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He looks down at me with a softness in his eyes that melts my soul before offering me his hand. The second my fingers touch his, he snaps the fingers on his other hand and I look down to find myself dressed in his hoodie and boxers.
Heat rushes through me as he pulls me to my feet, a giddy smile stretching across my face as he pulls me into his chest.
“Never mind covering her, that’s a view we would appreciate, cover yourself or your dick is about to shrivel up and fall off,” Talon hollers, making us both chuckle at him, but our eyes don’t leave one another as he wraps me in his arms.
My hands fall to his chest and I look up at him, completely intoxicated by his closeness as I quirk a brow at him. “So you weren’t really all that mad that I was wearing your clothes, huh?”
Alexi’s eyes darken as his smile falls and he drags his tongue over his bottom lip. “Oh, I’m forever going to be mad that you’re wearing any clothes, especially now that I know what’s underneath them, but if any material is gracing your skin right now, it’s coming from me.” He offers me a wink, knowing exactly what he’s doing to me, before pulling me toward the house.
I struggle to keep my balance, my legs not working quite right as I stumble to keep up with him. My brain is still locked on the words he said oh-so-casually before taking off like it was nothing.
Who the fuck is this guy?
I have no fucking clue, but I like it.
Slowly managing to pull my head into focus, I continue inside with Alexi, only to be swept out of his arms by Malik as soon as we get to the doors. Surprisingly, Alexi lets me go without complaint as Malik wraps his arm around my shoulders, pressing a kiss against my temple as he holds a mug of coffee out in front of me.
My eyes light up as I take it from his hands, bringing the drink of the gods to my lips with a contented and happy sigh. Malik runs his hand down my spine as I hear Talon call out my name. Turning my attention to him, I find him standing beside the table with a plate of breakfast in his hands and my stomach growls.
“Come and eat, Harm. We all know this asshole will have used all of your energy without replenishing you,” he accuses, glaring at Alexi, who is now wearing a loose white t-shirt and a pair of gray sweats as he takes a seat at the table.
He scoffs as he shakes his head, neither denying or accepting Talon’s taunt. I grin as I move to join them, Malik hot on my tail as I pull out my chair to take a seat.
Before my butt hits the seat, Malik wraps his fingers around my arm, pausing my movement as he drops down on the seat before pulling me into his lap. Talon and Alexi both glare at him from across the table as he adjusts me on his knees so I can eat comfortably.
“Eat, Mona,” he murmurs, ignoring the looks coming off the other two, and I do as he says, digging into the bacon and eggs piled high on the plate.
Silence descends around us, a sense of calmness coming with it as we all eat. Malik is completely unfazed by the angle at which he’s having to eat. The way his arm bands tightly around my waist tells me he doesn’t care as long as I’m here in his lap, and it makes my heart swell.
It’s not until we’re all finished that Talon clears his throat, looking at each of us with a hint of curiosity in his eyes before speaking. “So, is anyone going to discuss the ripple we all felt last night?”
My brows knit together as I look at Malik, who is pulling the same expression, before turning my attention to Alexi and Talon.
“We?” Alexi asks, leaning back in his seat.
Talon nods as he braces his arms on the table. “Yes, we.” He rolls his eyes like we’re being crazy before continuing. “I’m quite sure I’m aware of the exact moment you two sealed your souls because my veins were practically on fire with a burning ripple coursing through me.”
My eyes widen as I gape at him. Alexi stares at him in surprise too as Malik seems to hold me closer to his chest.
“I know what you mean,” Malik murmurs, shocking me even more as I turn to glance at him, only to find the corners of his mouth tilted up in a smile.
“So it wasn’t just me who felt that?” I ask, my voice quiet as I try to process the fact that Talon and Malik felt what I did, and as I look at Alexi for a moment, I know he felt it too.
“No, it was all of us, Mona,” Malik breathes, placing a kiss to the corner of my jaw as he flexes his fingers at my waist.
“What does that mean for us?” I don’t expect any of them to have the answer to that, but I’m completely bewildered by it all and thinking out loud.
“I don’t know,” Alexi answers, rubbing his hand over his chin as he offers me a small smile.
I sigh, despite the contented atmosphere, pushing my hair back off my face as I look down at my coffee mug on the table. “Just another thing we’re not completely sure about to add to our ever-growing list.”
Talon’s arm quickly stretches across the table, palm up as he silently requests my hand. I place mine in his as he waits for me to look him in the eyes before speaking. “We’ll figure it out, Harm. We always do.”
I nod, trying to encourage reassurance into my thoughts as Alexi cuts through them, steepling his fingers on the table. “We know it’s the Redvellions that are somehow creating the marks. Noose came to us to begin with as a distraction, likely to see if we noticed the difference or not, but last night confirmed it.”
My eyes widen at his openness, as he offers me information without me having to pry it out of him. “You’re sure?” His nod is instant, as is the flare of his nostrils and squaring of his jaw.
“Last night, there was green ash with another slab of flesh that had the fake marking on it, and green ash only comes from Hell,” Malik explains, my own mark feeling like it’s heating under the sleeve of the hoodie at the mere mention of it.
