Akervel asked, “When did you meet me?”
She winced.“When I am here, I am the aerial part of the search and rescue.I had found a charter vessel adrift and was hauling it toward the rescue crew when some of the drunk and panicked holiday makers tried to swim toward the oncoming vessels.I had to shift from wings to tail rapidly several times, and by the time they were safe, I was starving.”
“That is when you met me.”
“Yup.Yes, I actually tried to take a bite out of you.By the time I get that bad, I am blind with hunger.But thanks to Kaz’s assistant, I have learned I can just ask, and most alphas bend over backwards to give me what I need.”
He blinked.“You didn’t follow the rules of courtship.”
“What are they?”
“What?”
“I am from a different world, a different species, and I am a mage and an omega, and a pixie and a mermaid.None of those designations came with a manual.”
He blinked.“You are a composite?”
Meeda looked at Kazuya, and he smiled and nodded.
“Yes?”She shrugged.
He exhaled slowly.“May I be in contact with you?”
“Sure.Keep it above the equator.”
He got up and approached her.“You can’t be in contact with anyone but me for this.”
She released her grip on Mia’s hand and stood up to face him.“What do I need to do?”
He swallowed and said, “Just extend your hands to me.I will catch you if you fall.”
She nodded and smiled.“If anything goes weird, Vine will step in.”
“Yes, Meeda, I will,” Vine said from behind her.
Meeda extended her hands, and he closed his own fingers around hers.“Just breathe slowly.I am reading your ancestry.”
“Strange party trick.”
He chuckled.
“Nice cheekbones.”
“Thank you.They are my inheritance.”He smiled.
She looked into his silvery-blue eyes, he squeezed her hands, and then she felt a psychic weight crushing her.She dropped as the icy weight ran through her and heard Mia screaming.
Vine spoke softly, and the weight lifted.That little bit of respite rushed in, and Meeda got to her feet and blasted him with everything she had.
She heard her wings humming and felt her tail moving in the magical currents.The circling glyphs around her hands were new.
Vine said softly, “He’s sorry, Meeda.Let him go.He was pushing for a powerful mate, and you are the master of locking yourself down.He pushed hard, and you rose.Nice protection glyphs.”
Meeda looked down at her friend, and she turned her head to see the alpha on his back in front of her, held down by a matching, spinning glyph.“Are you done?That hurt.”
“I am most apologetic.”He spoke through gritted teeth.“I used the protocol for another dark elite.”
She dismissed her tail and her wings, prodding his leg with her foot.“Did you learn what you needed to learn?”
