chapter 17

“I do not want to ask anything of you or yours, you have given enough.” I reiterated. “If you are hungry and there’s food there’s no point in wasting it. The boys are processing that gator so we’ll be eating like kings for a while,” he paused. “Kings and a Queen.” He let me know when he retrieved the nearly cold plate of rice and beans meant for his Alpha. “We don’t waste here,” he said, handing it to me with a fork before disappearing. That one was moody in a brooding bodyguard sort of way.

I ate, the quiet sounds of the surrounding swamp more peaceful and grounding now that the throbbing of my head had eased, not completely gone but manageable. I reached out with the senses I usually kept bottled up, finding them far more sensitive since the power boost. The cynical one lounged in a room not far from where I had been placed, glancing at the boots, I was definitely in the big guy’s space. The young ones were a short distance away across the island.

My magic made something like a top