.Chapter 21-3
“I’ve thought about it,” I said. “But I don’t know how to make it last once it’s separated from me.
The moment I stop touching someone, the effect fades.”
“Hmm. Maybe we need to think outside the box,” Saul mused. “What if instead of trying to preserve your energy, we found a way to disrupt the magical matrix of the poison itself?”
“You mean create a spell that specifically targets this type of enhancement?”
“Exactly. We’d need a witch for that, though. Someone powerful enough to understand the original
spell work.”
I thought about Lunessa, the elusive witch that used to belong to the Darkwyn coven, one, if not the most, powerful coven in the mountain. Where the hell was she? No one has been able to find her for the past three months, and I’d started to worry, though this type of disappearance wasn’t uncommon for her. Damn her free spirit. Not even the tracking spells were working to locate her, which I knew was driving my mother insane. Lunessa was her cousin, her last blood-related family
she had left.
“We’ll figure it out,” Saul said confidently, interrupting my train of thoughts to glance at me with concern. “How are you feeling, by the way? Any more morning sickness?”
“Not since you gave me the tonic,” I said gratefully. “It’s a damn miracle.”
“Good. And the other symptoms? Fatigue, mood swings? We need to do general exams soon, to
see how your little bean is growing.”
I nodded and gave him a look. “I think my mood swings have more to do with the stress of everything that’s going on than pregnancy hormones.”
Saul nodded sympathetically. “Have you given any more thought to what you’ll do when the baby
comes? About telling people who the father is?”
“I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it,” I said, not wanting to think about how complicated everything was going to get once my pregnancy became obvious. Luckily, it still wasn’t, and I could attend the meeting without needing to worry about being discovered by every single alpha in
attendance.
Elonso, alpha of OakFur Pass, had been the first alpha to arrive to our pack, a whole week earlier
than the scheduled meeting. No one questioned why, though. We all knew the reason: Janelle. The
witch and Elonso had been on and off for as long as I’d been alive, and I’d never understand their dynamics. There was a lot of baggage between them, but it was pretty obvious to anyone with eyes that the two of them loved each other deeply.
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The second alpha to arrive was London, of Snake River Pack, three days ago. He’d been going from pub to pub making sure no one was lacking his signature Snake River beer. The man took his brewing seriously, and his pack had some of the best alcohol on the mountain.
Today we were expecting the third and final alpha, and I was, for the first time in months, actually excited about the prospect. Finn, the Indigo Peak Pack alpha, was the coolest man I knew. He’d rebuilt his entire pack from scratch when he first started his role and earned the loyalty of every single member, which was not easy, giving the small detail that it was his mother the one who’d tried to kill them all. No one knew exactly how he’d managed it, but he was a legend.
Hell, he’d been my first crush. The man was in his late forties and mated to the cutest woman, Amelia, but that hadn’t stopped my younger self from looking at him with heart-shaped eyes. Dash shared my opinion, seeing as he’d been at Indigo Peak for months now. But today they were coming here, and my brother was finally coming home.
As if I’d summoned him, my phone dinged with a notification. I practically sprinted outside when I read the message from my brother: “Meeting room.”
They were finally here.
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