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Archie stood. ‘Sure. I can always drink coffee.’
‘Nice to meet you, Jinx.’ Thea excused herself with a friendly smile and we watched the pair of them go off.
‘So?’ I asked. ‘Only the one sniff.’
‘Yeah,’ Jess agreed. ‘She only lied once.’ She hesitated.
‘What?’
‘Maybe I’m being unfair, but there’s still something off about her.’
‘Maybe it’s the fact that she can’t reach her wolf,’ I suggested.
‘Maybe,’ Jess agreed.
‘Do you think I shouldn’t accept her into the pack?’
‘I don’t know. It’s your call. She was telling the truth when she said that Becket was controlling and violent towards her, and that she thought Ace was an asshole.’ Jess paused. ‘Did you notice that she spoke about Ace in the past tense? She knows he’s dead.’
‘Yes, I caught that. Apparently Beckett tried to scry for Ace, so he already knows that he’s dead. The pack had a funeral for him.’
‘It’s good they’ve had closure, I guess.’
We can’t send Thea back to an alpha that hurts her. It’s not right.
Oh, so now you speak up. You were silent whilst she explained about the dark ones.My tone was accusatory.
Esme gave a soft whine in my head.It is forbidden to talk of it.
By the werewolf council?
Not just them.She turned around in my mind and went silent once more. What on earth was Esme afraid of?
Chapter 28
Iftherewasacurse flying about that affected werewolves, I needed to know about it. One witch came to mind, so I dialled Amber DeLea and put her on speakerphone so Jess could hear the conversation.
‘What?’ Amber answered, her tone distinctly harried.
‘I need to pick your brains about curses.’
‘Just once it would be nice if someone rang me to chat.’
‘Oh, sorry. How are you?’
‘It doesn’t work when I already know that you’re ringing to talk about curses. What do you want?’
‘The witches cast a curse on the werewolves a couple of hundred years ago, and it turned any werewolf that was feral into a gargoyle. The curse is still active. How do I break it?’
There was a beat of silence. ‘Youdon’t,’ Amber said finally. ‘To break a curse, you need some restricted ingredients that are strictly controlled by the Connection and only provided to a handful of witches. Not to mention that you also need the blood of one of the witches who was present at the time the curse was cast. It’s one of the reasons witches are reluctant to cast a curse, because ultimately it paints a target onourbacks. It’s not something we do lightly. But in this case, the witches who cursed the wolves into gargoyles are long dead.’
‘By all accounts, there were a lot of witches behind this curse.’
‘Yes, but it was two hundred years ago, give or take, and the gargoyles massacred the witches for it.’
‘You can hardly blame them. They were trying to lift the curse.’
‘If they’d spoken to a witch at the time, they would have known that wasn’t the way to go about it.’
