Caution to the Wind: Book One of the Elementals Series Read Online Free PDF

for her it was the start of a new life.
    She was aware of his gaze on her, but she kept her eyes on her plate. Her fingers toyed with the crust of her toast.
    “It won’t be that bad, you know. Some conversation, a demonstration—”
    Loren looked up. “Demonstration?”
    “Well, I figure.” His shoulder lifted again and he scooped up some eggs with his fork.
    When she didn’t speak right away, Levi went on. “You have powers. Avery, Cal, Eva... they'll want to see what you can do. And I'm curious about it myself.”
    It didn't give her any assurance at all. She started to chew on her lip again, but stopped. “How exactly do you fit in here?” Her gaze drifted to the tablet Levi had brought with him to breakfast. Between that and the laptop he'd played on last night, Loren had her suspicions he did something meaningful.
    “Are you asking if I have powers? No—unless you count a genius level intellect as a superpower.” Levi flashed her a half grin. “I handle the security and all things magical and technical.”
    “Magical and technical?”
    “Or as I like to call it ‘ magitech’ .”
    She had questions, but she kept her mouth shut. Levi bit off a piece of bacon before he continued.
    “Cal hired me not too long after Old Man Morgan died. I started out being the go-to guy for their security system upgrades. Of course, I'm not stupid. I figured out the whole superpower thing right away. I managed to convince Cal not to fire me. I’m the best at what I do. And, well, the rest is history.”
    She chewed her toast. “What exactly does a magitech do?”
    “I do the computer stuff, right? Building databases, security, making cool gizmos and gadgets, hacking.” Levi shrugged. “And I do the magic stuff. Research on history, searching for anomalies, magical pulses, studying spells… stuff like that. I’m pretty damn good at it.”
    Magic. She wanted to say magic didn’t exist, but Loren knew better. After all, she had powers. Avery had powers, and though she had yet to see any evidence of it, Callum and Eva had them too. “It’s uh all new to me.”
    Levi gave her a look over his coffee mug, his attention diverted from his tablet to study her for a while. “You have abilities. You can do stuff boring guys like me only dream about, and it’s all new to you?”
    “I just mean my experience is limited. Until last night, I didn’t know anyone else had powers.”
    “Really?”
    Where was Avery and the others? A distraction would be welcome right now. Levi seemed like a nice guy, but she didn’t know him. The conversation was awkward.
    Loren tucked a piece of hair behind her ear and dropped her gaze. “Yeah, really. Uh, I guess I was sheltered? And I kept my powers to myself because there wasn’t anyone who could do what I could do and it made things hard.”
    “Yeah, all right.” He glanced to his tablet again. She waited for him to say something else, but the conversation had ended.
    Loren took another sip of her tea and watched the clock on the wall. She still had twenty-five minutes before she needed to meet with the others and she'd spent enough time in Levi's company. He made her more anxious than she liked to be.
    “I think I might take a walk around the mansion.”
    Levi didn’t look up. “Sure. Knock yourself out. Don’t get lost.”
    “Uh, yeah, okay.” On her way to breakfast, she had taken a few wrong turns. Loren wasn’t eager to repeat the experience. The heat crept into her cheeks at the memory of her blunder and was glad she’d faced away from him when she did. “I’ll see you here? Twenty minutes.”
    “Yep.” Levi didn’t look at her.
    Loren hovered a couple seconds, waiting to see if he’d say something else, but he was absorbed with his tablet. She pushed the door to leave, but it met with some unexpected resistance.
    “Hey,” Avery growled.
    “Oh, god, I’m sorry. I didn’t know anyone was on the other side of the door. Sorry.” If she was red in the face