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The front door thumped as Nathan hit it, rattling the entire house. She focused, reminding herself that their pranks were the first line of defense in a deadly attack.
The door thumped again, and Aiden leaned against it. Buck joined him. The door wrenched free of its hinges, but with two men on one side and a wolf on the other, it stayed upright between them.
“Push it back, so mote it be,” she wrote desperately. The magic slithered away from her, and the entire house leaped on its foundation. “I didn’t mean the house!”
“Away they go, make it so!” Aiden shouted.
“You can’t useStar Trek, that’s cheating.”
“Say it!”
She did, and the wolves flew off the porch. Aiden grabbed Buck and the doorframe to keep from pitching after them. Buck pulled the next rope, and gallons of paint spattered over the fallen wolves.
“Away they go, make it so,” she repeated, forcing more strength into the spell. She was tiring fast. It turned out that casting a spell that actually worked took a lot of energy.
You have to last longer,she said to the insentient force.
Aiden’s wolf reared within him, answering her call.
“Not you!” she said desperately as Aiden’s wolf considered the remaining wolf on the porch with interest. Nathan was shaking, trying to get the paste out of his fur that was quickly drying.
“I didn’t bring green goo,” she said desperately.
Aiden’s wolf looked at her through his eyes.
“Don’t even think about it,” she told the beast, pouring all the love she had for the animal into her words.
Nathan reared up to attack. She looked around for another weapon. Buck was across the room. There was nothing to hand.
“Never mind!” she screamed as Nathan struck. The older wolf flew over Aiden’s head a millisecond after his shift, his jaws snapping on air where Aiden’s throat had been.
“Buck, now!” she shouted and let loose with more stinging bees as Aiden’s wolf struggled out of his jeans, and Nathan spun to attack again.
Buck pulled the last rope that dropped every pot from the kitchen from a fishing net below the chandelier, including a satisfying cast-iron pan that whacked Nathan directly in the face.
The old wolf landed in a pile of crockery, shaking its head as Aiden’s wolf crouched to finish the job. They were out of other weapons. She was out of spells.
Except…
She reached for the oldest spell she’d learned. “Illuminate me, so mote it be. As bright as the sun.” She channeled all her magic into the spell, but almost immediately, she felt it failing. It was bright but not weapon-bright.
Help, me.She reached for Aiden, but he was across the pile. She closed her eyes. They’d done this once before without touching.
I see you, she heard as his magic poured into her.
The light pulsed.
“Quick!” She curled into the fetal position to hide her eyes.
The light brightened and brightened as it took the last of their magic before it faded. She stood up to see a pile of wolves at the door, whining and in pain, and Nathan under Aiden.
“No, don’t!” she screamed at the wolf. With Aiden distracted helping her, his wolf had gone for the jugular.
She could feel the battle within him. The wolf wanted to close its jaws and end the threat to their mate. She felt Aiden clawing for control and losing.
She didn’t bother with words. She summoned a vision of her and him in this house with wolves all around them, unafraid. Nathan was nowhere to be seen.
The wolf hesitated. She was showing it everything it ever wanted. It had to heed her, or they would fear the wolf their entire lives. She whispered, “There for the taking.”
