Changer's Blood (Balancer's Soul cycle) (61 page)

He
cooked breakfast and brought it
to her in bed because he
slipped out unnoticed.
He
sli
d
back into bed with the tray of food
,
just as carefully. When
Sarah
smelled the eggs
,
bacon
and orange juice
, she woke up
very
quickly. Her beautiful green eyes softened as she saw
him
holding
out
her plate
, enjoying her expressions
. “Good morning
,
my Greek God.”
She sat up and stretched
,
wearing one of his
shirts as a nightgown.

“Good morning
,
my Goddess. Would you like
some
breakfast? You did have a
rather
long workout
last night
.” Her eyes looked down and
h
er face
went
completely
red.
She looked so cute when she becomes shy
. It i
s one of
his
favorite traits that she
uses
.
Her shell only comes off when
they
are alone
, but she still blushes
.

“I’m not sorry
one bit
if that’s what you
’
r
e
looking for.” She glanced at
him
from under her
long eye
lashes.

He
had a short laugh. “Why would I want an apology for last night? We should do
that
more often.”
He
smiled at her.

Sarah’s face came up. She said with a wry smile “Then you better find some more firewood to chop.”

After he
leaned over and kissed her
forehead
,
they
started laughing.
F
inally
they
ate in bed together before the food became cold.
When breakfast
ended
she
sat on the bed
,
between his
straightened legs
so that
he
was able to
finger brush her wild
and messy
hair.
It was a long and arduous process
, but
well
worth it
.

Getting out of bed
,
they
took another shower together before
they
dressed and left
their home. Before they
left
the
clearing
Connor
had to go
back inside the house because
in his haste
he
forgot
Tool and Sarah
overlooked
her dagger. On the coffee table in the living room
Connor
saw
his
cell phone and decided to take it
for some odd reason
. He
shut and locked the front door and caught up to Sarah
as she waited for him
under
the shade of a tree
.
Rays of sunlight catching parts of her form made him shudder in pleasure.

He
handed her the dagger and she slid it through
the leather
belt at her
left
hip. Connor
saw the track
he
made as
he
drug the tree home
from
yesterday
.
“Princess, I’ll need to fix that.”
He
pointed to the disturbed earth. “It leads from our cottage to the rocky clearing. I don’t need anyone to get suspicious and follow the trail to where we practice.
” She nodded in understanding the
warning.

Connor
focused on the trail and summo
ned the power of Terra. U
tilizing
his
energy
for the task
he
made the dry ground vibrate and fill in the
trenched
earth. The trees around them
also began shaking and the birds weren’t too happy with
such a
wake
up call.
The sparse grass and shrubs moved with the earth and obscured most of the evidence.
He
walke
d along the trail from the tree’s impression
and filled in the rut
,
all the way to the spot where
they
f
ound it.
He
took one last look at the progress
he
made and
decided that
no one but a superb tracker could ever follow the trail.

“Good job
,
Connor.” Sarah said as she
interlaced her fingers with his
. As
they
started walking again she asked “How much energy did that use?”

“It’s odd because I use
d
the same amount of energy
if
I
were to
r
un
directly here.
So I’d say that I didn’t use all that much.
It’s getting odd because the effort required is lessening which is beneficial, but it shouldn’t be that way. The task required should exact equal energy, but it isn’t. I can tell even your father is becoming aware for unlike us, his elemental requirement exacts the energy of the effort he uses.
”
He
looked into her enticing eyes
a few moments later
. “I think that maybe we should do more practicing together.” Her eyes went wide and her
complexion
became red. “Oh Princess, you know what I mean.
Like when we worked together flying and fighting in the air.”

His
favorite smile was present in her full lips and her eyes were twinkling. “If I say yes, may I have a request?”

He
ducked under a branch
and skirted around a thorn bush before finally asking
“And what request may I grant?”

“Can we dance
together
in the air again?” Connor ran into a tree because he
paid too much attention to
his
gorgeous mate.
She
i
s serious, but she looked so stunning and her words caught
him
completely off guard.
He
rubbed
his
jaw when she sounded concerned. “Are you alright?”

R
ubb
ing
his
stinging
jaw
he admitted
“Yeah, I was
just a little absent minded.” They
resumed walking again
after
his
thoughts came back to reality
. “To your earlier request, it’s granted.
We’ll dance in the sky later.
” Sarah squeezed
his
hand and through
their
bond
,
knew that she was excited.

Breaking through the woods and
crossing o
nto the field
Connor
saw everyone
sitting in a
loose
group. The sky
revealed itself to be
overcastted and
he
knew that the sun
wouldn’t be such a drain for their day
.
A
comfortable breeze
filtered
in
from the north
and it kept the temperatures down.
Another upside
to this day is that it is
going to rain in a few hours.
The rain will pack in all my work from covering up the trail.
He thought and
saw Sarah looking with a q
uestioning expression and then he
noticed her mind
c
onnected with
his
. “Sorry, it was just a ra
ndom thought.” Under his breath he
said
to
him
self
“I think she knocked a few of my screws loose last night.”

They
eventually
met the party of four
over by the shade tree again
. Kara was the first to stand
and she
oddly attired
a
long sleeved
jacket and pants
.
It was
strange
to see her wearing such heavy clothes
during the summer
.
“Brother, Sarah, I’m so sorry for my behavior yesterday.”

Before
he
spoke back to her
Connor pushed his
mind into Mark
’
s.
“Good morning
,
Bud.”
His
calculating
silver eyes went from Kara
’s
to
Connor’s
.
Mark stood and all he wore were his
leather pants
, his usual attire for practice
.
He
nodded
in response to
the
greeting.
“Did you tell Kara about the lesson that she should have learned?”

Mark shook his head
slowly so as to not be noticed
.
“No I didn’t
,
Buddy. You are right about her needing to learn at her
own
pace.
She didn’t even ask what she did wrong. After you left she
,
became really quiet
and sullen
.
Withdrawn almost…
She didn’t even talk to me until she finished eating everything in my apartment
last night at around ten
.
”

Connor
nodded and exited
the Changer’s
mind. “Sorry for the intrusion Mark.” He smiled
and shook his head slowly. He
returned
his
vision directly on
his
little sister. “I will only accept the apology if you learned a very specific lesson from yesterday’s match.”

Kara’s forehead frowned. “Which lesson? The one where I need to be less of a hot head and think before I act or that you’ll kick me in the
rear
the next time I over
extend myself
and hurt someone
?”

He
began to snicker. “
So y
ou did learn a lesson
after all
. I accept your apology. Now you need
to get
it from Sarah.”

Kara apologized and soon became relieved when
his
Princess accepted as well.
Sarah reentered his
mind.
“It looks like yesterday’s shock made her wake up
somewhat
.
She learned something at least.
It’s a start.
”

“Not only that, but it was hard to make her cry when I acted like she wasn’t even there yesterday.
It’s hard to make her grow up and distance myself.
At least she did learn a valuable lesson.”

Her hand squeezed in pleading.
“Will you
please
give her another chance to spar with me? She needs to keep progressing
or else she might accidently harm someone
and not intentionally
.”
Connor
looked into
his
wife’s
twinkling
green eyes a
n
d crumbled.

“Alright, but on two
condition
s
.”
Sarah’s eyed lit up
further
as she nodded.
“Bring Jillian as a referee for your match.”
She nodded vigorously with a self satisfied grin.
“And
it will be only a fifteen minute
session
.”

She turned her head in Kara’s direction. “Your brother said that we can have a rematch, but only if Mother can be our Ref
.”