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

a soft groan out despite himself, her ass was plump but pert, shapely, and supple in the tight leather pants.

He slowed to collect himself, He knew he wanted this woman, and if their chemistry so far was any indication the feeling was mutual, but who Mina was as a person was still a mystery.

Cade thought back to some of the memories he had seen and it struck him he was eager to find out.

He almost laughed as he remembered Tony and his first meeting, the parallels to Mina and Cade's apparent attraction causing him to reminisce.

Cade thought back to when he first met Tony, their chemistry had been out of this world.

That first date afterward had been magical and he was unashamed to admit they had slept together that night.

He wasn't opposed to having relations with Mina, but a relationship with the gorgeous woman was more of what he wanted.

Cade needed a partner in crime as it were, someone who had your back regardless of the situation.

He was willing to grow what he and Mina were beginning to cultivate. Could he strike gold once again, could the life he was building here include the alluring woman?

Shaking himself mentally, Cade realized he was being a LOT of a bit of a creeper.

"Let's just get through today before we think about wedding bells." Cade thought to himself, as they made it to the barge.

"Is everything ok Cade?" asked Mina as she turned to look at him.

"Yes just thinking," Cade replied.

"And what could you be thinking about that would have you in this state?" Mina asked as she looked Cade over, smirking at him as her gaze stopped on the front of his gator skin pants where a noticeable bulge was extended down to his mid-thigh.

He noticed where her eyes had stopped and realized he was caught.

Blushing a dark purple in embarrassment he decided to run with it. "How about some drinks first before you start admiring the goods" he responded as he covered said goods.

Mina barked out a laugh at the action "I thought I saw a weapon hidden in your pants and feared for my safety" she responded to his jab.

"I don't think you will have to worry for your safety," Cade said with a grin as he removed his hands, Mina's playful tone rendering the action moot.

"Why not?" Mina asked with a pout as she crossed her arms.

Cade almost gave in to the cute pout and took what the gorgeous woman was clearly offering, almost.

"While I would love to assault you any day, a little time to get to know one another would be nice," he said as they stepped on board the barge, his lust cooling slightly at the thought of conversing with the panther woman.

"Agreed Cade," Mina said as she stretched out on the barge, drawing his gaze like a magnet to her voluptuous curves.

Shaking his head to snap himself out of the trance the beautiful woman had put him in so easily with a thought he sent them back downriver towards his home.

Floating down the river a few minutes later Cade had plenty on his mind as the current provided all the power required for them to make it back to his home.

Adding a small course adjustment, he decided they had enough time in their heads.

With more than a day left till they made it home to plan out an attack on the slaver camp, using that time to have their discussion and get to know one another wouldn't hurt.

Cade decided to be the first to break the ice.

Clearing his throat he began.

"You asked earlier what I am, sorry to tell you I am not really sure myself."

"That tells me nothing Cade" Mina replied not unkindly.

"This power of yours as you call it is like nothing I have seen before. What I have seen you do is unprecedented. You simply walk into my mind and tame my guardians as if it was nothing. Then you heal me as I lay near death. Then you tear apart a man with your gaze. Then you move items and people with that same gaze. And to top it all you burn the bodies of those people with that same gaze." Mina said her voice rising in shock as she listed Cade's achievements.

"That's me a jack of all trades and master of them all," he replied, as his ego inflated.

"That is not all I can do I can control water," Cade said as he raised a volleyball-sized ball of water from the river around them.

He grinned as Mina's eyes widened as he froze the water before dropping it back into the river.

"I can also control earth and metal," Cade said as he warped the metal links on the chains sitting on the bottom of the boat into various designs.

"And the very air around us." He finished his demonstration on his powers by creating a soft breeze that blew through Mina's black locks, bringing a smile to her face as the light breeze caressed her fur.

"My thoughts on it are that I use telekinesis to control the atoms that make up us and everything around us," Cade said with a grimace waiting on the inevitable.

"What are atoms, and what is telekinesis?" Mina asked with a curious but attentive look on her feline face.

Taking a breath to begin his lesson Cade began "So everything, and I do mean everything is made up of atoms which chain together and make up molecules and those, in turn, make up everything we are, this boat, the air we breathe the