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“We’d escaped the warlord Hellfire’s camp,” Tessa remembered.
“We were so scared,” Gin said, shivering though it was very warm here.
It must have been so horrible to live through that and at such a young age too. That’s why Calli had asked Zane back then, when he’d been so young, to use his magic to make them forget. I hadn’t liked it when Calli had admitted this to me and Bella, but after hearing more about what had happened to them, I got it. And, looking at my sisters here now, seeing their very real fear, I almost wished those memories had stayed buried.
“I can feel it. The parchments,” Harker said quietly.
And I could feel something else. “Monsters.”
Roars rumbled from deeper inside the jungle.
Nero turned in the direction of the beastly noises. “The monsters are close.”
I waved my hand, using my magic to quickly dig up a box just like the last one. Then I set it into Bella’s hands.
Tessa whisked us away with her magic. One moment, we were there in the jungle, surrounded on all sides by the beasts who’d broken through the trees. And the next, we were back inside our living room.
“Your magic is useful,” I told her in appreciation.
Tessa winked at me. “Told you.”
I could finally exhale. “That was close.”
“Too close,” Nero said. “Those were razor-backed wolves.”
“I saw that,” I replied. “The razors were very prominent on their backs.”
“I will not put you at risk like that again.” Nero looked worried. Very worried.
I smiled to show him I was all right. “There was no risk. I can control monsters, remember?”
“I remember that your control over beasts is not absolute. And right now your magic is both very powerful and very erratic. You cannot depend on it.”
I took his hand. “But I can depend on you.”
“Yes,” he said fiercely.
“The legendary archangel General Windstriker.”
He leveled a commanding stare on me. “Don’t kiss my ass, Pandora.”
“But, General, if you truly are to be my new angel etiquette teacher, I simply must.” I reached behind me, into the fruit basket on the side table, and grabbed an apple out of it. I handed it to him. “I’m hoping to be the teacher’s pet.”
“You’re trying to use humor to distract me from my point. It won’t work. Your life is too important to me.” He set his hand on my belly. “Both of your lives are.”
I leaned in and kissed him slowly. “I know,” I said against his lips. “It’s important to me too. Both of you are.”
His eyes met mine. Feather-soft, his hand traced my jawline.
Harker cleared his throat. “Do you two need a moment alone?”
“Yes, please,” I said. “But make it more than a moment. Make it at least an hour.”
Nero kissed me softly, then stepped away. “That won’t be necessary.”
Easy for you to say,I told him. You don’t have the libido of a pregnant angel.
The hint of a smile touched Nero’s lips.
