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“Yeah? Then why do you look like somebody died instead of just having won the lottery?” Ere pointed out the obvious.
She swallowed and muttered in a small voice, “I think he likes me.”
Ere looked at Andros, then back at her.
“I think he feels a lot more than liking you.”
“I like him.”
“As in,likehim, like him?” he put the words in air quotes, taunting her with sarcasm.
She knew they were talking like inane pre-teens, but she didn’t have the wherewithal to be more worldly at the moment and assume her usual bombshell persona.
“I’m crazy about him,” she whispered like she just revealed her biggest, darkest, most shameful secret.
“Well, you certainly look and smell like you are,” Ere quipped with a wrinkle of his nose. “Wild night?”
“Not as wild as I would have liked,” she mumbled.
“That makes one of us,” Ere said with a beatific grin, his eyes fixed on Sorin, who was getting the geldings ready with saddle blankets and harnesses.
Divina regarded the tall, dark-haired male beside her for long moments.
There was such absolute conviction and love in his eyes as he watched his Mate. She often doubted whether Ere meant what he said, for he was hardly ever serious. But no one who saw him and Sorin together could ever question the unbreakable bond they shared.
She envied him.
“How did you know Sorin’s the one?” she blurted out of the blue.
Ere took the deeply personal question in stride with a one-shouldered shrug.
“Just knew. From the moment I opened my eyes to the world and saw him.”
Divina frowned, trying to puzzle the scene out in her mind.
“What do you mean?”
“He hatched me as a dragon from an egg. He was an eagle spirit then. Long story. But he was the first thing I saw. And I remember clearly that the first thing I thought when I saw him was that he was beautiful and bright, with his flaming red hair and gold eyes. But kind of sad and angry. And I wanted to make him happy. I knew I could.”
Divina looked over at Sorin again, squinting.
“He has honey blond hair,” she observed, confused.
“Like I said, long story,” Ere reiterated. “This is his latest incarnation. His physique is the same as when he was an eagle spirit, but some of his features have changed. He’s the phoenix now, to my dragon. I used to be a white dragon, but now I’m black. We’ve come a long way to find each other again.”
Ere’s words were simple, but Divina could tell they contained a wealth of history, trials and tribulations.
“But…howdid you know?” she insisted. “Or how did Sorin know?”
“You’d have to ask him about that. My take is that I simply wore him down. He called me his “Bane” for the longest time.”
Ere chuckled low at that, not at all seeming to mind the unflattering moniker.
“But all I heard was that he called mehis. That’s all I cared about.”
“But—”
He turned and met her gaze then, arresting her next query.
