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Dante laughed. “You clearly haven’t been talking to or observing the same woman. Ellie wouldn’t just think of it as leverage, she would feel betrayed. Then, where will we be?”

“It is the only plan we have, logically speaking, we do not have time to stay here forever and get information,” Dimitri jumped in.

“So, three out of four. Majority rules, we wait back here until they leave to go home.” I gestured to her bike. “They will definitely come this way, so let's wait,” I said.

We leaned back into the Shadows to wait.

Charlie

Inwardly,I growled in frustration. Outwardly, I sat back in my booth, sipped on a few beers and waited for my bonded to come off shift. A few of the other men tried to come into my personal space, I guess they thought that because LEDD was able to, they would be too. After a few twisted arms and a couple broken fingers, a few crazy bitch comments that ended in a broken jaw, or two, okay five, but that is no way to talk to a fucking lady, they got the general idea. After around 3 am, Pixie was done closing up the bar, and we walked into the cool air to go home.

I stretched and was looking forward to going home. We owned a beautiful penthouse in a new high rise with high security and well trained guards. I would know, I trained them and they were loyal to a fault. Truth is I gained a lot of friends over the past few years from hanging around the bars. Some people from the lower magick castes came to me for training and a job on my team to help their families. Knowing from always patrolling and helping the community as Exousia, that life wasn’t as easy for others as it was for me growing up in a loving home, albeit only for thirteen years, I never said no.

How did I afford the penthouse, the building, and these salaries? Simple. My powers not only grew in strength, but my mind did too. I was not kidding when I said I was smart as fuck. I may had been only thirteen when my parents died, but I wasn’t fucking stupid. Two days after my parents didn’t return, I knew they were dead. I just knew it. The Elimentis family always had a place on the Council of Magicks from inception, and we had amassed quite an estate over the years. I was not going to let their money be taken by the greedy motherfucking Council. So, I made sure I emptied out all our accounts. I had logged into our accounts and trusts, emptied out the funds.

My only problem was I was hidden away so I had to make it seem as if the money was being put into a trust of a child who they had been considering fostering but weren’t able to. My parents were always very generous and altruistic so it wouldn’t raise any eyebrows. They instilled those same values in me. The trust was going to be available to that person at 18. AKA Me, a new foster that was suddenly in the system and inherited about 490 billion dollars. I had taken that other 10 billion and put it in an untraceable account. No one could hack my encryptions or security, my money was safe and so was my parents’ legacy. It was a tall order, but they didn’t call people child geniuses for nothing.

I took that money and when I came of age, I invested it in various different companies and products. So my net worth, on the down low? Well, it’s obscene. Kinda like me. It wasn’t that I valued the money, no, more like I considered it as a way to honor my parents. They would be proud that I was using my powers and money to protect people, help others with their businesses, and be an all-around good person. Yeah, I killed shit, but I killed bad shit; yeah, I also hurt shit but they fucking deserved it first. I mentally stuck out my tongue.

I took a deep breath of the air and stiffened. Something felt off. I opened my link to Pixie, leaned down to pretend to whisper in her ear and she immediately threw me a thought,Yeah, I feel it too. I knew something was strange when you said the Shadows left so quickly.You think they were able to pick up your mental probe?She pretended to whisper back to me, while talking mentally, and I threw my head back and laughed. I was a pretty good actress.

They, in no way, picked up my abilities. More like they were freaked out that I was able to get a read on them so quickly, and took off. I’m actually going to go ahead and say that they are here. Luca is a tracker, he can find and throw off scents. Let’s just keep walking toward the bike but I have a feeling they will come in hard and strong and expect us to be weak enough to beat but strong enough to fight back.

I hugged Pixie close to me and nuzzled her neck. We approached the bike and I stepped toward the back and she toward the front. I had my bike custom made to be able to have her sit nestled into me versus exposing her back and having to hold on. Just didn’t sit well with me.

They are definitely close, Pix I can feel the displacement in the air. I am going to keep the link open just like we like it.

Pixie smiled at me and I grinned back. One of the benefits of training together for so many years and being connected by mind, which doesn’t happen often in our world, was the ability to fight in tandem and cohesively beat the shit out of people by taking them out together.

I sent an undetectable extra shield to my motorcycle lover. He couldn’t get hurt after all, I mean c'mon, Shadows lurking and Beast damage? No, thanks.

LEDD approached us from the shadows.What the fuck was up with the whole melting in and out of darkness thing.It was creepy.

“You know, boys, I thought we were getting somewhere tonight. I really thought we were going to be besties and paint each other's nails and shit.” I shook my head sadly. Dimitri took that chance to use his super speed to pull me away, thinking to distract me. Using a counter attack I learned years ago, I used his own momentum against him, quickly threw an elbow, grabbed his shoulder and flipped him over, pushing a little of my strength in the flip to make sure he needed extra time to recover. I suspected he had speed when playing darts, he gave up his advantage too early.

As he flipped, Luca was throwing a combination of kicks and punches at me that had me grinning from excitement at the practice, he was good but I was better. I saw him drop low for a punch, I turned as I knocked his fist to the side and countered with a swift kick to his low exposed neck. As he shook that off, Dimitri had approached my back, grabbed my hair, the fucking pussy, tugged my head back and tried to sweep my legs out from under me. I went with the momentum of the pull, turned and hooked my arm over his arm to disengage his hold and punched him twice in the face until his nose bled.

“Dimitri, really, hair pulling?! I was even going to save the black nail polish for you! Fucking ungrateful vampires. Shit! Shadows must be getting low on quality!” I quipped as I went on the defensive stance as both Luca and Dimitri growled. I felt Pixie at my back throwing a few hits to either Etienne or Dante, or shit both, knowing Pixie.

Luca narrowed his eyes. “Little one, what are you?” he said in a sing-song low voice.I turned my head. “Is that some kinda nursery rhyme? Sounds kinda hot coming from you, who knows maybe I’ll call you papi in the bedroom after all, if you play your cards right...although this plan was not a good start.”

Pixie laughed while she fought, and quipped, “We are a package deal, sweetheart, we will both be screaming their names. That is if they are better in bed than they are at fighting.”

We laughed, getting the boys worked up. I heard Pixie take a few hits to her face and side, but we kept laughing.

The men stepped back watching us warily as we all ignored our magicks reaching toward each other and tried to stay focused. We needed to up the stake and show them something that would make them want us on their ranks, we needed those damn invites. Women rarely, if ever, get invites and last I heard there hasn’t been any female invites in a few years. I considered for a second, while deflecting attacks.

Pixie, make Etienne and Dante start twerking on each other. Mind manipulation for the win, and I’m going to knock these two out with speed and then use water and create a little water fortress to keep them in place.

I felt Pixie use her powers in response instead of replying. Before Dimitri and Luca could react, I ran forward with a burst of speed but still had to dodge a kick to the head from Dimitri. Then, I caught a kick to the pussy as he scissor kicked. Fuck, that hurt! Angry now, I turned around to face him and before he could react, I gave him a few well-placed punches to his ribs and heard a satisfying crack. I felt heat building behind me and I used that moment that Luca thought I was distracted to mentally tell Pixie to step away as I pulled deep and used a shit ton of water elemental magick to wrap around Luca, Dimitri, Dante, and Etienne, who were looking pissed as they tried to stop from dancing with each other. I bit back a laugh as I continued and created a little water tornado that settled into a water fortress. A water palace? A water cornucopia spinning thingy like in Hunger Games without the drowning! Anyways, fuck it, we won.

I looked over at Pixie and noticed a small cut above her eye but overall she was in good shape. If I couldn’t heal, I’m sure she would be bruised and hurting for several days though, as I saw a few bruises already forming. I’m sure I have a few too, but my pussy hurt so I don’t care about the other stuff. As they bickered inside the fortress, I healed Princess Peach. I cannot ride with damage, can I? Pshhh.

Pixie and I approached the bike, and prepared to mount it. Dante spoke up, my sweet sex on a stick sounded a little angry.

“What was that, Dante?” I asked.

“Are you really going to leave us in here?” he asked again, his accent getting heavier the angrier he became. The other three were too busy staring daggers at us and it was quite entertaining to see the big bad Shadows brought down a fucking peg. There is a reason why people become well versed in as much as possible, and it looks like the trainers at the Academy were too blind to see that, content in their little world to break the mold. Self-inflicted limitations stand in your way; I don’t like things in my way, I like progression.

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