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Kai shrugged. “Nobody knows. Time works differently here. The witches control this plane–the time, the atmosphere, everything. It means nobody can come after them for their powers and use it.
“Not that anyone would. If they die, so does our world. They are the balance; most of our magic stems from them. If they cease to exist, so will werewolves and vampires.”
“But what if it takes too long? I have to be back by the full moon.” I had a meeting with my psychotic brother and his parasite.
“We should get to First Camp soon. Then the second section–it’s mostly rocky hills.
Second Camp isn’t far from the Summit. But after that we lose our magic. Even now, it’s weakening.”
Derik huffed, sniffing the air and changing direction a little to the left.
We followed, and I swallowed hard. I was already frozen; if it was still cold on those rocky hills, I was going to fall and snap every bone in my body before I made it to the Summit.
“You think we would let that happen?” Kai grinned at me, speaking in my mind after reading my thoughts.
“I don’t know that it would be up to you.”
Kai chuckled but didn’t argue the point, which had me even more nervous.
We walked for what felt like hours. My bones ached, my skin stung, my boots were filled with soggy stockings, and I just wanted to turn around.
I was so tired. I hadn’t slept properly in days, and I was starting to drag my body, holding the wolves back.
They were ahead, peering over their shoulders every few seconds to check on me as we climbed, but I was too tired to try and keep up.
The sky had started darkening over an hour ago, and it was almost pitch black inside the blizzard that was still assaulting the journey.
I rested against a tree, catching my breath, my eyelids fluttering closed for a second.
“Lorelai!” Derik called.
My eyes flung open and he ran over, skidding in the snow down to me, yanking me off the tree as I slumped against him, trying to go to sleep.
He shook me awake. “Don’t fall asleep!” he called as the wind howled louder.
“So tired,” I mumbled.
“You can’t sleep before camp, beautiful. It’s too dangerous. It’s because we’re close.
It’ll get stronger, but you’ve got to fight it because if you fall asleep before camp you might not wake up,” he warned.
I whimpered, fighting the lead in my eyes open. “You could’ve warned me,” I murmured.
He chuckled. “You seem to have a preference for doing what we tell you not to do, so we thought it’d be safer if you didn’t have it in your mind until absolutely necessary.”
I just nodded, knowing he was right but not having the energy to talk. Or walk.
Derik stood me up, and I fell back into him.
“I can’t carry you, beautiful. You have to make every step of the journey yourself or it’s considered cheating,” he said, helping me, urging me forward.
I clutched him and dragged my feet through the snow. He stayed with me, keeping to my snail’s pace as I fought to keep myself awake.
I stumbled a lot, but he never complained about my weak human body holding us back. Kai and Brax moved ahead of us, but they stayed close.
I felt it inside me that they were worried I wouldn’t be able to stay awake and were willing to fight through whatever that meant for my safety.
I trusted that, but I didn’t want them getting hurt over me again, like with the vamps, and I didn’t want them to make the witches angry, so I tried harder.
I needed a distraction, to keep talking, something to make sure I stayed awake.
“I can give you a distraction.” Kai grinned, lifting his shirt over his head and chucking it to me.
I laughed and clutched the shirt to my chest, amazed they weren’t freezing like I was. Even Derik was warm against me as we walked.
Kai started walking backward, keeping his abs toward me, flexing them and winking.
I laughed again and wanted to turn away so I wasn’t stroking even more of that ego of his, but I couldn’t because it was an effective distraction. Even warmed me up a little.
And then I noticed his tattoo. It was moving. I gasped and moved forward to look at it. He stood still, letting me touch over the moving waves of the water, the blowing blades of grass, the rustling trees of the forest.
And the vines…they moved everywhere over his arm, his chest, the flames on his chest flickering against them.
“This is amazing,” I breathed.
“Yeah, it’s the witch’s connection. Pretty cool, huh?” he said, and I nodded.
“Beautiful,” I said, running my fingertips over it.
Kai sighed at the touch, his eyelids fluttering closed as his abs tensed.
“Does it feel good when I touch it?” I asked, and his hooded eyes came to mine.
That one look and I knew the answer. The searing heat in his look filled me with the same heat, and I gasped.
I didn’t have time to think about it before he was against me, kissing me, his mouth demanding on mine as his tongue slid against my own.
I gripped him, my hands running through his hair as I kissed him back.
Kai held me so tight against him his warmth defrosted me just a little, until he dropped me to the ground, pressing me into the snow as his huge body came over me.
His cock was thick and straining against his pants as he ground it against me. Even through all my coats and layers, I could feel it.
I moaned as he reached beneath me, wrapping his arm around my waist, holding me close against him as his other arm held him steady over me.
His kiss reached inside my body, the snow underneath melting me, wetting my coats, but I didn’t care because I had him to keep me warm.
Kai finally pulled away, kissing me lightly before grinning down at me.
“Enough of a distraction for you to stay awake until we get there?” he asked, smirking because he knew my answer.
I bit my lip and nodded, wishing he wasn’t stopping but knowing he was going to because of the link.
He helped me up out of the snow, and with a new energy from my pesky libido being teased, I surged forward, not even a little sleepy.
No wonder I was getting an inhumane amount of sleep lately, one searing kiss and I was a lost cause. It would be pathetic if I wasn’t so sure that they were just as desperate.
“So, if we have to keep walking up a snowy mountain that has no time measure or any indication when we are going to be at the camp, I think now is a good time to ask some questions,” I said, and Brax laughed.
“Called it,” he said, and I frowned at him. “I said you’d break out the hard questions for us since we can’t run away and don’t have time to distract you.” Brax chuckled.
“They said you wouldn’t.”
“They were wrong. And stop trying to distract me from the questions,” I said, before taking a deep breath and voicing something that had been on my mind since I had come back with the wolves after the choosing ceremony.
“Why do you need virgins on the blood moon?” I asked, and all of them stopped midstep, looking at each other with wary eyes.
I took that to mean I wasn’t meant to know the answer but they wanted to tell me.
“It’s not knowledge for humans.”
“But I’m linked. And that night, during the blood moon, you told me there was a good reason for the virgin thing. Now I want to know what it is.
“Especially since the idea of you fucking a bunch of virgins on the next blood moon makes me green with jealousy,” I admitted, knowing there was no point in hiding it because they would feel it within me.
Kai shrugged at the death glare from Derik, smirking back at me. Derik walked ahead as Brax waited for it to play out.
“We should keep walking.”
“You can walk and answer my questions,” I reminded, catching up to him, sinking in the snow more than him, which was surprising since he was so damn big next to me.
“I don’t know if it is allowed now that we are linked,” Derik huffed.
Kai and Brax walked next to us before Kai chuckled. “I’ll take one for the team then.
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