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into the night, Jaydenn turned and pulled Vyn out of
his trance and guided him toward the house.
    Angie spun around to the table. “Well, that
was no fun, dammit, Jaydenn. He wouldn’t miss that, now would he?
Plenty of energy for that , but can he help clean the house?
No. He’s too tired. Well.” She smirked, lifted her glass. “That’s
partly my fault.” And took a grinning sip.
    Sitting back at the table, I noticed my skin
color had returned to the normal pale peach.
    The door swung open. Jaydenn and Vyn walked
in, Jayden’s hand on Vyn’s shoulder. They had already put their
shirts back on, and Jaydenn’s white T-shirt stretched around his
shoulders and chest like it was screaming for mercy. They exchanged
a chuckle about something while they made their way to us, and I
noted the size comparison; big dog, little pup.
    “Enjoy the show, angels?” Jaydenn
questioned.
    “Well, we would have,” Angie teased, “but you had to go scare them off.”
    Not sure how I felt about it, I couldn’t pull
my eyes off Vyn, and gave him a smile as if I had a schoolgirl
crush. For Source sake, my first year of college and I was filled
with thoughts like a ponytail teenager. I could almost feel the
braces on my teeth. Get ahold of yourself, Elle .
    “You okay, Ellie?” Vyn asked.
    “What? Oh. Yeah. Come sit by me?”
    Angie glanced at me, up to Jaydenn. They
exchanged a silent mutual grin. They seemed to understand something
about the whole situation. While I swam around, grasping for clues,
trying to discover a new view at this relationship puzzle. With my
chin tilted down, I looked up at Vyn from under my lashes, folded
my hands on my lap. I noticed something different about Vyn that
was never there before; a shadow of stubble grew around his strong
jawline. His scrubby look oozed male hormones, and sent more
tingles through me.
    Vyn gave me a pleasant expression, scratching
at his stubbled chin, then turned to Jaydenn and said, “Can you
join us? I need to figure something out and I could use your
opinion.”
    “No problem, but maybe you need to get
cleaned up first. You got a little dirt on your face there.” He
reached over and swiped a fingertip over Vyn’s jaw, smirked. “Wait
a second. That’s not dirt, it looks like I need to teach you how to
shave now, huh, big guy?”
    Vyn chuckled, smirked. “I think I can handle
it.”
    They both pulled a chair and sat. Angie and I
got up and did the hostess routine: boiled water for herbal tea;
gathered utensils and dishes; cut some cake—all the while
whispering to each other. We set the plated slices and teacups out
and sat with the boys.
    Forks went into cake. Chewing discussions
went around the table.
    A few minutes later, Jaydenn clanked his fork to his cleaned plate, stretched and scratched his stomach,
then leaned back and hugged thick arms around twin-mountains of
chest. What are those muscles again, pecs? “That was pretty good
there, Ang,” he said. “You’re gettin closer.”
    With a full mouth, Angie just nodded a grin,
and kept chewing, her thinking eyes rolling around in her head as
if she was trying to discern the ingredients with her palate.
    The last bite of my cake sadly melted away in
my mouth. I set the fork to my plate, picked up my cup and took a
sip of warm tea.
    Jaydenn tightened his face, said to Vyn, “We
need to take care of this. I don’t know what you’re workin on in
your lab, but if there’s any chance it could give hunters the
ability to fly in the daytime, we can’t let them get ahold of
it.”
    “Yeah, but what can we do? The dreks can’t
get into my lab in the daytime. And it’s guarded at night. But,
somehow they found out about my work, so …”
    Because Angie and I had already discussed our
ideas back when we were making tea and stuff, we exchanged nods of
agreement. I turned to the boys and said, “We could help.”
    In unison, the boys both swiveled a couple of
those yeah-right looks at me. What did I have to do to