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.

and higher than it should for just that little pile of wood. And then I call on Luca's gift as well

and begin to turn, wind sucked in from every direction towards it. A rich, eager joy builds in my chest and with every heartbeat pulses through

flames, my heat -

Mine.

look at him - at anyone. Don't have time for it or interest in anything else -

of flames

higher, eager and burning and full of grace. It's a wild, passionate thing - a song, a dance, an eager she-wolf racing through a forest, along a cliff, desperate to be alive

-.

stretch her legs.

howlingly pleased and as full of joy as me.

howl too, so proud and fierce he

of fire before me, licking at the sky, turning and turning in the wind that brings it oxygen, gobbling up the fuel that feeds

- which has never not been part of my life. He pads

I...I think I'm supposed to

stepping closer to

taking my

flame for the first time but having no fear that doing

after all. It

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