They most certainly could. It definitely wasn’t Saul that was making my stomach flutter, my cheeks flush. That was the twins.
Guy stiffened, his eyes traveling up me until he met my eyes, making a shiver run over my body. “Not fair, Letty. You can’t think things like that when we still need to get to know each other again.”
“Damn it,” Olivander swore. “You really need to stop doing that, Guy. I can’t hear half of your conversation.” Guy’s intense focus on me had my skin heated, but I still felt cold without a blanket on me. They both automatically stood when I shivered again, this time from the chill.
“I forgot to bring a blanket, I’m sorry, Letty.” Guy took his coat off and knelt beside me to lay it across my chest. Every touch of his fingers on my shoulder burned my skin.
“We can huddle for warmth, if you’re okay with that?” Olivander asked on my other side, and once I’d nodded, they laid down beside me and waited for me to lower myself to the rocky cave floor. Guy had already put his arm out for me to rest my head on, and I felt my stomach flutter when I laid out between them, moving to my side so I was facing Guy. Olivander huddled against my backside, making sure he wasn’t touching anything, but still keeping me warm.
It felt nice, being in the middle of them. I had a feeling we’d done this before, but I’d forgotten, just like everything else. Every kiss, every touch. Some part of me wanted to get my fill of everything Guy and Olivander had to offer, just in case I forgot them again. But could I, was the better question. Maybe it was too much for one day.
Guy’s soft chuckle made me look up at him, my current thoughts making our closeness much more intimate. “You never could shut your brain off. Always pondering this and that, unsure how you should react.”
“Still can’t hear her thoughts,” Olivander grumbled behind me.
I looked down at Guy’s shirt collar, and back up to his eyes. “I was contemplating letting both of you kiss me, just in case.”
“Funny, this morning you were eager to make me go away, yet again,” Olivander pointed out, something just barely brushing my hip, his hand I hoped. Or maybe I didn’t.
My breath caught in my throat as Guy reached a hand out to brush some of my hair off my cheek. “I’m definitely not thinking that now.”
Guy folded into me, whatever was holding him back now gone, and he lifted my chin up before pressing our lips together, slowly capturing them over and over until a whimper came from my throat. He broke off, stroking my hair, resting our foreheads together. “God, I missed you so much, Letty.”
Olivander pulled me onto my back, hovering over me and kissing my lips, forcefully staking his claim to them, to me. He nibbled at my bottom lip and slowly released it from his teeth. “It’s been so long since you let me do that. I could kiss you all day and it would never be enough.” He dove for my lips again as Guy started kissing down my neck, and someone’s fingers traced around the top of my Asylum issued pants. I almost pulled away, but I wanted this. I wanted them. I grabbed Olivander closer to me, sinking my fingers into his long hair, and that hand at my waist slowly started to reach inside…
A loud crash interrupted us, Olivander’s hands frozen on my breasts and Guy’s more than halfway inside my underwear. They scrambled up, helping me stand, and down the path outside our cave was a group from the Asylum. They hadn’t seen us yet, but I’d know those uniforms anywhere.
“How did they find us?” Olivander hissed, grabbing his jacket up from the floor and putting it on my shoulders.
Guy was concentrating on the group and I slipped my hand into his, tightening our fingers together. “It’s the meds in Letty’s system. They’re magical, so they can be tracked. Damn it. We had no idea they could do that. We’d have taken precautions.”
“Too late now,” Olivander said under his breath. He leaned over to peer out of the cave. “Think we can make a run for it?”
Guy shook his head and squeezed my fingers. “Not with Letty being barefoot. I can’t run fast enough with her on my back.” He let my hand go, and my stomach fell from the look on his face. There were too many of them, they were too close. “Oli. If they catch us, they’ll wipe us too. I don’t have enough magic left to re-up our protection against it. We’ll forget the Asylum, we’ll forget how to find it. We won’t be able to get her back again. She’ll be gone, forever this time.”
“I should beat you to a pulp right now, Guy,” Olivander said with a glare directed at his brother, his hands clenching into fists. “I didn’t spend an entire year in that place to lose her after a few hours.”
It was up to me, then.
Guy held out a hand to hold Olivander off, turning and reaching for me with his other hand. “No, Letty, stop thinking that. You can’t do it. We’ll find a way to escape.”
Even without the ability to hear my thoughts, Olivander guessed them, and he looked like I’d slapped him. “Letty,” he whispered, and that one word tore at me.
I didn’t remember my life with them. There was nothing in my head. But even so, I knew them. I trusted them. And I had to believe this would all end up okay.
I lifted my hand, running it up Guy’s smooth cheek, and I eagerly stepped into his embrace, with Olivander holding me from the other side. “Promise me you’ll find me again.”
They pulled at me when I stepped back, but I pushed their hands away, running out
