How Does It Feel? (Infatuated Fae, #1)

by Jeneane O'Riley

I got out of the truck to find I had turkey droppings all over my pants. Perfect.

I had goals and dreams, and they didn’t involve love. Love made you hurt. Love made you distracted and inevitably sad and empty when it fell apart.

How else would I find him?

Find who?

No more than seven feet from where I froze stood the most beautiful red fox.

But it was the eyes. Something about the creature’s eyes seemed to speak to me in a language I wasn’t fluent in.

Since Eli had left, no one felt safe, especially after the deal I made with his mother.

the destroying angel spores looked unreal, like black smoke trying to escape the glass.

Animals had always been oddly unafraid of me.

Okay, it’d be fine. Alone in the woods in a hooker dress and high heels with no ride or phone. Perfect.

He was beautiful. There was no other way to put it. Gorgeous in a hauntingly evil way with the bone structure and build of a Roman god. High cheekbones and a sharp jawline, skin as clear and smooth as porcelain. What kind of monsters looked like that?

I was clearly having a delusional episode because I had no idea how I could be seeing a giant, muscled, evil Calvin Klein model with wings of smoke right now.

Somehow my wounds had already started to heal, faster than they ever had at home.

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Somehow it was so much more unsettling and demented to have your mind be physically attracted, even a tiny bit, to the villain that was about to destroy you.

Animal shifters generally have incredibly close connections to animals.

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To become king and relieve his mother, the reigning queen, of her duties, he must be bonded with another to ascend the throne, but he has callously killed every prospect to the point that we allow him to govern us as prince without ascending.

I returned, my wolf found you, and I was overcome with the blinding need to protect you.”

The only fae that shift into fox are the royal children of the Seelie court, and by Seelie law, you are now tied to one of them with your life. You’re at their command until they decide to kill you,”

Why did she continue to act so sweet and innocent when obviously capable of something so impressive as sever- ing a man’s finger and carving it into a key?

He smelled like a forest fire doused in seductive, lush spices. Like pine and cardamom mixed with something deep and sultry.

“I wouldn’t fuck you, human, if my own life depended upon it,” he hoarsely whispered. His warm breath tickled across my face. “Believe me, you detestable mortal, by the end of tonight, you will beg me to end your life.”

You’re going to eat those words Mendax!!

“Until this moment, I didn’t know you could crave something you’ve never wanted.”

How could I feel that way about the man trying to kill me? He was the villain. I would only feel that for a hero.

Oh darling. 😂

“If you die tonight and I never get to tell you, you are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.”

Gods, did I like the way she smelled with me all over her. I especially liked how every other fae tonight would smell only me when they were near her. They would know she was my pet.

A male fae’s wings only appeared when they wanted to fuck or fight.

What about female fae? My mind immediately thought of when Feyre unfurled her wings for the first time.

“You search for what makes your heart whole. Remember, the viper warms himself in the daylight but finds his home in the dark. Above all else, remember to unleash the viper inside when you need it the most.”

He had tried to kill me numerous times. He alone had caused me more pain and anguish than I had felt my entire life, and I would not forget that. So then why did I find myself wanting more of him? Needing him?

He was crazy. An evil, psychopathic villain. But when he kissed me, it was like the entire world melted away—like everything was right for just once. Like when you step into your home after you’ve been gone a long time.

He was the only person that ever made me feel this way. Like I could show him all my monsters and he would only love me more.