Page 48 of Infiltrated

“Holy shit, he totally looks Like Dimitri. He even has the scowl and evil look down. Fuck. That’s creepy,” Dante exclaimed, and Pix and I snickered. Dimitri glowered at the TV.

“I’m better looking,” he muttered darkly. I couldn’t hold back my laugh. Thank God, we got an early start and I had healing magick because our sessions took a long time. The boys finished before Pixie and I, and they all went to the workout room to talk man shit while Anthony and Louie finished up on Pix and I.

“I take it you two are head over heels?” Louie whispered.

“What makes you say that?” Pixie asked with a smirk.

“Well, I know your tattoos are secret.” He rolled his eyes. “But if what Ellie is getting is any indication, then you must be getting something similar. You two always were more in tune with each other than most people I knew that were fortunate enough to be bonded. I also see the way you two look at those men, it’s more than a bond. You two are falling hard if you’re not already there.”

I sighed. “You are a perceptive old man,” I said affectionately. “It is confusing, Louie, can someone really fall in love this quickly. With Pix, we were young, we started as best friends, and then it exploded when we got older. But this time, there is no wait for puberty, it’s like we fell into this and I keep expecting to hit the ground. I don’t say this often, I’ll deny it if you ever repeat it, but I’m scared.”

Anthony and Louie looked at me and smiled.

“Little sis, the great Ellie, is scared? That is certainly a first,” he said with a small smile. “People wait for their whole life to have the chance to find their bonded, you and Pix are fortunate to have five, each. That’s incredible. If the way they look at you two is any indication, then they fell right along with you. The ground never comes when you’re in love, Ellie. You’ll fall forever, that’s the magick of it all.” He gave Pixie a hug then walked up to me and held my chin and gave me a kiss on my forehead.

“Sis, this is real, don’t be afraid to embrace it, we heard you’ll be going to the academy, we know who they are. If we thought they were shit, we would have kicked their asses when we walked in. If the castes cannot be there with you, knowing they will be, will make things easier for us here. You and Pixie are two of the strongest women we know, love only makes you stronger, at this point you’ll be invincible.”

I choked back a sob and wiped my eyes. Fuck this emotional moment.

“Emotions suck Anthony. Stop it.” I laughed. “But point taken, don’t fight it.” I winked at Pixie. “We got this, well I do. Pixie doesn’t fight shit, she’s stronger than me there.”

“I’ll miss you boys, but we are going to change shit, and having a strong family here and a family there will certainly make us invincible. We love you, Ant.”

“Hey, what about us?!” Cole walked out with the boys behind him. I laughed.

“Yeah we love you fuckers, too,” Pixie joked, and I blew them all kisses.

He’s right, you know. Etienne’s voice sounded in my mind.

“About what?”I asked Etienne suspiciously, just how much did they hear.

We fell too,Luca’s voice responded. My eyes snapped to him and swallowed at the look in their eyes and turned away.

I cleared my throat. “So are we ready to show off now? Who is going first?”

After we finished, it was well past 9 o’clock. I was excited but a little nervous to show the boys my work, we all separated and sat on different sides of the room, so no one could peek, the anticipation was killing me!

Dante went first, he took off the large cover on his chest and we gasped. Fuck, it was beautiful. His entire chest now had two huge motorcycles with two pin up girls on them. The girls were exact replicas of Pixie and I, down to hair color and style. He had me on my demon bike and Pixie on her purple and black bike. The details were incredible, the curves perfect. He even had me in the outfit he first met me in; leather pants with my combat boots and black crop top. Pixie was dressed in the outfit she wore when we went to patrol. Beyond the bikes was what looked like purple streaks coming from the bikes’ exhaust pipes. It was intense and beautiful and he even caught my asshole smirk, and Pixie's soft smile. Pixie looked a little shocked while I was in awe.

“Holy fuck, Dante! Tommy, this incredible. It is perfect, how the hell did you get every single detail of my bike down like that? That’s just insane.”

Tommy scoffed. “I’m an artist, sis, we have seen you on your bikes all the time, it was a piece of cake down to the looks on your faces. If you look closely, Pixie’s eyebrow is raised and your fists are white, knuckling your bike.” I laughed at him, Pixie and I took turns to give Dante a kiss.

“It's beautiful, papi chulo, thank you. You’re really stuck now,” I joked.

“I was never going anywhere, I’m not stuck, mi amor, estoy bandito,” he whispered to us. He just told me he was blessed. Fuck me.

Etienne stepped up. “Me next.” He turned around, and shit. He had a dark angel with her wings down back-to-back, with a fairy, also with her wings down. The fairy was done in all colors and the dark angel was done in shades of gray but the feet were wrapped in a thin purple streak and the hands of the fairy and angel reached for each other, setting off the same purple spikes. Both of the girls had their faces facing up with serene expressions. Underneath the figures were words reading, ‘Mon Eternite.’

Pixie and I traced the words. “What does this mean Etienne,” she whispered.

“My forever,” he whispered. My breath caught. This was getting very emotional. He reached and gave Pixie a kiss, then caught my lips with the same intensity.

“Fuck.”

Dimitri took off his cover from his arm and shoulder and the scene depicted made me laugh at first, then I got a closer look. He chose to have a half sleeve done, trailing from his collar bone to his elbow. It was a vampire, holding a female close with purple hair about to bite into her neck and his arm wrapped around a brunette, hands splayed across her stomach. The tattoo was mostly in shades of gray, black, and white. The back of the tattoo was beautiful architecture that looked like a castle throne room. He really went into the full details of the vampire theme. I had to laugh. Like Dante and Etienne, he also wove in streaks of purple around his hands and fangs. Within the tattoo were the words ‘Usque ad consummationem saeculi.’ Until the end of time, in Latin. Goodness gracious. They were going to kill Pix and I at this rate; all these emotions.

“I thought you hated to be called a vampire,” I teased but it was strained by the emotion in my voice.

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