“What-” I was confused but filled with yearning at the same time.
“Shh,” his voice was thick with desire. “Just embrace it.”
Soon his lips were hot on mine once more and his hands moved my core harder against his hardness. My sweatpants and his flannel bottoms the only thing separating us.
“Ohhh,” I moaned, leaning into his shoulder.
I let go of the tenuous hold I had on my control and I felt an explosion of pure bliss fill me, a wetness between my legs. I heard him moan above me and I knew he had found that blissful place with me. He slid us down the wall, still holding onto me, our breathing ragged.
Then I felt a huge explosion of energy within. I felt like my body was radiating heat. I felt like I was on fire.
I heard Jax mutter a curse before he hastily removed himself from me. “You’re on fire!” he said in a panicked voice.
Chapter 18
Suddenly, there was a pounding on the door. I held my hands out in front of me and saw I was literally on fire. When I watched Troy, he had been able to control his fireballs. His glowed specific colors. My skin was sparking in shades of blue, red, yellow, orange, and I swore I saw black.
“Get Troy,” I yelled. Instinctively, I knew if Jace got me through my emotional upheaval from last night, then Troy could help me extinguish this fire.
What the hell was going on?
Jaxson opened the door and Troy, Drake, and Noah came tumbling in.
“Holy crap,” Drake halted before me.
Noah stood there blinking in shock.
Troy knelt before me at a safe distance. “Misty, you need to think of a time you felt extremely cold, like when you forgot to put your coat on, on a cold winter day. Have you ever reached down to snow, to make a snowball, but the cold seeped into the gloves?” I nodded, but it was hard to focus on his words when it looked like a thousand sparklers were dancing across my skin.
“Focus,” I heard Jax’s voice in my head. “Relax and focus.”
I took a deep breath in and closed my eyes.
“Have you ever drank something so cold you gave yourself a brain freeze? You feel the cold course through your body like it’s running through your veins.” I nodded. “Now push that ice onto the fire, watch the ice extinguish the fire.”
I tried to concentrate on his words as I imagined the ice. I remembered the cold. I imagined the icicles that would hang from the trailer roof. How I use to grab them barehanded and imagined stabbing one of Heidi’s boyfriends. I imagined how I was grabbing it and hurling it at the fire.
The fire went out.
Troy drew in a deep breath and crawled to sit next to me. He pulled me into his arms and dragged me back up against the wall.
“Good thing these floors are tile,” Noah joked. “Although, I don’t think Pops is going to be happy he needs to replace the dryer again.”
Drake had disappeared and came back with a laptop. He put it on the floor in front of Troy and me. Jax sat down beside him. Drake sat next to Troy and Noah sat on the other side of Jax.
Jace and Remy were on the laptop. Jace looked amazing as ever, and I got to see him shirtless for the first time and I wasn’t disappointed. I blushed. I had just unraveled into Jax’s arms and here I was ogling his brother. Remy looked the worst I had ever seen him. He looked like I had the morning before. Tired and hungover. I guess he had continued drinking after Drake left him yesterday.
“She was on fire,” Jax finally said. “Literally on fire.”
“Because…?” Noah asked with an impish smile.
“Shut up,” Jax muttered. “You know why.”
“She connected with Jax and then she went up in flames.” As always, Jace’s features were enigmatic.
Remy wiped a weary hand over his face. “So, let me get this straight, she connected with Drake and became an empath, and now she connected with Jaxson and she has pyrokinesis. If she continues at this rate, she will get all of our gifts.”
“What about her other gifts, are they gone? I’ve heard of a gift stealer, for lack of a better word, being able to borrow other people’s gifts, but they don’t retain the others and they can only use it for a brief period.” Drake sat forward, bracing his arms on his knees.