“Yeah, but I want to make a good impression, not wear my ratty jeans and a hoodie,”
“You’d look beautiful if you wore a paper bag.” River leaned forward and brushed his lips against mine. A rush of reassuring energy passed af
the contact.
I instantly pulled back, my head a little woozy.
“Shit. I’m sorry. I don’t know what that was,” River hurried to apologize.
“What happened?” Knox barked.
River glanced from him to me as Anson and Caspian hurried over. “I don’t know. I wanted to reassure Senna that everything would be okay, but
I had a surge of power.”
I touched my fingers to my lips. “It felt like my system was being overloaded.”
“I’m so sorry.”
I reached out and squeezed River‘ leg. “It’s okay. It didn’t hurt or anything. I just felt dizzy.”
Knox’s brows pulled together as he stared at us. “I wonder…”
“What?” Anson prodded.
“I bet we’ve deepened our bond today. On a lot of different levels. I wonder if it’s increased our gifts.”
River‘ eyes widened. “Test it.”
Knox climbed to his feet, eyeing Caspian. “Be my guinea pig?”
He muttered a curse but nodded. “Don’t make my brain explode, please.”
Knox’s lips twitched. “I’ll try my best.”
I stood, laying a hand on Knox’s arm. “Maybe you shouldn’t. Not until we know what’s going on.”
“I’ll be careful. Promise.”
I bit my bottom lip but stepped back.
Knox focused on Caspian. “I can usually hold someone in place for thirty seconds at the most.” His eyes narrowed. “All right, try to move.”
Caspian’s face was still expressive, but that was it. Even as lines of strain appeared, none of his limbs moved an inch.
“Ninety seconds,” Luc called out.
“Holy shit,” Anson muttered. “Do you feel drained?”
Knox shook his head. “Not at all. I feel like I could keep going forever.”
“Two minutes,” Luc informed us.
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“Let him go,” I said softly. Something about Caspian being held hostage made my stomach turn.
Knox blinked and Caspian was charging forward.
“Crap!” Anson caught Caspian around the waist before he plowed into us.
I hurried towards them. “Are you okay? You’re not hurt, are you?”
Caspian grinned and gave me a quick kiss. “I’m fine. That was crazy though. I couldn’t move at all, and I could almost feel your power around me. It was a hell of a lot stronger than any other time we’ve practiced.”
Knox turned to Anson. “You try.”
“What exactly?”
Knox looked around before his attention settled on a massive log down the beach. “That.”
The thing had to be twenty feet long and who knew how wide. “No. There’s no way. He’s going to hurt himself,” I argued.
But Anson was already striding towards the log.
“Anson, no!”
River grabbed my hand as I hurried after Anson. “He won’t do it if it’s too much.”
I sent River a look that asked if he thought I was stupid. “Anson will take any challenge.”
Luc winced. “You might have a point.”
We picked up our pace, but Anson was already squatting to grab hold of the log. In a flash, he lifted it over his head and threw it down the beach. The rest of us froze.
“I’ll be damned,” Caspian said softly.
Anson turned back to us, a huge grin on his face. “That was fun. I wonder what else I can do?”
“Oh no.” I stepped forward, holding up both hands. “I don’t want you to get hurt or accidentally taking out an innocent bystander.”
“She has a point. We should test the gifts in a safe environment,” Knox said.
Anson pouted. “You guys never want me to have any fun.”
Caspian stared at where the log had landed. “I think we might want to be careful about who we let in on this new development.”
A shiver ran down my spine. “Why?”
“The council,” River said softly.
Knox looked around our group, his gaze finally settling on me. “I don’t want to think about what might happen if they find out you can already supercharge our powers.”
My stomach twisted into a tight knot. “They aren’t going to take me. Right?”
Anson moved in closer, wrapping his arms around me. “No one’s taking you anywhere, Ro.”
But I wasn’t sure he could be so confident about that. Not if these council leaders were as powerful as the guys said. I’d just have to convince the council I was a healer and nothing else.
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“They’re here!“a girl’s voice shouted from the house.
I fiddled with the strings on my bracelet until River laid his hand over mine, stilling my movements. “My parems already think you to grea Leg
will too.”
I laced my fingers with his, squeezing hard. “Your parents haven’t spent any real time with me.” Aside from when the bomb had been drogget on me about my birth mother being a part of the pack. That thought had me wondering about my other mother, the one who had raised now for almost eighteen years. I hadn’t heard a word from her or my father in the past week or so.
River came to a stop on the walkway, turning to me and framing my face with his hands. “What’s going on in that head of yours for e doesn’t feel good.”
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