Chapter 145: True Love's Kiss

“I have to kiss him?” Alyson asked, staring at Everly.

“That’s what Lexi said,” Everly told her. “She thinks it’s a sleeping spell, and that’s the only way to wake him up.”

Alyson’s expression didn’t change. “But what if she’s wrong, and that’s not what it is? What if I kiss him and nothing happens? Or what if I kiss him and something worse happens? Like I fall asleep? Or he turns into an… ogre or something?”

“I think you might be reading too much into this, sis,” Will said. He seemed to be enjoying watching his older sister squirm over the possibility of having to kiss a Nachtwolf to wake him up from a sleeping spell. “Just plant one on him already and see what happens.”

Alyson’s eyes traveled from the hallway where the three of them were standing back into the guest room where Slate had been taken when they’d carried him in. His parents were in the room with him, his mother wringing her hands with concern while her father rubbed her back and tried to keep her calm. The