STORY EXCERPT

She was one of the most beautiful females he’d ever seen, with her long white-blonde hair around her shoulders, her blue eyes, and her slim, sexy body, but no matter how stunning she was, he needed to know if she was a threat to his people.

Pushing off the trunk he was leaning against, he straightened and stepped onto the path, blocking her way. She was so intent on looking at everything she didn’t see him, and she bumped into him.

Aldric didn’t intend to touch her, but it was instinctive for him to reach out, grip her arm and steady her so she didn’t fall onto her ass. The second his skin touched her, sparks of fiery need shot straight into his heart, soul, and blood.

In that moment, Aldric knew he was looking at his mate.

“Um… Hi,” she said in a soft accented voice.

Aldric frowned because none of the light Fae, or any of the Fae for that matter, had an accent like hers.

“Do you think you could let me go, please?” She frowned up at him with her stunning, light blue eyes.

Aldric felt as if he were in a trance and though he wanted to ask her what her name was and how she’d found her way to Faylinn, he couldn’t get his tongue to form the words.

When he saw movement behind her as Bolt and Clovis stepped out of the trees, both of them ready with their weapons, he knew he had to do something fast.

“Stand down,” he ordered in a hard voice.

“What?” she asked, still frowning.

“I wasn’t talking to you,” he answered.

The female yanked her arm from his grip, and he immediately felt the loss of her skin against his and she turned toward Clovis and Bolt. Bolt had an arrow nocked to his bow, the string pulled all the way back, ready to fire and Clovis was gripping the labrys, the double-sided axe he preferred to kill their enemy with.

Aldric sheathed the sword he’d created into the scabbard at his waist, moved around the female until he was standing in front of her, his arms crossed as he glared at his warrior friends, shielding her with his body. “I said stand down,” he commanded authoritatively.

Bolt released the tension on the bow’s string then pointed the arrow toward the ground. Clovis lowered the axe head to the side of his leg but continued to scowl at Aldric.

“Have you lost your mind?” Clovis asked in a low voice, after stepping closer.

Aldric shook his head, replying in Elvish so she couldn’t understand him. “The woman is no threat to us or our people.”

“You can’t know that for sure,” Clovis snarled in the Elvish tongue.

“She’s one of us. You would realize that too if you’d touched her,” Aldric said. “There are things you don’t know but I don’t want to get into that now. I will explain everything later.”

* * * *

Tana was still trying to decide if she should turn and run away after finding two other men standing behind her with fierce scowls on their faces and weapons pointed in her direction.

Even though she couldn’t shake the feeling this was where she belonged or was supposed to be, for the first time in a long time, she began to doubt herself and her instincts.

The conversing men were speaking a language she had no hope of understanding but yet she also felt as if she’d heard it or that it was familiar in some way.

Just as she decided it would be prudent to her health to make her escape, even if it was in amongst the trees, the man who’d moved to stand in front of her turned to face her again. How the hell she hadn’t noticed his pointed ears before now, she had no idea. When she glanced around him at the two other guys, she gasped when she saw they had pointed ears too.

“What is your name?” the man who seemed to be the leader of the group asked.

“Tana Charles,” she replied. “What’s yours?”

“I am Aldric,” he said. “You said your name is Tana?” he asked, staring at her intently.

She nodded, frowning. “Do you have a problem with my name?”

“Far from it. Welcome to Faylinn, Tana Charles.”

“Faylinn?”

“Faylinn is the Fae word for Fae Kingdom and also what we call our town.”

“You’re fairies?” Tana asked excitedly.

“We prefer to be called Fae. Pixies, tiny fairies and nymphs claim the title of fairy,” Aldric said. “I am curious about how you found our hidden realm. Tell me how you found our home.”

“I can’t,” Tana said, shaking her head. “Well, not really. Since I was young I just felt this need, a calling if you will, to travel to Australia from America and explore Kakadu. It took me a long time to save up the money for this trip. Anyway, I heard about the waterfall, needed to see it and for some reason I knew there was something beyond the curtain of water and walked toward the opening at the other end of the cave. Who are your friends?”

“This is Clovis and Bolt,” Aldric introduced, pointing at each man as he stated his name.

Tana moved to stand beside Aldric and held her hand out to Clovis. He glanced at her hand then to Aldric, who then spoke in that incomprehensible language again. A moment later Clovis grasped her hand and she barely swallowed back the gasp when he shook it. Prickles of heat, the same she’d felt when Aldric had gripped her elbow to prevent her fall, raced all over her body, making her feel as if she were charged with electricity.

ADULT EXCERPT

Her chest rose and fell rapidly as she tried to catch her breath but before she could regulate her breathing, Bolt lifted her into his arms and slanted his mouth over hers. She moaned, her hard, aching nipples rubbing against his chest as they kissed wildly, passionately.

Tana was so lost in the passion sparking between them she didn’t realize that Bolt was moving until he lowered her to the mattress, followed her down, his larger, muscular body covering her own while they kept kissing.

When her lungs began to ache, she wrenched her mouth from his, turning her head to gulp in air.

Bolt caressed a finger down her cheek, pushed up with his hands and moved to her side.

“You’re wearing too many clothes, princess,” Aldric rasped out.

Air exploded from her lungs when she gazed at him and she stopped breathing when she noticed he was naked. He was standing at the end of the bed, his arms down by his sides, his legs shoulder width apart and he was watching her.

She eyed his body over from his head, his sexy pointed ears she had the urge to lick, over his hard pectorals, bulging biceps and washboard abdominals. There was a thin trail of hair just beneath his navel leading toward his groin and when she got her first lingering look at his cock, her pussy clenched and juices leaked onto her folds.

His dick was fully erect and pointing right at her. It was long and thick and intimidating in size but she wanted him so much she wasn’t going to let her nerves stop her from becoming Aldric’s, Bolt’s and Clovis’s mate.

He lifted a strong leg, putting first one knee then the next on the bed before crawling closer to her. She jolted when he placed a hand on her leg but before she could say sorry, the mattress on her other side dipped and she realized that Clovis was lying beside her too and he was also naked.

“Tana, are you sure you’re ready for this?” Bolt asked, drawing her attention.

She turned to look at him and moaned when she saw that he was naked as well. She nodded. “I’m ready for this. I want this.”

“Then why are you still wearing your clothes, princess?” Aldric asked.

She frowned at him. “Because I haven’t had a chance to take them off yet.”

“Remove them with your magic, baby,” Clovis said close to her ear, causing her to shiver.

She rolled her eyes at herself, took a few breaths in an attempt to calm her racing heart then waved her hand over her body to magic her clothing away.

When the guys didn’t move or say anything, Tana closed her eyes and hoped they were speechless because they liked what they saw.

“Stunning perfection,” Aldric said hoarsely.

Tana opened her eyes and when she glanced at Bolt and Clovis there was no way she could doubt they liked what they were seeing since there was so much hungry heat in their eyes.

“I have never seen such a beautiful sight, such a beautiful woman,” Clovis rasped out, his hand skimming over her belly, up her ribs to her breast. When he cupped the globe in his hand then engulfed it in his palm and kneaded her, she whimpered as her already engorged nipple hardened further.

“So fucking gorgeous,” Bolt said in a deeper voice. He squeezed her other nipple between his finger and thumb, causing her to cry out as pleasure shot straight down between her legs, making her clit throb and another slew of cream dripped out onto her folds. Bolt grasped her chin, turning her face toward him and then he opened his lips over hers.

Aldric smoothed his hands up her legs from her ankles, pushing her legs apart and when he reached her knees, his hands slid to the inside of her thighs and higher still.

The blaze got hotter, making her crave for more of what she wasn’t quite sure, but she was too restless to stay still and she moved her legs.

“That’s it, princess, open up to me,” Aldric growled, parting her thighs even more. When he caressed up through her folds with his finger, she moaned, gasped and writhed. His finger circled around her throbbing clit, going round and round the knot of nerves without touching it, driving her insane with need.

Wanting, needing him to touch her aching nub, she arched her hips up toward him. He got her silent message because a second later he rubbed his finger lightly over her clit, making her cry out again. “Oh!”

“You like what Aldric’s doing to you, sprite?” Bolt asked against her neck he’d been nibbling and licking on after kissing her.

“Yes,” she groaned.

“Then you’re going to love this, princess,” Aldric said as he dropped to his belly on the overly large bed between her legs, his hands on the inside of her upper legs to keep them spread and then he swiped the tip of his tongue up from her entrance to her clit and back down again.

She writhed but didn’t move much since Aldric had one hand splayed across her belly, holding her down. Clovis had his above Aldric’s and Bolt was pressing against her shoulder. Clovis and Bolt were also both suckling on her nipples.

She was gasping for breath and on sensation overload but what they were doing to her felt so good, she hoped they never, ever stopped.