Menage a Fairy (A Fairy Novel) Read Free Page B

weight and it kept her from falling into that turbulent sea.
    She was alive. Now Annalise just had to wait for rescue. She listened closely but couldn’t hear much with the sound of the waves crashing. The sun was bright but a gentle covering of clouds protected her eyes. She glanced out. The horizon was water. The surface shimmered like silk sheets and below her the clear liquid splashed upward. She dug her fingers into the ground, the dirt still cold from winter’s attention.
    “Help!” she yelled again, calling out as loud as she could. “Anyone? Please help!” For once, she wished she had Jayn’s big mouth. That woman could wake the dead. Annalise grinned thinking about her, that beautiful smile, the tough attitude and heart of gold. A tear slipped down her cheek and she brushed it away. It was just nerves and fear. She would make it out of this and she sure as hell had learned her lesson. “Please, God, let me get out of this.” Praying wouldn’t hurt. Annalise opened her lips to yell again. She’d scream until her voice was gone.
    Her thoughts stopped, her attempt at being rescued silenced by a single sound. Annalise gasped. The noise, the one she played in her head since she was a little girl, was so familiar. The sound of wings, fairy wings, beating. “Help!” she screamed, loud and shrill. Annalise froze as a single tear slid from her eye and crawled down her cheek. She watched, mesmerized as she had been all those years ago.
    It was him.
    Her lips parted. She forgot how to breathe as the man she had searched so hard and long for arrived. He fluttered down over the cliff, his green hair mussed in the wind, those piercing green eyes on her and a smile on his lips. After all these years...
    Annalise had finally found her green-haired fairy.
    She leaned forward, amazed and awed. He was even more beautiful than she remembered. She reached out, unable to stop her reaction to him. The dirt beneath her gave way and the alcove began to crumble. She grabbed at the dirt, reaching above to hold on. No, she couldn’t die now, not when she just found him.
    His warm, muscular arms wrapped around her. Annalise didn’t even hesitate. She let go of the tree roots and trusted him with her life. He held her tight, staring into her eyes with such blatant intensity. They hovered. The place that saved her life was now just a crumbled speck on the cliff and the waves covered the fallen dirt, sweeping it away to the sea. Annalise held tight, her body shaking, and not entirely from fright. She wrapped her legs around one of his.
    Her green-haired fairy flew them toward the cliff, toward the hill that she scowled at, but the moment her feet touched the ground, she held him closer still. “I finally found you.” Her voice was a whisper. She wasn’t even sure he heard.
    He reached out and fingered the small strip of hair she dyed green. He rubbed it between his fingers and smiled.
    “My fairy.” The words were said on a single shaky breath. He was leaning closer. He smelled like fresh rain. She could hardly contain her emotions as his breath fanned her lips. He was so close she could kiss him. She would kiss him. Annalise closed the small gap between them and pressed her lips to his. The green fairy stilled and then truly astounded her. The kiss was magical. Their lips met perfectly, and their tongues danced to a wild song filled with smooth notes. His hands were on her back, pressing her into his hard body. Lust and desire filled her entire being.
    A single sound broke through her paradise. Jayn’s voice.
    Annalise pulled away, turning sharply to see the woman she loved. The hurt on Jayn’s face was indescribable. “Jayn...” What could she possibly say to explain? She kissed...her fairy man. Annalise glanced back. He was still there, watching them with his head tilted. “He’s real,” she finally said before glancing at the woman that always had her back.
    Jayn straightened, and emotion faded from her face. “I see