Congratulations,” I told her, inspecting my new nails. Sharp, black and pink, not too long, but long enough to gouge out any eyes that needed gouged out. “Give Grey and the others our best.”
“Thank you so much! Good luck on your first real assignment! Let me know how it goes!”
“I will,” I replied, lowering my hand, my eyes lifting to find Everett who was sitting just across from me, watching me carefully. “Talk later, have fun tonight.”
“See you soon,” she replied.
I hung up and relaxed back into my seat, blue skies and a few white clouds drifting by through the airplane window. “How is Lucy?”
“Still sleeping soundly, it’ll take her time to wake up once we land,” he confirmed easily, light shimmering in his eyes. “I called the sitter. Merlin is doing well, a little distracted, but he’s finally eating again.”
Thank God. He hadn’t eaten for some time after we left a few days ago, and I was worried for Lucy, but Everett assured me that animals did just fine on flights, so long as they were treated with care.
Lucy was currently sleeping in our bed, knocked out from the drugs we had given her to help ease the pain.
“We’ll be landing in a little over an hour, are you ready?”
We had been training nonstop since that day in his apartment. It was the breakthrough I needed to move forward. Not just the sex, but everything he had said.
He started training both Lucy and I, Evelyn joining in every chance she had when she wasn’t out on assignment. Something she was doing alone more often now that Everett had me.
Although when Azrael got wind that I was training, that Malachi had split Everett and Evelyn up, he called me, telling me it was a bad choice. That if I were as similar to him as we both knew I was, that we still needed Evelyn to hold us down, especially when I got my first taste of ‘controlled blood’ as he put it.
He said al of this in more hums and riddles than that, but it was clear to me.
Even so, we took his advice to heart.
“Hey, we’re landing soon,” Evelyn chimed in, walking down the aisle and falling into the seat next to mine.
“Everett told me,” I informed her.
Her brown eyes flicked to her brother’s. “That’s pretty rude of you.”
His eyes narrowed. “How?”
“Because I was already planning on telling her, but I had touse the bathroom.”
I couldn’t help but laugh, pulling Everett’s eyes straight towards my mouth.
It was like clockwork. He had a sixth sense about my smile now, and every time I even smirked, his eyes were there, watching it, trained on it, memorizing the sound, the way it looked, as if he would never see it again.
The motion only made my heart thrum.
A lot happened in this last month. A lot of change.
Stella, Baily, and, surprisingly, Jeremy, were all happy and excited that I was going traveling with Everett. That I was getting away from it all for a while. Baily graciously took Rover back, which was just in time for Jeremy to go stay with Grey for the wedding.
Their relationship was beautiful, but still too new to attend a wedding together.
Baily couldn’t wait for us all to return so she could throw a party, hosted by her mama, and show us all of her magical stuffed animals.
We were all excited for that day, whenever it came.
It was all about balance, Everett had told me a few weeks ago, just after we started. Balance in everything and anything we do. If the scales tipped in this world, they needed to tip in our favor, and the only way to assure that would happen was if we kept everything balanced on our end. From the murders to the hunts, to our roles in the bedroom.
Which had been growing more and more healthy as the days went on.
We kept the house on my street, and I reconnected with my neighbors, specifically Ms. Berry, before telling them I was going on vacation for a while.
