A Little Wicked: Wicked Fortunes: Book One by AJ Merlin

Author:AJ Merlin [Merlin, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734884623
Publisher: Focal Fox Press
Published: 2020-08-06T05:00:00+00:00

Yuna was quick in her goodbyes. After driving back to the quarter, the water shifter traded numbers through all three of our phones, then excused herself.

Merric hung around. Naturally.

“I like her,” he said, and when I looked at him I found him back to his nine-tailed, half shifted form. “She’s a cecaelia, but I’m not sure you know what that is.” He tipped his head, tone full of patience. “Do you, George?”

Hesitantly, I shook my head.

“It means she’s a predator.” He snapped his teeth playfully. “Maybe she wants to eat you up, huh?”

“What do you want?” I asked, keeping my tone light. Nine tailed kitsune were rare; legends held that it took hundreds of years for a kitsune to obtain nine, if they did at all. Was he as strong as Akiva? As Cian?

Was he stronger?

“To have fun,” Merric admitted. “It was lucky I caught your little spell the other day, wasn’t it? And that Marin didn’t scare you off of me.” His eyes danced at my look of surprise. “Though she did try her best.”

“You know her?”

His grin widened, but he didn’t answer.

“I’ll help you,” he said after a moment, two of his long tails wrapping around my waist and urging me to step closer. Here, in the dark and without anyone around us, I wondered if he would kill me. Would I be able to defend myself? The wendigo hadn’t, and I couldn’t hold a candle to Jameson. No one was here to see. No one was here to help. “But I’ll ask something from you in return,” the kitsune went on.

“Then maybe I’ll find another kitsune,” I whispered through numb lips.

His smirk turned arrogant. “No you won’t. And you need me for Lucia. She’s strong; she learned her illusions from a kitsune, after all.” His tails had caused my shirt to ride up and now the fur slid like silk against my skin.

“So what do you want?” I asked again, trying to choose my words carefully.

“I don’t know yet,” the fox admitted. “I like to collect debts; yours will be the centerpiece on my trophy shelf. The debt of a Levasseur summoner. Such a lucky coincidence, don’t you think?”

Just as his tails tightened around my body, they pulled away, fur sliding against my skin. It felt intimate, but I kept that thought to myself. Magic tingled in the absence of his fur, as if he’d left some of his own power on my skin.

“See you tomorrow,” he said, shoulders ducked almost shyly, though his eyes hadn’t yet gone back to their normal muddy brown. “Really excited to come over to your house and go see that movie with you. Maybe we’ll make it a thing.”

I couldn’t help but think how that sounded vaguely like a threat.

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