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“Wow, maybe it’s better you don’t speak today. And it’s not just sex-related, but about how I feel.”
So you were super horny yesterday?
“Whatever. You know it’s normal to have those feelings, especially around three hunks.” I took a bundle of hair and dipped the tips into the water just as an explosion detonated behind me. The ground trembled, and I fell forward, my hands and half my hair falling in. But my heart slammed into my sternum, and I jumped up, turning around.
Rubble scattered all over the room, sunlight drenching the place, as if someone had peeled the roof off.What the hell?I reached for my knife at on my belt and stepped closer in slow motion, my head poking out first.
The gargoyle stood in the gaping hole it had created in the wall. The enormous stone creature was glaring my way with its square shoulders, long arms, and trunk-like legs.
I pulled back fast and died a little as my insides turned to ice. My breaths refused to budge because my worst nightmare had returned. How? Vanore had said the spell would free me from the gargoyle. Reed had given up his fucking lion for this. Dread numbed my brain. I twitched, tears swimming in my eyes. This couldn’t be happening.
Heavy footfalls hit the floor, and I backed into the farthest corner of the bathroom. Fear slammed into me.
The creature filled the doorway, its shoulders rubbing the frame as it pushed inside.
I screamed. In a rush, it stormed closer and seized me by both shoulders. I struggled and kicked, shoving against the creature, but I might as well have been battling a boulder. It dragged me across the floor, and I stumbled to keep up.
“Please don’t do this. I’m—”
We flew out of the room through the hole in the wall, claws digging into my shoulders. The pain stung, but having him come for me fucking killed me. I writhed as the town below me was a swarm of activity. Several people swam across the river and darted into the woods. And just as we approached the bridge, my attention focused on the commotion. I gasped. My men faced a pack of half a dozen animals—panthers, lions, foxes, and wolves—encircling the gate to the city. The white-haired man stood proud, Faye by his side.
Anger surged through me because no way in hell would my men survive this.
“Run. Leave,” I bellowed as we flew fifteen feet above them.
The men glanced up, and their eyes morphed into discs as they spotted my plight.
My hair fluttered around me, over my face and head. Higher still, the strands coiled into corded ropes, as they had yesterday. The sections I’d wet were alive, and they struck the gargoyle. There had been more shampoo still in my hair.
“Take it down,” I yelled as we passed the group below. The dreadlock limbs shot constricted around the gargoyle’s face, covering its eyes. We swayed in the air, my stomach swishing about. But when my locks looped around the gargoyle’s wings, heaving them together behind its back, we started dropping midair.
I yelled as the ground raced toward us. The creature hissed, its claws slackening. I shoved myself away from it and slammed into a perfectly-positioned mass of bushes. My back spasmed, and I stung all over from the branches stabbing me. The ground shook from the gargoyle striking the ground close by.
When I stared at the creature, hatred riled through me, and the hair tightened over it.
Groaning, I staggered upright, ready to kiss Gage for his insane shampoo gift. Golden hair wound over the creature, binding its wings and legs. And no matter how much it fought, it wasn’t moving. After all, my hair was unbreakable.
But this also meant I remained stuck in this fucking conundrum, locked near the creature while I kept it contained.
I glared toward Faye and White Venom, who remained near the river. Across the bridge stood my three men, and they already crept toward us. And for the life of me, I had no clue what to do next. I hadn’t planned to show myself.
Faye and White Venom strolled toward me, the animals in their slavery parting for them to pass.
I lifted my chin, when in truth, I trembled in my boots. Around me, half my hair fluttered in the air, strewing across the ground because it hadn’t gotten wet, but if it had been, I might have had an additional arsenal. Now where was the rain when I needed it? Instead, the skies sparkled without a cloud in sight.
“I made a mistake,” Faye called out. “I figured you’d stay put, but I can see you’re a lot more devious than I gave you credit for.”
“Yes, that’s me. So how about we call it a day and we part ways?” I stood proud of myself for having escaped my tower at night for years without her detection.
White Venom chuckled, but nothing about the sound was hilarious. It covered me in shivers—and not the good kind.
“I want her tied up, shackled to the wall so she never escapes again.” He growled down at Faye, and she nodded, as if fearful of him. Why would a powerful witch cower before a shifter?
When he lifted Faye’s chin with a thumb and stroked her cheek, I watched the way she stared into his eyes. That wasn’t someone scared… nope. Someone smitten. Shit, she loved that monster? Had they been together all these years?
And studying their happy moment had me quivering with rage. They had no right, not with the chaos they brought upon people. They’d locked me up for thirteen fucking years so her lover boy could remain strong through my magical hair.
“You both disgust me.” My words poured out just as I spotted Gage, wings wide, lifting into the air carrying a wooden barrel, water splashing out the side. Fuck, we were so perfect together because they knew what I needed. Kahlo was in animal form, huge, and together with Reed, they snuck up behind the shifters too busy watching me.
