Page 66 of Orange Lake
Brin, where is Brin? I can’t see her with lots of bodies pressed above me.
With the last of my strength, I shoved back, pulled myself to a sitting position, and roared.
Roqs, Coone and the rest of the manasties in the room cringed. I roared as if I am a young one who lost control of his beast. Others were wary because yes, my beast can destroy wherever we are the moment. My face heat up.
Roqs just smirked. He knows me. Knows I will not carelessly release my beast.
“Let me through you dumb ass” I can hear her cute angry voice. Jigen and Volks parted at the end of the bed and all I can see is her.
My body relaxed, my beast settling down. Seeing her right in front of me is like a breath of fresh air. I noticed Coone beside him, smirking at me as usual. I probably looked pole axed just seeing Brin. I want to reach her, hold her but my friends are in my way. I felt Roqs relaxed beside me when he saw her too.
Then, I saw her braced herself. I think I’m not the only one who is shocked when she pushed and vaulted at the end of my bed. I growled but caught her against me.
“BRIN!” I shouted.
“Argh, not too loud big buy. My ears are bleeding after that roar earlier,” she complained but I felt her settle more against me by trying to hug me back.
My arms are all around her. I knew she can feel my chest thumping loudly. It feels so loud to my ears.
“Brin,” I tried to make a mild tone. “Don’t do that again. That’s dangerous.”
She looked up at me. Her lashes making her look coy. “I will do it again if I have to.” She had a stubborn chin.
“What if you break your bones?”
She rolled her eyes at me. I was irritated but I can feel my beast purring.
“It will not break my bone. Swimming doesn’t do that unless I was cliff diving which I wasn’t as others -“
“- Swimming? What swimming?”
She stopped. Silence all around us. You can hear a pin drop by how silent and rigid everyone is. Including myself.
Brin paled a bit. My face is probably shifting with my beast. My beast stopped purring. We want to roar!
Then her eyes lowered a bit, her lips smiled at me. Like she’s trying to be sexy. “Um,” she bit her lip and my eyes focused on it. I am warring with myself with the need to reprimand her at the same time bit her lip myself. “I guess nobody told you yet.”
I glared at everyone in the room. My friends paled back until it landed on Coone. He held his hands up and said, “I tried to save her.”
“What?” I shouted. “What?” I said in a lower voice when Brin shrink away from my voice. I addressed Coone. “Your kind doesn’t know how to swim as well. What happened?”
Coone stepped closer and I felt his tail wrapping itself on my right ankle. Coone’s tail being this long means he is not conscious about himself. Though it’s an artificial tail, when he is self-conscious or lacks confidence, his tail will go back to its original state. I thought it has something to do with Brin.
I’m glad he is back to his usual self. Coone always knew how to calm me down. “She heard about what happened to you Zirc. Then suddenly she’s diving into the lake and got that fucking crystal to save you.”
I can see this has affected Coone a lot when his eyes warmed looking at her. My body refused to be appeased by Brin trying to make herself smaller on top of me.
“Brin,” I growled softy.
“What? It’s the only way to save you. And look, you have your arm back,” she declared at the same time petting my arm. I remembered what happened. How I lost my arm while destroying the Shura. It would be a full victory if I tore Nialla’s head off. I did not even shift to my beast mode.
“Do not ever do that again!” I told her firmly.
“You should see her, Zirc” Jigen piped up. “It’s like she has a built-in swim gear.”
I can see the gears behind Jigen’s brain like he wants to know what makes her able to swim. I’d rather tore his head off and pull his brains out. He was supposed to guard both Coone and Brin. Crix and Volks probably felt my ill intent against their mate. They growled loudly.
I glared at them and growled back harder making Brin squirm on top of me. Fuck, I can feel her wet against my thigh.
