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His kiss turned possessive and bruising. Hunger also arose in me.
At his urging, I opened my mouth for him, and his tongue invaded, catching mine.
A tingling sensation and pleasure sizzled over my skin, and I clenched him.
I stretched against his hard torso in eager offering, and a beastly groan tore from the back of his throat.
The sky demigod would no longer be an aloof, apathetic being. His kiss told me so as it scorched me.
Another kind of flame, hot and liquid, leapt between my thighs, licking and twirling and licking again, just like I wanted Zak’s tongue to play there.
The temperature grew uncomfortably hot.
I called off my flame. There was no enemy at present, just a prospective lover whose lips were burning enough.
My fire didn’t withdraw. It refused to depart.
It wouldn’t return to the well of powers deep within me, where it belonged.
It burned brightly and furiously, draining me.
Terror struck me.
I grasped Zak’s face with my palms and pulled away from him.
“Rosebud?” he asked.
“Zak, something is wrong,” I said. “I can’t stub out my flame.”
Panic flitted by his blue eyes, and the lust in them vanished in an instant.
“Close your eyes, Rosebud. Focus and pull the flame back to your center.”
I followed his instruction, but the flame leapt higher, lighting up my hair like a lavender Christmas tree.
“Paxton!” Zak shouted. “I need you to put out her fire!”
Paxton materialized right away. He wore a new outfit since my fire had ripped apart his leather armor. Burn marks on his jaw, neck, and arms showed that he hadn’t fully regenerated.
The Demigod of Sea conjured up icy streams and poured them down on me to douse my fire.
I glared at him, but I couldn’t do anything other than tremble in weakness in Zak’s arms.
Paxton didn’t seem concerned that I might try to fry him again.
“She used too much power breaking out of the icebox,” he said. “She hasn’t learned how to control her magic.”
“You forced her to draw that power before she was ready,” Zak roared. “I’ll fucking strangle you to death after this!”
Paxton’s current of ice couldn’t do a damn thing to my fire.
I turned incorporeal before solidifying again. I turned to a shadow in my flame, then back.
“No, no, no!” Zak shouted in panic. “Rosebud, you can’t fade off.”
“My cells are breaking down,” I said, tears flowing down my face, but my fire licked them off at once.
Never thought I’d die this way—consumed by my own flame.
