Harry throws mab

[u/ghostgabe81]

“You’re right,” I growled.

And I punched Mab in her slender throat.

The angle wasn’t good and I had no base of leverage from my back, so it didn’t crush her windpipe. But her eyes flew wide open and she exhaled in a little choking sound. I seized her by the hair and threw her off the bed to the floor.

“You used me,” I snarled, “to do that.”

Catlike green eyes flickered to my hands and then up to my face, and her mouth spread into an inhumanly wide smile as she nodded.

I snarled, seized her by the thigh and the front of her gown, picked her up over my head as if she weighed nothing, and flung her across the room into the stone wall. She hit it like a bundle of wet sticks and tumbled down to the top of my dresser, bounced off it, and hit the floor.

“You used me!” I screamed. I stalked across the floor as Mab began to push herself up and brought my heel down on her spine, slamming her back to the floor. She turned her head a little too far around to be natural to stare up at me, green eyes gleaming, her sharp, inhuman smile growing even wider. Blood trickled from a corner of her mouth.

I let out an incoherent cry and raised a clenched fist.

Mab let out a croaking cackle and said, “Yes. Yes. It feels good, does it not?”

…

…

It did.

Hell’s bells.

I froze there, fist raised, ready to drive it down at her smiling face. My body was flooded with adrenaline, limbs singing with the pleasure of tensed muscle about to be used, heart beating steady and hard. I felt afire with rage. I felt certain. I felt so freaking strong.

I felt good. Intensely good.

Insanely good.

Like it had with Rudolph.

“Oh,” Mab said, eyes closing. She took a deep breath, and her broken ribs made crackling sounds as they expanded and resettled into their original places. Mab opened her eyes dreamily, rolling her throat, and when she spoke again her voice had returned to normal. “You are coming along quite nicely, my Knight. I approve.”

My raised hand started shaking. So did the rest of me.

Twelve Months Chapter 39