don’t plan on failing again.”
“This girl will suffer the same fate,” Baron said vindictively. “But first thing first. Let’s find out who the fuck she is.”
Both gorgeous “kings” snagged their intense stares on me. Two pairs of eyes, one amber and one gray, roved over me inch by inch.
My cheeks flamed as I remembered I wore only a long, pink T-shirt that said: What’s my weakness? Six pack abs and a trail of golden hair. Maybe that’s why Baron thought he could play with me. The hem dropped a couple inches down my thighs.
At their scrutiny, my breasts grew heavy. And before I knew, my taut nipples pricked against the fabric.
What the actual fuck?
Angry and uncomfortable with this sudden hotness washing over me, I popped up the umbrella to block their view of my breasts and bare legs.
“Do you realize it’s rude to stare?” I hissed.
“I apologize,” Rowan said, a hint of a fancy smile tugging up his curvy lips. “I wasn’t staring, my lady. I’m merely studying you as I’m mesmerized.”
Now I was a lady?
“You stared at me,” I said, refusing to accept the role of lady after they’d been so rude. “You also checked out my boobs, which was super impolite.” I spun the umbrella to cover myself more and snickered. “See any better?”
Then a sudden knowledge came over me from reading a paranormal romance book a few years back. The author classified Fae as a cruel species who, unlike humans, lacked the ability to lie. But should I trust a novel for crucial information?
Baron grinned, inflating his sexy bad boy charm. Other chicks might dig that, but it was lost on me. I knew he wasn’t any bad boy.
He was a monster with fangs, and he’d intended to kill me. I’d always remember that.
“I can do more than stare,” he purred.
“I’m sure. You tried that already.” I raised the bathroom refresher to remind him. “Many dudes, like you, thought it was cute to use the pickup line, ‘suck my cock,’ before they realized that they might not like how they were being sucked.”
Rowan laughed. “I told you she’s got spark. Maybe you should go somewhere else to try your charm that never failed before, Baron.”
Baron ignored his half-brother’s jabs, but he dropped his sexy grin. “What are you, girl?” he demanded instead. “Show your true self.”
“I don’t have a whole day for this bullshit,” I said. “Get off my property.”
A sudden searing wind whipped at me, and I yelped as the wind tore the umbrella from my hand, nearly throwing me to the ground on my ass. As soon as I steadied myself, I was busy holding onto the hem of my T-shirt and keeping it down.
“She’s also foul-mouthed,” Baron commented with a smirk.
“Drop the sun wind, Baron,” Rowan said. “You’ll show the lady respect.”
Then an icy wind came out of nowhere and crashed into the hot wind. A sheet of steam rose where two winds met, and then the wind ceased.
My eyes went round. Holy fuck. They weren’t just nuts. They had elemental magic, too, something I never would have believed before today.
Yet I wasn’t the only one whose eyes widened in shock.
Both Fae stared at me, an uncomprehending expression rippling across their faces. They staggered back, putting their shaking hands in front of them, whether to reach out to me or to fend me off, I couldn’t tell.
Baron gasped as if he suddenly had a hard time breathing. “Her scent.”
Now they blamed my smell? They had conjured up the wind.
Sure, I hadn’t showered yet today, and I’d been cooking eggs and serving bacon, and I had sweat a lot due to fear and fighting monsters, including them. But I shouldn’t have smelled horrible enough to gag them.
My face flushing in humiliation, I turned my nose down my left shoulder and sniffed my armpit as subtly as I could manage. I did not stink.
“Impossible,” Rowan croaked. “I’d given up the hope a century ago. How can this happen now?”
“How dare you attack a good American citizen with your voodoo in broad daylight?” I yelled at them. “There’ll be consequences. And I don’t smell!”
“What’s your name, my lady?” Rowan asked, his eyes no longer icy and hard. Instead, concealed pain and longing shone in his eyes, which were more blue than gray now.
Baron nodded at me, too, wanting to know my name as well.
The heat in their intense gazes threatened to combust me. A trace of gentle air current swept by me, twirling my hair and caressing