around.” He said he had seen her and thought she was. “Thanks for that. No, you have the most beautiful of all of us. Piper has color and vibrance that none of the rest of us have. I love her, don’t get me wrong, but I’m very jealous of her beauty too.”
“You’re very beautiful, Remi. The silver of your hair with the green of your eyes mesmerized me from the beginning.” Not that she was vain, but she did glance in the mirror that had been found in the sea with other women’s things. “The way your hair glistens in the moonlight is one of the most breathtaking things I’ve ever witnessed.”
“Now you’re just being mean.” He said he was serious. “I do hope that when I find my mate, he is as sweet and strong as you are, Grant. You’re so calm and nice. Even when you’re mad, as I’ve seen in you with people when they’re not doing what they should, you still look like you couldn’t have chocolate melt in your mouth. In the event you didn’t know this about me, chocolate is one of my biggest downfalls when it comes to sweets.”
“Yours and Duncan’s. I heard that the other day he nearly ate an entire ten pound box of the sweets. Me? I don’t really get into really super sweet things. I like apples and other fruit.” She made fun of him again about being a purest. “I guess I am. I just enjoy what the earth gives me. Probably the fae in me.”
“No, I’d say it was the niceness in you.” She looked at the swords and then back at him. “Want to play around a little? I’m sure we can both have some fun with them before anyone finds us.”
“Absolutely.”
He took one of the larger swords, and Remi watched as he tested its weight. None of them were cheaply made. Several of them had been made with the king in mind, she’d bet. There were so many jewels on a couple of them she knew that they were for show only and not for real use. When Grant had one that he said he could work with, they started working the room, wielding the swords like she was sure he had long ago.
By the time she was too exhausted to lift her arm, she was covered in sweat, and her hair was sticking to her head. Remi was glad she’d been able to get in a few digs, and Grant had done a good job on her as well. There were cuts on her flesh as well as her clothing. She found that she didn’t care. It had been that much fun.
“I’d like to spar with you again sometime. I feel out of shape right now, but I think this would go a long way in helping me out. It’s a damned sight better than walking.” She said he should fly. That took a lot of muscle movements. “You know, I forgot about that. That I could fly. I’ll have to talk to Piper about it when she gets back.”
“Where did she go? We have dinner together every Wednesday night. She’s never missed one before.” He told her what he knew. “I can see that. She’ll make it then. Those fires, I think they take a great deal out of her when she has to have someone arrested. The fire that she went to last week. What do you know about it? If I can ask.”
“Sure, you can. It was arson. The number of bodies that were in the place is going to mean hard time for the two men that caused the fire. Piper not only found out who had done it but their reasoning behind it. Not that their reasons are sound ones, but she did find them.” Remi asked him what she’d found out. “They were fired the week before. They figured they’d just fire everyone in the place because of them not having a job. I don’t think they thought anyone would be in the place on a Saturday morning. That’s the morning they do a deep cleaning of the place, and it caught a lot of people inside.”
“Did Piper tell you she’s been to several fires that took a lot of lives? Believe it or not, she hates it. It was why I was so surprised she took this job with the Feds. She can pick up the reason something burned to the ground in no time. It’s dealing