“Indeed,” Keen said, and grinned, a twinkle in his eye.
“Oh.Ohh.” Crap. Images of Lex and Garrin before everyone had walked in on them last night crossed her mind, and her face flushed. Was Keen reading her thoughts and how much she desired Garrin?
“Yes,” Keen answered.
Lex sat up straight. “Stop that!”
Garrin stood, his bright eyes pinning the Old Kingdom king. “Mess with my woman once more, and it will be the last thing you do.”
Reese lifted her head and yawned after a nap she’d been taking on Keen’s shoulder. “Lover, you are being super annoying right now.”
“Me annoying? Never,” Keen said.
“It isn’t polite to embarrass people,” she said. “Don’t make me teach you a lesson.” Reese stood and started walking toward the back of the cave, her expression mischievous.
Keen’s gaze trailed Reese, and the apples of his cheeks turned red. He slowly stalked her as she giggled and disappeared down the corridor.
“What just happened?” Lex murmured.
Garrin crouched and added another pebble to his map. “Reese can make people feel whatever she wants.” Garrin chuckled. “She used it to distract him.”
Lex’s eyes went wide. Was he talking about what she thought he was talking about?
Lex leaned over until she was inches away. “What sort of distracting?”
Garrin stared at her mouth, his nostrils flaring lightly. “Can you not guess?”
“I might need more lessons, since my boyfriend fell asleep on me last night.”
He dipped his head closer and nuzzled her neck. “I wasn’t sure if it was too soon. And your mother’s threat of death was a deterrent.”
“You’re afraid of my mother?”
He pulled her closer until her hip touched his side and continued nuzzling her neck. “I do not wish to get on the bad side of the mother of my girlfriend.”
“She already hates you by nature of your paternity.”
He leaned back, and a disturbed look crossed his face. “I suppose that is true.”
Lex clung to his muscular arm. “She doesn’t know you. She still believes you’re like your father.”
“He is like his father,” Isle said, clearly listening in on their conversation.
Lex shot her mother a glare.
Garrin tucked her hair behind her ear and cradled her cheek with his palm, forcing her to look at him. “Would you like me to stay awake tonight?”
Lex glanced in her mother’s direction, but she’d finally gotten the hint and walked off to talk with Camille. “Only if you want.”
He leaned over and kissed her softly. “I want.”
* * *
Instead of returningto their love cave, Garrin insisted on finishing details of their escape plan. Not exactly romantic, but he was trying to keep them alive, sopoint taken.
Lex joined Em and Amund to get pointers on how to fight—and to try something she’d thought about earlier. “Do that levitating thing again, Em. Only do it when I say this time, okay?”
Em glanced over while blocking a blow from Amund. “Why?”
