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He shook his head and kissed me.
I was so damn happy he was mine.
“Wakey wakey,” Xarius said, his tone filled with humor. We’d gone back inside and napped on the couch, our sleep schedules all messed up from sleeping whenever possible the days before. It seemed like it was morning now, which was a nice sight. Maybe that meant we’d all gathered enough energy to master the portal today.
Silver grunted and burrowed further into my side, hiding beneath the covers. I smiled and kissed his hair, loving how adorable he was.
“Julie made us breakfast,” Niam said, looking well-rested and ready for the day. Looking over at Xarius, he had the same glow to him. We should’ve been better at taking care of ourselves, no wonder the portal wouldn’t work with us so low on energy.
We pulled some clothes on, not that we slept naked, but no one except for me was seeing Silver in one of his lace panties. They were for my eyes only. I didn’t care if they saw me in my boxers, but Silver did, so I figured pants would be a good thing.
We joined the others outside on the wooden furniture. It smelled fantastic; whatever it was Julie had made.
“Good morning!” Julie greeted us with a huge bowl of something. “I made oatmeal! And thanks to Xar we have so many berries.”
Xarius looked disappointed, Niam, too, but Silver and I were excited for some oatmeal.
“I wish we had some honey or syrup,” Altair said, joining us eagerly with a bowl for himself.
“I can make sugarcanes,” I replied, knowing it wouldn’t do much.
“Nah, it’s fine,” he replied. “I just miss honey. Maybe I’ll buy some when we go shopping next.”
I frowned, then thought about my power with the animals. I let out my power, seeking some birds nearby. I felt several but chose one and called it to me. The others were oblivious to this since I could command them with my mind alone.
A small brown bird flew down and sat on my arm, waiting for my command. I told it to seek out a beehive and then it flew off.
“Um, okay,” Julie said, looking at me weirdly. I remembered we hadn’t discussed our powers with her, or with Altair yet, but I just shrugged, not caring to elaborate right now.
Since no one decided to fill her in, she just rolled her eyes and scooped out oatmeal for all of us. She had three bowls with different berries, but I just picked the blueberries and strawberries, since they were my favorites.
My little friend returned and told me there was one beehive nearby. I thanked it for its service and gave it a blueberry as thanks. It flew off happily with the berry and I smiled after it. It felt nice trying out my special power. But now I was on to the next part. Using the location the bird had given me, I felt with my earth magic where the tree with the beehive was located. Then I took Silver’s hand in mine, guiding my earth magic to show him what I was searching for. He gasped, feeling it, too. I tried to show him mentally what I was planning for him to do, hoping it worked. I got a visual back that showed me he understood.
Still holding hands to share powers, Silver used his special ability to move the beehive over to us, ridding it of bees while I made a new home for them to fill with honey, in the same place the old hive had been. Silver hadn’t taken all the honey, making it easier for the bees to rebuild.
A floating beehive came into view, with no bees, thank God for that, and Silver easily dumped it beside the table, waving his hand towards it. “There you go, Altair.”
The others looked at us in stunned silence until Niam broke it with a squeal.
“You got a ring!”
Silver looked at his hand like he’d completely forgotten it, then showed it off proudly. I knew a diamond that size wouldn’t be forgotten that easily, but I loved how proudly he showed it off to the others.
“When?!” Niam demanded, holding Silver’s hand to see it better.
“Yesterday,” Silver replied with a beaming smile.
“I need all the details,” Niam demanded, scooting closer to Silver, his breakfast forgotten as Silver began telling him with way toomany details how I’d given him the ring. I was just smiling like a lovesick fool as I heard the story from his point of view.
Xarius shot daggers at me, but I just shrugged with a sheepish smile. He’d had plenty of time to put a ring on Niam’s finger. Not my fault. Okay, so he had a lot less time to play around with rings since he was driving. But still.
“I want one, too!” Niam said, bumping Xarius’s arm.
“Anything you want, baby,” Xarius quickly answered, giving him the sexiest smile I’d ever seen on him. It seemed to work on Niam, who stood and pulled Xarius back inside the RV.
“Maybe we should,” I began, but Silver held up his hand.
“Already made a silencing ward. I donotwant to hear them while I eat,” he said, scooping up a few blackberries, humming with pleasure as he ate the warm oatmeal.
