Page 236 of The Lost Ones

Cole’s meeting all of his Bonded mates for the first time. I know he’s obviously met the three that were at the academy with him but not all of them together.

As the rest of them are all catching up I walk over to Cole.

“Why am I nervous?” He whispers in my ear as he squeezes me.

“Don’t worry. It’s all going to work out. Trust me.” I try to reassure him, he pulls back and studies me.

“Do you know something?” He asks and I just nod. “I swear you and Ty are going to drive me nuts with that. By the way I missed you.” He adds, grinning.

“Ty huh?” I smirk and he adorable blushes.

“Harry and Asher too.” He adds with a devilish smirk.

“Damn.” I’m grinning as I see Harry approach. “Just be you ok?”

He nods and looks like he wants to ask a million questions but he doesn’t and I smile before going up to Hunt and wrapping my arm around his waist he automatically wraps his arm around my shoulders and drops a kiss onto the top of my head.

My attention switches to Kysen as I watch him curiously, he in turn watches Cole almost cautiously, I can almost see a guard drop down and it makes me wonder if some of the shadows that we’ve seen swimming in front of his eyes sometimes is due to being hurt by someone he once loved.

“Ok so this is Asher, Ty and Harry,” Erin says grinning clearly enjoying this. She points them out to the guys since Cole has already pointed them out to me.

I smile as the guys all greet them and then Harry steps towards Kysen tugging a slightly nervous looking Cole behind him.

“Sen, this is Cole.” Harry says raising an eyebrow in warning.

Almost as if he’s saying you better damn behave yourself.

Cole holds out his hand out to Kysen.

“Hey, nice to meet you. The guys have told me a lot about you.” Cole says, awkwardly holding out his hand.

Kysen looks between Cole’s hand, his brothers and Cole himself suspiciously for a moment. It’s more than obvious that there’s something going on between Cole, Harry, Ty and Asher. You can tell just by the way that they’re looking at each other. It’s pretty fucking cute actually.

“I’m not going to bite,” Cole smirks, “Well not unless you want me to.”

Kysen chuckles, almost reluctantly, as his eyes unmistakeably heat with desire.

“Well fuck me, you got the suspicious fucker to laugh.” Harry exclaims, animatedly.

“Fuck you.” Kysen growls, his eyes amused as he finally holds his hand out to Cole.

Bright, blinding light encompasses them all as soon as Kysen and Cole’shands meet. The light immediately obscures them from view and I shield my eyes from it, hiding my face in Hunter’s chest. Following my instinct I quickly whisper the words flowing through my mind and infuse the words with my magic. If I’ve understood correctly, I’ve just put a barrier of some kind around them that stops the bright light being seen by anyone but us. It may be the middle of the day but there’s no way that anyone could miss that.

The light show seems to go on forever until suddenly everything dims back to normal. I blink my eyes rapidly trying to clear them as Hunt raises his hand to rub at his own eyes. As soon as I can see clearly again I search the small clearing for Cole and his men.

I have no doubt that they just became his.

Sure enough they all stand shocked momentarily their eyes quickly switching between each other before Cole quickly rips his shirt off over his head and stares down at his chest. I snort highly amused when all four of Cole’s guy’s just stand and stare at him appreciatively, as I catch Erin’s eye and send her a grin.

This is damn fun and just the levity that we needed right now.

“Holy fuck, it’s a Soulmate Bond mark.” Cole says shocked, and completely oblivious to the fact that his mates were staring at him like starving men.

As soon as his words register with them though they all have their shirts off within seconds. Kysen’s gaze snaps up from his Bonded mark on his chest to Cole who is grinning widely pure joy on his features. His smile starts to fade as he catches Kysen staring at him though and when Kysen starts to move towards him he begins to look a bit nervous, that is until Kysen backs him up against a tree, the slight height difference between them allowing him to put his arm above Cole’s head. Cole’s eyes blaze with heat, Kysen smirks slightly before his lips descended on Cole’s.

Well now I turn to Erin in the guise of giving them some privacy. My eyes catch on the other guys who all move in the direction of Cole and Kysen.

“I think it’s safe to say that Sen’s on board.” Jett chuckles coming over to stand with us.