Harmonizer's Evolution (Balancer's Soul cycle) (84 page)

“Wow.” She
said heavily.
“I feel like
J
ello!”

“Ditto.” He said and laughed heavily.

She
rolled to
her
side and his dreamy glazed eyes looked at
her
.
She
grinned again. “Ready for round two?”

His eyes widened. “Sarah, what’s going on? You’ve never been so ravenous before. Tell me
what’s on your mind
.”

She
swallowed dryly and said “
I want us to be
together
as much as we possibly can
before we have to leave here.” She
raised an eyebrow to
emphasize
a
point. “We don’t know what will await us, but I want you with me until we finally go off to fight on two different battles.”

His eyes stayed on
her as she
began tracing the X on his chest
,
that was still hot and covered in sweat. He finally said “If that is what you want, how can I say no.”
H
e grinned playfully himself. “Now it’s your turn to get ready for round two.”

Connor rolled himself and brought
her
to bliss, time and
time
again.

Th
e boulder
dropped back so he could
check the time of day it was
and
realized it to be
late afternoon of the second day.
Their
time together was spe
nt almost entirely of ecstasy. They
had made love together so many times that all of
his
senses were almost too sensitive.
He
was completely aware of
his
entire body and it felt somewhat pleasant. Despite the lack of sleep
she allowed
,
he
was remarkably exhilarated
and awake
.

“Is it time?” Sar
ah asked, coming up from behind
. She then wrapped her arms around
his
abdomen and pre
ssed her warm body against his
back. H
er soft and silky skin felt blissful against
his flesh
.

“It is.”
Sh
e heard the
calmness of his
voice.

“Then we had better clean up. Our clothes shouldn’t need to be cleaned because they didn’t get worn at all since we got here
.” She then giggled lightly and nuzzled
against
his
back one last time.

When her arms released
him, he
turned aro
und. Her chin
tilted
up and he
took it in
his
hand and brought
his
lips down on hers once again. When
they
stopped, she looked like
his
personal
goddess of beauty and love once again.

Then she smiled strangely. “Before we go, we need to rinse off all the hard work we did together.” S
he placed both of her hands on his chest and shoved him
out of the tunnel
with a force that would kill a normal man
.

Most everyone would panic from getting pushed out into a ravine
without some sort of aid
. Luckily
he’s
an exception.

He
flipped in the air as
he
dropped several stories down
into
the
ravine. Without using any elemental skills
he
entered the cold water, feet first. The current was fast and strong, but it wasn’t anything an immortal couldn’t handle.
He was just glad that his
boxers didn’t ride up or mysteriously disappear
in the rapids
.

Upon resurfacing
,
Sarah also jumped into the current wearing only her lacy black bra and matching panties.

They
laughed and splashed each other, just enjoying the moment.

They
eventually flew out of the water after
the
rinse. Not long after
,
they
dried off
and
they attired
armor and still clean clothes. Before Sarah extinguished the fire, she looked at her birthday present
one last time
. He
knew she was burning all of the past two days into her memory
,
to get her through the next few days.

When they
managed to make it to
Jenny’s to
pick up t
he kids, there were visitors. Connor’s
grandfather’s
red
truck was par
ked in the driveway. Sarah and Connor
walked up on the entryway and she knocked on the door before
he let him
self in.

Rhoda
opened the door and
said “Just the people we’ve been waiting for.”

“Rhoda… I mean Grandma,” Sarah began and
her emerald green eyes
w
ere
already looking suspicious. “what are you cooking up?”

Hid
eccentric grandmother grinned and all of her laughing wrinkles were visible. “For starters
,
you and my grandson and both of my
great
grandbabies are coming over to my house
,
right now. I’ve been working on something for quite a while and it should help. This might
b
e our last chance to spend some
quality
time together for awhile
,
as a family
,
and I’m not going to pass up an opportunity.”

Then David
came up from behind and placed a hand on
Rhoda’s
shoulder. His wryly smile was
as
contagious
as ever
. “Not to worry, we just want to have a family get-together. Sarah we’ve been racking our brains on how we can help
out
, but we are just human
after all. We’ve come to the conclusion that the only support we can offer is food. We’ll be having a
large
dinner
tonight
.”

Sarah blinked and finally asked “We would be delighted, but how much is this large meal you’ve prepared?”

Rhoda
grinned. “It will be enough.”

Rhoda
glanced at
her wily husband
and he nodded. He took a step around her and his faded
blue eyes found Connor’s
. “Come on, S
on, we need to go across the street. We’re inviting everyone
over tonight
. Kara and Mark are already on board and are already at the farm
finishing up.” He grabbed Connor’s
wrist and began dragging
him
away from Sarah, but she
began
smiling so
he
didn’t object
to his
grandfather’s
methods
.

As they
began walking through the grass towards Jack’s,
David’s
voice
grew
thick. “Connor, I know you’ll be leaving on the first. I tricked Kara into telling me
what’s been going on.” he smiled
weakly
to himself. “Well it wasn’t all that hard to trick her. She’s just like her grandmother when she was the same age.” Then he got down to the point. “I can only imagine what you and everyone else has to face. It is so very difficult to see my grandkids fighting something so big and all I’m capable of doing is throwing you guys a mediocre party…”

“Grandda
ddy,” Connor placed a
hand on his shoulder and
David
stopped at the edge of the road. “you’ve raised me into being a good man. Yes I’m strong, but I’m still as flesh and blood as you are. I have doubts
and concerns
about what I’m capable of when the time does come, but that won’t stop me from giving
it
my all. It is the same with you. You are and have always d
one
your best in raising me, even when
all those
strange things happen
ed
around me
.” David
smiled knowingly.
Connor’s
childhood did have some strange events.
“Even now you are being a supporting person in my life. You will give me sustenance and that
,
in turn
,
will help save
many
lives. Don’t think you are worthless just because you are
a normal
human.”

As they
began walking across the street again he
started
smi
ling approvingly. David
was testing
him again and apparently he
passed.

They stepped upon the entryway of his in-laws home. He
knocked on the door and a surprising person opened the front door. “Boy’o, what are you doing here?” Sarah’s I
rish grandfather stood before them
.
Ryan’s
yellowish eyes scanned
Connor
over and then
David
. “Might I be able to help you gentlemen?”

“Oh, so you must be the pain in the ass father-in-law Jack spoke of. Good afternoon, I’m David
.
You must be Ryan?”
David
spoke in a teasing
and gentle voice. He offered his right hand in greeting.

Ryan wasn’t one for insults, except when he gives them, but he remained pleasant and shook
the older looking gentleman’s
hand. “That I am, Boy’o. So you must be the infamous David May. My daughter speaks very highly of you and your mate.”

“
Daughter
? … O
h you mean Jillian. Sorry it still gets a little confusing seeing someone like yourself who looks so young yet be a great grandfather
, like me
.” David
chuckled.

“As opposed to
someone
looking like someone who looks
exactly
like a great
-
great
-
grandfather?” Ryan asked with a raised eyebrow.

David
burst into a fit of laughter and started patting Ryan on the shoulder. “So there is still someone around who can play word games
.”

The red haired and green eyed Laura walked up behind her mate and asked “Dear, what is going our here?”

Before he could speak
David
interrupted. “Actually I’ve come to collect Jillian and Jack… are their anymore people in this house?”

“Just Amber and Ben.” Jack said while coming to the door.

“Alright get them too.” T
he three immortals were quite confused to
David’s
words.
So he then invited them
all
to the dinner party.
Laura and Ryan were hesitant until Jack told them how well of a cook
Rhoda
is. When Amber and Ben got up, they too accepted their hospitality.

While they got themselves ready
David and Connor
began walking back across the street. Before
they
went inside he told
Connor
t
o invite Sorono and his family as well.

By the time night had fallen
,
Sarah and
Connor
, along with
Rhoda, David, Jenny
,
Kara, Mark,
Darrel, Pearl, Jillian, Jack,
Amber, Ben, Laura, Ryan, Veronica, Sorono and Shannon had
all
arrived at his
grandparent
’
s farm
for the party
.

David
set up some floodlights behind the faded yellow house for everyone to see each other
in the moonless night
and be hidden from neighboring eyes
. There was a large picnic
table that easily sat all of them
. Then there was a large table that
David
had made into a chair for Sorono and Veronica to sit together.