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my cheeks. “I would hate it if I couldn’t have an org asm!”
“Oh, me too,” Charlotte assured me. “He doesn’t expect me to go without, ever. In fact, he m have at least three or four each time…like pearls on a necklace, he says. Or a stack of coins. The mo or gasms he gives me, the better. I’m sure it sounds strange.
“No stranger than me having three mates who all make love to me at the same time, I told her.
Charlotte had been chewing a bite of her kebab and now swallowed so she could laugh. To me, that sounds like two too many c ocks. I’m very happy having only one mate. Not that I’m judging you, of course.”
“I didn’t feel like you were. Believe me, having three is a handful. Or a mouthful,” I added, and we both burst into peals of laughter. I had to hold my sides with it.
Al both As it eased off, Charlotte sighed. “Still, this dual nature that you and I both share does create a greater, oh, need, shall we say? It’s something to navigate, certainly. If I had a different mate, one who didn’t have these less than vanilla proclivities, I’m not sure I’d be satisfied. With my Alpha…”
She trailed off, her voice saddening. I waited, giving her time to speak. She did finally, a gleam of tears in her eyes.
“Let’s it’s just say that what he asked of me did not fulfill my desires. For a long, long time, I believed I would never be able to find love or sexual gratification with anyone. That I wasn’t worthy of it. But with Greyson, everything fits perfectly into place.”
“I never dreamed I would love three men who all loved me, but that’s exactly how I feel about them, too.” I told her That’s when the weird feeling washed over me and the world went wavy Lanie–
I came back to myself, not sure how much time had passed. It couldn’t have been long, since Charlotte was tugging a chunk of steak from her kebab with her teeth and giving me a curious look.
“Lanie?” She spoke around the mouthful of meat.
“You all right?”
“Got a little woozy for a second or so. Felt like I was dreaming, but I knew I was awake.” My appetite had also faded quite a b Charlotte’s frown eased. She sighed. “Your grandfather must be trying to reach you.”
“Like through a mind link?” I blinked in surprise. “I know we’re family, but that seems strange.”
“Not like the one you share with your mates. He’s an Ancient, so he can….I’m not sure how to describe it. Reach, Charlotte explained. “Umm…maybe it’s better described as touch? He can find people he wants to communicate with and draw them to him. Usually, they simply think it’s their own idea.”
“He did tell me he wanted us to meet.” I concentrated, trying to see if I felt that weird dreaming sensation again, but it was gone.
“Could there be something else going on?” Charlotte gave me a sideways look that at first I couldn’t interpret “You mean am I with pup, I confirmed, and she nodded. My heart pounded at the thought of it, but I couldn’t tell if it was in a good or a bad way. “I hope not. I think I hope not. There’s so much going on right now, it’s not the right time for another pup”
Even as I said it aloud, I wondered if that was how I truly felt. One hand went protectively to my belly again, the way it had in the training room, only this time did I imagine the smallest of bulges there?
Something that didn’t have anything to do with the beef kebabs I’d been gobbling?
“I’m sorry I didn’t mean to worry you” Charlotte leaned a little bit closer to draw in a long, slow breath.
“if it offers any comfort, I can’t smell a pregnancy, not even if I open myself up to all of my strengths.
flet out a self-conscious chuckle that faded quickly sighed How long did it take you to learn how to control all your gifts? I feel like I’ve barely scratched the Hartacs with what the Moon Goddess has given me How will I ever leam how to utilize all the vampire stuff, not You pa long hepan Youre meant to eat all in a day or two hot even in a month or year or ester; bool years. Lulus Ce last of and sped the one Radiated To scary if t khoal see what my grandfather wants.”
“Can you find your way? I could take you, but I have some errands to run.” Charlotte tossed her empty kebab stick into the garbage.
I paused to focus my thoughts. “I think I can find it.”
We exchanged hugs and she went off in one direction while I took the other. As I was heading for the other end of the street where the elevators were, I spotted Xander’s mother leaving one of the small shops. She carried a shopping bag in one arm and a travel mug in the other.
“Gabriela!” I called, hurrying to catch up to her.
She turned with a frown that didn’t ease even when she saw it was me. If anything, it looked like she kind of frowned even harder. It lasted only a few seconds before she looked normal again.
“Lanie. What are you up to?”
“I’ve been training with Charlotte and Malachi, and I’m on my way to meet up with him again. I guess he’s got some things he wants to talk to me about one on one. What are you up to?”
With a strained laugh, she held up her bag and the mug. “Nothing much. With the children being cared for, there’s not much for me to do other than pick up a few things. Oh, and have tea with a friend.
What kind of things were you learning during your training?”
Another wash of that woozy sort of dreamy feeling passed over me. This time, I managed to fend it off, but I could tell she’d noticed something. “I’ll tell you all about it later tonight, okay? Right now I really have to run.
“I can smell the vampire in you.”
I did a double-take, not sure I’d heard her correctly over the sounds from the crowd. Several others had Group out. gathered to wait for the elevators now opening and letting a group “I’m sorry?” I asked her, but Gabriela shrugged.
“You run on. I forgot I needed something from the book shop. See you later.”
She left without another word, and I took a spot on the elevator. Just as the doors shut, I glimpsed her through them. She was staring at me with an intense look of concentration.
What was that all about?
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Lanie–
By the time I got to my grandfather’s quarters, that weird wavy dreamy feeling had come and gone a few times. Charlotte had told me it was mostly likely caused by Malachi reaching for me, but the closer I got to his place, the less convinced I was that the weirdness was coming from him.
I paused before knocking on his door to send a few thoughts up to the Moon Goddess. I thanked her for the gifts she’d granted me, and all the guidance she’d given me so far. I waited for her warmth to surround me, and although it did, there was a coolness and a distance that hadn’t been there before.
Frowning, I opened my eyes. Was it possible that the Moon Goddess did not approve of me focusing so much of my attention on these new vampire traits?
She’d chosen me, or at least that’s what everyone seemed to think. She was a goddess. Discovering I was a hybrid had been a shock to me, but it could not have been to her.
Unfortunately, there just wasn’t any way for me to know what a goddess intended.
I still thanked her again without pushing for a more prominent response. I knocked on my grandfather’s door and heard him call for me to enter. Even though I’d been in this “villa” before, I was still pretty stunned to see it looking as though night had fallen.
The windows that had shown a late afternoon summer sunshine glow before now gleamed with silver moonlight against a black velvet sky pinpricked with stars. I couldn’t actually look out of the windows to see if there was also a moon, and I bumped my head trying.
Malachi laughed. “What are you doing? I told you before this is all an illusion.”
“I thought you only had the sunshine, since you can’t enjoy it the way you’d like to.” I let him hug me and lead me to the living room to settle into the comfy couch.
“The lights are timed to mimic the passing of day. I can leave them on all the time, if I choose, but I enjoy the night and the moon both. Since I don’t always want to go all the way up to the surface in order to see the real sky, this is a lovely substitute. Don’t you think?”
“I prefer the real thing.” I said without thinking about how snarky that might sound, especially to a vampire who needed all kinds of protection to walk in the sunlight “Sorry”
“No need. You should be aware of your fortune, however. You’re able to embrace the sun and the moon equally. It could have as easily gone differently for you” Malachi crossed one long leg over the other and steepled his fingers beneath his chin. “So many hybrids perish at birth for reasons such as that.”
“Were you worried that I would?”
“It was a possibility,” he said.
Would you have been upset?”
deeply as any I’ve ever felt. How could you even think such a thing?”
I frowned, hating the idea that it was mere chance that had kept me alive this far. “Were you making my head feel all funny earlier?”
“No. At least, not on purpose.” He inclined his head.
Why? Who did it feel like?”
“Charlotte said it might be you reaching for me, that you could do that because you’re an Ancient. I felt like I was dreaming. Like the world around me was very far away.” I shivered a little at the memory.
Malachi frowned. “It sounds like a Summoning, yes, but it wasn’t coming from me.”
“Who else would be doing it?”
“Nobody here in Brightsky,” he said. Malachi was still frowning.
“Are you worried about it? That it was a….
Summoning? What is that, anyway?”
“I’m not at all worried about it, since I know it’s impossible that anyone but me could have been trying such a thing. A Summoning is much like compelling someone, but it can be done from any distance, and it is not capable of making someone do anything but get to the Summoner. The skills are related, but while many vampire-kind become quite proficient at compelling, there are very few who can Summon. In fact, I believe only Ancients can.”
“But it makes that dreamy feeling?”
“If you’d been Summoned, I think you’d know it, Malachi said with a chuckle. “It creates a feeling of desperation in the recipient. Something impossible to deny, One who is Summoned will do anything to get to their Summoner. They will kill whatever stands in their way, if necessary.”
“I definitely didn’t feel that much of an urge,” I told him with a laugh. “But if it hadn’t been a Summoning.
what could it have been?”
Zane–
Greyson wasn’t taking me flying today. Instead, we’d agreed to meet on the training field to go through some of the special maneuvers Brightsky had put together. Xander and Mason were once more off on their own, doing some kind of bonding thing Malachi had set up for them with other leaders.
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