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More than that, it was as close to a paradise as I could ever have imagined.
No luxury was out of reach. The enclave had whatever I could think of. Spa massage? No problem, Lanie.
I Do you want that in the spa or your quarters?
Hungry for rare steak in the middle of the night?
Again, not an issue. Help yourself to the common kitchens if you’re in the mood to cook. Or have it sent to your rooms with whatever else you could ask for..
I knew that a lot of the treatment was special because I was Malachi’s bloodline, but the longer we spent there, the more I came to understand that Brightsky really was a utopia. Everyone had a role, a job, but everyone worked together using their best skills.
…what’s my contribution, then?” I was sweating, the taste of copper rich in my mouth. Delilah had really been putting me through my paces. Wolves couldn’t fly…but I was learning that vampires could.
toe child I still couldn’t, though. I landed on the mat with a thud and fell back onto it. Delilah nudged me with her “You’ll get it. As for your contribution, you’ll have to see. We all find a way to make this place work.”
I pushed up on my elbow. “Where does the money come from?”
She threw back her head and laughed, then gave me an amused shake of her head. “Oh, sweet summer I puffed out a breath and took the bottle of water she handed me. My muscles ached, but in the best way Im serious”
“Supernaturals with long life spans have a lot of time to accumulate wealth And, unlike humans, we are not as focused on keeping it all for ourselves, since often we have so much more than we cant even use Well Not the dragons, of course They do like to h oa rd She grinned and looked behind me She waved ‘Oh took There’s Penelope Have you had enough for the day? I think she wants us to go to the hot springs “I can be convinced.” With a groan, I got to my feet.
Penelope gave us an eager wave. “Hello, friends! I got us a reservation, but if we don’t get there in ten minutes, we’ll miss it.”
As we rode in the elevator down, down, down, countless floors, I thought about her greeting.
Friends. The other two women chatted, and I watched them with a lump in my throat. They were my friends.
I missed my old friends, of course, but here… “I feel so much more at home here than anywhere else I’ve ever been.”
Penelope linked her arm through mine. “Good.
Because we love having you here.”
The hot springs turned out to be in a series of caverns with soft lighting, fluffy towels, and benches carved into the stone pools.
The three of us stripped naked and got into a pool of steaming water, and I sank back with a happy sigh.
“This is almost too much,” I said.
Delilah sighed, too. “Vampires adore hot springs.”
I cracked open an eye at her. “Why?”
“Cold blood,” she said matter-of-factly. “Your wolf self probably makes up for it, since that kind runs extra hot. Like you’re covered in fur even when you’re in your skin.”.
She splashed lightly and laughed.
I held a hand out of the water, turning it from side to side. “It’s so weird to me to think that I’ve got that inside me, and I just can’t see it.”
“You’ve been doing a great job learning how to draw on your different strengths, though,” Penelope said sincerely. “We’re all shocked.”
“Pen!” Delilah said, sounding exasperated.
“It’s okay. I’m shocked, too.” Soberly, I sat up, and the water sloshed. “Honestly, I can’t believe it myself.”
“Malachi’s so proud of you,” Penelope said hastily, looking embarrassed.
“You are a valued addition to this enclave, Lanie You might not be sure of what you’ll contribute, but my guess is that you’re going to be vital in Brightsky’s protection Delilah let herself float, face tipped to the cavern ceiling “I don’t want this place to need help with that, I said in a low voice. “But I’ll do whatever I have to, if the time comes.”
Delilah turned her face toward me. Her black eyes gleamed, the red a pulsing glow in the cavern’s dim lighting “It’s coming We all know it!
Mason–
on “Go! Xander! Go, Mason, you next!” Greyson had shifted into his dragon form, so the words came out ona hiss of steam.
bar.
I couldn’t get over the fact that dragons could talk.
“What if our wolves could talk when we’re in that form?” I grunted as I jumped up to grab the first ladder Xander was one set of rungs ahead of me, his long legs dangling over the spi k e-li ned pit below us.
‘Can’t…
imagine…they’d have much…f uck!”
As one of his hands slipped, he swung from the other. I kicked his side a bit to get him swinging close enough so he could grab the rung again. We hung side by side, panting. The pit looked way too close.
“If we fall in there, we could die,” he said with a grow!
“Guess we’d better not f ucking fall in there, brother.” grinned and rocked my body again to get moving from rung to rung.
Greyson was in side. He was still naked. A pattern of what his human form by the time we got to the att looked like scales gleamed faintly on his skin.
He grinned at us both. “Nice work.”
“You all are not playing around,” Xander said with admiration.
I grabbed a bottle of water from the icy barrel next to Greyson and drank half of it before I spoke. “We’re even better as our wolves. You probably feel the same as your dragon.”
“Why do you think I was in that form? If either of you fell, I could’ve reached you in seconds with one wing.
Kept you from ending up looking like porcupines instead of wolves.” Greyson laughed as he pulled on a pair of sweatpants. “And your wolves could not have crossed that ladder. No fingers.”
Xander drank some water “Could’ve jumped it, though.”
“No s hit. Really?” Greyson looked at the pit, then at Xander He looked impressed ‘Show me”
We spent the next couple of hours running each other through our paces As it turned out, wolves could outrun dragone on the ground, but we were no match when a dragon was in the sky Carit breath fire, either, Xander panted under his breath We were behind one of the walls in the training grounds Greyson was circling above, but he was at least a little hampered by the ceiling in open sky, Bungs would be totally different.
I grinned. “F uck yeah, I am. It’s been too long sitting on our a ss es without doing much of anything Doesn’t it feel good to you?”
“Yeah.” He leaned back to eye the shadow overhead as a bell rang from outside the training space.
“Can’t quite get used to that,” I said as everyone inside returned to their human-shaped forms.
Xander huffed out a laugh, and his wolf blazed for a minute in his eyes. “Right? Like being in school all over again.”
I I scanned the space for Zane and caught sight of him on the far side of the room talking to Greyson and a group of mixed Fae, witch, and vampire.
“Hardly any of us here,” I murmured as we got ready to join the others. “Not pureblood, anyway. Not sure how many hybrids.”
Xander also kept his voice pitched low. “But that’s not a surprise, all things considered.”
“I’m super pi ssed off we missed out on all of this.”
I gestured toward the groups of men and women congratulating each other on the great workouts we’d all had today. “I hate feeling st upid and kept in the dark.”
He nudged my shoulder with his and scooped up his jeans from where he’d left them. He pulled them on as he said, “Me too.”
“If I find a way to make the Elders pay, I’m going to.” pulled on my own jeans and long-sleeved T-shirt, then found my boots.
‘lll be right there with you, brother. Zane! Hey!”
Xander waved an arm.
Our Beta turned to us, hands on his hips, with a grin that stretched from ear to ear. “Grey’s telling me about this sweet setup setup he’s got for supes that can fly.”
“So we’re not hampered by the roof,” Greyson said, pointing upward. “Not that you boys would know. anything about flying.”
“Yeah, yeah, I said, not taking the bait.
Xander slung an arm around Zane’s shoulders for a moment. “Dragons fly. Lanie said vampires can, too.”
“Some can. Witches can, but not on their own. They need a spelled object. Fae can, of course, but it’s more like hovering or gliding for them.” Greyson looked at Zane. “I’m happy to show you, if you’re interested.”
Zane shot us both a look “That sounds awesome, man. Do either of you ?”
“You go ahead,” I said before my brother could answer “We’ll catch up with you later”
I had things I needed to talk about with my brother He was the only one who’d understand.
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