The reason it was so hard to shake is because in all the time we've owned the land nothing like this has ever happened. The dark ones aren't known to venture this far north and especially not to the sleepy little town where there isn't much to do to keep their need for constant excitement satisfied. The constant back and forth of my thoughts was making me out of sorts and lethargic all evening until I was making myself and everyone else crazy. "It's Friday night, why don't we go into town for a bite to eat?" Annalise came into my room already dressed which means I'm not going to be able to talk my way out of this one. "Come to think of it a burger from Smileys sounds really nice right about now." I showed real signs of life for the first time all day as I jumped up from the bed to get dressed in jeans and a light summer sweater. Spring was being its usual fractious self, one day cool and the other warm. By the time we got into the car to make the drive into town

Someone walked through the door of the little restaurant and all my senses went on high alert. Whoever it was had somehow sent my system into a tailspin. Not human! The thought made me look up in haste just as my sisters turned to the door as well as if they too had felt the invasive presence. At first glance I got the shock of my life and almost fell from the seat of my chair. It's him, I'd know that face anywhere and this feeling, it's the same one I'd felt earlier this morning in the woods only a lot more intense. Had it been him out there watching, waiting? For a split second his shield shifted or he dropped it intentionally and I had to force myself to remain seated and not jump up from the chair and make a run for it. I was aware of my sisters doing the same as the four of us tracked his every move. Like prey in the presence of a known predator. And his presence was greater than most. It wasn't just his enigmatic good looks, that wild mane of dark hair a

"Well shit!" As soon as I said the words, warning her not to run she and her girls had some kind of mind convo and she disappeared from my arms again just as the three purebred fairies did their pixie dust shit and poofed it. "Should we go after them?" My cousins stood next to me now looking off in the direction they'd gone."No!" I headed for my ride and hopped on mad as hell that she'd ran from me again. For a minute there I thought things were going to be easier than I expected after finding out what she is. I guess I was wrong. At least I'd been able to keep myself in check, though just barely. I hadn't fucked her against the tree no matter how much my unruly cock had wanted me too. It would've made my life a whole lot easier that's for sure. She came damn close to unleashing my beast with that stunt she pulled though. We're gonna have to have words about that shit sooner rather than later. That's the kind of thing that can get her tiny little ass in a wo

I shut out my surroundings and gazed up at the stars, letting my mind cleanse itself of all clutter. As first meetings go it wasn't as bad as it could've been but we still have a long way to go. My greatest obstacle is obviously overcoming her fear, something I don't yet know the correct path to. Ergo my reason for freezing my ass off in the alps. I've made many a great decision here in the past and was sure something of use would come to me given time, but I don't have a hell of a lot of that. Five days now and counting. My stupid ass hadn't taken into account how my body would feel without hers after that little taste. Agony! Her scent was all over me and once I cleared my head it's all that was left, the memory of how she felt in my arms, the taste of her lips, the way she smelt, it lingered on the palate. The glorious stars started to blend together the longer I stared, but even as I laid there still upon the hard cold ground, my mind was making plays. When

The sun wasn't quite up when I landed on my balcony and strode into the thousand foot master suite. It's odd that I could already see her here, could already imagine her things mixed in with mine as I headed straight for the shower. My idea, the one I'd come up with not too long ago may or may not be the stupidest thing I've ever done, but I get the feeling I'm going to be doing a lot of stupid shit from here on out. It comes with the territory I guess, or so I've always believed. Women make men stupid. I've seen it all my life with my own parents and myriad aunts and uncles over the years. My father, as the son of the ruling sky monarch, though not the heir, was still in higher standing among our kind than most. I've seen him destroy whole armies without breaking a sweat. And yet it only takes a frown or a pout from my mother to bring him to his knees. Shit, I'm not going out like that, her little ass is not going to run me no matter who the hell she is. Shit,