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“Yeah, maybe you should teach them some manners.”
Pomona laughed, her eyes nonchalantly sliding to mine and giving me a wink. Famei leaned towards her to snag a kiss. “Where’d you run off to, hm?” He asked quietly. She beamed brightly, pressing alingeringkiss to his lips. I watched as Famei set down the knife and melanzane he’d been chopping and pulled her against him, hands gripping tightly.
Sly female.
“Just the bathroom… Wanna hurry up in here?”
Famei gave her a heavy lidded gaze, ember eyes glowing, his earlier question long forgotten.
“Hurry up what?” He asked feigning confusion before turning to Lokus. “You got this, brother.” Lokus smirked, shaking his head, but good-naturedly continued his tasks without complaint.
Leilani’s hands slipped over mine and Nakoa’s shoulders.
“Why don’t you do something productive so I can have a chance to get to know my new daughter?”
Nakoa’s gaze fell to mine as if to ask permission. Despite having several urgent questions for Pomona, I grinned, finally allowing myself to heave a sigh of relief that everyone had lived to see another day.
Chapter
Forty-One
MAREINA
“I’m so grateful they found each other,” Leilani said lightly. Some secret seemed to twinkle in her eyes as she spoke. As though Nakoa wasn’t still burning a hole in my back with his gaze as she slipped her arm around mine and led me through her cavernous home.
“Yes… Family is such a gift. Blood or no.”
Leilani smiled in agreement. “Indeed, it is. The bond between the family you choose versus the family you’re born with can often be greater… Much like yours and Malekai’s.”
My breathing stilled as my gaze hardened and met hers.
“Don’t worry. I know my son will earn your loyalty eventually.”
Something about her words made my hackles rise, but… Could I blame her?
“I would appreciate it greatly if you wouldn’t scry or peer into my life.”
Leilani chuckled. “I have about as much control over that as I do the wind. Which is to say, none at all. I cannot help what The Well shows me.”
“… The Well?”
She nodded, patting my arm again. “You can have a look for yourself. It’s just down the hall.”
A silence ensued between us that made tension fist in my chest.
“Do you have any blood relatives that made it over from the Kahlohani Islands?”
Leilani studied me momentarily, and I couldn’t help the guilt that knotted up inside me.
Was she wondering the same thing as me? Had I killed any of her loved ones?
I hadn’t ever gone as far south as the Kahlohani Islands, but I had battled their warriors when they came to the mainland to prevent us from reaching them. Though it had been an exercise in futility, thanks to Miroslav.
As if sensing my guilt, she rubbed my arm with unmistakable reassurance.
“I do, thankfully…”
Relief audibly whooshed out of me.
