Excerpt
If I'd known how intense the spell was going to be, I wouldn't have done it.
But somehow it worked.
I wonder how much I weigh now? She leapt off the couch and walked to the bathroom for a weigh in.
Her foot landed on something wet and cold. Ice. What is ice doing in the hallway? There was a lot of it, big chunks scattered on the carpet leading to the bathroom.
I'm never doing magic again. Weird things happened…
The full length mirror was on the outside of the bathroom door. Kari forgot the ice and the weirdness when she saw her new body.
“It doesn't even look like me,” she whispered as she stepped close to the mirror. Her face was different, eyes larger, cheekbones noticeable and no double chin. Her hair seemed longer, the way it flowed over her slim shoulders. She traced her cheekbones with her finger tips and then tapped under her chin, where she used to have a roll of skin. Her neck seemed longer with pronounced collar bones. Her wrists, hands--they were different now, too. She had never been tall, but now she was delicate, with slim arms and legs, a tiny waist. Her breasts were round and high. She didn't need underwire support anymore, light and lacy bras with thin straps would work.
Her fingers slid over her ribs, easy to find now, but she was pleased to see they were not sticking out. She wasn't too thin. Her stomach was the best change. It was flat, with even a little muscle definition. I'll get a belly ring right away, she thought. She'd always envied girls who had belly rings that showed when they raised their arms, and now she would be one of those girls. She turned around and craned her neck to see her backside. Her butt was round and high. She stomped to see how much she jiggled...and the bathroom door swung open.
She jumped back from the door with a screech, the memory of the dream skeleton flooding her mind.
A man stood in her bathroom doorway, so tall his hair touched the top of the door jamb. He was nude except for a towel wound around the bronze skin of his groin, leaving his sculpted chest and abs bare. He had muscle everywhere--shoulders, arms, thighs. Long, silky, golden hair fell past his shoulders in waves. Light blue eyes, tilted upwards just a little, framed in long dark lashes and straight dark brows, and focused on her naked form. His jaw line was square, cheek bones high, a straight nose and full, carved pink lips.
“You did this to me?” For some reason, she did not feel at all embarrassed about being nude in front of the beautiful, strange man. Everything seemed like a dream. She ran her fingers down her slim torso, and his eyes followed the movement. “You are Kay fawn?”
“No!” His eyes widened. “Don't say that name. He could return if you call him.”
He moved so swiftly he was a blur. Suddenly he was in front of her, and Kari found herself facing his back, from which two huge white wings grew from his shoulders, arching down to his muscular calves.
“An Angel,” she said aloud, in awe. “You're an Angel?”