Page 113 of His Retribution

It started slow but the second I orgasmed, the minute Havok sank his fangs into me, I'd explode in a pale blue light so blinding I'm shocked they didn't see it at the main house.

But I won't share that unless my love wants to.

"One of the many gifts Tolan possessed was the ability to control and conjure the elements—wind, water, earth, fire—but also more complicated ones such as—"

"Light," Havok finishes for him. "My gods..."

"What?" Henrich stops pacing and turns. "My gods, what?"

"Cora has the gift of light."

And now I'm covered in hives again.

"We've already established that."

Havok shakes his head. "Not just to see it, but conjure it as well."

"How? How does she conjure it? How do you know?"

I start chewing my thumb to hide my very embarrassed smile, then decide my mate is the most amazing man ever when he says, "Cora conjures light through intense emotional responses. I believe she's always had the ability but it wasn't until we mated that the gift was activated. I have a feeling that moving forward, it will become a normal response based on the intensity of her emotions until my love learns to control it."

That was hands down the smoothest way to say, “Cora turns into a mag light every time I make her come and it gets way more intense if I bite her.” Havok totally could have said his magnificent cock is the switch for my new lightbulb superpowers, but he didn't and I love him that much more for it.

"That just proves my theory even more." Henrich starts pacing again. "I have a feeling you will discover more you are capable of as things arise. You should definitely read that book, possibly try to apply some of the things Bozidar wrote about. As time passes I—" But then he stops abruptly and looks at his watch. "Oh my."

The men all share a look before all eyes turn to me.

"What?"

Then slowly, their looks of surprise turn into beautiful smiles and I'm momentarily struck dumb at the crazy amount of male beauty before me.

Those dragons are babes but they have nothing on my vampire. Absolutely nothing on the smile he's giving me, the incredible amount of warmth shining in his eyes.

No, they have nothing on Havok and how ridiculously gorgeous he is, but the second a blood red tear rolls down his cheek all those thoughts vanish only to be replaced by fear.

"What is it, lovey?" I cup his cheeks, search his eyes. "Please. What is going on?"

"It's after sunset."

My brows raise then furrow in confusion.

First of all, how the hell did we sit here and powwow most of the day without anyone bringing up dinner? And did everyone else return without any of us noticing?

Secondly, why is Havok crying about that?

"Ok..."

"It's after sunset and tomorrow is your birthday."

I just blink.

"Cora, my love, it's after sunset on the eve before your twenty-seventh birthday."

Realization slams into me as I shoot up off of Havok's lap. "What?! No, no way!" I check my watch then the clock on the wall. Sure enough it's almost an hour after sunset which means... "I'm not dead!"

My mate snorts as another tear rolls down his cheek. "You most definitely are not."

"Havok! Lovey, I'm not dead!" I turn toward his dragon brothers. "I'm not dead! Henny, look!" I point to myself as if he can’t see me. "Not dead! Kasi, Lolo, I am not dead! Do you see me, Andrej?! Drej, do you see?! I! Am! Not! Dead!"