Tempting Fate

By Foxxi Smolder

The exciting follow-up to Tryst of Fate, Tempting Fate picks up the night after Briar and Hylaeus' first encounter - promising an even more tantalizing tale of faun/centaur love!

Briar can't stop thinking about his first time with captivating centaur Hylaeus, who introduced him to pleasures he could never have imagined. Now, as night falls over his forest, the two meet again - and this time, Briar has the upper hand. Their tryst left him sated, but the faun wants more: to return the favor, with Hylaeus on the receiving end. Will their reunion be just as satisfying with Briar taking the lead? If Hylaeus is still hot for summer solstice loving, he'll be the one teaching the centaur a thing or two!

Read on for 6000 words of sweet m/m fantasy and sexy centaur smut!

Excerpt:

This time it was the faun who took the lead, daring to press his open lips into Hylaeus' welcoming mouth, to part Hylaeus' lips and quest between them with his tongue. He met no resistance; in point of fact, Hylaeus was all too willing to let Briar taste him, and the breath that escaped him as Briar took a last swipe of his tongue across Hylaeus' lower lip was desperate with longing.

For a moment Briar's bravery deserted him and he could not speak for the bold declarations rising up in his throat. Then he regained a bit of calm and managed to address Hylaeus in a somewhat steady voice: "Do you remember how you treated me when we met for the first time?"

"I remember exchanging words," said Hylaeus in the same steady tone, "and you enlightening me to your faunish brethren's rituals of celebration. And..." He drew breath and exhaled before forging on. "I asked if I could show you how the ways of centaurs differed from your own."

"And you treated me like a lover," Briar said, hardly believing that he could be so forthright. "You—you serviced me. You gratified my selfish desires. For that"—his voice breaking into a half-choked wavering yelp—"I owe you as much as I have to give."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Foxxi Smolder
• Release date: Oct 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463320488

Foxxi Smolder

Confirmed bacheloress by day and scribbler of indecent material by night, Foxxi Smolder has been writing sweet, smutty short stories since 2015. She is dedicated to bringing her readers works that embrace kink without sacrificing sex positivity or a sense of humor. When not writing, she enjoys tending her rose garden, doing Tarot readings for her cats, and adding to her collection of fainting couches.

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Tempting Fate

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Tempting Fate

By Foxxi Smolder

Briar stole through the forest on hooves of air, trying not to think too hard about what he held in his hands.

The sun had long since set, and his path was shrouded in darkness, but that made little difference to one as acclimated as he to the various confusing snarls and thickets of his forest. Navigation held no challenge to Briar: his senses were keenly attuned to his position on the earth and under the sky. Even in the darkness his passing was swift. This forest, his home, would not bar his journey.

Nor would Briar have let anything prevent him from making this particular assignation. He plunged ahead with single-minded determination, marked by the decisive furrow of his brows—though his eyes, unfocussed and far-away, seemed to look out not on his environment but something else entirely. Against a backdrop of the usual unconscious checks and observations that made sure to steer him in the right direction, his thoughts resembled a cloud of insects, whose myriad little forms coalesced into the shape of a face. That face, with its sunny golden skin and sharp, elegant features, in which two blue eyes were set like twin pearls and framed with lashes the same near-white as the swept-back hair tucked behind the pointed ears, was all Briar could see, all he could think of.

Hylaeus' face. The face of the one for whom he'd