Gabby watched Tara, Elias, and Zuri walk away. She felt Liam’s hand on her back. He’d run it up under her coat and shirt so their skin was touching. “They’ll be fine.”
“I don’t think this was what Frost had in mind when she said skin to skin contact,” Gabby murmured.
She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. He smirked at her. “Babe, if you think I’m going to miss the opportunity to touch your skin, with the blessing of a professor, you’re nuts. She didn’t specify what skin.”
with Gabby sighed. There was no reasoning with him.
“Besides,” he continued, “you probably need both your hands to shoot your fire at the water.”
She couldn’t argue that point. She looked at Ra and Shelly and saw that they’d linked their left and right pinkies together as they held their hands out toward t
