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“Oh?” Mrs. Winters asks, looking at me as if she expects me to pull a half-dead rabbit out of my metaphorical hat. This woman absolutely hates me. There’s no redeeming that kind of opinion. I might as well double down. Here goes nothing.
“Paul!” I call out, casting my spell with that one invocation word and a very concentrated burst of magic aimed at Adrian who I can sense is with Silas in the kitchen.
The spell will do its thing before it brings him to my side.
I look back at our unwelcome visitors.
“I know you don’t want to spend time in the company of wolves, but I need to tell you, it’s not possible to speak with your son and be away from shifters at the same time. Not anymore.”
Adrian’s footsteps make me turn. I purposely don’t look at his face. I can barely stand to think about Paul anymore. Focusing on what he looked and sounded like for long enough to create this super-charged glamour was difficult enough. “Paul, sweetheart, there you are! Your parents are here.”
I grasp his arm and pull him forward.
“Uh, hey,” Adrian murmurs, in Paul’s voice but not really sounding like him.
Mrs. Winters lets out a gasp. “Paul. It’s really you! But … But, why?”
“You ran off on your fiancé to come here with this cheap little floozy,” Mr. Winters says, sounding angry but still looking kind of like he’s bored out of his damned mind. “Explain yourself.”
“Rachel is not a cheap little floozy,” Adrian snaps, sounding way more like Paul. “And anyone who would dare insult my mate like that is not welcome in our home.”
I fight back a shudder at the declaration coming out in the voice of my awful ex.
Carter holds me closer, keeping me steady. His soothing touch keeps me from falling apart.
I pull enough strength back to glare at Paul’s parents one last time.
“You heard him,” I tell them, my voice stony. “Leave.”
“I will not!” his mother exclaims. “He’s leaving with us. I’ve had enough of this nonsense.”
She reaches out to touch his arm, and Adrian growls like a monster.
It’s way beyond his regular sexy man sound and into something much more vicious.
She stares at him as if she’s just noticing that he’s really a shifter. “No. It can’t be true. You despise shifters. You would never …”
“I would, and I have. You don’t get to choose who I marry. I do.”
The sad thing is, it’s something Paul should have said to them when he was still alive. He talked about the marriage they were in the process of arranging for his future all the time. It pissed him off. It’s probably why he found younger girls to sneak around with. That must have been so much easier for him than actually communicating with his parents.
“Guess who won’t be invited to the wedding?” I ask his mother, raising an eyebrow at her.
“I always knew you were trash,” she snaps at me. “Your mother tried to hide it, but I saw right through it.”
“He’s a shifter,” his father mumbles suddenly, as if it just hit him and he can’t believe it.
Goddess, this is rough. It was a dumb idea. I should have just told the truth.
Too late now. Gotta hope turning their kid into the species they consider the lowest of the low will be enough to make them walk away. If they disown him forever, this problem dies right here.
“You should leave,” I tell them. “There’s nothing for you here.”
They look at each other before they vanish, teleporting home to scrub this encounter from their minds, I hope. I close the door and Adrian bolts it.
I close my eyes and whisper Paul’s name to break the spell.
When I open them again, my Alpha looks like himself.
