Flame of Love by Nikki Riker

Author:Nikki Riker [Riker, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC

Eleven

Dylan had been concerned about Alma several times since he and his brother had taken on the job of guarding her from other elementals who would be interested in her strength. However, in the week following her grandmother’s death, that concern deepened. He knew there would be fallout after the tryst between her and Finn, but he had not anticipated the sudden abrupt change in Alma’s demeanor. She was more unstable than ever, spending too much time by herself, and causing the wind to howl against the house, battering trees that had been standing for generations. He had hoped the house belonging to her grandmother and suffused with water energy would help stabilize the mercurial woman he had come to admire—instead, it seemed to be making her worse.

He told himself they wouldn’t be there much longer. There was still the Will to be read, and then they could go back to the relative normalcy of Alma’s apartment. Dylan thought with increasing urgency that the need to find Alma a mate was becoming more intense – someone to bring her turbulent behaviors under control, to temper her ferocious, overpowered energy. On the surface, she was the same as she had always been – flighty, temperamental, charming, and witty. A pleasure to be around. But Dylan could sense the upheaval in her; in spite of the rigorous training, she was beginning to lose her grip on the humanity of her elemental being.

It started small. He and Finn had gone with her to the grocery store to pick up a few things; while the casseroles, roasts, and more had stocked the fridge amply, Alma had been restless, and wanted something fresh—vegetables and fruit, she’d said. Dylan had been a little concerned when she had gone through and picked up a few of every single thing in the produce section, including items that she admitted with a laugh she had no idea how to cook. She and Finn had argued when she’d insisted on buying them anyway, which had resulted in Alma instinctively using her ability to force her will against his. It hadn’t worked—Finn had held his own—and Alma had trembled with barely suppressed temper until they came to the cash register. The cashier made an unfortunate facial expression, and Alma’s talent flared out at the teenaged boy. She commanded him to go to his boss the minute the transaction was completed and announce that he was quitting. Finn had only barely been able to stop the boy by using some of his own magic to counteract the hypnosis that Alma had put on him.

Gradually, such eruptions happened more and more, and Dylan and Finn were both almost helpless to stop it. Alma calmed down after a couple of days, but there was the sense of simmering discontent, of an animal trapped in a cage, staring through the bars, that Dylan didn’t like. She became short-tempered with her family members, restless enough to risk endangering herself by walking out to the edges of

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