Feline the Burn (The Firehouse Feline Book 3) by L.A. Boruff & Laura Greenwood & Lacey Carter Andersen

Author:L.A. Boruff & Laura Greenwood & Lacey Carter Andersen [Boruff, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.A. Boruff
Published: 2020-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

James

I stand, holding my breath, as Callie points her finger at the bowl of water on her desk. This is her fifteenth try, and I can feel her frustration as if it's my own. Sweat beads on her forehead, and I swear the air in the room crackles with her powers.

This shouldn't be possible. She's a half-witch, like I am. Her powers should be much weaker than they are. Perhaps it's because she's from the royal line. I dismiss the thought as soon as I've had it. Magic isn't like that. She should still be weaker. The only explanation is that she's gained her powers from somewhere else. Or her father isn't who everyone thinks he is. I suppose that's always a possibility, though it'll also be a minor scandal.

Papers on Callie's desk lift into the air. Pencils fly onto the ground. The books slide to the side, all of them trying to escape her raw power.

But the water doesn’t even ripple.

"I can't do it." Callie throws herself backward onto the bed in frustration.

She's so cute when she's like this. I keep the thought to myself, not wanting to think about what she'd do to me if she knew what I'm thinking.

"You'll get it." I try to sound encouraging, but even I'm starting to doubt she'll achieve water manipulation. "This is the only thing you've had trouble with so far, and I think that's great."

She glares at the bowl of water on her desk. “Stupid liquid. Maybe it’s broken.”

I chuckle and sit down beside her. “The water isn’t broken.”

Crossing her arms over her chest, she stares at the ceiling. “I don’t really need water control anyway. If I need to fight my uncle, I need some stuff that can really hurt him.”

Laying down beside her, I turn on my side. “Take my advice, from someone who isn’t all that great at magic, it’s good to struggle sometimes. If everything came easy to you—”

“I’d be a lot happier.”

I smile. “Then maybe when it was important, when you had to do something really hard, you wouldn’t have the aptitude to keep going.”

She sighs. “It’s annoying when you’re right.”

It's annoying for me too. It's so much easier when I'm wrong.

I grin down at her. “Yeah, but you love it.”

Her gaze jerks to me, and for some reason I wish I could pull the words back. They seem too close to “I love you,” and that’s a bucket of worms I’m not ready to unleash right now.

“I do,” she says, her words soft.

“Try to manipulate the water again,” I say, looking away from her intense blue eyes.

Instead, I feel my pants unbutton.

Groaning, I push her hand away and pull up my boxers. “We have to focus. We’re running out of time.”

She sighs. “Fine, I just... this isn’t working. And magic seems to put me in the mood like nothing else.”

My dick jerks. Focus, you idiot.

She said her ability to manipulate water isn’t working.

In truth, it isn’t. But no one in the house can help her with this more than I can, and I don't seem to be doing a very good job.

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