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”And if you weren’t here just now, where were you?” Byron wondered.

Shaking the memory from my head, I said, embarrassed, “Nowhere.Just remembering something, that’s all.I’m okay.”

”Must have been some memory,” said Byron.

”I’ll bet I know what he was remembering,” said Cade with a smirk and he pointed at Jenna, then at me, and made a gesture with the finger of one hand through a circle made with the thumb and index finger of his other hand—theunderstood sign for what we’d been doing to Jenna before her uncle called.

“Smooth as always, Cade,” said Byron with a smirk of his own.

“Huh!” Cade said, scoffing.“Like you weren’t thinking about getting back to it, now we’re finished with lunch.I’m all fueled up and ready again.How about you, Jenna?”

Jenna started to say something when Byron, the gentleman as usual, cut in, talking to her, “We never give you much of a rest, do we?”

She smiled in that bashful way that she had when the three of us first met her, when we only knew her as a shy, inexperienced college girl.Even now, after all the sex that we’d shared with her, there were still little moments when I saw flashes of the girl she used to be.They made me wish I could take her virginity all over again.“Well,” Jenna said, “around the three of you, rest isn’t the foremost thing on my mind.”And she laughed a little, showing us how we had distracted her for the time being from her concerns about her father.

“See?” said Cade.“She’s as ready to get back to it as we are.”

”If that’s so,” said Byron, “then I suggest we adjourn back to the basking room.”And to Jenna, he suggested, “Unless of course you’d rather have it in the bedroom now.”

”Whatever’s fine with me,” said Cade.“Elliot?”

I touched her on the hand that she had on my arm.“Anytime, anyplace with you, babe.”I kissed her on the head and she made that bashful look again, which made me want to swipe everything from the table, spread her across it, and bang her right there.

“The bedroom’s fine,” she said, and kissed my upper arm.

“We’ll leave the cleanup for later,” said Byron.“Come along, everyone.”

Byron and Cade got up first and walked around the table, headed for the threshold of the dining room, already unfastening their trousers as they went.Jenna and I got up after them and she started to follow them, but she stopped when I touched her on the shoulder.

”What is it?” Jenna asked.

I put my hands on both of her shoulders and looked down at her, feeling the love pouring out of me and seeing a sparkle in her eyes as if she could feel it.“You know, don’t you,” I said, “there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to stop anyone or anything ever taking you from me.”

Jenna touched my face and replied sweetly, “I know.”

”You belong to me,” I said.“I share you with my friends because they’re the most important people to me—after you.But you’re mine, Jenna.Mine.”

She let me pull her into a fierce, hot kiss, with our mouths moving together and our arms sliding up and down each other’s body; a kiss that left no doubt of the truth of what I’d just told her.

I was a wrestler.I had been physical and aggressive with other Scalers for sport and competition.In my sport I had never actually had to harm anyone.But to protect Jenna, I was capable of doing what I did, and more, to Nidaag or to anyone who ever threatened her and Jenna knew it.

From another room came Cade’s voice calling, “Hey, Elliot!You two joining us or are you gonna do it to her right there?”

As I’d thought earlier, I could have “done it to her right there.”But our friends were waiting.Arm in arm, Jenna and I walked to Byron’s bedroom.

CHAPTER 13

Byron

A couple of cars hovered over a dirt road leading into a dark forest, just like we were expecting.One man stood outside one of the cars, watching with hands on his hips as our own car glided down the road towards them.Our sharp dragon eyes immediately picked out Neal Callaway.Jenna recognized him just because she knew the figure of her father’s brother so well.

”There he is!” Jenna called, pointing from the front seat of the car that I’d rented for us because no one who might be looking for us—namely, Nidaag’s followers—would recognize it as mine.“Uncle Neal!”

From the car where Neal was standing, another man got out, and a man and a woman got out from the other car, as I put our vehicle into a hover near them and shut it off.The car settled onto the road and Jenna quickly jumped out and ran to her uncle.Neal and Jenna embraced as Elliot, Cade, and I got out.

Jenna’s uncle was the only one of these people we recognized, but since the others were with Neal, they all had to belong to the Intercross, the “fringe” organization that knew about Earth but kept it mostly quiet.The idea that there was a parallel world where civilization was only human and dragons were either myths or beasts was very threatening to a certain element of people on Tellus—Nidaag’s people—who could make things very difficult, even dangerous, for a group like the Intercross.So it was to the Intercross’s benefit, at least until the Gorgonites became less of a presence in society, to stay on the “fringe” and let themselves not be taken completely seriously.Of course if they had their way, Jenna, her father, and her Uncle could change all that.

The guys and I joined Jenna and Neal.We were all introduced to Neal’s associates—the two men, Ayers and Phillips, and the woman, Adrienne, who was a Scaler.Jenna had not mentioned to her uncle that she had taken us back to Earth and that we’d been guests in their home.Neal, who knew how it was with Jenna and the three of us, would have known what kind of guests we had been there, which was a conversation we didn’t care to have with everything else that was going on.When we came face to face with Jenna’s father, we would have to deal with whether or not he approved of her being with three older Scaler guys, so we preferred not to have the subject come up with her uncle before we were introduced to Mr. Callaway.

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