When they touch me (Shelagh Milano) novel Chapter 74

Chapter 74
ARTEMISIA

He growls annoyed, even if it nearly seems like he is trying to cover a purr.

I giggle as I step out of the hut. “Now, if you could mind-link Logan or Matthew, I would need someone carrying me for real.”

He rolls his eyes as he closes the door behind us, and I’m just waiting for his eyes to glaze over as he crouches down.

“What… What are you doing?” I ask taken aback, looking around to see if someone is watching us.

“Come on. I’m going to carry you to your room,” he says, gesturing to me with his hands to move.

I laugh awkwardly as I play with my fingers, “I was just kidding, Fynn. I just wanted to annoy you. You won’t carry me anywhere.”

With another annoyed growl, he turns around to grab my wrist, pulling me to him. Before I can wrap my thoughts around what is happening, he is already straightening back up. I wrap my hands around his neck as he eyes me up. “A piggyback would have been troublesome anyway with this enormously long skirt of yours.”

“Don’t you like it?” I tease him as he murmurs, and starts walking. Lifting a leg, my skirt moves slightly back, showing my ankle adorned with my shoe strap and anklet.

He hums, acting like he wouldn’t care, but I can clearly see the red flecks and feel his emotions do a little backflip before he pushes it back down.

“I felt that,” I say in a low sing-song, and he chuckles.

Avoiding my gaze completely, he grins. “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

“I know that you act like you don’t. But Drake knows too. He snitched on you,” I say jokingly, making him shake his head.

“How would you know what he knows?”

“Oh, we are great friends already,” I tease him, making him shake his head. “He tells me about all your secrets.”

He barks out a laugh, and I hate how my heart reacts at the sound of it, “He is a traitor then!”

‘Hey,’ Drake growls, making me giggle.

“He is just being loyal to his mate,” I smile up at Fynn, linking my fingers behind his neck.

Clearing his throat doesn’t help him disguise how his heart just flipped in his chest.

Looks like the physical contact is affecting him as well.

“Distracted by your charmingness?” he laughs, lifting a brow at me. “More like distracted by your constant need of being a pain in the ass.”

I gasp overdramatically as he continues to chuckle. “Someone has to keep you on your toes. I figured that you get bored too swiftly and I’d hate to see you get too comfortable.”

My heart doesn’t seem to be able to calm down, and as I realize that he has stopped walking, and came to a halt on the top of the stairs, it just gets worse. “Comfortable? With you around, comfortable is the last thing I am going to be.”

“Glad to know I am doing my job right,” I wet my lips with my tongue, trying to overcome my nervousness, but it does nothing more than attract his intense gaze onto my lips.

Oh, dear…

Holding my breath, I realize that he is inching closer slowly, his voice only a husky whisper. “You have no idea.”

His lips graze mine slightly, making my heart skip a beat. My thoughts run wildly, while my nerves buzz, even getting Cassy to move intrigued.

My eyes are about to close as a voice has me jumping, pulling myself away from him.

“Fynn?!” a melodic voice calls my mate’s name, having me panicking.