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Hekate.
Knowing she won’t stop until I answer, I put the phone to my ear. “Hello?”
“Where the fuck have you been?” Hekate barks into the phone, her words and tone immediately making me feel small.
“I was—”
“We’ve been trying to contact you for the last three hours,” she snaps, not bothering to wait for my explanation. “Do you have any idea how much has been happening? Shit’s going down and you need to get here as soon as possible.”
“But I—” I try again, but in her usual fashion, she cuts me off again.
“I’ll text you the address. Be there in thirty minutes tops,” Hekate orders, then hangs up without a word of goodbye.
I stare at my phone in disbelief for the longest of moments before I roll my eyes. “Hi, sister, long time no talk. How have you been?” I mutter under my breath in a mocking voice. “Good, thanks. I’ve actually been on a work trip that I would love to tell you more about. Oh really—”
“You okay?” Jessica asks, snapping me out of my mumbled monologue.
My eyes dart to hers, my brows furrowing. “Huh?”
“You’ve been talking to yourself,” Jessica points out, a hint of worry in her voice. “Everything okay?”
“Is it Grayden?” Melissa asks before I can reply to Jessica’s question. “Because I don’t buy your story about him being called to work.”
“Same,” Jessica agrees with Melissa. “You’ve been moping around ever since we’ve left San Francisco. Talk to us, girl. What’s up?”
It’s not like I can tell them that I’m a witch and that my sister, who apparently happens to be the most fearsome leader in New York City, has summoned me for what I’m sure is a war council. No, I really can’t tell them that.
My other choice is to go with the second option that they’ll accept. I have to speak their language and have a girl talk, which is also a lie because I can’t just come out and say that I might be falling in love with a wolf. Not just any wolf, but one that comes from a powerful royal lineage.
“We had a disagreement,” I say, looking for words to tell them just enough to keep them at bay while at the same time don’t go into too much detail. In this case, vagueness is the key.
“What about?” Jessica asks as I suspected she would.
“About our families,” I offer, then continue as I follow a train of thought that can just take me to safety. “We realized that he used to date my sister.”
“Awkward,” Melissa mouths, and I nod.
“Is that why Hekate called you?” Jessica asks, not missing anything.
“Yeah,” I lie. “I had to tell her because, you know, family comes first.”
“Sisters before misters,” Melissa agrees and pumps her fist in the air.
“No way, I don’t agree with that,” Jessica argues, throwing a look at Melissa who puts her hand down. “We all know how fragile life is, right? I mean, we see it on a daily basis. With the tempo that the world’s keeping nowadays, and with the job that we do, it’s a miracle that we even have a minute to catch a breath, much less meet anyone. That’s why it’s important that when we do find happiness, we hold on to it with everything we have.”
“But Hekate...” I try to insist, but Jessica shakes her head, so I trail off.
“I don’t know your sister, but I know you,” Jessica tells me. “You’ve done a lot for her. You’ve sacrificed more than you’ve probably ever told us. It’s time that you put yourself first. It’s time for you to be happy.”
“Jessica’s right,” Melissa agrees. “We’ve known you a long time, and we can both say with one hundred percent certainty that we’ve never seen you as happy as you were yesterday with Grayden by your side.”
I need to put this to rest before they unknowingly get us all into gigantic trouble. The problem is that I can’t exactly say anything bad about Grayden to get them to hate him, because even though he’s a wolf, I actually believe he could be one of the good ones.
“I should talk to Hekate first to clear things up,” I tell them, bailing myself out like a coward. “In fact, I might as well grab a taxi to see her right away.”
“That’s a good idea,” Melissa tells me. “The sooner you get that over with, the sooner you can call Grayden.”
“Call us if you need anything,” Jessica says and leans forward to give me a hug before we all depart from the plane. They insist on taking my suitcase, which I’m grateful for because, with everything that’s going on, I’m worried that I’d lose it somewhere along the way.
