Bee Stung by Theolyn Boese

Author:Theolyn Boese
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Paranormal, Shifter, Polyamory
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2013-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

THREE HOURS LATER everyone had drifted away. Foxglove stayed and kept an eye on his lover and her cousin. He couldn’t stop watching her. He sat up straighter when she landed and beat her wings so quickly a low humming sound filled the air.

Scooting farther out onto the branch, he watched intently as bees converged on her and seemed to be absorbed into her body. Her image wavered, and she returned to her human form.

She sucked in a gasping breath and collapsed to the ground, looking as if she had lost ten pounds or more since this morning. Every inhalation held a dangerous rattle at the end. Her ribs were sharply delineated under a thin layer of skin, and he could see her hip bones clearly.

Cass grabbed her and held a bottle of water to her lips. “God damn it, Rienne! You did too much!”

Rienne choked on the liquid a little as she struggled to swallow. Her hands came up to hold the bottle still as she drank.

Foxglove swore under his breath and dived off the branch, flying toward the women. Their eyes went wide when he changed size in a shower of sparks. He helped Rienne sit up and took the bottle from Cass. “Drink some more, love.” She was shaking like a leaf as she sucked in air between sips.

Cass shook herself all over and started digging in her bag. She pulled out a sticky-looking wad of nuts, seeds, and raisins. “Eat some of this, Bumblebee.” After pulling a chunk off of the wad, she popped it in Rienne’s mouth after Foxglove lowered the bottle.

Rienne chewed, leaning tiredly against Foxglove’s chest as her breath continued to come in raspy wheezes. Her hands reached behind him to brush one giant wing. “They’re real?” she asked in a weak voice.

He nodded, resting his cheek on top of her head, and reached for another bit of Cass’s concoction and fed it to her. Feeling Cass’s eyes on him, he looked up to meet her gaze. Her usually animated face had an expression on it he had never seen before. It was only then he realized she was a predator. Most of the island thought she shifted into something cute and cuddly to match her sweet, easygoing nature. In an instant he realized how wrong they were.

He’d seen cats with that look as they watched small fluttery things and realized he was a small fluttery thing to her. Going still, he nodded. She smiled slowly, some of the hardness leaving her eyes. She gave him another chunk of the nut mix. After he fed it to Rienne, he gave her another drink.

Two dots flew into the clearing and materialized into Dandy and Thistle. Cass jumped a little and eyed them warily. “Good grief. Rienne has flaming fairy godfathers!”

“What’s wrong with her?” Dandy asked, going to his knees beside them after scowling briefly at Cass.

“She is an idiot, that’s what’s wrong with her,” Cass said tartly. She grabbed Rienne’s jeans and sweatshirt, ignoring Dandy’s glare of outrage over her pronouncement.

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