Page 45 of The Kingdom of Eternal Ice
“It’s dried up by now,” Flinn explains. “It hasn’t been blooming in centuries.”
“It’s full of legends and myths,” Caelan says.
I take a step closer, carefully resting my palm against the tree trunk, expecting it to be cold like the outside, but it isn’t. It feels warm, almost like life is pulsating through it.
“Come, Aza,” Flinn pulls me out of my thoughts. He waves with the bottle. “Let’s have some wine.”
I turn around, noticing how Caelan spreads a thick blanket on the ground and holds out an additional one for me. “You will get sick otherwise.”
“Are you always doting on everyone?” I ask him curiously.
Flinn chuckles. “He is, but he pretends he is all angry and grumpy.”
When Caelan glares at his brother, Endellion elbows him slightly. “Just ignore him,” he chuckles. “You always fall for his traps.”
“Don’t be such a spoilsport,” Flinn complains, but can’t help the grin spreading across his face. We all settle on the blanket, while I wrap myself in the additional one Caelan handed me, and gratefully accept a glass of wine.
Flinn hands his brothers each one too, and then fills his own glass. He raises his up towards us. “To our new friend, Aza.”
“To our new sister,” Caelan adds.
Endellion smiles at me. “To fate.”
fifteen
Courting A Human
*TYNAN*
Be romantic, Tynan, be romantic. I try to go through everything Alana and Ita said, but every smart thought I had gets blown out of the window when Shayan opens the door. The attractive general, with the stern face and the deep brown eyes that hold a certain gentleness to them.
It makes my knees almost buckle and my wolf whimper.
Shayan looks at me with a frown. “Did something happen? Is Azadeh alright?”
“She is with the triplet princes,” I inform him. “They are showing her around.”
“At midnight?”
“Well, seems like no one can sleep tonight,” I mutter, feeling like the dumbest idiot ever.
We should have just gone for a hunt,killed a deer and dropped it in front of his door.My wolf Orion grumbles.We should have gifted him our prey!
“I saw that your light was still on,” I blurt out, deciding to ignore my wolf.
Shayan looks at me curiously. He keeps a black leather eye patch over his damaged eye, and it makes him look so serious and attractive.
“Ita, Alana and I made a small bonfire,” I tell him when he doesn’t say anything. “We are just enjoying the night… with some whisky.” I show him the bottle, noticing how his gaze gets more curious.
“That’s a rare brand,” he says.
“My father gifted it to me, and what’s better than to share it with my friends?” I say, slowly finding my confidence again. He seems intrigued. “Please, do us the honor of joining us.”
Shayan looks torn, but then, with a sigh, he retreats to his room, just to return with his thick coat. “I assume if everyone is out, I may just as well join you.”
Or maybe inviting him for a drink wasn’t the worst idea,Orion admits.
He has a one-track mind normally. Hunt, hunt, hunt. Now he has added Shayan to his priorities. Part of him wants me to just jump and claim our mate, and a certain part of me also has Shayan on our to-do list, but neither Orion nor I would ever put our mark on someone against their will, especially not our mate.
