you sure you wouldn’t rather wait?” Her eyes rose to meet his before skittering away as her cheeks darkened again.
“This is normal. Do you think we can pleasure you without becoming aroused ourselves? Impossible. I simply look at you and I want to take your clothes off and feast.” Colm shook his head. Even before he’d thought of her as his mate, he’d wanted her fiercely, but the intensity of the feelings had kept him from pursuing it. She was right. He hadn’t wanted to chance a true mating with a female. Somehow, he must have realized that the strength of his attraction to her was beyond normal lust.
“And it will become more intense once we finally manage to talk you out of the tools you’re using to hide your scent. We always want you and know you feel the same. The magic lesson is necessary. You’re focusing your power now without meaning to do it. We don’t want an accident to cause any setbacks to the confidence you’ve gained.” Linc rose easily from the chair, but stayed where he was.
“You mean that I might hurt someone if I get angry.” She took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
“That’s a possibility, but it’s not going to happen. We’re going to work with you and you’ll control it just as you do the rising power now.” Linc’s tone was firm and assured.
She looked between them for a moment and didn’t seem certain of what they’d said, but nodded. “What do I do?”
“It’s not too different from what you’ve been doing up to this point.” Colm stepped back, giving her room. As much as he’d like to be close to her, she’d need the space when she worked on this. He didn’t want anything to go wrong simply because he was too concentrated on her. She needed to learn this, not only to control her magic, but it would increase her ability to protect herself from Laed and Kynar.
“Focus is the first element. What were you thinking of when your hands became hot out there on the stairs?” Linc joined Colm, but his eyes never left Cami.
She tilted her head and Colm saw her straighten as a little of her earlier anger returned. He hadn’t wanted to remind her of that. It had been necessary to make her realize how she had done it. Aside from that, he knew that making her come wasn’t going to take away her anger.
“I wanted to blast you down the staircase.” She bit her lip as she made the admission.
“Doesn’t surprise me. We were being demanding and you didn’t want to follow orders. We knew you’d be furious.” Linc shrugged.
“So I’m supposed to become angry again?” She frowned and her hands flexed at her side. “I still am, but I don’t think I can get it up to that level again.”
“No, you don’t need to be angry. You won’t need any emotion fueling this and we’ll go with something that doesn’t involve bodily harm to either of us. We have plans for you. Injuries would interfere.” Colm raised an eyebrow wanting to see if she’d respond to his words.
“Can’t have anything interfere with your plans.” She rolled her eyes and shook her head. “Now, how do I do this and what’s my target?”
Colm looked around and his eyes locked on the pillows on the floor. He went and picked a few. Taking them over to the wall near the doors, he lined them up. Looking back, he saw her smiling. It didn’t take much thought to know why she liked the idea of destroying those cushions.
“There are more pillows in the castle, you know.” He didn’t fight the grin curving his lips. “If we want you here again, you will sit in front of us.”
“We’ll see. Tell me what to do. I focus. I know there’s more than that. I want to be able to do this and more. I want to do everything.” She tilted her head and stared at him.
“Well, we need to teach you some basics before you can do everything, because what we’re going to do is relatively simple. Now focus on the pillows. I want you to visualize a circle of power in your palm. Concentrate, because the magic isn’t going to naturally form a ball,” Linc instructed quietly. “Focus, visualize and mold it to your will.”
It took her a little while. Colm watched as the energy formed in her palm, golden and glowing. It pooled and wavered in her