Free Angel's Touch [PUP Squad Alpha 7] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Abby Blake Page B

artillery?”
    “I’m not sure I can explain it,” she said, “but Ava, Kali, and Amber are on their way here now.” She smiled as she heard the front door open. “Better move over, West. This room’s about to get really crowded.”
    Devlin couldn’t hide the smirk, or his relief, when he realized that all three women were accompanied by their husbands. Brody’s niece, Keira, was with them as well. A moment later Lilly blinked back into the room with Nathan, Thomas, Samuel, and Jed. Nathan pushed through the crowded room and moved quickly to Ava’s side. His hand touched her belly protectively as he spoke to her quietly.
    Benjamin and Skye, and Adam and Jennifer stepped into the house just a few moments later.
    “Sit-rep,” Benjamin called to Devlin. He was halfway through his explanation when Ava used her newfound skill to blink from one husband to the other clear across the room. Nathan and Brody turned to glare at Devlin.
    He shrugged. “Don’t look at me,” he said with a quiet laugh. He knew enough about Ava to know the woman made her own choices no matter how dominating her men got behind closed doors.
    “That is so cool,” Ava said with a delighted laugh as she reached up to kiss Brody.
    “It’s not the only ‘gift’ I gave you, unfortunately,” Lilly said, looking a little upset. “I have a skill that seems to freeze people in place.”
    “So that they can’t move?” Ava asked with a grin.
    “So they can’t breathe,” Lilly said worriedly.
    “I accidentally did that to Nathan,” Ava confessed with a laugh. “Fortunately my husband is a very clever man and created a bubble thingy that blocked whatever I was doing. It took a while but Kali and I have learned how to control it. I think you’ll find just by being here with us that you can now control it yourself.”
    Lilly frowned for a moment, but then nodded in surprise. She turned to Devlin and gave him a sassy wink that had him laughing with her. “Guess I won’t need to use you for target practice after all.”
    “Guess not,” he said, relieved to see the fear leave his woman’s eyes. He’d never seen her more frightened than when she thought she might hurt someone with her unexpected skill.
    Devlin turned his attention back to Benjamin. “Long story short, Hannah says that she and the other Oracle’s receptacles are able to shield Sugarvale from physical attack.”
    All eyes turned to Hannah. “It would be easier with all six of us, but between the five of us we can weave an invisible physical barrier around the town. It would be very similar to the wards except that it would repel bullets and rockets and stuff instead of magic.”
    “And stuff?” West asked in a skeptical voice. “How can you know it will repel ‘stuff’ if you don’t know what that stuff is?”
    Hannah shrugged. “I don’t know. We just know we can do it.”
    “You said all six of you,” Brody said, his arms firmly around Ava, perhaps hoping to deter her from using her new blinking skill. “Kristen doesn’t seem to be an Oracle’s receptacle. She hasn’t shown any signs of ‘knowing’ or abilities out of the ordinary.”
    “Is it possible we missed one?” Nathan asked. “According to the birth certificates, Kristen was the seventh girl child to be born in that three-minute window.”
    Hannah looked a whole lot less confident now. “I don’t know if we missed one, but it feels like there should be six of us. Why else would Kristen have been heading to Sugarvale?”
    “Maybe she wasn’t,” Ava said, looking just as disturbed by Nathan’s question as Hannah did. “Kali, can you call your brother and get him to double-check the birth records? Someone is missing. We know there should be six of us.”
    “Is it possible I only sensed Kristen because she was a target of the assassins?” Hannah asked, looking rather concerned. It wasn’t like the woman to show emotions in front of others. She was a well-trained pediatric nurse, so her