Can You Take It? (Infatuated Fae, #4)

by Jeneane O'Riley

To you. Your fate was never written in stone; it was shaped by the moments you rise after every fall, by the choices you make when the road splits, and by the courage to rewrite the story you’ve been told to accept.

But now she’s going to be thinking about me for the rest of her life as her knight in shining armor—ha! It was going to drive him wild, and I loved little more than saving damsels in distress and making Mendax mad.

She and Mendax were a perfect storm of thunder and lightning, and though you could have one without the other, when they were together, the whole atmosphere changed, each exposing a beauty and strength they couldn’t have had without the other.

“Because I was the stupid fae Eletha ran off to marry. Mendax told Kaohs, and Eletha was hauled back here and never allowed to leave again. Kaohs despises me.”

This child was making me a terror. Thankfully Mendax not only tolerated it, but he loved it. It didn’t matter how intense I was—he would arrive like a matching storm and give me exactly what I needed. I think he needed it too. We needed each other.

“Eletha, when we get out of these chains, I’m going to remind you why it is you don’t want to be with anybody else but me. I’m going to remind you why you and I are destined to be together, and I’m going to remind you that you will not be with anyone else but me. I’m tired of this. I’m as tired as Bexley. If you want to fight and dance around, hell, if you want to battle me, I don’t care. I’m up for it. I love it. But I’m not going to stand by while you pretend that you’re not in love with me every bit as much as I am with you. Stop lying to yourself and everyone else.”