Myths and Gargoyles by Jamie Hawke (interesting books to read in english txt) 📕

the third of three agents entered the building, paused, turned our way, and frowned.

“Fight or flight?” Pucky asked.

“Out in the open like this, with who knows how many other agents nearby?” Red wrapped her arm tight around Gerda, who was mostly alert but still needed some help. “Let’s get out of here.”

“Don’t need to tell me twice,” I said, already turning and heading back to where we’d left the car.

“We’ve got them,” the agent shouted maliciously, but Elisa turned and thrust out a hand so that white swans appeared like bursts of light in the man’s face.

He fell to his knees, cursing, while Red’s cloak flapped out and we ran. Kai was mostly recovered, thank God, so now he was groggily moving at my side instead of being carried on my shoulders. Our car pulled up at the first corner, the doors opening automatically. We piled in as Pucky turned with her massive rifle and exclaimed, “I love this shit!” before sending a volley of shots back at the agents. Normies screamed and ran, but the shots hit and acted like a taser—apparently only causing magic shots against Legends.

The car started moving as Pucky joined us, slamming the door shut and laughing as we peeled out, leaving more chaos in our wake. I was starting to learn this was the norm. We eyed our new friends, all on the edge of our seats at the idea that the agents could still be on our tails.

After a few changes of direction and a few minutes had passed, we seemed to be in the clear. Since everyone was awake now, Red leaned forward and asked, “How’d they get you?”

Elisa raised an eyebrow. “Carelessness. Hubris. Stupidity. Is that enough?”

“She was looking for us,” Kai said, blushing.

“Looking…?” Red started, then rolled her eyes. “Not again. Really?”

“Couple of horndogs,” Pucky said, nudging me and causing me to laugh at the irony of her saying so.

Gerda frowned. “Don’t make us look bad in front of the new guy. Kai happens to know how to please me. Has for hundreds of years—and didn’t I earn it?”

“They had a bad break when some of the troll mirror got in Kai’s eye, like the stories go,” Pucky explained.

“Troll mirror?” I asked.

“You really are new, huh?” Gerta chuckled. “You know, the mirror that caused people to see the worst in others? It’s a long story.”

Kai’s eyes darted to the floor momentarily, and I had to wonder if there was any truth to this mirror story or if he’d just had a lapse in judgment at some point. Wandering eyes and all that.

“So your guard was down?” Red said, frowning.

Elisa nodded. “Didn’t expect to see them… well, him putting it there and, then, like…” She tried showing us a position with her hands that didn’t make sense to me at all, but Gerda pulled Elisa’s hands down and cleared her throat.

“Again, new guy watching and listening,” Gerda said. “Bad first impression.”

“Right. Point was, it was shocking, and it was right then, with that image still burned into my brain, that the agents and Legends attacked. I barely had time to take down a half-dozen or so in the split second it took them to take us.”

“And we were… otherwise occupied,” Kai said, a hint of a smile on his lips.

Gerda rolled her eyes, but then turned my way with a pleasant smile. She wasn’t as thin as many of the others here, but her round face gave her a friendly, pleasant aura. “You’re the new Protector, huh?”

I nodded.

“A man.” Her eyes moved back to Red, then Pucky. “I’d like to place bets on how long it takes before that devolves into your own distractions.”

Pucky blushed, and Gerda chuckled. “I see.”

Elisa looked at Pucky, then me, and let out a pleasant laugh. “Well. Staking her claim already.”

“No claim,” Pucky countered, quickly. “It’s not like that.”

“No?”

Pucky looked at me for help, so I said, “No labels, other than Protector. It’s not like that.”

Elisa seemed pleased by that, her eyes lingering on mine a moment longer than seemed natural, and then she leaned back closed her eyes, and said, “Wake me when we get there, or if we’re attacked first. Or if Kai can’t keep it in his pants and I need to slap him.”

Chuckles followed, but the others were closing their eyes too, all but Pucky, who was staring out the window, lost in thought.

When she saw me looking at her, she whispered, “We really should get some rest,” and then cuddled up next to me on my right. Red was on my left, and whether she was awake and it was on purpose or asleep and not, her head rolled over to rest on my other shoulder.

Kai’s eyes opened briefly, sitting opposite me, and he took this in. With a grin and a wink, he closed his eyes and was back out. With their gentle breathing, a woman on each shoulder, and the feeling of victory lingering over me, I yawned, closed my eyes, and joined them.

I was pretty sure it was in my dream… the hand groping me, caressing my package, cupping my balls and then finding my cock to stroke through my jeans. Pretty sure, but not completely certain. When I woke up at one point, I looked around and saw that my raging boner was all too visible by the bulge in my pants, but no hands were caressing it.

Elisa stirred a few seats over, opened her eyes sleepily, and took in the sight. She smiled, turned, and closed her eyes again.

If there had been a hand, it couldn’t have been hers. Too far away, to say nothing of the way she’d been kind of chastising the other two. Right? I looked at Pucky asleep on me, her horns a bit too close for comfort when I turned my head. Likewise, Red was out.

Just a dream, I figured, and tried to adjust myself so that it wasn’t so visible, then went back to sleep.

When I next woke, it was