The Gifted 2: Passions Aflame (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Cara Covington

Author:Cara Covington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2016-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

They’d spent a fair bit of time by the hot spring. After a good long relaxing swim, Ryan and Jeremy had dried her and then served her wine, along with some cheese and crackers they’d conjured.

Meghan wanted to make love some more, but they’d simply held her, refusing to take her again so soon. Meghan decided she really liked being held.

“Time is the same,” Ryan said.

Meghan had just brought them back to her house. It was late afternoon, and she was feeling pleasantly sleepy. Ryan’s words didn’t make a whole lot of sense to her at first.

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t know, I guess that I thought time here would have stood still while we got beamed to Colorado—or whatever it was that happened to us.”

He looked so sweetly embarrassed that she went over to him, stretched up, and kissed him. “We don’t do that, generally speaking—make time stand still, that is.”

“Because we can’t, or we just don’t?” Jeremy asked.

The warm feeling she got when he said “we” instead of “you” was a nice surprise.

“Before recent events, I would have said can’t because I’d never heard of it being done.” Meghan thought about all she’d learned of the final confrontation between Cheri, her men, and the Fortuna brothers. Because Ryan and Jeremy were clearly waiting for her to say more, she continued. “Cheri told me that she’d felt someone else working with her when she’d said an old Latin phrase as she used her magic to protect a small child the Fortunas had snatched up and held as a hostage. They’d ripped the boy from his mother’s arms and held him suspended above the deck of the cruise ship they were all on.” Just thinking about that moment made her shudder. “Cheri spoke the ancient words, even as another spoke them, and then, she said it was as if all the people on the deck of the ship, as well as the water itself, became suspended in time. All, that is, except them and the Fortunas. She didn’t recognize the feel of the other power, either.” Meghan met each man’s gaze in turn. “All she could say was that it wasn’t truly dark and it wasn’t truly light.”

“She’s worried because there might have been another person wielding magic, beyond her, her husbands, and the Fortunas?”

“Yes, that’s exactly what worried her. Until those two Fortunas accosted her, none of us had any idea there’d be...well, villains, for lack of a better word.”

Jeremy cupped her face. “Sweetheart, in our world, when someone tries to do something good, there are almost always villains trying to muck it up.”

“I wasn’t as prepared for life here when I arrived as I thought I was. Major events have always been known in the homeland. We have access to your books and television and movies. We haven’t lived in a total vacuum. It’s just that things we thought weren’t real are, and things we thought were real, aren’t. Life is very complicated here.”

“Honey, that’s true for us, too, and we’ve always lived here.

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