054 | You're not the scallywag - she is!

Stephen’s POV

“Hyacinth?” I murmured, going to reach for her but thinking better of it and stopping myself short.

“Come on,” she said again, her tone unnaturally steely. “We need those herbs. I’ve drawn a map of our territory and set it by the candle. We should have everything we need now.”

I swallowed down further attempts to make whatever I’d done wrong right and sat down opposite her, with the yellow candle between us. There was a carefully drawn map of the Night Wind pack’s territory beneath it, too, as well as a small glass bowl to the right of the candle, and a box of matches to its left.

Hyacinth didn’t say anything until I started to lift the herbs. “Tip them into the glass bowl,” she muttered, refusing to look at me. What the heck had I done?

Brian’s voice was unusually sympathetic. ‘Marcella said you needed good intentions for this spell to work, did she not, my boy? It might be best to put your disagreement, whatever it was, to one side and focus on bringing spring back to