Free Running in Fear: New Beginnings Jubilee by Trinity Blacio Page A

Dane led her into their new dining room and she laughed. The table was filled with all different kinds of little sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, and…she smelled the air and turned to Dane. “COFFEE!!”
    Remi, Mark and Dane busted out laughing. “You aren’t pregnant now, so I don’t see why you can’t have any. I got you favorite flavor too.”
    Mark handed her a cup of steaming hot chocolate mint coffee, with French vanilla creamer in it, as Remi pulled out a chair for her and she sat smelling the coffee. Jaycee closed her eyes and savored the moment. She knew her mates were laughing, but right now Jaycee didn’t care. They had given her a piece of heaven and she was bound and determined to enjoy it.
    Taking a small sip, she sighed, and opened her eyes. Remi shook his head and placed a plate in front of her. “Eat, you can have as much coffee as you want now, but you need food.”
    Eating and talking, Jaycee kept going over the holiday she wanted for everyone and seven days just kept popping up in her head. She jumped up and grabbed the pad of paper and pencil she had on the small desk bringing them back to the table. Her men frowned at her as she came back to the table.
    “What are you doing? You need to eat more” Mark put another two sandwiches onto her plate, along with some more potato salad.
    Rolling her eyes, Jaycee sat down, pushing her plate away from her. “I can still eat while I write. Do you know how Gaia kept saying we have seven days till the planet moves to its place in the universe?”
    Going over to the buffet table, Remi nodded. “Yes, I think all of us are counting the days.”
    Leda came into the room with Suzanne and her mates. Jaycee nodded to the table. “Eat, there is too much here for all of us anyway. Glad you two are here. You know how Hanukah is celebrated in eight days on Earth?”
    The women quickly filled their plates and gathered around her, while the men started to move into the other room. “Hey, aren’t you going to listen to my idea?” Jaycee pouted and stared up at Dane.
    He laughed, leaning down and kissing her. “Sweetheart, we know you will inform us tonight, but right now we need to discuss who is coming over first.” Dane glanced at Leda and smiled.
    That is when she knew they would also be discussing their trip to the mountains. Jaycee nodded and turned her attention to her new friends. “The next seven days every one of us will be working to bring who ever we can over to this new world. After these seven days, bringing anyone over will fall, on Nikola and his people. They will be the only ones able to go back and forth when the planets separate.
    We are starting a new world, a new year, so I thought we should have celebrated the first seven days of the year. Each day, we could celebrate something different. For example, I thought the first day we could celebrate the planet itself. Using only what the planet gives us, we make our food and create our gift for that day.”
    Grabbing her cup of coffee, Jaycee glanced at Leda and Suzanne. “Well, what do you think?”
    Taking a bit of her food, Suzanne nodded. “I like it, and it’s perfect. I think the second day should have something to do with the fae people. A celebration for Queen Isabel maybe, and all that she has done for her people. A day of celebrating the majesty of their old world. We could use items from their world to decorate a tree just for this day. With things from the Palace, we could have Lissa gather things that no one would even think of bringing with them.”
    Laughing, Jaycee grabbed her pen and started writing. “That is great and I love it, but the third day should be for your people, and the fourth can be for ours, with the last…” Jaycee didn’t get a word out when three strange men knocked on her dining room door.
    “Remi, now would be a great time to do that speed thing and get in here!” Jaycee knew what they were, but she wanted to know how they got here. It also