Chapter 13
Korvex
The air was crisp. Adela said it’s unseasonably cool. In the back of my mind, I wondered if he had anything to do with it. Either way, the sweater she knitted for me fits well. She made sure it had room for my wings to be able to expand.
She told me I couldn’t also wear sweats out in public. Something about it being tacky. I just thought sweatpants were comfortable. Instead, I was wearing what she called slacks.
Looking up at the stone guardian in the park gave me a strange feeling. Just weeks ago, that was me. The statue wasn’t as tall, wasn’t as strong as I am, but she did her best to make it match.
Her plan had worked.
I didn’t know how well it worked, something still felt off in Everlyn, but the glamours were still working well and none of the humans would ever know there was magic here if we didn’t want them to.
I felt two arms wrap around my waist from behind. “Admiring my handiwork?”
A smile spread across my face as I pulled her around. “I was just checking to make sure the ward was still working.”
“And?”
“It’s still working,” I laughed.
“You know, you don’t have to check it every day. It hasn’t as much as faltered one time.”
“I know.” I looked around at the people casually walking through the park, unknowingly passing its former protector. “After several centuries here, I find it comforting to come back.”
Her hand wrapped around mine, pulling me tightly into her.
“Well, this protector has a new home to protect, and he’s now able to patrol the streets protecting things.
Oh! That reminds me, Police Chief Cooper said he’d consider your application if you wanted to solidify that instinct.
He said they always needed more paranormals on the force. ”
“A job?”
“Yeah! If you want to. You don’t have to. I make enough to sustain our home just fine. But if you wanted to actually protect everyone in Everlyn, we can make that happen!”
I hadn’t thought about a job. That was a new possibility for me. There were so many new things I wanted to do in the world. Spending all the time with Adela was one of my main priorities. She said I was “insatiable” at times, but she almost always gave in when I’d ask to experience her body.
“I’d like to see more of Wych Valley if we could,” I said, looking down the street of Everlyn. She had told me there were a few other towns in the valley, each of them operating in its own little magical world. I thought I’d like to see them too.
“We can do that! Thornwick has some amazing bakeries. Oh, and the lake in Honeymere I hear is beautiful this time of the year. I have only been to Greyhaven for work, but I’m sure there’s something we can find to do there too.”
Pulling her into me, I let her body press against mine, warming me up. She giggled as I placed a kiss on her plump lips. Our tongues danced together. I would never tire of such a kiss. I could feel myself getting hard between us.
“Korvex,” she chided as she too felt me. “We are in public.”
I laughed. She was right. This was not the place for that. “Will there be places for it in these other towns?”
Her cheeks reddened. I loved it when they did that. “Of course. We will experience each town in our own way as well.”
I laughed as I wrapped my hand around her shoulder, leading her back toward her van. It wasn’t a long walk, but at least I was walking with her. I got to spend every day until the end of my days with her.
The wind blew across the path, a chill in the air. I pulled her tighter against me. Every day was a blessed day if I got to spend it with this little stone witch.
Adela
We were at the park once again. It had become a ritual of ours to walk through it on his lunch break and check on the statue.
Korvex had taken up Cooper’s offer and was now a certified policeman.
Even in his uniform, something about it worked to make him the most handsome officer.
He let out a deep hum as we strolled when a small ball bounced into our feet.
I looked around to see where it had come from.
Leaning down, Korvex picked the ball up with an inquisitive look on his face.
Three small children ran up to us. I recognized one of them as the tiger shifter’s cub.
Korvex’s glamour didn’t work on other paranormal creatures.
Nothing I could do would fix that. To them, nothing hid the Gargoyle he was.
To humans, he was just a large policeman.
The cub looked up at him in wonder as he held their ball between his massive claws.
“Sir, can we have our ball back?”
He smiled and told them to run as far as they could, he would throw it for them to catch. The tiger cub’s eyes lit up, and the three of them ran as far as their little legs would carry them. With little effort, he flung the ball, and it soared over the trees before coming down behind the children.
They were all in awe before frantically scrambling to catch it, all while giggling away.
The mirth on his face was infectious as he ran to play with the kids.
It warmed me to see him having such fun with them.
Their parents looked on at first with worry, but then laughter, as the children climbed all over this pillar of their community, screaming every time he threw their ball high into the sky.
He had a natural fatherly instinct. It warmed my heart and warmed my core.
Maybe one day I could give him some of his own kids. Who knew what gargoyle physiology could do? If it were even possible for us. Either way, I was perfectly okay with continuing to practice making them over and over and over with him.
He wasn’t going anywhere.