AN ALLIANCE

“Margo!” Sheila shouted when she saw Margo step into the sitting room.

Nathan had communicated to her through their mind path that they had found two witches by name Keturah and Tempest. At first, she had thought that her mate was pranking her-it was one of his attributes-but then Peter had confirmed it. And since then she had been sitting at the edge of her seat, waiting for their arrival.

It took her a minute while she was hurrying to meet and hug her old friend to notice that the latter was carrying Eva at her back, to notice that Eva was cocooned in a ball of energy.

She would think about that later. She had decided right before she flung her hands around Margo’s neck, embracing the witch tightly to herself, knowing that it was magic that was keeping Eva in place, and not Margo’s hands.

“I thought you were dead.”

“Well, I would have been if Ketura didn’t come to save me from Leonarya’s dungeon.”

Sheila looked aside then, to see the lady who had been the prodigy of Tempest at