Klutz: Phoenix Down (But Did You Die?, #1)
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Read between March 17 - March 17, 2022
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I doubted she was going to miss him.
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I was barely over five feet tall, which made flying one of the few activities where my size worked to my advantage.
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The beautiful dance of fire had always calmed me, but not at that moment. 
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I closed my eyes. I really wasn’t looking forward to dying. Again.
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A rumor had begun to circulate that a phoenix shifter was alive,
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but this stranger had risked so much to save us, and I felt I owed it to her to remember this final act of bravery. Then, I watched in shock as she adjusted her grip under Jett’s arms, and then twisted her body as though she was an Olympic discus thrower. To my amazement he flew through the air, landing nearly ten feet away.
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how exactly had a human survived the plane crash? And why was she naked?
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Were they going to hand me off to some lab where I would spend the rest of my life being a guinea pig? 
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Anzac,”
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Mace.”
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Jett.”
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Dagger.”
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Knox.”
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They truly didn’t care if I lived or died. Well, the joke’s on them…because I can’t die. 
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I needed to recover from the back-to-back regens, but instead I was fighting my way through a humid dark forest in search of the five arrogant dung beetles that had ditched me, simply because they didn’t want to be slowed down by a woman. 
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Pride and smugness came through the bond from our jaguars.  “The little warrior is ours.” 
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My jaguar sensed the moment I sided with him. He would no longer need to fight me to accept the mate bond.  “Ours,” he murmured in my head.  “Yes. Always,” I agreed.
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So, I did the thing that only the insane would do, I extended my hand to pet him. Sure, it was crazy, but let’s be real… I always knew I would die trying to pet something I shouldn’t.
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“Did you see that?” “There’s no doubt about what she is now.”  “How is this possible?” “I can’t believe we have a mate that was just killed. By a bug.” “Who cares about the bug? Our mate just died and came back to life! She’s magnificent!”
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“You are a selfish brat who threw a tantrum when she didn’t get her way!” “And you’re a grey sprinkle on a rainbow cupcake!” “What?”
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“Did you know you could command fire and control its form?” “Who is Imp?” “What did you do to the bond?”  “Will you take me as your mate?”
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“Next time, can I yell ‘release the kraken’ before you turn into flaming calamari?”
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“Did you mark me?” The dumbfounded look on his face would have been hilarious under different circumstances. 
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“Um. I think so?” My voice was strangled. How did this happen? Had I basically just married him without so much as asking his opinion? Surprise?
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Forget the cat that caught the canary, this phoenix had just caught her a jaguar.