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She must have watched the Choosing and realized that when we came out, we would all be starving.

She’s awesome.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Neith

“Is everyone here?” Evander asks immediately.

Sounding absolutely exhausted, Ransom replies, “Yeah, we’re all here.”

“Thank fuck,” Reed rumbles.

“That was not fucking fun,” Raiden adds.

River nods, but before he can say anything, my stomach makes itself known, loudly, and quite frighteningly if I’m being honest.

River smiles, “You can use my shower to get warm and change into dry clothes, and then you can tuck into this food.”

I start to say thank you when I realize that we’re in the castle and we’re no longer being filmed, so instead of saying thank you, I run and jump at him.

River catches me with ease as my lips slam down against his, and our tongues dance together. Fucking hell, I have missed kissing River.

Hell, I’ve missed kissing all of them.

They all realize the same thing as I do, because I’m tugged from River’s arms and into Doc’s, and then around all of the others as well.

By the time that I’ve kissed them all, I can’t remember my own name, let alone what I was supposed to be doing.

“Go shower, Nene,” Evander reminds me, with a proud smile.

My stomach grumbles, “Right, shower then food.”

I lean down and grab my bag, which was left in the front room, and then head down the hallway that leads to all of the bedrooms. The guys all follow me as they split up to go into their separate rooms to shower and get changed. We haven’t showered in two days, we haven’t eaten either, although we did have water with us, we could share. Evander pulled what he could out of the air to fill up the canteens, but we had to use them sparingly since the realm was so hot that it wasn’t that easy to do. Fortunately, supernaturals are capable of going for prolonged periods of time with no food and little water, and apparently that stretches to me, too.

That doesn’t make me any less hungry, though.

River winks at me.

“I would say, do you want some company, but I think that would be far too tempting, and you’re not fully supernatural, yet,” his eyes blaze. They dull slightly as he adds, “Plus, we’re tired and hungry. It’s never a good idea to have sex when you’re hungry.”

I burst out laughing, “I wasn’t aware of that rule.”

“It’s a River rule,” he smirks. His smile falls into a frown as I shiver, “Go and shower and warm up. Feel free to go through my stuff if you want to wear something comfy, remember we’re not going to get called again.”

My eyes widen, “Holy fuck, I forgot about that.” Grinning, I add, You, my friend, are about to be robbed.”

“Friend?” River asks with his eyebrow raised. “I rather hoped we were more than that.”

“I’m good with that,” I reply, trying to sound casual, and not freak out, and be all giddy as the butterflies take flight in my stomach.

I’m good with being more than friends.

His smile is beautiful, and I decide that I’ve pushed my brain- to- mouth filter far enough and turn on my heel heading into River’s room.

After rummaging through his clothes, I decide to pinch one of his giant hoodies and then head into the shower. I am far colder than I realized because the warm water stings my skin, and it takes me a moment to warm up. I rush through the shower, and getting dressed, and then quickly make my way back out to the front room, finding all of the guys there, including River, all freshly showered.

River’s eyes heat as they see me dressed in his hoodie, but my gaze is purely for the food.