elemental 01 - whirlwind by ladd larissa

Author:ladd, larissa [ladd, larissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Aira was relieved when it was finally time to travel back to the city and to her own home. The few days she had spent with the two men had been interesting, but she was glad to get out from under her grandmother’s vigilant gaze. Things had not gotten any less tense between her and Aiden, though she had developed a rapport with his younger brother Dylan. On the few occasions she had been forced to spend time with Aiden alone, Aira had been as silent as possible, not wanting to either get into another argument with him or allow him to irritate her into another exhibition of her abilities. It frustrated her to no end that her grandmother had sent her on numerous errands with the older brother, for groceries or to pick up an antique a friend had put aside for her. Dylan seemed entirely at home in her grandmother’s house, and when Aira had taken him with her to retrieve plants her grandmother had ordered from a nursery, they’d had a good time on the drive to the next town over, comparing their taste in music.

Dylan tried to reconcile the two of them, acting as a mediator when the three of them were together. “Guys…” He had said at one point, exasperation creeping into his voice. “We’re going to have to spend a lot of time together. You two need to sort out whatever is going on between you, because it’s only going to be worse without Miss Lorene around.”

Aira had doubted things would be worse. If her grandmother hadn’t interfered, then she could have easily finished off Aiden’s ambition to prove himself better than her. She realized it was dangerous to battle with another elemental, particularly when her abilities weren’t fully formed and available to her, but the idea she was some kind of helpless damsel, being protected by men, galled her indeed. Dylan kept telling Aira when they were alone together his brother really wasn’t that bad; he had a temper, and a slight tendency to speak before he thought, but he was genuinely a good person beneath that. Aira had shrugged off the description, thinking Dylan thought his brother was a good person; they were related, they’d had their whole lives to get to know each other. How the two men—as unalike as any two men could possibly be, with one fire-aligned and the other water-oriented—got along so well was a mystery to Aira. One she thought she could happily unravel from a distance.

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