Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
Dakota wraps his arms around my waist from behind and rests his chin on the top of my head. “What do you mean? We have to get out of here and I can’t make the magic work.”
I close my eyes and take a deep breath in spite of myself.
“Oliver said that now you are marked, your magic probably changed and you said you can’t touch the wind with your magic, but I can hear it singing. It’s a protection, but how would I know that?”
“You can hear it?”
“Yeah. It kind of sounds like the pups when they are giggling at the training grounds, but also like a melody, but I don’t know the song. What if you had to hold onto all of the magic to get us here, but you weren’t meant to hold all of it forever, just until you were ready for all of us, or more likely, we were ready and worthy of being mated to you.”
“Can you feel the wind?”
“I don’t actually know, but I am kind of interested in finding out. Will you help me?” He walks us forward and raises his arm in front of us and extends his fingers so his palm is facing the edge of the tornado. He tightens his grip on my waist as I raise my hand and place it on the back of his, lacing my fingers with his. I can feel the hum of the wind now, through his hand. It’s so cool to be on this side of it.
I close my eyes and lean back into him, this is real magic. Being able to share this part of me with him, with all of them. I can feel the wind playing, like he said, but it’s not ready to subside yet. I never thought about the elements having emotions, but if I had to place an emotion or personality on the wind, I would match it with Dakota. Playful and warm on a good day, lightly caressing the skin, but harsh and erratic when angered. My eyes fly open.
“What is it, Tiny? What did you figure out?” Cam walks closer, although I don’t know how we have any space to move around at all. The circle the tornado made around us can’t be more than six feet across and my guys aren’t exactly compact.
“Let me have your hand.”
I don’t release the hold I have on Kota’s outstretched fingers, while I take Cam’s hand in my other hand and the sensation intensifies, but it is still just the wind element that I can feel. “The wind seems to have attached itself to Dakota, but I can feel it too and it intensifies when I have contact with you. I wonder if I adjusted to you, if I would also be able to feel the wind?” I think out loud. “There’s only one way to find out.”
He opens his arms and laughs at Dakota’s protests fo my moving away.
I reposition myself in his arms, the same way I was with Dakota, but neither of us feel the wind at all. I can still faintly hear it though. I close my eyes and just feel around to see what comes up, maybe I shared a small part of an element with each of them. Dakota got wind, what did I give to Cameron and Oliver?
I lean into the comfort of Cam’s arms and lace the fingers of my right hand with his. Where Oliver has always seen me and been able to read me, Cam has always been constant. He’s a steady and calm leade moving forward but bringing everyone along with him. Then it hits me, literally hits me in the center of the chest and I fall back into his chest.
“Whoa, you alright, Love?”
“Yeah. Do you feel that though? It’s like a pulse.”
He takes a deep breath and when he lets it out I smile as it blows stray strands of hair around my face. “Wow! Is it like this all the time?”
“What do you feel?”
“I can feel…something…flowing up into one of my feet and through my body and back down through the other foot, but it is like a pulse. Like a circuit with a pulse, but it isn’t energy or electricity, it’s more fluid. Does that even make sense?”
“Yeah. Try pulling up on it, I have an idea.”
He does and I can feel the swirls of cool and hot in my arm. The fire that seems to want to live in my skin is being caressed by the cool water swirling from him. I lift our arms together and take aim… “AH!! What the hell?!?”
“AHAHAHAHA! I am so glad you didn’t tell me what you were doing! There’s no way he wouldn’t have known.”
Cam is still holding me, laughing his ass off, along with Oliver and I, while we stare at a very drenched Dakota. I can’t help the thought, encouraged by my wolf, that I really like a water logged, shirtless Dakota very, very much.
“Where did water even come from? We aren’t near a lake or stream or anything!” He shakes his hair out like a GQ model and tries, and fails, to look irritated.
“We were able to pull it up from the ground, but I have to admit it is a good look on you” I wink at Dakota and his eyes go from his blue with hazel swirls to almost black in an instant.
Cam’s intake of breath and Dakota and Oliver’s quick movement to me, let me know I am in big trouble, but I don’t think it’s the bad kind. Dakota scoops me up by my butt and wraps my legs around his waist, then smashes his lips to mine and I can feel my entire body heat up and I don’t think it’s the fire magic.
All three of them growl in surround sound and then Dakota pulls away enough to look in my eyes. “Keeping my hands to myself is becoming more and more difficult and it’s only been, what an hour or so, since we whata marked you? How in the hell are we supposed to get anything done? You told me I looked good after you tried to drown me, I should be angry or irritated at the least, but all I want to do is take you up to our room and you are so not ready for that.”
He rests his forehead to mine and takes a deep breath. “How do you wind me up in one second and have the power to calm me down in the next?”
I give him a small kiss. “Let’s be honest, it wouldn’t be me if it wasn’t complicated kiss him again and he lets me slide down his body. He makes sure that I can feel the state I left him in though and I just roll my eyes and look at Oliver. “Dakota wind, Cam is water, you must be earth then.”
He still looks unsure, but I don’t know what he would be unsure of. I marked him and let him. mark me. He’s a part of me, of this, of us now. I don’t know if I will ever get past this one insecurity that he has.
Unlike the twins, I face him and slide my palms over the backs of his hands. I keep eye contact with him as I lace our fingers together. I could feel the deep, bass-like rumble the minute our skin made contact. We don’t have to say anything or even us think about it. The dirt around our starts to crack and swirl around our feet. He gives me one of his rare, blinding full smiles and I’m pretty sure my heart stopped and by the wink he gives me, he knows what that does to me.
“That should not be hot, but it. so. is!” Dakota groans. “And it does NOT help that now I can feel both of their feelings for you.”
He points an accusing finger at Cam and Oliver. “I’m going to have a permanent hard-on!”
I start laughing. “It’s not that bad, is it?”
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