Chapter 0648

Luca hesitates, starting to close down the bond a bit.

"Please," I beg, shaking my head at him. "Don't get freaked out - this is...this is part of who I am."

Luca stares at me for a long moment but then nods, re-opening the bond.

Jackson takes my other hand and I turn my head to him, eager warmth building in me.

"What are you doing?" Cora whispers, confused and fascinated. My mom stands next to her with her hands pressed to her cheeks, thrilled.

"Get goin', trouble," Jackson murmurs, leaning forward to press a kiss to my forehead.

I lean towards him a little, not able to help it, a little laugh sputtering from me.

But then I turn my gaze to the pile of wood in front of me - not the little log, the big one.

And I set it ablaze.

higher than it should for just that little pile of wood. And then I

direction towards it. A rich, eager joy builds in my chest and with every heartbeat pulses through my entire body as I watch the flames climb higher into the air, carried on the waves of Luca's wind, powered by

flames, my heat

Mine.

But I don't look at him - at anyone. Don't have time

of

climbs towards the sky, dancing higher, eager and burning and full of grace. It's a wild, passionate thing - a song, a

-.

stretch her legs.

full of joy as me. Us

I feel and hear Jackson's wolf howl too, so proud and

eyes, my face turned up to the brilliant swirl of fire before me, licking at the sky,

known, since I was a little girl - which has never not been part of my life. He

I...I think I'm

stepping

to him, taking

for the first time but having no fear that doing so

mine, after all.

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