I Belong to a Witch — Episode 2: She Feeds on Me

The second chapter of I Belong to a Witch begins where the first left off, at Darius's own front door, with Morgana's rose vines winding around his wrists. She is in no hurry. She drifts toward him and offers an answer to the question that has haunted his love life: every woman he ever loved walked away because he has belonged to her since the day he died. He refuses her flatly, and she releases him at once. 'I never take what isn't given.'

Then the plot twists. Duke's eyes flare green, and someone is watching through the dog. Morgana lulls him to sleep, sits Darius down and confesses the whole tale: the miracle that saved him thirty years ago was her doing, and he was the price. He ought to send her away. Yet no one has touched him like this in years, and her hand is so warm, until the room goes icy and a dark-haired witch emerges from a green mist.