Page 112 of The Broken Aztec Princesses

“I hope it goes well for you,” I told him honestly, though I was wondering what would happen to Bells once he left. “Have you seen Bells, yet?”

“Yep, I swung by the fields before I got here.” He smiled cheekily.

“I bet,” I answered.

“I did! I had to let my beta know I was back.” He threw his head back and laughed at my teasing. “Wanna have lunch?”

“Sounds good.”

“Alright, I’ll go grab us food. See you in the conference room?”

“Yep.”

“I’ll come help once I get Violet into the conference room,” Chris added, standing up.

“No need, bud. You take care of our Violet there,” Cade winked, making Chris frown at his use of words.

Cade laughed again and left.

“You know he’s with Bells, right?” I told Chris when he was still frowning as he led me to the conference room.

“What?”

“Cade and Bells. They’re together right now.”

Chris grunted, but I smiled when I saw his frown disappear from his face. He’d gotten jealous again, and I was more than a little thrilled he could do that. Nenetl agreed, purring with affection in the back of my head.

Cade walked in with a big tray of food a little while later, Bells following behind him with another.

I grabbed one of the smaller plates with only one meatball marinara sub and a cluster of grapes and chips. When Bells sat down, Cade hooked his finger under her seat and dragged it over to him.

“Cade!” Bells hissed with alarm.

“What? You said they knew already.” Cade shrugged.

“Violet knows.”

“And you don’t think she told Chris?” Cade asked, smirking over at me.

“I’ll have you know,” I said with a blush on my face. “That I only just told Chris a few minutes ago.”

Bells rolled her eyes. “I told you last night.”

“And, I’ve been awake since four in the morning. That’s a solid eight hours, plus yesterday evening, that I kept it to myself,” I defended, making Chris’ lips twitch.

“It’s not like you didn’t tell me they were together before I even got here, Princess,” Cade said, making me cross my arms and glare at my sister, while Chris was blushing beside me. “Chris, stop blushing. We’re all adults here.”

Chris finally chuckled, hooked his finger under my seat and pulled me closer, making Bells giggle.

My foot was fully healed two days later, and I was finally able to restart my training. Elim was still coming by, but they were keeping their sparring to the last half-hour of the training.

Everything was great for the following week. I even went to breakfast in the dining room, though Bells asked me if I could still eat with them in the conference room. She and Cade were keeping their thing a secret, and breakfast and lunch was one of the few places Cade was able to show his affection and not feel like he was being hidden, so I kept my attempts to eat with the packs to dinner time. It didn’t work every day, though. Some days I was too tired and burned out to push through my fear.

Things were going so well. I was happy and proud of the progress I was making. Dr. Campbell was ecstatic, and we were setting up more small goals to continue with my progress.

“Hey, I want to go get something from my room,” I told Chris halfway through the morning. I’d finally finished the drawing of his spar with Elim, and I wanted to show it to him, but had been distracted with yummy kisses and forgot. If he liked it, I wanted to order it printed on professional paper and give a copy to him and Elim.

“Sure.”

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