Spellbound in the Stacks by K. Iwancio

Author:K. Iwancio [Iwancio, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Aidan

“Look who showed up!” As soon as I arrived at Faelene's door a cat was shoved into my face. Pure relief washed over me. Thank god. It’s like not I was exactly looking forward to freezing my ass off again in another search. Although the warming up part was rather fun…

“Crookshanks! You’re back!” I cooed at the sweet kitty. I did kind of miss having her in my apartment, even if it had only been one night. “Do you remember me?” I bent down a bit to give the cat a gentle pet on her head before stepping inside. Stripping off my flannel, I hung it on a hook by the door. Faelene really had thought of everything for her homey apartment. It had a hell of a lot more character than my cookie-cutter, mass-produced one.

“She came home right after I closed up!” Faelene looked relieved as she placed the cat back down on the floor. It sat down and looked up at the both of us as if expecting something. Now that the two of them were in the same room together, it was uncanny how closely their eyes resembled each other’s.

“Oh good. I was worried about her spending another night outside. It's fucking cold out there tonight.” I could still feel the blood returning to my cheeks and the tips of my fingers. Now that I was in Faelene’s presence, I wasn’t going to feel the chill for much longer.

“Hi.” Casually sliding into my arms, she embraced me warmly. She lifted her chin up expectantly and I couldn’t help but graze her lips with a kiss. Even though I was only gone for, at most, two hours, it felt like an eternity. It felt weird being apart from her after so many hours together. But that kiss… It was simple but just as electric as all the other ones before it.

I was barely able to pull away before she tugged me back to her as her fingers tangled in my clean shirt. Her mouth enveloped mine much more deeply than I dared. I knew if we started anything, I wasn’t going to be able to hold myself back.

“We…should eat first…?” I mumbled against her mouth. She was obviously hungry for something. What the hell were we going to do when I had to go back to work? It might be something close to torture. At least we had tonight and part of tomorrow to get it out of our system.

Any sane person would say that this was a lot all at once. To go from seeing each other for maybe ten minutes once a week, to not being able to get enough of each other. Did it count that both of us were attracted to each other previously? Two years of awkward torture of seeing this beautiful woman and not having the balls to do anything about it. Until now.

“Oh,” Faelene giggled and pulled away only slightly. “Right. I forgot I was hungry. Pizza?”

“Absolutely. You can’t dangle pizza in front of a man and then change your mind later.

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