “Everything,” I rasped in a husky voice. “I want everything from you and I want to give you everything in return.”
I didn’t want him to make me say it. I was shy and inexperienced and he knew it.
“I can give you everything.”
He grabbed me by my ass and lifted me up, flipping me over onto my back on the couch. My legs fell apart and he laid down in-between them and pressed our hips together. He went back to kissing me and his hands roamed all over my body.
He tugged my shirt down, exposing my breasts and my nipples immediately tightened and puckered.
He kissed his way down my throat and over my collarbone. He palmed my breasts and pushed them together as he kissed and lavished all over the both of them with his lips and his tongue. He flicked his tongue over my nipple before sucking it into his mouth. He let it go with a loud pop and moved over to the other one, sucking it into his mouth.
I moaned loudly as I grabbed hold of his hair and held him to me. I would hold him to me forever if I could because this was the best feeling I had ever experienced. It always was every time he touched me.
“Everything,” he chuckled as he pulled my pants down my legs and dropped them down onto the floor. “That’s a tall order, but I think I’m definitely up for the task. At least I know I’m going to have lots of fun trying to give you the whole world that you deserve.”
He buried his face in my crotch and inhaled. “Yes, so much fun trying.”
My laugh was cut off abruptly as he pulled my panties aside and his tongue probed at my entrance.
“I take it she likes it,” I heard Scout murmur and I blinked slowly as I looked up and over.
Scout, Mason, Gunner, and Liam all stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the French doors.
I had to clear my throat before I was able to speak. “Where did you guys come from?”
I hadn’t heard a thing. I had been so absorbed in what I was doing with Raven that the whole world could be burning down around me and I wouldn’t have even noticed.
They all grinned at me.
“Don’t feel bad for not noticing us, babe.” Gunner’s smile got even bigger. “If Raven had his face in between my legs I probably wouldn’t have noticed anything else either.”
“Christ,” Raven mumbled and I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Are you happy, Autumn?” Liam asked as he crouched down beside the couch and in front of me. “Do you like it?”
“I love it. It’s perfect for a forest witch like me.”
“You’re perfect,” Scout told me.
“And not just because you’re a forest witch,” Gunner said.
“The last forest witch,” Mason murmured.
“The only female witch for this coven,” Raven grinned up at me from between my legs. He rested his head on my thigh. “You’re ours, baby, and you own us body and soul.”
Body and soul.
I liked that.
I loved them.
But I didn’t think I was the last forest witch out there.
Not by a long shot.
The End.