Not Your Ordinary Faerie Tale 5 by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781429951098
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Published: 2011-11-27T10:41:40+00:00

Luc couldn’t quite decide if he found the expression on his heartmate’s face more insulting or amusing. She looked as if someone had just explained to her that her regular coffee had secretly been replaced with dehydrated, powdered babies’ fingers.

“When the baby comes,” he repeated—whether to punish her or to force the issue of their relationship out into the open, he wasn’t sure. “Darling, don’t tell me you don’t want children.”

She stared at him for a minute, narrowed eyes assessing his intent before she unclenched her fists and drew in a hissing breath. “You’re a bastard, you know that?”

“I think that all depends on point of view, really. In your eyes I’m a bastard for talking about the future,” he explained calmly. “In my eyes, I’m simply refusing to let you avoid the subject of our relationship like the proverbial grasshopper to my ant.”

“If you were an ant, I’d so step on you right now.”

“Temper, temper.”

“Okay, you really want to do this here?” She planted her fists on her hips, a pose he supposed he preferred to having those fists swung at his face, and glared up at him. “You really want to talk about our relationship—which so far consists of nothing more than about three hours of admittedly fine sex, by the way—here. In a god-awful-tacky sex shop, in front of a handful of strangers, with the kindly gaze of—” She read a nearby label. “—Inflatable Amy, Your Go-to Good-Time Girl! looking on? Frankly, I think the romance factor may be a little shaky.”

He grabbed her around the waist and boosted her up to sit on a display table, bringing her face at least a few inches closer to his. He imagined his expression when he leaned in might have intimidated a lesser woman. “You might be telling yourself that the only thing between us is sex, Corinne, but I know you don’t believe it. You’re not stupid, and you’re not blind, and to dismiss what’s happening would require you to be both.”

“I don’t knowwhat’s happening between us,” she ground out, her eyes meeting his in a way that spoke of both defiance and discomfort. He could read the confusion in the brown depths. “Twenty-four hours ago, I didn’t even know you existed. Now, in the space of less than a day, I’ve had to deal with the worst story assignment in the last millennium, a meeting with the Council of Others, the discovery that the Queen of Faerie’s idiot nephew is currently gallivanting through Manhattan and threatening the safety of some people I love like family, and the fact that I’ve just met a man who makes my knees quiver every time he gets within three feet of me. I’ve got a lot on my plate, so cut me a little slack, okay?”

“No.”

Her eyebrows shot toward her hairline. “No?”

“No,” he said. “I’m not cutting you a damned thing. You’re not the only one in this situation, and you’re sure as hell not the only one in this relationship. You seem to keep forgetting that I’ve known you for exactly as long as you’ve known me.

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