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  Winter Spire: Tiny Temptation

  By

  Anya Merchant

  Copyright © 2016 by Anya Merchant

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  This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental. This work is intended for adults only. It contains substantial sexually explicit language and scenes that may be considered offensive by some readers. None of the characters engaging in sexual conduct in this work of fiction are under the age of 18, legally unable to give consent, or related by blood.

  Contents

  Winter Spire: Tiny Temptation

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 1

  The steam in the bathroom was thick, fogging over the mirror and making each breath Felix took feel hot and sticky. He leaned against the bathroom’s door, frowning and trying to keep his thoughts from wandering as he listened to the shower splashing down on Stella behind the opaque curtain.

  “Felix,” said Stella. “Are you listening to me?”

  “Uh, mostly.” He frowned and scratched his head. “Is there any way we can put this conversation on hold until you’re, well you know, done showering?”

  “No.” Stella pulled back the curtain slightly and poked her head around it. “We need to talk about this now.”

  Her hair was the color of red autumn leaves, and slicked back in a single wet, soapy lock. She kept the shower’s curtain held over her large, naked breasts, though Felix swore he could see more than just cleavage through the thick steam.

  “I need you to swear to me,” she continued. “Promise me that you haven’t had any additional contact with Nalya and her brood since you got back to the tower.”

  Felix frowned. He shook his head, forcing him to keep his eyes even with Stella’s instead of letting his gaze slip down into more enticing territory.

  “I haven’t,” he said. “Not in the past few days. The last I saw of them was when I gave the antibiotics to one of the younger wolves.”

  Stella stared at him for a few seconds longer, reading his expression as though she could see into his soul. She finally nodded and turned away from him, reaching down to pick up a bottle of shampoo from the shower’s lower shelf and pushing her incredible looking and incredibly naked butt into view.

  It was the truth. Felix knew better than to lie to Stella, and he trusted her, even if she was rightfully suspicious of him. The wolves had disappeared after Felix’s last encounter with them, no longer showing themselves to him. It made him a little worried, both for Gwen, the wolf girl that had gone out of her way to save his life at her expense, for Nalya, his “den mother” as she called herself, and for Breeze and Windy, the two barely legal teen wolf girls.

  “Felix… Your being here is still conditional,” said Stella. “It’s not something that you should take for granted.”

  “I’m well aware of that, Stella,” he said. “It’s been that way since the beginning, though. You invited me into your home, and I’ve done my best to, uh, meet your expectations.”

  “My expectations have evolved.” Stella leaned around the corner of the shower curtain again, exposing even more of her body. Soap suds dripped from her hair down her breasts, covering the illicit centers of her breasts.

  “I know that, too,” he said. “Just tell me what you need done and I’ll do it. Uh, within reason, of course.”

  He winced. Stella was a sorceress, a woman familiar with the supernatural elements and capable of things that Felix didn’t and probably wouldn’t ever understand. Giving her a blank check in the form of his willingness to serve made his stomach feel a little tense.

  “Good,” said Stella. “What I need from you currently is your body.”

  “Uh…” Felix felt an electric thrill run through his lower half.

  “Your muscle,” said Stella. “I mean, I need backup. I need your support and assistance in defending the tower against Jesamar.”

  “Of course,” he said. “I can do that. Whatever it is you need.”

  “It’s not going to be easy,” said Stella. “In fact, I think it’s going to be rather hard.”

  She turned off the water, and for a few seconds, Felix could see a perfect outline of her naked form on the other side of the shower curtain. He chewed on his lip and tried, unsuccessfully, to look away.

  “Why don’t I head out into the living room and wait for you there?” he said, forcing himself to put his hand on the doorknob.

  “Felix.” Stella leaned out to grab a towel from the rack, wrapping it around herself and pulling the shower curtain open in two successive, fluid movements. “I appreciate your loyalty.”

  The towel was a size and a half too small for the job Stella had assigned it to. Her breasts bulged out against the fold, and the bottom hem barely slid down passed her buttocks. Stella ran her hand over her head, slicking it back mermaid style and revealing her emerald green eyes.

  “Uh, thanks,” said Felix. “Same to you. I mean, uh…”

  He stared at her, unsure of whether he’d ever been more turned on his life. Felix forced himself to blink and think about the situation clearly. Stella was a sorceress trained in potent lust magic, capable of using emotions, especially primal, masculine urges, to her advantage. Was she doing it to him, right then and there? Was that her way of ensuring his loyalty?

  Stella cleared her throat and folded her arms, moving a forearm onto the towel just as the fold began to come loose Felix snapped out of his lust fueled trance and slipped out through the door, almost slamming directly into a young, teenage girl eavesdropping on the other side of it.

  “Ow!” Dani fell backward onto her butt, rubbing a hand across her forehead where the edge of the door had caught her. “Jeez, Felix!”

  Felix rolled his eyes at her. Dani was wearing a white t-shirt with no bra underneath, her medium sized breasts pushing out against the fabric luridly. She had on a tiny pair of green running shorts, and looked as though she’d snuck out of bed for the sake of listening in on her mother’s conversation.

  “Nice try, Dani.” Felix grinned at her and shut the door behind him. He walked over to the couch, which was already set up with his blanket and pillow for the night, and sat down on it.

  “I had to go to the bathroom,” said Dani. “Mom was taking forever. I just wanted to, well, listen and make sure that it was safe for me to go in.”

  Her face turned a shade of crimson, and she wouldn’t meet Felix’s eye. He nodded, still smiling at her, not buying it for a second.

  “Sure,” he said. “That makes perfect sense, Danica.”

  “Felix,” she said, in an obnoxious voice. “Anyway, the two of you were in there for a while… alone.”

  Felix blinked at her, detecting the slightest hint of jealousy in her voice. He scratched his head, feeling strangely flattered and more than a little surprised. Stella was at least a decade older than him, out of his league in every sense of the word, and somewhat hostile toward him most of the time.

  Dani, herself, was still in high school, albeit as an 18 year old. Felix was flattered enough by her attention, but given who he
r mother was and how volatile Stella’s reactions could be; doing anything with her was outside of the realm of possibility.

  “Dani, nothing happened,” said Felix. “Unless you count your mom giving me the inquisition and making me swear my loyalty to her.”

  Dani looked at him thoughtfully.

  “Is that some kind of, euphemism, or something?”

  Felix chuckled.

  “No,” he said. “Not that it should matter to you.”

  “It doesn’t!” snapped Dani, the blush on her face deepening. “I don’t care, anyway. It’s like I said before, I had to use the bathroom and I just wanted to make sure that it was safe.”

  Felix smiled, but didn’t say anything to that. He let his posture relax, sliding forward on the couch a little and getting more comfortable. It was late in the night and he was tired. Sleep had been a rare thing over the past few days, with all of them on guard against attack all the time.

  Another magically capable enemy had taken up residence inside the tower, wearing the face of none other than the most important person in the area. North Spire was a tiny town, essentially consisting of a single ten story tower with a few seldom used buildings around it. At its center was Mayor Senhaji, a wizened old man who’d recently returned after having gone missing for several days.

  The man in the tower claiming to be Mayor Senhaji was, as far as Felix and Stella knew an imposter, and a woman, at that. Felix had encountered the shapeshifter Jesamar after going on a hunt to track down Mayor Senhaji, and had fought and fucked her into a relative stalemate. She’d beat him back to the tower, however, and seized her opening.

  The door to the bathroom opened, and Stella made her way into the living room, wearing a bath robe that looked a bit like the sorceress robes she frequented. She crossed her arms and stood next to the couch, frowning at Felix and Dani.

  “I have a bad feeling about tonight,” she said. “I think Jesamar is going to make a move.”

  “We’ve been watching her for the last two days,” said Felix. “At this point, she has everyone in the town fooled. It’s not as though she has to do anything about us. If we try to claim that Mayor Senhaji is a shapeshifter, the entire town will call us crazy.”

  The supernatural world, for the most part, existed underneath the detection of ordinary, law abiding people. Even Stella, who made about as much effort in concealing her magical abilities as Ricky Martin did in convincing the world that he was straight, was usually written off as a new age eccentric, all smoke and mirrors.

  And Jesamar had managed to do the same, convincing and fooling even the people that knew Mayor Senhaji the best. The only way she’d been exposed to begin with was through Felix’s wolfbound abilities, which allowed him to track her down in her true form.

  “No,” said Stella. “She will try something. Jesamar isn’t the type to do things without following through. She’ll make a move against us soon, mark my-“

  The lights in the apartment flickered, and then abruptly went out.

  CHAPTER 2

  “Damn it,” muttered Stella. “That’s her. It has to be her.”

  She whirled, walking into her room with quick steps and immediately beginning the process of getting dressed and prepared for battle. Felix and Dani looked at each other and then after Stella.

  “It could just be an issue with the generator,” said Dani. “It’s been acting up ever since the battle we had with the Ice Dancer.”

  “No,” said Stella. “I’m sure of it. This is no coincidence.”

  She pulled out a small, glowing pink orb that looked a bit like a snow globe and prodded it with a finger. The pink light expanded outward, filling the room and spilling out toward Felix and Dani through the doorway.

  “Alright,” said Felix. “Then let’s do this. We can take care of her tonight, if she’s finally decided to give us a chance at her.”

  “Not we,” said Stella. “Me. You’re staying here.”

  Felix frowned and shook his head.

  “But you just said you needed my body?” He bit his tongue, feeling Dani’s eyes on him and regretting his phrasing. “I mean my help. My abilities, my fighting power.”

  “I do,” said Stella. “But Felix… You would be a liability in open battle. Not just to me, but to everyone here.”

  Stella walked out of her room, lit from behind by surreal pink light. She walked over to where Felix stood, stepping in close to him. For a moment, all he could focus on were her perfect pink lips, and the curve of her bust pushing out against her black and gold sorceress robe. She took one of his hands into hers, and something clicked.

  “Hey!” Felix reacted, but not quickly enough. Stella grabbed his other wrist and finished securing the handcuffs, pulling his arms behind him to do it.

  “Relax,” she said. “This is just to keep you and Dani safe, while I’m gone.”

  “What?” said Felix. “This is ridiculous! How will this keep us safe?”

  He pulled at the cuffs. They weren’t painful, but they clung to his wrists actively, as though they were a living, magical thing. All he managed to do by fighting against them was to knock himself off balance, and he almost fell onto the back of the couch after tripping over his own foot.

  “The moon is still almost full,” said Stella. “You’re wolfbound, Felix. You won’t always be able to control your transformation, especially at night. And I need to take precautions to keep Dani safe.”

  “I’m staying, too?” asked Dani. Her voice was questioning, and strangely lacking of disappointment.

  “Yes,” said Stella. “If Jesamar does manage to reach the apartment, you know how to take the cuffs off him, right?”

  Dani smiled.

  “Well, things will certainly get interesting if it comes to that,” she said.

  “Alright then.” Stella nodded to both of them, gripping her staff in her hand. “I don’t know when I’ll be back. If morning comes without any sign of me, get in touch with Trent and try to get out of the tower.”

  “Will do,” said Dani. “Be safe.”

  “Hold on!” Felix took a staggering step forward. “Let’s talk about this, Stella! You shouldn’t go alone.”

  Stella snapped her fingers. The cuffs on Felix’s wrists began to feel warm, and more than just that. An overwhelming sense of emotional lust took hold of him, gentle and seductive. He suddenly felt as though he was laying down for a massage, a happy ending kind of massage, and all he needed to do was keep himself still in order to enjoy it to its full extent.

  “Felix?” asked Dani. “Are you okay?”

  Felix shook his head, snapping back to reality. He was lying on the ground. Dani’s face hovered over his, upside down and lit by pink light, her brown hair hanging loose and framing the dimples of her wide smile.

  “Fine,” he said. “Jeez… What are these things made of, anyway?”

  “Lust magic,” said Dani. “It’s been about a minute since you passed out. Mom left already.”

  “Damn it…” he muttered. It made his stomach feel tense to think about Stella facing off against another magic user alone. Still, he’d faced off against Jesamar before and lived to talk about it, and Stella was far more capable than he was, even as a wolfbound.

  “Don’t worry,” said Dani. “I plan on going after her. Just need to get a quick boost before I do.”

  Felix sat up, watching as Dani disappeared into her mother’s room. She opened a massive wooden trunk next to Stella’s bed and began perusing its contents.

  “Uh, that’s probably not such a good idea,” said Felix. “Doesn’t your mom usually keep that stuff off limits to you?”

  “She does,” said Dani. “Which is why I’m thrilled that she forgot to secure the lock when she left. An honest mistake and one that might end up saving her life. Ah… here we go.”

  Dani stood up and turned to face Felix. She held a small vial between her fingers and slowly worked the cork out of it, sniffing at its contents.

  “What is that?” a
sked Felix.

  “It’s a basic potion of night eye,” said Dani. “Mom probably would have taken it with her if she had been thinking more clearly about the circumstances. It will give me the ability to see in the dark, and track the witch a little bit more easily.”

  “Are you sure that’s what it is?” asked Felix. “Is it labeled?”

  “It’s from the batch we made yesterday,” said Dani. “Obviously I’m sure.”

  A chill ran up Felix’s spine. He struggled to get his feet, frustrated by the stupid handcuffs.

  “Dani, hold on,” said Felix. “This is a bad idea.”

  “Nonsense.” Dani swirled the potion’s contents around and then downed the entire vial in a single gulp. “See? I would have tasted if there was anything…”

  She trailed off and blinked several times in quick succession.

  “Huh,” she said. “That’s strange. Usually it kicks in… faster than that.”

  Felix watched as Dani took a slow, deep breath and then shook her head. She brought a hand up to her forehead, looking as though she was suddenly dizzy.

  “Dani?” said Felix. “Are you okay?”

  “I’m… whoa!” Dani took a shaky step forward and in Felix’s direction. She looked as though she was about to fall over, and held out a hand to steady herself against the couch.

  Her hand grabbed the couch, but Dani didn’t fall. Rather, her body began to shift. Her clothes began to loosen visibly against her skin, her blouse and running shorts losing the tightness she’d clearly chosen them for.

  “What the…?” Dani shook her head and stared down at her hands. They were losing size along with the rest of her body, along with her head, her breasts, and her butt. All of it was staying perfectly in proportion, but slowly diminishing inward.

  Dani’s clothes seemed gargantuan on her, and she was still shrinking. Felix watched in shock as her body passed the size of a preteen, still shifting downward.

  “What the fuck did you drink?” he shouted. Dani frowned and glared down at her shrinking body, her face lit surreally by the pink light of her mother’s globe.