Burn by TJ Klune

Author:TJ Klune [Klune, TJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf

HE’S awed, minutes later, at the display of power that Felix shows the world. He’s rushing down the street when he hears a loud crash and sees an SUV flip across the sidewalk. His heart explodes as he runs toward the alley. People have already gathered, but he pushes his way toward the front. He sees a woman cowering down the alley behind a dumpster. He sees an Earth Elemental crack the ground wide open and raise a boulder that spreads across the alley. He sees Felix with his back to the crowd, his body tense, his hands flexed at his sides.

“No,” Seven breathes as the Earth Elemental snaps back and forward. The rock wall flies toward Felix, and Seven is too far away, he can’t get there in time, he’s too late. But then Felix moves, faster than humanly possible, and drops to his back and calls the wind that rockets the concrete into the air. He climbs to his feet and his right hand erupts, and the fire is brilliant as it spears the sky. He follows the incandescent blast as it explodes against the concrete.

This man… this man is his man.

Felix turns and sees Seven at the front of the crowd.

“I’m going to my home,” he calls out.

Maybe for one more night, Seven thinks. “I know where you live,” he says with a grin.

“I know, but could you just stay away?”

Not even if I wanted to. “Do you really want that?”

“Yes, I do,” he says, but even Seven can hear the lie, the way Felix’s voice wavers.

“For how long?”

Felix sighs, and the sound is heady. “You’re not giving up, are you?”

Now he gets it. “Never in your life,” Seven swears.

“I don’t belong to anyone.”

“Oh, you most definitely do. It’ll be easier on us both if you just stop fighting me on it.” Seven means business, and he flexes his considerable arms against his considerable chest. He feels hot when he notices Felix noticing him.

“Where’s the fun in that?” Felix asks, his smile splitting the world.

Seven is tired of wondering. “Come over here,” he demands. “Now.”

He’s touched and moved when Felix immediately obeys. The little guy walks up to him and puts his hands against Seven’s chest, and Seven wraps his arms around Felix. He gazes down into the eyes he’s dreamed about since he was six. He lowers his face and brushes his lips against Felix, and everything makes sense, everything is right with the world, the past is ending and the future is now. He sees those big eyes staring into his, and he kisses Felix gently again, almost unable to stop himself from fucking him right there. It would be easy. So easy.

Felix steps away. “You said I was your Iuratum Cor,” he says raggedly. “And you were mine in return.”

Seven nods.

“What does that mean?”

Everything, he thinks as he is consumed. “It’s Latin. It means heart sworn. You belong to me. And I am yours.”

Felix runs.

“Soon,” Seven shouts after him. “I’ll see you soon.”

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