Page 34 of Forgotten Arcane

I nod, “That makes sense, to be honest. I’m good with that, I’ll never turn down an excuse to eat.”

“Me neither,” River grins as he walks into the room with a sleepy looking Coen trailing behind him.

They both reach me at the same time, and like it’s the most natural thing in the world, River kisses me on my left cheek, and Coen kisses me on my right. A sudden image of them both in bed with me appears in my mind, my clit pulses with need and I clench my thighs as I try really hard not to let what I’m currently feeling show on my face.

Of course, as River and Coen take their seats, my eyes catch Doc’s golden ones, and instead of getting embarrassed, I shrug and smirk as I take another bite of bacon.

“Trouble,” he mouths, and I grin.

The best kind of trouble though. The kind of trouble where I end up in bed with two of my gorgeous men is the kind of trouble that I want to be in for a change.

“So,” River starts. “Neith can set herself on fire.”

I grimace, “Apparently. I really hope I don’t spontaneously combust at any point, again. That was not pleasant, especially since I didn’t know what was going on, and if it hadn’t been for Senka, I would have ended up burning the house down.”

“I’ve got a fire gift,” River replies. “It shouldn’t take you too long to control it, especially since your fire appears to listen to you.”

“Not really. I didn’t tell it to engulf me in flames,” I reply.

Raiden nods, “No, you didn’t, but you did want to be covered up, and your fire did that for you. The more you practice with it, the easier it will be to control, and to give it the right commands.”

My eyes widen as a thought occurs to me, “Oh my goddess, do you think I could shoot flames like a flamethrower? That would be so fucking cool.”

Coen chuckles. “I’m not sure that you should do that, but you may be able to, it will depend on how your fire works.”

“I can do that with mine,” River grins excitedly. “But, it took me quite a while to figure out how to control that. As you can imagine, fire is one of the more difficult elements to control since it has a mind of its own.”

I nod, “Yeah, fire is volatile to say the least, so that makes sense to me. I’m going to have to be careful when I practice with it.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll help,” River offers.

“And I will make sure that you don’t accidentally set anything on fire,” Ransom adds.

“That’s smart,” I grin. “The floating thing wasn’t anything to do with my wings was it? They weren’t out, and I think I probably would have panicked less if they were.”

Reed shakes his head, “No, it didn’t have anything to do with your wings. It must be another part of being an angel. We need to do some research on it.”

“I’ll have a look and see if I can find any books in my library, but it’s like Lucius said, books on angels are really rare, so it’s unlikely that I have any,” Raiden adds.

“Thank you.” I reply, “I want to do the research, obviously, but first I want to do some flying practice.”

All of the guys smile at my obvious excitement.

“Sounds good to me,” Doc replies.

It doesn’t take much longer to finish breakfast, and then we all make our way outside so that we can practice flying.

It really only needs to be Reed, Griff, Coen, Raiden, and me heading out since we’re the only ones with wings, but the others want to watch and see how well or how badly, I do.

Nerves are swimming in my belly, and I shake out my hands to try and get rid of some of my nervous tension.

Ransom catches my hand and kisses the back of it, before he pulls me into his arms.

“You’re going to do great,” he says, while the others carry on walking further away from the house.

The fewer obstacles in the way when I fly for the first time, the better as far as I’m concerned.

“I’m going to fall on my ass,” I retort.

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