Falling for Angels - Hazel Hunter Page 0,4

at me with his long, narrow eyes. I still couldn’t figure out if they were black or dark brown.

Quit drooling over the druid.

Kendric waited until the laird finished speaking before he turned and bowed to me. “Healer Ivers.”

“Hey.” That was as polite as I could manage with the way he looked at me (like I was naked and begging him to carry me off to the nearest bed.) “You sprain an ankle walking over here?”

“Ah, no, Sister.” He ran a fingertip across his mouth. “I’ve brought the herbs I promised you.”

Now I wanted to bite his lip. “Thanks. Excuse me.” Without further ado I walked out and headed for the loch.

Kendric caught up to me before I reached the rocky bank. “Sister, if we could speak for a moment.”

“We already have.” Focusing on the water helped, but the way my whole body was heating up I had only about thirty seconds left before it started. “Go back to your village.”

I ran into the water and waded out as fast as I could. Steam had started rising from my clothes just before I dunked myself, but submerging was only a temporary fix. Chunks of ice started forming as I surfaced and shook out my hair. Then I saw Kendric wading in after me, and felt the water around me growing colder.

“Get away from me,” I told him as I backstroked to a safer distance.

The druid kept coming. “I wish but to help, Sister.”

“I’m not your sister.” Shouting at the most important druid on Mull wasn’t very smart, but every time he got near me my druid ability went crazy. I had to tell him the truth, so I said, “I can’t control my power around you. Come any closer and I’ll pull all the heat out of you, and probably the loch, too.”

“You cannae do thus to me.” He finally stopped, and the water around him began churning. “I’m the ice to your fire, Alexina.”

“My name is Andrea.” I stared at the now-boiling waves between us. “You’re doing that?”

“’Tis our doing.” Kendric stretched out his hand. “Permit me show you.”

I knew I might kill him if I touched him. Then again he’d reincarnate, and for a century or two my druid problem would be solved. I waded to him and, taking a deep breath, grabbed his hand.

Memories I’d never had rushed through my head, showing me an endless loop of me with Kendric in different places and times. Sometimes we were just kids, other times we were ancient, but we were always together. My name had been Lexin, Alexandra, Andra, and a dozen other variations, all leading back to my first life as Alexina. In every one of my incarnations I had possessed the power to pull any heat into my body, just as Kendric could any cold, which made us a kind of druid yin and yang. As I watched all of my former lives I felt the water around us warming and cooling at the same time, until it returned to its normal temperature.

Kendric released my hand, and the memories stopped. “’Twas why you waited so long to reincarnate, so you could bring back our daughters from the future.”

“The Angels are our descendants.” As he put his hands on my shoulders I rested my cheek against his. “They don’t know.”

“We shall tell them in time.” He stroked the wet hair back from my face. “The portents say a great evil comes, and soon. We must teach our lasses to wield their talents.”

“Okay, I’m in.” I drew back. “What about us?”

He gave me a dazzling K-pop smile. “We must begin their bloodline, Wife.”

We got started on that project right away.

Chapter 5

The Deep End

I knew I was in trouble when Laird McGillean told us we’d be training with the druids. Since we had time-traveled back to fourteenth-century Scotland all the other cheerleaders on my squad developed cool powers, but I had zip. Same with the clan. The men all seemed to like me, but no one fell head over heels.

“You’re too quiet, Tory,” Coco told me while we were working out early one morning by the loch. “Try talking to the guys.”

“What do I say?” I countered as I did a side leg raise. “Hello, I’m Victoria. B student, average cheerleader, nice-looking, no powers. Your nothing-special girl next door.”

She laughed. “What about diving and the swim team? You did that while you were cheering, which is way extra.”

“Okay, part-fish girl next door.” I sighed. “Only Scotland has zero water sports.”

Coco tossed