That had been the best damn sex of his life. He wanted to ask if it had been good for her, too, but he knew it. He could tell by the way she’d come so hard for him and by the way that she looked at him after.
She looked at him like he was some sort of hero to her.
Like he was someone special or wonderful.
He wasn’t.
He was just an ordinary person who had been offered a rather unordinary life. Parts of it had been interesting. Mostly, it had been lonely and sad.
“I know you said you decorated it,” Tabitha said carefully, propping herself up on one elbow.
“I did.”
“Why, though? How long have you been on this island?”
He couldn’t exactly tell her he’d lived here since he was very small or that Ursula had kidnapped him and brought him to this place. No, he couldn’t do that, could he? Tabitha would think he was a total freak. Instead, he settled for a half-truth.
“A long time.”
“Well, it’s a nice cave. Do you have a house, too?”
“Sort-of.”
“Sort-of?”
“Not really.”
He mostly slept on the beach or in the cave. After being locked up for years by Ursula, he had almost no interest on indoor living. He wasn’t sure if he would ever want to set foot in a house again. If he did, it wouldn’t be for a very, very long time.
“Weird,” she whispered.
“What is?”
“You just seem so...”
So what?
“Normal,” she finally said.
For some reason, Felix found that to be really, really funny.
“Normal?”
“Yeah.”
“What about me is normal?”
He was living on a rock, for dragon’s sake. The island was a place that had held him captive his entire life. No matter how hard he’d tried to escape, no matter how many people he’d bribed or secret beach paths he’d found, he’d never been able to escape from the island.
He was a captive.
He was a secret, hidden captive, and he hated it.
But she was a secret mage, and that was interesting, too.
She was a hidden mage. For some reason, Tabitha hadn’t been very forthcoming about her abilities. He knew she had them. He wanted to know more about that. What was so special about her?
Why was she on this quest to find the witch?