The Elemental Series Boxset by Shannon Mayer

Author:Shannon Mayer [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2021-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

His hands slid up my waist to my back, tugging me closer. All my childhood feelings for him that I’d thought were gone and dead, blossomed under his touch. I could almost feel him laughing as he kissed me, his lips and tongue teasing my mouth. Making me want to laugh with him despite the fact that I was in the Pit, Ash’s life hung in the balance, and someone tried to boil me.

That was Cactus, his love of life was infectious, but sometimes it got in the way.

I put my hands on his shoulders and turned my face. “Cactus, don’t. Please.”

“You aren’t with Coal anymore. I heard that through the grapevine.” He reached out and touched a hanging bunch of grapes to the right of us, a smile on his lips. I laughed softly.

“Stop. You’re right I’m not with Coal . . .”

He raised an eyebrow but didn’t let go of me with his other hand. “But?”

I didn’t know what to say or how to explain Ash, because even I didn’t really know what was going on there. “I’m just not . . .I have to focus on getting Ash and me out of here. And I need your help.”

His green eyes lowered then slowly rose to mine. “And we can have this conversation after?”

I couldn’t help the laugh with those puppy dog eyes he was laying on me. “Fine. We’ll have this conversation after.”

He let go of me and glanced to the floor. “What are you doing with the bad luck cat?”

Peta let out a low growl. “I’m her familiar, prick.”

His eyebrows shot straight up. “Truly?”

“Yes. Listen. I need you to focus. Can you do that?” I asked, hoping I could get him to be serious for at least a few minutes.

“For you, Larkspur, princess of the Rim, of course.”

“Princess?” Peta spit out the word with enough shock to make me blush.

“”Bastard child,” I said.

Cactus grunted. “The only bastards in the Rim were your siblings and Cassava.”

Taking me by the hand he drew me deeper into the house. The greenery he’d been growing wasn’t any thinner the farther back we went. If anything, the walls were thicker with the growth. “Cactus, how are you hiding this?”

He stopped in front of another door and slowly pushed it open. “I have to get out of here too, Lark. Whatever you’re planning, I’m in. Because if I don’t escape soon . . . Smoke is right. Fiametta is a hard ass and the fact I can do this much with the earth will either make her want to kill me or use me more than she already is.”

I followed him into what I belatedly realized was his bedroom. “Cactus, I said we’d discuss our relationship later, but I didn’t mean a few minutes later.”

He held up his hands, finally letting go of me. “It’s safer back here. Less chance of someone listening in.”

Peta trotted forward, the white tip in her tail twitching several times as she sniffed the room. “He’s right.

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