Druidess Found (Druidess Trilogy Book 1) Machelle Hanleigh (best ebook reader under 100 .TXT) 📖

couldn't feel energy on her world, he could feel it in and around the arch. He drew in energy and heated the air in the space around them. He was pleased when her shivers ceased.

You have to show me how you did that. Thank you. She smiled against his chest.

You trust me to teach you? He asked.

She sat up and looked down at him. "I do trust you. I just have an issue with closed in places."

He pulled her back down to lie beside him. "I saw." I just need you to trust me and to trust that I will figure out a way to instruct you in the best way possible. You have to trust my knowledge and judgment in that matter, and most importantly you have to trust that I won't let harm come to you. Can you give me that, little one?

She nodded. I trust you.

He kissed the top of her head and let the matter drop. He would figure out a way, somehow. He closed his eyes and tried to empty his mind. She had been right; he did worry too much. He would need to include her in the future where decisions were concerned. Despite the hierarchy of his own world being ruled by the female, he was not good at sharing decisions with another, but for her he would try. He felt her giggle beside him. "Something funny?" He knew she attempted to be silent about her amusement.

She shook her head, "no."

He rolled to his back so she could rest her hand and chin on his chest as he saw the image in her mind.

She smiled at him but didn't say anything.

He glanced up at the arch. "I wonder what would happen if the Gateway opened while we are lying within its arch?"

She scrambled away from him and out from underneath the arch. "That's not funny."

He sat up laughing. "That was funny."

"I would smack you for it, if my butt wasn't still smarting." She said, narrowing her eyes at him.

He cringed but didn't apologize for it. He held his hand out to her. Trust me. He made it a statement and not a question.

She eyed him and glanced up at the arch.

He merely kept his hand stretched out towards her and waited. He learned from the three days on her world from her stories and the way Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson treated her that his Kaily didn't trust easily or completely. She always, even with those she loved most, held back a piece of herself. The fact that she gave him even a moment of unconditional trust, said a great deal about how much she truly did trust him, at least on a level that went beyond her conscious decision-making process. He saw in her eyes and mind that moment she made the decision to trust him.

She took his hand and allowed him to pull her back underneath the arch and on to his lap.

"Thank you." He rewarded her with a passionate kiss. "You can smack me without consequence." He said, using her verbiage. "I deserve that one."

She narrowed her eyes at him but didn't make a move to lift her hand.

He shrugged, "or not. It's a one-time offer."

She hit his chest before he said anything else.

He laughed and gathered her in an embrace. "Such a violent thing, aren't you?"

She shrugged and looked away.

He titled her chin forcing her eyes to meet his. "I'm teasing, little one."

"It's true, though." She said with a small, sad smile. "I will try to work on that."

"Or not," He said with a mischievous look in his eyes. "I certainly don't mind the punishment aspect of it all."

"Hmmm." She shook her head at him. "We are bonded mates?"

He slowly nodded.

"Now what do we do?"

"We return to Ki." Moto replied.

"Can't we stay on my world?"

He shook his head. He knew that she hoped that he would remain on her world with her, but he couldn't. "I never told you why I started traveling off world, did I?"

She shook her head.

"Some time ago, I started having dreams, terrible dreams of the outer villages' destruction. The dreams are always the same and up until you came to my world have been continuous. I have come to believe that they are a vision of what's to come."

"What are your people doing to protect themselves?"

Moto smiled at the concern in Kaily's voice and mind. He hugged her close. "Nothing," He continued before she could protest. "Seeing future events has never been an ability any Kahoali has possessed, so my people are skeptical. I have to remain close by, on Ki, in case I'm right and they are a vision of what's to come. I might not be able to do much, but I have to try, for the sake of the Kahoali people."

"I understand." She touched his face and the furrow again between his brows. "I can't just disappear again. I have to say good-bye to the Fergusons and set some things in order here before I leave. Can you stay with me until I do that?"

He was relieved that she was choosing to go with him and sad that he couldn't give her what she wanted. He shook his head. "I have been gone too long as it is. The feeling something is coming is getting stronger, despite the fact that I haven't had the night terrors in a while. I can't leave Sari to deal with the Queen on her own. She took a terrible risk for me, becoming my pretend bonded mate."

She looked down in her hands. "I understand."

He lifted her chin. "How long do you need?"

She shrugged, "I don't know, four maybe five days. I need to make sure that finances are set up for the Fergusons to take care of everything." She glanced out over the ruins of the castle there and the hills of the land before them. "Will we ever return?"

He felt his heart breaking at the sorrow in her tone and mind. "As often as we