Atomic Mage by Garrett Carter (short books for teens txt) 📕

face as he gave into Candice's plea to keep the stray she had just found, Mina found she wanted to get to know this man better.

Her initial exploration of the home had borne little fruit.

She had found no food or real weapons in any of the rooms she had explored.

A few flimsy knives that wouldn't stand up to a rock were her only weapons at the moment, though useless they had still been shoved into a few hidden pockets.

Her best find had been the large black rectangle on the wall of the largest room in the home.

As she had sat on the couch her hand had landed on a smaller black rectangle with rows of soft squares on it.

The wall rectangle had lit up after she had pushed cautiously on the soft red button, which had caused her to throw the small rectangle away in fright.

Her fright had slowly evaporated as she watched the stranger's life play out on the wall rectangle that she had found out was a flat-screen tv mounted on the wall.

She had sat on the couch watching Cade's life play out for far too long, her attention rapt as her intrigue had changed to honest interest as she watched Cade's wife Tony gain everything Mina had desired from a mate.

The world that he had come from was very different from her own, the cars and planes that he had used for travel barely registering as possible.

As she watched his military deployments pass before her eyes she again sat raptly, hope blooming in her heart.

She wondered if the two long years of disappointment was at an end.

Two long years of traveling from one village to another, of finding one male after another who failed to meet her expectations.

What this man desired was a woman who could stand on her own, one who could help him keep his home while pursuing her own desires.

Her hope turned to unrequited lust as she fast-forwarded to the deployment's end and Cade and Tony's reunion.

The ruff around her neck bloomed as the tv displayed Cade and Tony in the midst of making love.

Mina shivered as she watched Tony's eyes roll back in her head as she reached her bliss, her shaking legs wrapped around Cade's slowly thrusting waist.

This had not been the first time she had watched the two humans couple, some more intense than the others.

"Would he hold me as dearly?"

Her initial curiosity about this man had changed and she began to hope she could capture him for herself, and maybe a few others.

"Many hands do make light work," she said as she used one of the many little sayings she had learned during her viewing of Cade's life.

Her people were rarely monogamous, the males having more than a few wives and some of the females collecting their own husbands.

Her contemplation ended as her heart broke for Cade as she watched Tony fight valiantly with her cancer.

The woman was Dresk until the end, her spirit not flexing one bit as she kept fighting for herself and her family until her last day.

Her viewing was cut short as she felt a change in Cade's demeanor as if he had come to a decision.

Giving Tony a nod of respect from one warrior to another Mina turned off the tv and placed the remote back on the arm of the couch before she left Cade's mind.

Returning to the forest of her mind the hope for her future with the strange new man causing her heart to race as she waited for him to surface and give his verdict.

Super cat woman

Surfacing in a particularly vivid memory from the within last week of the cat woman's life, Cade looked around Finding himself in a small clearing dominated by a single wooden hut.

He watched with a neutral expression as the panther woman burst out of the hut trampling a well-maintained garden of jungle flowers.

"Jesus she is fast." He said in awe as he watched the panther woman begin sprinting faster than he had ever seen anyone move, blowing his new top speed out of the water.

The woman ran down a short path to a large clearing that was filled with men and a few women clothed in the same uniform black slaver gear that his welcoming crew had on.

His hate-filled glare was mirrored by the panther woman as they both noticed the black-garbed slavers surrounding a group of screaming and crying women and children.

The women and children were, he noticed furred in the same color pattern that you would expect a Jaguar to have.

He watched as the black panther woman was hit in the gut with three arrows one after another.

He heard one of the other females scream "MINA!!", as he continued to watch the memory play out.

"Guess that's her name" Cade said as his mood soured, the fact that want he was watching had already happened not mattering one bit to his emotions.

He watched with wide eyes as Mina snapped the shafts of the arrows off and charged at a group of slavers dragging another jaguar woman off to the circle of a dozen of the women and children the slavers had already captured.

"Damn she's a tough fucking cookie"

He saw a much larger jaguar corpse on the ground filled with arrows and slashed by cuts, what he assumed was a male jaguar was surrounded by 15 dead slavers.

"Went down fighting for your family, good for you. I promise they will pay."

Resolving to keep that promise Cade looked back to