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“Think this one’s yours, Flint,” Jared said, standing and slapping his friend on the back.
“Good luck,” Cam added as he stood and moved towards the door, dragging Jared along behind him.
“What’s all that about?” she asked once they’d left, hopefully to go to the kitchen, she really could do with some food.
“I think they’re trying to avoid the fire versus water thing.”
“Oh, will it be bad?” She hadn’t actually considered that part yet.
“I don’t think so, if opposites attract, then it doesn’t make sense for it to be explosive. At least, not in that way.” Even though he didn’t do it, she could hear the wink in his voice and let out a small giggle. “Your powers are locked then?”
“Yes, my Father locked them before I came on land.”
“Why?” His eyebrows drew inwards in a perplexed expression that only brought her giggles back. Damn, when had she become such a girl?
“I don’t actually know,” she responded once they’d subsided slightly. “It was one of the conditions of me coming onto land. I suspect it was so I’d go back home quicker, but it’s hard to tell with him.” It had always bothered her that there was no explanation to the block on her powers; it didn’t seem to achieve anything really. Except for her not being able to do certain things.
“But you shifted, last night when we—”
“I know,” she interrupted. “That’s a different type of kelpie magic. I can shift, but not fully unless I’m underwater, but I can’t do any of my other magic.”
“Can I see it?”
“No, I can’t do magic on land.”
“You shifted, I meant,” he replied.
“Oh, no, you don’t want to see that. It’s not exactly an elegant form.” She shuddered at the thought. Kelpies weren’t exactly the most attractive of things to shift into, and she didn’t think she was ready for Flint’s opinion of her to change quite so drastically.
“One day I want to see it,” he said, his voice holding a sultry promise that she wouldn’t be able to ignore.
“So what do we do now?” she asked, changing the topic. After all this talk about shifting, she suddenly had the picture of him riding on her kelpie form in her head... she’d rather have him ride her in a different way. In their current forms. Right now, preferably.
She shook off those thoughts, cursing herself for being so desperate for being touched. It had to be a side effect from Jared’s feeding, it had to be. She wasn’t usually this flirty.
“Now we see if my fire can coax out your water,” he whispered, pulling her close. His eyes were burning coals, warming her in all the right places. She was craving his touch, wanting his lips on hers, wrapped around each other, not letting go.
“I’m not sure my father intended me to unlock my magic like this,” she chuckled, and he grinned.
“Like what?” Flint teased, hovering only a breath away.
“Are you going to kiss me?” she whispered, posing a rather rhetorical question.
“I shouldn’t...” He gave her a tiny kiss on the nose. “But I want to.”
Then he crashed his lips on hers and she forgot all about her magic. This was magic, the sensation of him claiming her mouth, of their bodies pressed together, of being united by a fierce, all-consuming kiss.
All too soon he pulled away, leaving them both breathless. “We should get to work before the others come back,” he sighed.
“Isn’t this how you’re going to help me?”
He frowned for a second, then laughed. “No, this was just because I like to kiss you. Your lips are so soft, so... kissable.”
“Is that all you can come up with?” She winked and he chuckled again.
“I’m not a man of many words. I’m a man of actions.” He suddenly conjured a large flame in his right hand and she flinched, stepping back. “Don’t worry, I won’t burn you.”
“Until three years ago, I’d never seen fire before. We don’t have flames underwater.”
