Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
I close my eyes and do as she says. I try to focus on what we need, but so many other things pop into my head. Taylor gasps beside me, breaking my concentration.
I open my eyes and look to her. She’s standing with a stack of books in her arms. Billy tilts her head to read the spines of the books.
“Shibari, Tantra, girl, we’re trying to help our sister and your nasty ass calling on sex books,” Billy scolds.
“I didn’t know this stuff would be down here. My bad,” Taylor says sheepishly.
I roll my eyes. Looking down into my palms, I see a single book. Turning it to read the spine, I sigh.
“I’m sorry, I’ll try again,” I say to Venus.
“No, it is your heart’s desire to learn about your power. Keep this one. The caves make no mistakes. What comes to you is what you need,” she says.
“I need to go. I have to get to work,” Billy says.
“Yeah, I should go too. I have class. Bradan will be looking for me soon.”
“We can come back another time. Now that the book is in place, we won’t need to come together. Our blood is the key,” Lee says.
“See you guys at training,” I say.
My mind is racing with so much information. I want to get back to my room to read the book that has come to me. I feel like I’m finally getting somewhere.
New Problem
“Still no leads on those hunters or Bradan’s source stone?” I ask as Reilly joins me to watch over our mates training below.
I don’t want them to know we’re watching, so I’m cloaking my presence as is he. I want to see what they have learned and how each is progressing. I will function better knowing they are capable of defending themselves if needed.
“No, but I think we have a bigger problem. Reports have come in that someone has been buying up blessed iron at an alarming rate. Damian says the gatekeepers are concerned because blacksmiths and alchemists have been passing through to the human realm.”
“When did this start?”
“About a week ago. Dagger took a few mind fairies to find out what’s going on.”
“And?”
“Someone is paying the blacksmiths and alchemists to make some super weapon or something,” Reilly says.
I turn to look at him. “What?” I bite out.
“Brother, this has gone to a new level. We should take action now.”
“And do what? To who? We don’t even know if all of this is connected.”
He sighs and rubs his temples. “I know. You are right.”
“I wish I weren’t, but we need more information. I will not send our brothers on a wild-goose chase.”
“There’s something else.”
“Gods help me. What the fuck more could there be?”
“The fire fairies are becoming a problem. They’re angry about Seraphina. You need to decide on her punishment and deliver it so they’ll pipe down.”
“I will punish her when I decide. Not a moment sooner, you feel me?”
“I thought you would say that,” Reilly says with a smile in his voice.
“Keep on the hunters and the source stone. Have Dagger deal with the fairies. Seraphina was wrong. Bradan and I are well within our rights to put her down if we choose.
“As for the blessed iron, see if the mind fairies can learn more. I don’t want to give away that a source stone is missing, but I’d like to know if they come up in connection to this weapon,” I finish.
“They’re getting stronger,” Reilly says, turning my attention back to our mates sparring below.
Taylor flips backward to dodge a blow from Lee Ann and quickly forms a chakram. They’ve been practicing forming weapons midattack without the need for incantations. For Lee, this has been all a walk in the park.
Taylor and Billy have mastered it, but Ray seems to be struggling a bit. It will come. She’s dealing with more than she realizes. There’s Venus and now our son. I’ll give her a few more days to notice she’s pregnant with our first child.
She has thought a few times to herself that it didn’t take that night. Probably because she was just carrying Knox. She’s wrong.
My seed took. Our son is growing strong and healthy. He is the reason her emotions are so high, making these tasks more difficult than they should be for her. I can’t help but wonder if this would be the case if Venus were not invading her body.
“She’s amazing,” Reilly breathes.
I grin as I hear the awe in my brother’s voice for his mate. Lee Ann fights like a true warrior. She leaps into the air and flips forward.
When she lands in a crouch, she has twin blades held out at her sides. The blades spark and glow with magic before she fuses them together as one and stands to spin the new weapon above her head.