Aly doesn’t hesitate, grabbing his face with both hands and pressing her lips to his. He only hesitates a second before he’s wrapping his arms around her and devouring her. He kisses her like he’s starving and it’s turning me the hell on.
I can smell how wet Aly is from his kiss and I want one next. Before it can go too far, Aly steps back and stares at Jax with lust filled eyes. I’m pretty sure she’s thinking about how to get him to a private space right now. They’ve been giving each other lusty glances all day after last night.
I’m so glad they have their bond, and they’ve taken that step. I’m looking forward to everything we can do now.
“Jax? Are you back?” She asks.
Jax smiles and I know he’s broken whatever trance he was in. “That was so weird. I got so confused and just knew I needed to leave. I have no idea what came over me.”
“It sounds like a spell,” Nic says.
I nod my head agreeing, it sounds like something made Jax react that way.
“What activated it?” Kiran asks. He’s standing pretty damn close to his brother, probably worried about him.
“I’m not sure,” Jax says, his forehead scrunched in thought. He grimaces, like he’s in pain thinking about it.
“He was holding a book,” I point out, “he didn’t just set it down when he left, he put it back.”
I turn around and go back to where he put it back on the shelf. They all follow me over, to the shelf, Aly wrapped around Jax in concern.
I reach out but Nic stops me with a hand on my arm. “Don’t. You don’t need to be spelled too.”
He has a good point but I think we need to know what this is about. We haven’t been able to find anything so far, we can’t pass up this chance.
“We need to know what happened,” I say.
Nic thinks about it for a second before saying, “I’ll try to sense any spells on the books.”
He puts his hands up and I can smell some magic in the air as he works. I probably could have sniffed out the book but this works too.
Aly is rubbing her hand up and down Jax’s back soothingly. Clearly, what happened really freaked her out. I didn’t like it either, I’m sick of all these random spells hitting us unexpectedly. It’s not normal.
“Found it,” Nic exclaims. He murmurs a spell under his breath and a book levitates out from the shelf in front of us.
I read the cover of the book aloud. “The History of,” I pause because there’s nothing else there. “There’s a blank space after that, something is missing, then it says mating bonds.”
“What the hell?” Jeremy asks, stepping around me to look at the book.
“So the cover of the book has been changed and it’s spelled to repel people? Plus it’s about mating bonds?” Kiran points out.
Nic wiggles his fingers and the book’s pages start to turn. It’s practically blank on the inside. It’s clearly been messed with.
“So the information we need is gone from this book?” Aly asks, incredulous.
“We have terrible luck,” Kiran groans.
Jax is standing there lost in thought, using that super brain of his to find a solution.
“Could you reverse the spell?” Jeremy asks Nicoli.
Nic stares down at the book and does some hand motions with more whispered words. He glances over at us all and frowns.
“I can’t, it’s too complicated. I can’t even find the end of the spell to start unwinding it with.”
We are so fucking screwed.
“I’ve got it,” Jax says with a snap of his fingers.
