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“Hey,” he says quietly. “Are you okay?”
I wince as she starts to wake up. She moves jerkily up into a sitting position on the branch, and blinks at us with wide eyes. Her hair is fire-engine red and she’s wearing a black and white dress. She definitely wasn’t trying to blend in with the scenery, that’s for sure.
“What the …” she starts, trailing off when she realizes we’re naked. “Oh.Oh, Ilikethis dream.”
“I hate to disappoint you, but you’re not dreaming,” I tell her.
“You’re sure?” she asks. “Because this looks exactly like my kind of dream.”
Her gaze moves over my body slowly, never quite making it back to my face.
“We’re sure,” Carter tells her with a hint of a grin. He’s enjoying this. Of course he is.
“We have a mate,” I inform her, feeling a little objectified by this woman’s stare. “We were just checking if you were okay because you seemed to be injured.”
“Oh,” she says, sighing loudly. “Why are the hot guys always taken? That’s rhetorical, by the way, before you tell me it’s because of the hot girls who claim them.”
She dusts off her dress and drops down from the branch.
“Are you hurt?” Carter asks.
“Only my pride,” she tells him, shooting a glance down his body this time. “I’ll have to remember that finding naked guys in the woods doesn’talwaysmean free sex.”
“There’s blood on the tree trunk,” I tell her.
“Oh, that’s not mine.” She laughs. “I use blood in my spells when I’m low on resources. That little number hid me from sight. At least, until it didn’t. Kind of strange, but whatever. I’m all napped out now anyway.”
“I can see magic, sometimes,” Carter reveals, his cheeks going pink.
He’s lying, clearly. He probably heard her thoughts or saw her dream or something.
“How does that spell work?” I ask.
“It’s a simple one. Makes the branch and anything on it invisible. Until someone bumps into it or looks directly at it. I guess if you guys’ sensed magic and looked directly at it, you broke my spell.”
She doesn’t seem mad about it. She still looks disappointed that we weren’t sent to entertain her in her dream. The dress she’s wearing is covered in leaves and twigs that she starts picking out with a sigh. “Lace really was not the best choice for today.”
“Well, we should get moving,” I say, nodding at Carter.
She might seem nice, but she’s capable of magic.
We don’t know why she’s out here, but people don’t typically hang out in the woods after dark with the best of intentions. Shifters on midnight runs, not included.
“You guys are wolves, right?” she asks.
“Got it in one,” Carter says.
“I seriously need to find some unmated shifters,” she murmurs. “You guys are on fire. Damn. I could use a cold shower.”
“There’s a creek a few miles back,” Carter tells her. “It’s pretty fucking cold.”
She laughs. “No thanks. Natural running water gives me the fear. I was traumatised by the witch trials in my high school history class. I wouldn’t go near a creek or whatever if you paid me a million dollars.”
She puts her hand into a pocket, and I give Carter a pointed look.
He frowns at me and shakes his head.
She brings out a nutbar and looks at us. “Neither of you are allergic, right?”
