Gifted Connections 3

Jaxson and I exchanged a look.

“Connections are very important to us,” Jemmy said as she gave a pointed look to Gavin and Sierra. “For instance, Gavin is my connection, but-” she started.

“But this isn’t a conversation you should be having at the dinner table,” Jace cut her off giving her a piercing look.

“So is Sierra,” Alex stated pragmatically with the innocence of a child as he eyed the mystery meat on our trays.

“What?” Jemmy said mystified. She looked at Sierra and Gavin.

They were both looking at each other with wide eyes. It was clear they still hadn’t connected the dots.

“Your mark is the trident,” Ella said slowly as if she was talking to a much younger child. Ever since Ella had gotten her gift, it was like she had grown over night. She now had wisdom beyond her years. All the kids seemed to have grown over night except for Nadia, but we still didn’t know if she would be gifted. “So is Gavin’s and Sierra’s.”

Generally, our gifts didn’t come to us until we hit adolescence. There were few exceptions. Jace, Jaxson, Ella, Alex, and I had all gotten ours before our teens. We had run across a few other prepubescent gifted in our rescue missions, but it didn’t happen often.

When Jemmy, Gavin, and Sierra continued looking at her blankly, Jace finally spoke.

“We have an eta. The seventh letter in the Greek alphabet. There are seven of us. You have a trident. A trident is a three-pronged spear, why wouldn’t there be three of you?”

Ella nodded. “Yeah that,” she said as she took a big bite of her roll.

Noah tried to stifle his chuckle as he tried to lighten the mood of the table. “Now, Ella. It doesn’t always work that way, but Jace does have a good point.”

Jemmy, Gavin, and Sierra seemed astounded and floored with the news.

“Jaxson and Blake knew that,” Alex blurted out. “They’ve been talking about it.”

I inwardly cursed. This was the price I paid for have a telepathic brother that was especially sensitive to me, Micah, and Ella. He had a good connection with Kade, my other brother, but he said Kade had been silent for weeks. Just like the whole table was right now.

“You knew, and you didn’t tell me,” Jemmy was pacing our apartment sitting room.

I gave her an apologetic look. “I’m sorry. You guys were already having issues before I found out, and I didn’t want to add more stress to the situation.”

We had all retired to our apartment after Alex’s little bomb. It wasn’t like dinner was all that great, and Jemmy looked like she was going to explode. Sierra seemed relieved. I suspected she had started to like Gavin on a deeper level and didn’t want to ruin his connection with Jemmy. Gavin looked like he was about to faint. In fact, he still had that dumbfounded look on his face.

The children were currently in Jace and Remy’s room playing a game that we had found in the day room for them. Terrance, Marcel, and Sam had decided to head down to their rooms, so they could get a shower and a jump start on their laundry.

“What are we going to do?” Sierra asked slowly.

“Get to know each other and make your connections,” Remy had to bite back his snort as he leaned back into the couch I was sitting on.

I ran my hand through his hair. I liked the soft texture of it against my fingertips. I looked over at Gavin. “There’s no rush, that we know of. I don’t think anyone’s saying you need to go make them now.” I quickly reassured him. He seemed like he was ready to bolt any second.

Noah and Jaxson started snickering as they whispered to each other.

“Knock it off you two,” Jace gave them a stern look.

There was a knock at the door, and Troy got up to open it. “Hey Pops,” he said jovially. “Gavin, Jemmy, and Sierra just found out they’re connected.”

Will took a few steps in before he paused. “Is there never a dull moment around here?” he asked in a slightly exasperated tone. He gave Gavin an almost sympathetic look after looking at his shocked expression. “I felt the same way when I found out I was connected with sisters. They already had a sibling rivalry going on and… well,” he shook his head. “Another time.”

I had just find out recently that Jaxson and Jace’s mother was still alive as well as their aunt. They both seemed reluctant to talk about it. Jace more so. I knew their mother walked out, although I don’t know why or where she went. Megan, their aunt, was Will’s other connection. The boys had cared for her, but she couldn’t de

al with Will and their mother anymore, so she had left them. Megan was now back in their lives, and I was interested to see how things were going to transpire.

Will turned and looked at me. “Did you use your gift today during training?”

I sighed. I should have known it was going to get back to him. “I did.”