Page 14 of Caught By Her Guardian
“I agree,” said Tooth Fairy.“Keeping you safe from Frost is the top priority, but you’re also one of my tooth fairies, and I want you to have a wonderful life with your truemate and be able to keep doing the job that you love.I would do anything for my fairies, trust me.”
She hugged Tooth Fairy, her eyes stinging with tears.“Thank you.”
“I’ll let you know when you can start taking over the collection up here and I’ll get you a new ledger too.In the meantime, I’m going home to have some tea and put my feet up.This has been quite an exciting day.”
Santa said, “I’ll walk you to the Portal.You two enjoy the day.I think both of you are on the night shift, yes?”
“Yes, sir,” Hunter said.
They said goodbye to the most powerful warlock and the most powerful fairy, and then she turned to face him.
“I’m starving.I know we were making some sexy suggestions earlier, but my stomach has been growling for a half hour.”
He grinned.“Mine too.Let’s go eat, and then we’ll see where the day takes us.We’ve got about twelve hours until our shifts start.”
“Plenty of time for pretty much anything,” she mused.
* * *
After eating a delicious lunch at the dining hall and meeting several of the other Guardians, including two wolves—Declan and Gabriel—and a snow leopard named Maverick, they headed to his apartment.She had a text from her mom saying how happy she was for them and how excited she was to hear about the job she’d be taking once her current assignment was finished.
“Do you know why you were assigned to Pennsylvania?”Hunter asked as he shut the door to the apartment and sat to unlace his boots.
“Nope.She said that she had to pull several tooth fairies off their assignments to help her with a project, and she had to retool territories and move people around to make it all work.”
“Did you ever have a place you worked that you hated?”
“Not really hated, but I was assigned to a territory that also included ogres, and while I was taking a tooth from under a toddler ogre’s pillow, he rolled over and nearly smooshed me.”
He laughed.“Sounds like you almost lost a limb.”
“Definitely.Thankfully I was only there for two shifts because the other fairy assigned was on vacation.I was glad to get back to regular towns.”
“Do you ever see any other magical people?Like Sandman or his dream walkers out and about?”
“Sometimes,” she said.“But they move just as fast as I do, so it’s pretty rare.”
He stared at her, his eyes simmering and a soft growl rumbling in his chest.He stalked to her and pulled her close.“I feel so lucky to have found you, Pixie.It all feels like a fluke.You moved to a different territory out of the blue, I happened to be home visiting the clan, and then I just also happened to be outside when you took a header out of that bedroom window.But I know flukes aren’t real, but fate is.We’re truemates, and we were brought together because it was the right time for us to meet.”
“When you asked me earlier if things were moving too fast, I wanted to tell you how instantly at home I feel with you, how peaceful being around you makes me feel.We have our whole lives in front of us, but nothing feels rushed.It feels perfectly timed because, yeah, we were supposed to meet.It’s crazy, but it’s awesome as hell.”
His eyes darkened and he lowered his head, brushing his lips against hers.
She tugged on his shirt, freeing it from where he’d tucked it in, and undid the buttons, her fingertips brushing against his smooth, warm skin.He groaned, holding her close as he devoured her in a kiss that she could feel all the way to the center of her body.He broke the kiss and gazed down at her, his eyes blazing to the amber of his polar bear.Lifting her into his arms, he carried her to the bed and laid her down.
He came down over top of her, caging her with his arms.She stroked her hands up his torso, feeling the warm skin and muscles.He sat up, pulled the shirt off, and dropped it to the floor.She was momentarily mesmerized by how stacked with muscle he was.
A bear of a man indeed.
He ducked back toward her for a kiss, settling to her side and resting his hand on her stomach.Fisting the material, he pulled upward and leaned over, brushing his lips across her stomach, making heat pool in her belly.She let out a soft sigh of need.
He scooted down the bed and hooked his fingers in her leggings.She sat up and pulled off her tunic while he divested her of the rest of her clothes.With a small smile curving the corner of his mouth, he slipped from the bed and stripped fully, giving herquitea show.
All rippling muscles and smooth skin and… holy crap, what a piece of equipment.
She let out a trembling breath as he climbed onto the bed and pushed her legs apart to make room for his broad shoulders.He braced himself on one arm and touched the apex of her thighs with his fingertips, gently moving them up and down, barely grazing her skin.She curled her toes and bit her lip, wanting to enjoy what he was doing but also wanting him to get down to business.
She wanted to tell him that she couldn’t wait to be his, but then he lowered his head and brushed his lips across her stomach and her whole body twitched.He glanced up at her as he slowly worked two fingers inside her pussy, delving them in all the way and then out and circling her clit with the lightest pressure.
