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Chapter 10

House of Destiny

"Maybe we could like throw a rope over it and I don't know swing," I suggested, but Claudia already moved to the corner.

"Come help me with this big guy. Aren't you glad I came along because you two would never have noticed this." No. We probably wouldn't, I realized helping her move the heavy bridge. Carefully we slid it into place. "Now there used to be traps but they're probably off. I'll go first to check."

"No way," Colton and I chimed in unison.

"It's my job to protect you," Oh so Colton was going to pull that card.

"Yeah. And you can't protect me if you're dead."

"I won't need to protect you when you're dead." That little, arrogant...

"For Anubis' sake," Claudia called causing us to turn and discover she'd already made it half way across well we were arguing. "The traps aren't on so just don't fall."

"We're not done," I told Colton annoyed. If he thought that I would let him risk his life to protect me then he was nuts. I didn't need anyone protecting him, but from the drunkard way he almost fell from the bridge, twice, only to have me help him, Colton was the one who needed protecting.

"So if you're done flirting with my sister…" Claudia teased. "The passage is right up this way. Let's go."

I wanted to tell Claudia that we weren't flirting. Colton and I were just friends, but he grabbed my wrist first. "Look, Eve. I'm sorry if I upset you before. I'm not trying to protect you because you need it, but everyone has told me that's what I need to do so please, can't you just let me try to fulfill my destiny."

"That's the lamest apology, ever," I told him shaking my head, but a slight smile crept up my face. "But fine. Just they say go on feelings so I think you only need to protect me when you feel like you need to protect me. Don't force it, let it flow. I mean the visions just happened, so this should be the same way."

"How come you're so clever," Colton praised causing my cheeks to blush red. "I guess it must be the genes. I mean look at your sister she's freakishly smart."

"I heard that!" she cried good-naturedly from where she was bent down feeling the stone. "And if you're going to ask her out just ask so we can go and free some lovers before you two become some."

"Come on before she pushes us together and says kiss," I told Colton, but he wasn't moving. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing it's just…" obviously he didn't feel right lying to me. "When I met Anubis he said something about how he expects us to fall right in with the old pattern our parents always denied and then suddenly when Claudia said something about me asking you out I felt something like…"

"Like a million lovers screaming kiss the girl?" I whispered and he nodded. "That's how I felt when we first met."

"Well if you wanted to kiss me you could have just tried," he teased, but the joke was lost in the minuscule space between us. "Eve, do you feel that?"

"Yes."

"You told me to follow my instincts, so when your sister comes and slaps me you're to blame."

"Let her slap me because I started," I told Colton before pressing my lips to his. What I'd originally assumed would be a simple kiss quickly turned into much more. Two painfully experienced souls found generations of love in a single moment. No breather was needed; we lived off each other. A thousand unspoken words and a billion unlived moments settled on our hearts, so when the ringing voice of my little sister reached our ears and our union broke Colton and I had found something.

Of all powers between the two of us, this I found to be the most wonderful. The ability to fall in love with a stranger you've known forever.

Would you believe me if I said I have never had a boyfriend and my romance is therefore always going to be ridiculously sappy because I have no love life so if I'm going to create my own it better be perfect... well you should.