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right now, yanna, is that we care for you and we're not going anywhere without you." Tavian winked at me. I could handle that declaration. I put aside my other questions about bonding ceremonies and tri-bondings, and concentrated on eating. Once I had started to smell the food cooking, my stomach tried to gnaw through my belly in earnest.
We tumbled back to bed after the kitchen was cleaned up, and for the next few days we explored our new relationship. My worries that they would be unable to share me disappeared like fog with the sun as they proved to me over and over that they cared not only for me, but for each other. Whatever jealousy that Lynk had in the beginning, he had clearly come to terms with it during the day apart. Watching him as he watched Tavian and I cuddle or make love showed a man that only cared that we were happy, and I knew that Tavian felt the same way. And hell, I was very, very happy myself. The ten months I'd spent alone in the cabin drifted away from my memory like bad dreams. I never needed to worry about being alone again.
Chapter 6
Lynk drove us back to the den several days later. Although I would have been content to stay put in the cabin with the two of them for the rest of our days, they wanted to share their den life with me. At the very least, Lynk had said, they wanted to perform the bonding ceremony with me which involved them taking a brand to their chest in the form of a symbol of my name in their language. Then they would present me to the den as a treasured member and mate. They wanted me to live with them in the den, but I'd teasingly told them that I would only agree to it if I liked their tent. In truth, I would have been happy to live with them anywhere under any circumstances. I was just bare inches away from being completely in love with them.
Lynk, a natural leader who wanted to do what was best for everyone was balanced so well by Tavian who was a caretaker at heart and wanted everyone to be happy. Between the two of them, I was certain there was no more loved woman in the world than me.
We stopped in the grassy area in front of the den, the doors open wide because the den knew we were coming. A young boy played just inside the open door, a child of one of the mated couples. Snow had fallen fresh overnight, the empty fields stretched on forever like a white dream. Hand in hand, we walked towards the barn when everything in my body went cold and I froze. I felt the earth tremble and the air shimmered as I turned around slowly and to my horror, a portal from the fairy world opened several yards from us.
"What the hell?" Tavian asked as Lynk stepped in front of me with a low growl and Tavian put his hand on my back, moving close.
My mouth went dry. "It's a portal."
I didn't have time to say that there wasn't anything good about a portal opening right where I was. It meant that someone in the fairy world had been keeping tabs on me and knew where I was all the time.
Guards I recognized from my uncle's private army stepped forward. They were dressed the same, in dark trousers and military boots, shirtless with swords strapped at their backs, the hilts at cross angles under their wings. My uncle stepped through, surrounded by more guards and I felt like the world was crashing down on me. He couldn't want anything good.
Uncle Tiamet’s wings were unsheathed, as were the other fairy guards. “Tiamet? What are you doing here?” I asked, tugging my jacket off and tossing it behind me. I wanted my wings out so I could draw the most power from my fairy nature, if I needed to defend myself and my men. From the number of guards surrounding my uncle, and the sneer on his face, I had a feeling defense was going to be very necessary.
He tsked. “So disrespectful. But then you always were. Never did know your place.”
I arched my brow. “My place? You mean dead?”
He sniffed derisively. “That’s in the past.”
I opened my mouth to tell him what a
We tumbled back to bed after the kitchen was cleaned up, and for the next few days we explored our new relationship. My worries that they would be unable to share me disappeared like fog with the sun as they proved to me over and over that they cared not only for me, but for each other. Whatever jealousy that Lynk had in the beginning, he had clearly come to terms with it during the day apart. Watching him as he watched Tavian and I cuddle or make love showed a man that only cared that we were happy, and I knew that Tavian felt the same way. And hell, I was very, very happy myself. The ten months I'd spent alone in the cabin drifted away from my memory like bad dreams. I never needed to worry about being alone again.
Chapter 6
Lynk drove us back to the den several days later. Although I would have been content to stay put in the cabin with the two of them for the rest of our days, they wanted to share their den life with me. At the very least, Lynk had said, they wanted to perform the bonding ceremony with me which involved them taking a brand to their chest in the form of a symbol of my name in their language. Then they would present me to the den as a treasured member and mate. They wanted me to live with them in the den, but I'd teasingly told them that I would only agree to it if I liked their tent. In truth, I would have been happy to live with them anywhere under any circumstances. I was just bare inches away from being completely in love with them.
Lynk, a natural leader who wanted to do what was best for everyone was balanced so well by Tavian who was a caretaker at heart and wanted everyone to be happy. Between the two of them, I was certain there was no more loved woman in the world than me.
We stopped in the grassy area in front of the den, the doors open wide because the den knew we were coming. A young boy played just inside the open door, a child of one of the mated couples. Snow had fallen fresh overnight, the empty fields stretched on forever like a white dream. Hand in hand, we walked towards the barn when everything in my body went cold and I froze. I felt the earth tremble and the air shimmered as I turned around slowly and to my horror, a portal from the fairy world opened several yards from us.
"What the hell?" Tavian asked as Lynk stepped in front of me with a low growl and Tavian put his hand on my back, moving close.
My mouth went dry. "It's a portal."
I didn't have time to say that there wasn't anything good about a portal opening right where I was. It meant that someone in the fairy world had been keeping tabs on me and knew where I was all the time.
Guards I recognized from my uncle's private army stepped forward. They were dressed the same, in dark trousers and military boots, shirtless with swords strapped at their backs, the hilts at cross angles under their wings. My uncle stepped through, surrounded by more guards and I felt like the world was crashing down on me. He couldn't want anything good.
Uncle Tiamet’s wings were unsheathed, as were the other fairy guards. “Tiamet? What are you doing here?” I asked, tugging my jacket off and tossing it behind me. I wanted my wings out so I could draw the most power from my fairy nature, if I needed to defend myself and my men. From the number of guards surrounding my uncle, and the sneer on his face, I had a feeling defense was going to be very necessary.
He tsked. “So disrespectful. But then you always were. Never did know your place.”
I arched my brow. “My place? You mean dead?”
He sniffed derisively. “That’s in the past.”
I opened my mouth to tell him what a
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