Page 93 of The Lost Ones

“Fair enough that’s on me, I’ll fix it. I can’t wait until you guys get your supernatural sides unlocked. Lets see how well you handle it when she screams like that then!” Levi smirks and the others share a look.

“Ok, you guys can carry on arguing about that all you want but I need toget dressed and more importantly pack. How long have I got before we’ve got to leave?”

“About an hour or so.” Hunter grimaces and my eyes widen.

“That’s all?” I ask unnecessarily and he nods, “Damn it!”

I hop off the bed and then haphazardly start throwing items of clothing into my bag. At least it looks haphazard but in reality I am aware of what I’m packing. I make sure to keep a suitable outfit out for flying but also make sure it’s able to hide the weapons we’ll be carrying. As if hearing my thoughts Jax suddenly calls out from his room across the hall.

“Don’t forget we need to arm ourselves before we leave, Little Star.”

“I haven’t!” I call back smirking.

Having stuffed all the things I deem necessary to take into two duffle bags, I grab my clothes and make my way into the bathroom. Thanks to the guys I now own far more clothes than I ever have in the past. Just before I shut the door between the bathroom and the bedroom Knot suddenly appears and darts through the gap, using her raven form to fly herself up onto the counter and then switching back to her fox form and curling up.

“I would love to know where you go when you disappear for so long.” I say and she just tilts her head at me, not giving anything away even though we both know she could quite easily tell me if she wanted to. “Fine, don’t tell me.” I grumble and she scoffs before settling back down and appearing to go to sleep.

I roll my eyes at the sassy little familiar and quickly hop in the shower. When she first disappeared I panicked that she was gone forever but she came back a couple of days later and I began to understand that, that’s just how she was and although I have no idea where or even how she disappears, I will one day. I finish with my shower in record time pulling on thicker than usual, stretchy jeans and a simple loose fitting tee that is long enough that it should hide the knife holster that I’m planning to wear around my waist. I pull out a more fashionable than functional leather jacket that has a high collar and is slightly too big for me so should easily hide any other weapons I decide to carry. I pull on my combat boots, quickly line my eyes with eyeliner and add a swipe of mascara and then I’m good to go.

I grab my bags on the way out of the door, Knot landing on my shoulder in her raven form as I leave and I reach up with my spare arm hand to stroke the soft feathers on her chest. I dump my bags with the others by the door and make my way further into the house.

“Guys?” I call out.

“Down here!” Jax calls from the direction of the basement and I’m guessing the weapons room.

I follow his voice, noticing how quiet it is without Hunter’s dog’s Apollo and Trig around. The person that looks after them when the guys go out of town on jobs came to pick them both up yesterday morning, again fartoo presumptuous for my liking.

What if I hadn’t passed?

“Hey Beautiful,” Kai says pulling me towards him and kissing me softly.

“Hey,” I reply sounding slightly dreamily and making Kai chuckle.

“Don’t go over the top with the weapons. We may have clearance to fly carrying now but we don’t want to scare the other passengers by looking like we’re going to war.” Levi instructs us.

“What happened to your eyes?” I blurt out, completely tactless in my question but seeing Levi with normal green eyes that don’t even match his natural colour has shocked the shit out of me.

Of course my response makes the guys chuckle.

“Coloured contacts, Darling. They’re just for whilst we travel. We already make quite an intimidating group, if my eyes started flashing red too it’s definitely going to cause a problem.” He explains.

“Fine, that makes sense I guess.” I pout and Levi’s grin widens.

He pulls me into his arms and kisses me thoroughly, his tongue dominating mine as his grip tightens around me.

“Don’t worry Darling, as soon as it won’t cause a scene I’ll take them out.” He smirks, deliberately flashing fang and knowing how much I love it.

“Deal,” I reply, “right weapons,” I say out loud to remind myself of what I’m supposed to be doing right now.

You’d think that after the incident with the fangs this morning I wouldn’t have the same reaction to Levi’s but it hasn’t made a blind bit of difference. Levi would never hurt me and he’s mine.

“Why are we flying commercially? Why can’t we go in the jet?” Kai suddenly asks midway through strapping a knife to his thigh and distracting me from my thoughts.

“Good question, and one that I have no idea the answer to.” I reply frowning.

“To be honest though there’s a lot of things that don’t seem to add up about this whole situation,” Mav says, “we have a lot more questions than answers right now.”

I nod my head in agreement.