Page 74 of Amaros

Chapter Thirty-Seven

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AMAROS IGNORED CAMRIEL’Sbelligerent silence.The knights worked together to repair the hole in the roof.Several batteries were charging, thanks to the generators and power cords they’d appropriated.The noise of the generators was almost shocking after the tranquility they’d already grown used to.

“Just say it,” Amaros whispered when they’d finished securing wooden sheets to the roof.

“Say what, boss?”Camriel asked.“That I’m right and you should tell Zoe and Grace about the choice Fate gave us?”

Amaros scowled at the scolding tone.“Like I said, this isn’t about me and my decision.I have to think of my unit as a whole.”

Camriel rolled his eyes at the knight’s stubbornness.“I know you were created to be our commander, but forget about us for once!”He spoke earnestly, but quietly.“What doyouwant, Amaros?”

It wasn’t easy to meet the warrior’s blue eyes and hide his true emotions.“I want the same things you do,” he finally admitted.

Camriel threw his hands up in victory, brandishing the screwdriver he clutched in one fist.“At last, the man sees reason!”he crowed, still keeping his voice down.“You need to take Zoe somewhere and speak to her in private.Tell her everything and see what she has to say.”

“What if she doesn’t want to be bonded to me?”Amaros asked with unaccustomed nerves fluttering in his gut.

“Convince her,” his second advised.“But do it soon, before she gets a vision and realizes how long you’ve been keeping this information from her.”

“What about Grace?”Amaros asked.“Should I break the news to them both at the same time?”

“I’ll tell the kid,” Camriel offered.“I know she’s aware you and Zoe are attracted to each other.She and I don’t have a bond, but there are eighteen more knights in our unit.”

“And eighteen more cambions, apparently,” Amaros said.“Fate outdid herself with her meddling this time.”

“She’s had billions of years of practice,” Camriel said.He hadn’t met his match yet, but Amaros knew his second was already anticipating her arrival.

“I’ll talk to Zoe soon,” Amaros vowed.The butterflies in his gut fluttered even harder as he tried to plan the conversation in his head.They had a lot to do and everyone was busy.It wasn’t the right time to take the female aside to discuss the topic that would change their futures forever.

Finished with fixing the roof, the warriors focused on building shelter for their stores of fuel.

“We can use all this wood to build a shed and go back to the resort to steal doors and windows,” Amaros said.

“We’ll be expert carpenters in no time,” Camriel boasted.“I read through one of the books Zoe got from the bookstore last night,” he added.

“Did you get any sleep?”Amaros asked, hauling wood out of the back of his truck.Camriel had piled the wood from his truck off to one side.

“I got a few hours,” the big warrior said.“It’s hard to sleep on those tiny cots,” he added.He’d tied two of them together, but his legs had hung over the ends.

“You can take the lead on this project,” Amaros decided.

Camriel grinned, pleased by his leader’s trust.“We don’t have a concrete slab for a base,” he said as he examined the open area in front of the building.“We can build a portable shed that we can move later,” he added.