Page 11 of Fated
“Max!” I clutched his body and gave Shiza a glare promising death.
“He’s not dead, Areth, look!” She pointed to Max’s face and I could see his eyelashes fluttering.
When Max finally opened his eyes, they were full of wonder. His voice was soft and raspy, so I had to strain to hear him when he said, “You love me. Why would you do that?”
“Because I have been looking for you my entire life.”
“I’m what you’ve been looking for? Areth, that doesn’t make any sense at all. I’m no one. You could have anyone.” Max’s voice was growing stronger by the moment, but the doubt in it made my heart hurt.
I had to do something immediately to make sure Max knew what he meant to me, so I said, “Shiza, leave so I can show Max how much I love him. Physically.”
“This is my bedroom!”
“This is a medical emergency, Shiza. Max needs me to fuck him right now or he could die.”
“The threat has passed, Areth. Max is already recovering. Look. The color is coming back to his cheeks.”
Max sat up straight in my arms and said firmly, “I’m sorry, Shiza, but you are very wrong. Your fanfiction must be missing some crucial information because I will definitely die if Areth doesn’t bang me as soon as possible. Sorry, Shiza, we’ll have to get to know each other later. I promise we’ll change your sheets!”
“Hold on a second—” Shiza protested as I placed Max on her bed, forced walked her to her door, shoved her out of her ownroom, and locked the door. Then I grabbed Mitzy, unlocked the door, opened it, and shoved her into the hands of an incredibly pissed-off Shiza. I slammed the door in her face again and relocked it.
I did not tell Max that Shiza would be lucky if her bed was still intact once I was done with him.
I turned to the bed and eyed Max as he licked his lower lip. My wings fluttered and my tail whipped from side to side as I stalked toward the bed.
“Uh, don’t take this as a refusal, but you might be a little too big to fit anything of yours inside me,” Max said nervously.
I looked from my large hands to his small body and laughed ruefully. At the size I was now, there was almost nothing we could do that would not send me running back to Shiza, begging her to fix him once again.
But I had a solution for that.
“Did you forget that I can get smaller?”
I knelt on the floor by the bed and looked down at his small face, tracing a claw along his jawline. When Max shivered, I dipped my head to give him the lightest kiss possible. He panted against my mouth, but it was not the terrifying sort of panting because he was choking on flowers. It was the kind that told me how much Max wanted me.
“Haaaa…don’t get too much smaller, okay?”
“Do you like me this size?”
“A lot more than any sane person should.”
“Good. Because I really like how small you are.” I wrapped one hand all the way around his small waist and pulled him to the edge of the bed. “Are you sure you do not want to wait to get to know me better?” I thought I could pull back now if I tried really hard.
Maybe only a thirty percent chance, though. Max was giving me a look so filthy that the challenge of not fucking him right then and there would be the biggest one I had ever faced.
“I’ve always been a hands-on learner.” Max ran his hands across my chest, and the contrast in size did something to my brain that made me want to swallow him whole so he could never leave me.
“Good.”
“Can you stay big until you absolutely have to get smaller?” Max was looking away and still blushing furiously.
I could not have that. He had the prettiest eyes I had ever seen, and I wanted them focused on me.
I cupped his jaw and turned his head to face me. I had to be gentle. At this size, I would always have to be as careful as I knew how to be, or it would be easy to hurt him. “Just tell me when, and I will cast the spell.”
Unless I lost control and needed to be inside him before he told me to get smaller. I did not want to hurt him, but I had been waiting my whole life for him. I was liable to be overly rough with him for a little while.
I still could not believe it. How had I gotten so lucky? I had not needed to start a single war to woo him. I had not even needed to kill. Max already loved me.
