The old healer puttered through her sick room and looked at Cliff’s throat. “Okay, try to speak. You look healed enough to start.”
Cliff’s voice sounded as dry as sandpaper over a rough log. “Testing” Grated out from his mouth.
“Excellent. I do not know why the Alpha thinks he can just drop both of you on me and expect me to look after two grown men who can look after themselves while they recover. But you might as well tell me what got you both here.”
“Some new wolf alpha attacked me when I had a little fun with Sapphire. Ivory told me no one cared what happened to her.”
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April felt torn between telling Hayden about the treaties and finding out what the wards were keeping them from. “This is so wrong. I’m not sure if there’s something wrong outside now. We’ll need to figure out why the wards need you to stay in here. But on a good note, I think I know what it’s about. If we fix that, it’ll let us out of here and then you just need to stay inside the library until whatever is outside is gone.” April looked sheepishly over her lunch at Hayden. “Again, I can’t say I’m sorry enough about this. The wards and such in the town are all connected to it’s… Well, for the lack of a better term life force. Because supernatural creatures settled it, it’s taken on a life of its own. Truthfully, it’s not been happy for a long time a
Ivory watched her mother sail into the sitting room, where Ivory took refuge in from her father and Lizzie’s snide comments about things someone just had to do. Her inference was that it was Ivory that must do them, but they were too far beneath her. So here was her mother in all her glory, looking down her nose at Ivory like she smelt something bad. Ivory was her only pup, and she’d always been her favourite person. Even her father played second to Ivory, which was greatly to his disliking. Ivory leant a long time ago that her parents had several long running issues that weren’t her problem. But when she needed to, she could use them to get her way by using those issues to distract her parents from what she was doing. “What are y
When the doorknob finally returned to the door and the feeling of being down the rabbit hole was over. “Are we sure we’re free, or are the wards teasing us with our freedom?” “Very funny. It’s not that how they work. Come on, before it finds something else to do for it.” Both sighed with relief when the door closed behind them, and they could see the way out of the basement. “Listen, I know it wasn’t your fault, and I’d like to thank you all your time today working on this.” Hayden gestured to the notes and his phone. “I need to get back to my territory with this.” “Yeah, well, it’s a little e
April walked to the front of the library and, sure enough. Xavier stood there in all his brooding authority, intimidating anyone that would come near him. April learned a long time ago Xavier was no one to her, no matter how pretty he was. The man’s soul was black as pitch. Yet another enforcer, or bully, as she called them. This one got the nickname of Trouble because he liked to cause so much of it. “What do you want, Xavier? I’m working.” If she didn’t get him to tell her upfront, she could end up wasting hours on him for nothing. “Just came to ask you if you’ve seen any new wolves in the area and warn you against sheltering someone that’s interfering in town business. It’s not wanted.”
Frank Kilburn, Alpha of the Vagas Moon Pack, fumed because for hours now his wolves tried to find some proof that he could use to push the Twilight Wolf Pack and their annoying leader out of a region before they discovered what he was doing. He needed the white wolf back, too. What he kept finding was incompetence from his people and the people within the town. He’d sent his people into town to find some reason to make a claim against them for breaking the peace or breaking some law, even a small one. The police came up as useless. They wouldn’t bring Sapphire back and didn’t have the decency to even ask her if she was there willingly or against her will. Now Frank needed to find a time when he could snatch her back. While he was broodi
Sapphire listened to Hayden speak from Magnus’ phone. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. This was completely unknown to her. She remembered no one telling her about this. They weren’t just messing with the pack, but the town to feel the ramifications of his orders. She knew her uncle and grandfather had both pushed packs out of the region over the years. But she thought it wasn’t fair, but something that happened. So packs could grow and such. Now it was clearly something that was very wrong. Magnus and Hayden seemed so angry about it. The discovery outraged them, but she couldn’t get over her, not knowing of her involvement in this. She’d predicted nothing about the goddess or from the goddess. Sapphire wasn’t even sure about how she was supposed to achieve that. &
Cliff left the healer’s cabin and the smelly sickroom. His throat was still bandaged, but he could mostly speak now. As he trudged to the packhouse in search of Ivory and his chance at taking this pack from Kilburn. Cliff didn’t know who he hated more right now. Kilburn for threatening to take any chance of him becoming Alpha here or McDonnell for putting him through the ringer for the honour of some pathetic, weak omega. She wasn’t even pretty or smart. The twit had nothing much going for her. They forced Cliff to search out Ivory and he found her cursing the washing machine for some such misdemeanour against a load of laundry. She was all but crying at it in her frustration and anger. “What do you want? Can’t you see I’m busy?” “Yes, how is dying everything pink going for you?” Cliff stifled a laugh when he spotted a load of clothing in a basket with a distinct hue of pink instead of white. “Shut up. I think Sapphire booby trapped the washer
Sapphire heard Magnus’ steps on the stairs leading from the second floor. So she left her cold coffee on the table and walked out into the lobby to ask him more about what was happening with the meeting. What she didn’t expect was to look up the stairs and not recognize the man walking toward her. His eyes were pinned on her and she could see the amusement in them. She thought he’d go upstairs to take off his dusty clothes from riding his bike most of the morning. Now she felt dirty, but there wasn’t time to change. However, Sapphire didn’t think anyone would look at her if he was in the room with her. His hair was slicked back from his shower, and he wore a three-piece grey suit with a blue-grey coloured tie. He’d exchanged his boots for a pair of leather shoes. She didn’t see a single wrinkle anywhere on him. He was so impeccably dressed. Magnus fiddled with what she was sure was a gold cuff link that matched the gold watch on his wrist. Magnus claimed he was out