brushing against her
ass. Anyone seeing the color would merely think it from a bottle.
“You’re beautiful,” Aaron stated. Awe
laced through his voice. He raised his hand to push a few stands of her hair
the wind blew across her face.
Sienna leaned into his caress. “So are
you.”
Their bodies automatically seemed to
gravitate toward each other. Between one breath and the next, they were in each
other’s arms. Mouths joined, bodies pressed against each other. She opened her
very soul to him and he drew her into his. Her first kiss, their first kiss.
Lost.
She was losing herself in his kiss, his
embrace and she almost didn’t care.
The sound of a seagull overhead made her
glance up. Yanking her rudely out of the web of desire his presence wove and
setting her back to their task. Reluctantly, she ended the kiss. Holding onto
his muscular arms, she stopped him from pulling her back to him. They both had
to be strong. “I am sorry. I cannot do this alone.”
“I have waited so long for you, Sienna.
Knowing who and what you are to me, so near—yet unable to see you,
acknowledge our bond. I have missed you every day of my existence.”
“And I you. But it is not our time yet.”
He leaned his forehead against hers. “I
guess I knew that, but I hoped.”
“Just a little while longer, beloved.”
“You keep calling me that.”
Raising her hand, she touched the side of
his beautifully sculptured face…the years treated him well. Shaping the beauty
of a young boy into that of a man.
He had a cut strong jaw line, large sea
green eyes, eyebrows that feathered out at the sides. He’d also grown into the
promise of those muscles and then some. He turned to kiss her palm.
“Because that is who you are to me,” she
finally replied.
“My bride.”
She placed her fingers over his lips,
shaking her head. “Yes, but not yet. Come, we don’t have much time. I cannot
maintain this illusion for long. The farther from the water we have to travel,
the more of a drain on my powers.”
He frowned. “Very well, I will wait…a
little while longer. Where are we going, and what is the child called?”
“She’s got an office here in Miami.”
“Do you know the address?”
“No, but blood calls to blood. She is of
my line. I know when she is nearby.”
“Is it far from where we are now?”
She frowned, closing her eyes, tapping
into the bonds connecting her to her niece by blood. “She is not nearby. If we
have to walk the land it might take a couple of hours, less if we ran, but that
would attract the attention of the humans.”
“Would you be able to direct me in a
car?”
She smiled. “I have rarely been on land.
It has been a few years.”
He smiled and kissed the knuckles on the
hand he didn’t seem to want to let go.
“I have never ridden in a car, but I know
what it is. Yes, I think I will be able to do that.”
“Okay.” He carried a waterproof backpack
and removed it from his shoulder. “Let me make a phone call.” He pulled out
what she knew was a cell phone.
While she might have rarely visited the
land, she was well aware of modern technology as well as the history of the
landwalkers. All of the children were. They had to be if they wished to
survive. They even had access to the human internet, but they had no need for
cell phones. Not when some could communicate with sea creatures as well as the
fact they were all telepathic underwater. Some to a greater degree than others,
and some even had the ability while on land. She on the other hand, had no need
for the internet. All she had to do was look into a water mirror and gather any
information she needed of current events, as well as future events affecting
her people. Her visions manifested itself within the mirror.
Chapter Five
Aaron hung up the phone. He knew Miami
quite well and called a car rental service he’d used in the past. After all,
he’d accompanied both Xavior and Ezekiel here many times in their