Earth's Touch (Her Elementals Book 1) by Ivy Jack

Author:Ivy Jack [Jack, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2022-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Fifteen

~ FLINT ~

“Your progress inspires me!” I gasped as I ducked Avani’s backward kick. I would’ve said more, but she was moving so quickly that I had to keep my head on a swivel to make sure she didn’t attack me.

For the last couple of weeks, we came to the tunnels daily, a place Avani fittingly called “The Secret Garden,” but it had only become that because of her unique ability that continued to grow daily.

It had started the first day we trained here. Before we’d left, she’d touched the stone wall just over what looked like a shallow crack. Beneath her fingertips, a vine sprouted and kept growing, inching its way along the rocks. I’d watched her smiling, my heart swelling with pride.

And like the growing vines that grew and grew over those cold stones, so did my devotion and love for her increase until my heart had completely thawed from centuries of pain and sorrow at having lost Lilly.

Lilly. I barely thought of her anymore. She and Avani may share the same ancient elemental light, but they were different in so many ways. Lilly had been feisty with a short temper but passionate, too. About everything. She did nothing halfway. But even more so, she pushed me to become what I thought was the best version of myself. Maybe that was me just being cocky, but since knowing Avani? I felt like a child, insecure and lacking in every way, even when it came to magic. She just learned so quickly and was so incredibly smart.

Lost in my thoughts, my focus slipped, and I tripped over a sudden, thick vine growing from the cracks in the stone floor. I stumbled backward but couldn't right my feet before I fell.

Avani laughed out loud. “Getting tired, old man?”

The sound teased my ears pleasurably, but I tried hard not to smile back. I didn’t want to give her the satisfaction. “It’s all these damn vines. We can barely fight in here anymore.”

She glanced around. “I think they’re beautiful.”

They were, but I wouldn’t admit that to her. There were hundreds of them now, many of them sprouting little blue and white flowers, despite there being no sun. Avani was their sun. That was the only light they needed.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

I blinked and tried to mask my expression. That was the hardest part of working with her—reigning in my desire. Ignoring her question, I walked to the wooden table nearby and picked up a cloth to blot the sweat from my forehead. “Maybe you can get rid of some of them? The smell offends my senses.”

“That’s the smell of smoke from these torches you lit. Any more, and I’m afraid you’ll burn all my beautiful plants.”

I raised an eyebrow at her, along with a smirk. “Maybe that’s my plan.”

She narrowed her eyes. “You wouldn’t dare.”

“Wouldn’t I?” At our friendly banter, the air became sexually charged, and I grew hard. Shit. This happened all too often. I hated it and loved it at the same time.

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