“Hey, you okay?”
I nodded, unable to speak. Then inanely, I lifted a hand and gave him a thumbs up. That made him laugh again.
He settled next to me, behind me, kissing my shoulder. “The goddess approves?”
I let out along, whining moan, which I hoped said:hell yes!
“Oh… Wow… As if I needed more evidence of my goddess’s power…” Vyns’ breathed in awe. When I looked at him, he was glancing at the stone floor. I followed his gaze to where… oh…
The stone was shattered in places, small craters, where I’d pounded the floor with my fists during that epic orgasm.
I’d done that.
And I hadn’t even felt it.
Wow.
And wishing to feel my own power, prove what I could do, I smoothed my hand over the marred stone, using a hint of anima to level it out once more.
I couldn’t have done that yesterday.
Maybe I was as powerful as Vyns thought me to be. I sighed and smiled, confident in myself in a way I’d never been before.
Vyns brought me back into the bath to wash me — and himself — off, his touch so soft and soothing.
I fell asleep in his comforting arms, in that warm water, and sometime later, woke to find myself in a bed. Oddly, I wasn’t with Vyns. The angel had put me back with Myel and the soothing comfort I got from the shifter allowed me to fall asleep again for a while. And all I could think was:The man gives me one of the most stunning orgasms of my life, then puts me in the arms of another man.
What an angel.
Lhorine woke me early, but I felt oddly refreshed, considering I’d been up most of the night. Hooray for empowering orgasms!
Then we got back to work. We had only a few scant hours before our match with Saldrea and I still had a lot to learn.
IZZY
I was nowhere nearready by the time we all secretly returned to Rook’s room. I was far more prepared than I’d been a day ago, but still way out of my depth.
Seeing my agitation, Grandma Oli took me aside, into the bathroom.
“Get yourself together,” she said, stern. “Half of any fight is your mindset, and I can see in your eyes, you already think you’ve lost.”
She wasn’t wrong. I leaned on a wall, tired. As much as I’d woken up refreshed, Lhorine’s rigorous training that morning had been more than my sleep-deprived body could handle.
“So… what? What can I do?”
“First you need some energy, one sec.” Olinara popped back into Rook’s room, returning with Koar. “Take your shirt off,” she commanded the dragon.
He raised a brow in question but obeyed.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
Olinara lowered her voice, we all knew there was a titan guard on the other side of that bathroom door.
“It’s a rare healing technique. I shouldn’t even know it, because it’s meant for two earth practitioners, but Queen Leastrine once taught me, in confidence. I can do it, but I’m more of a conduit. Once you know, you’ll be able to do it without me.”
I hadn’t really known Koar was an earth wielder, but some stray lesson from my scant class experience returned to me about how dragons were beings of earth, air, and fire. I assumed they were mostly fire, but… apparently not.
“Do I need to take off my shirt too?” I asked, starting to unbutton the blouse I was wearing.
