Mated Enemies

It’s some weird chemistry thing that I never really understood and never paid much attention to before because I always thought I had time, another couple of years at least. But because I’d somehow gotten use to him in my dreams my resistance had been compromised.

Had that been by design? And if so, whose? Whatever the reason I found myself turning to him, obeying his command and got lost in the smoldering look in his eyes. ‘Soon!’ I felt the word more so than heard it, like a finger trailing sweetly down my spine and just that easily he drew my nymph out to play.

I felt all vestiges of decorum slip away, my fairy had left the building. Overthrown and overpowered by the more seductive nymph who was in her element. But this was no high school boy to toy with and retreat as I pleased.

In my mind I was screaming not now, not here, but I knew it was too late. She had an audience, someone whose sole focus was her. There was no way for me to reel her back in now. I dipped my finger in my strawberry milkshake and fished out the cherry on top after dipping it into the sweet concoction over and over again.

Without a thought to who might be looking, I turned my head around slowly as if challenging him and lifted the fruit to my lips sliding it seductively between my teeth, and licked it with my tongue. I heard his hiss in the dark recesses of my mind and realized my mistake too late.

He was up and out of his chair before I got the first bite in. I’m not sure if anyone else noticed that his feet hadn’t touched the ground as he moved his approach was so swift, but I did. Nymph found this show of immortal power somehow sexier than anything she’s ever seen before.

When he reached our table and leaned down to whisper in my ear, the touch of his lips against my flesh made my body twitch. “Behave yourself!” I rubbed my cheek against him like a petted kitten before my fairy fought like hell to find her way back.

It’s only when he stepped back and away leaving just a little space between us that she was able to win the fight and bring myself back under some semblance of control with great effort.

Mortified, that’s the only word to describe what I felt and the looks on my sisters faces only cinched it. I wanted to get up and run but too late I remembered that he could now read my mind. ‘Stay!’ Somehow talking to him in my mind seemed more intimate than if he’d whispered the word out loud.

I could feel my sisters’ unease now mixed with a heavy dose of fear. And then Annalise, who always tries to be brave even in the face of danger spoke up. “How rude, we’re having a private meal here.” It’s amazing how her prissy holier than thou tone kicks in when she’s feeling threatened.

That sneer of disdain would usually work on other less mortals but I’m pretty sure she knew it wouldn’t work with his kind. He didn’t even spare her a glance, all his attention was focused entirely on me. I didn’t know who to calm down first him or her.

One other little side affect from his kind imprinting is that they’re known to harm anyone who stands in the way of them and their mate. There was also something else that I couldn’t quite remember about his kind and mine, something that was teasing at the edges of my mind, but he moved into my thoughts and blocked it.

I felt exposed, even more than I had when I was playing naked in the water. It was the look in his eyes when he looked at me; hunger, need, it was almost feral. And to think he was shielding. I felt that finger down my spine again and this time it brought forth once again that sticky wetness between my thighs.

His nostrils flared and before I knew it he was dragging me up from my chair and heading for the door. There was movement behind us, my sisters and his friends, but I couldn’t pay attention, all my focus was on him, because my nymph had chosen then to knock my fairy on her ass.

Well-well-well, what have we here? I felt almost drunk as he pulled me out into the cooling evening breeze. He moved hastily once we cleared the door and lifting me in his arms, flew down the steps. When I wrapped my arms around his neck and smiled up at him in the moonlight I heard him swear.

Next thing I knew I found myself backed up against the rough bark of a tree while his hard firm body pressed into mine and his mouth came down to cover my lips in a searing kiss. All thought flew my head as I as I became one big ball of fiery lust and want.