Celtic Fae Legend Book Six
Blazing Fire Trilogy – The final installment of the Blazing Fire Trilogy is set to be released on Friday August 2. Here is a small sneak peek from the book for your enjoyment.
She wasn’t sure how it happened but Kailen ended up escorting her back to her cottage. They were oddly silent all the way back. Should she ask him in? It wasn’t yet lunchtime, and her training was scheduled to start in the afternoon, so there was plenty of time to sit, and talk, and maybe a little more…
She caught the smile he tried to stifle. “Damn it, stop reading my mind.” She couldn’t help but laugh when she said it, though. Her thoughts were probably written all over her face. Being a Faery was complicated. “Ungh,” she groaned. “Do you want to come in or not?”
His smile came out of hiding while he let his eyes slide away from her. “Do I want to? Yes. The question isn’t whether I want to.”
“Then what’s the question, Faery Boy?”
He shifted his body closer to hers. “Do you think that it’s wise?”
Heat rose from her bracelet, hotter than its normal simmering heat whenever he was near. “Look, Kailen. What I think is this. We can either keep trying to pretend there’s nothing going on between us, or we can actually own up to our feelings.”
“Own up…?” He shook his head with an amused expression. “You know, you talk funny, my fiery haired maiden.”
She knew it wasn’t very mature, but she couldn’t help but stick her tongue out at him. He laughed out loud and raised his hands. “Fine, fine, I relent. Let’s sit for a while. Do you have food in this place yet?”
“A little. Some dried meats and that flatbread you guys eat here. Man, what I wouldn’t do for a Burger King on this side of the border.”
Kailen scrunched his face up. “I’m sure I’ll understand that some day.”
“Yes, you will. Because I’m going to take you back home and show you what real food tastes like.”
“Promise?” he asked.
“Promise.”
He followed her inside, the tension between them not so heavy anymore even though she could still feel it. Kailen was here, in her home, alone with her. The last time that had happened, they had kissed. And not just kissed, but deeply and intensely started a fire that she knew still burned between them.
She so wanted that to happen again. Would it be so bad if it did?
Blaise thought on that as she set out plates of dried deer meet and dried turkey and flat bread that was sweet and soft. She’d adjusted to the food in the Faerie Realm. Mostly. She had a jar of something that Drew had given to her, supposedly made from some plant she’d never heard of. It was green and jiggly and smelled like wildflowers. And she hadn’t gotten up the nerve to try it yet.
“Would you like something to drink?” she asked him. “I have some coffee and some tea. Or wine, maybe?”
He sat down at her little table and watched her as she busied herself preparing the meal for them. “Um. Do you have any Vasagle?”
She did, another housewarming gift from her father. “Okay, now it’s my turn to ask you if you think that’s a good idea.” Vasagle was the traditional Aberlone Fae drink made from certain magical wildflowers that only grew under a full moon while unicorns sang to them, or some such thing. All she really knew about it for sure was that it was more than a little alcoholic. “We do have to train with a dragon today.”
“Well, if you don’t think you can handle it…” He let the challenge trail off. He knew she couldn’t leave it alone.
He thought he knew her so well.
Then again…
Damn.
She reached into the cabinet above where the dried meats were stored and pulled out the dark green bottle with its wax cork. If he wanted to challenge her then she’d make him work for it. So there.
The Vasagle was fruity and sweet and thickly smooth going down. Blaise closed her eyes and savored each swallow. A heat spread outward from her core that was not unlike the heat she felt from the bracelet whenever she used it or whenever she was this close to Kailen.
Kailen.
She opened her eyes to find him sitting across from her on the couch, watching her with an unreadable expression. It made the warmth of the Vasagle into a heat that pulsed in her veins. What was he thinking? She tried to tap into his thoughts but found that he had shut the gates tight. She wondered if maybe he was reading her thoughts. She bit her lower lip and looked away from him. Her thoughts right now were…complicated.
The attraction was fiercely simmering below the surface between them. She watched as he sipped at his Vasagle. She might not be able to read his thoughts, but she could read his body language and she knew when a guy was trying to keep from approaching her, keep from touching her for fear it might lead to something else. That was exactly what she saw in the way Kailen scrubbed his palm on his pants, or the way the pulse in his throat throbbed, or the way his ears twitched.
She wished he would just let himself go.
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