Frozen Desires (Asylums for Magical Threats 2)
“I know, but do you deny the danger?”
He shook his head. “No. Pulling that shrapnel out of your side was one of the scariest few
minutes of my life.”
“Right. That’s why, before we go on another dangerous adventure, I want to tell you something.”
Marco’s face relaxed, and his eyes were tender. “You can tell me anything, Camilla.”
The look in his eyes gave her the courage to say, “I don’t expect for you to feel the same way, but I need to tell you that I, well, I love you.”
Joy filled his face, and he smiled at her in a way that made her knees weak. “That’s a relief, then. Because I love you too, and I’m quite possessive, in case you haven’t noticed.”
Marco had told Cam he loved her in a lighthearted way, but he meant it to his very soul.
When she slapped him playfully on the chest and she lost the battle to frown, he felt the need to kiss her.
He lowered his head and placed a tender kiss on her lips, but as he moved away, Cam growled and said, “You call that a kiss? I bet a teenage boy could kiss better than that.”
He grabbed her hips and pulled her flush against his body. “Then let me show you how wrong you are.”
He took her lips, biting her lower lip before she opened. He plunged his tongue into her mouth, and she started to battle him for control. He was lost in the warmth and unique taste that was Cam, but a small part of his mind was uneasy.
He needed to share the last big secret between them.
Reluctantly, he pulled away. He brushed Cam’s hair behind her ear and said, “There’s something else I need to tell you, Camilla. Something that I don’t want to keep from you any longer.”
This time she did frown. “Should I be worried?”
He smiled. “No. I didn’t tell you before because I’ve never told anyone about it. This secret could cost the lives of hundreds of other Elemental Masters.”
She cupped his cheek. “You can trust me. Tell me.”
The trust in her eyes made her even more beautiful to him. It took everything he had not to kiss her. “You know that the EM training academies still exist despite the Feiru High Council’s best attempts to squash them.” Cam nodded, and he continued. “Well, I never told you what they do after they finish their training.”
“I had wondered about that, actually.”
“Of course you did, you brilliant woman.”
She poked him in the chest. “Stop with the flattery and just tell me what they do already.”
“Okay, okay. Just put the claws away.”
Cam smiled. “Yes, funny man. Now, what do they do?”
“Well, most—not all—are assigned to various regions of the world to help stem natural disasters.”
“What do you mean?”
Marco knew his statement was a lot to take in, so he decided to use one of his friends right here in Ecuador as an example. “There’s a woman in Ecuador named Josselyn who is an Elemental Earth Master. We went through training together down in Colombia.”
“A woman?”
He smiled at Cam’s jealousy. “Just a friend, cariño. You have nothing to worry about.”
Mollified, Cam asked, “Okay, so what does she do?”
“Well, let me explain. You may or may not know that Ecuador is prone to earthquakes, sometimes with a resulting tsunami. Joss is here to try to stop those earthquakes from killing thousands of people. In fact, she’s the reason the 2010 earthquake here was minimal and didn’t do any damage.”