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“I know. And that’s why I’m not angry.” She sighed. “You make her happy. And you’re glowing too. That’s all I want. I want her to be happy, and I just wish we knew how to . . .” She closed her eyes and shook her head.
“Clare, we will save her.” I put down my cup. “We still have time, and we will find the loophole.”
“I’ve been looking for it for years. There’s a reason they call this a curse, Finn.”
“You were alone and scared. You have me now. And I’ll do everything I can to help her survive. And I have an idea. I gave Spencer a bracelet. I don’t know if you saw it, but—”
“Yeah, she showed it to me.” She looked at me with her watering eyes. “There are symbols on it, but I don’t know what their combination means.”
“They’re meant to suppress the magical powers. When my grandmother was young, she couldn’t control her magic. So her mother gave her that bracelet to stop her from blowing things up. Like I said before, we can’t remove any of Spencer’s powers, but if we could make her magic weaker, then maybe her wolf would be able to overcome the witch. Though I’m afraid the bracelet alone wouldn’t be enough, and she will most definitely lose it while turning. But I think that’s the way to go.”
“I need to look at the symbols again.” There was a spark of hope in her eyes. “I’ll have to do some research to figure out how they work, then maybe we could put them on something bigger that can stay on during the transition. Like a long necklace. But just putting them together on some other object wouldn’t do the trick. There must be some incantation, or spell that goes with them.”
“Come with me.”
I led her to the library. From one of the top shelves, I pulled out a few journals with old, dusty bindings.
“Those are my ancestors' grimoires.” I put them on top of the other books on the table in front of the couch. “Maybe you’ll find something here.”
Clare sat down, opened one of them, and carefully turned a few withered creamy pages.
“Yeah,” she muttered under her breath. “If they made the bracelet themselves, they could’ve left notes.” She looked up at me. “Thank you.”
“I would help you, but if we leave Spencer alone, she’d wonder what we are up to. Maybe if we told her what we’re looking for, she could—”
“No.”
“We could just say that it might help her during the shift.”
“No. She’ll start asking questions . . . and . . .” Looking startled, she pointed both her hands at the grimoires. “What if there’s something in there she doesn't need to know? Go. I’ll join you for breakfast then you could take her for a walk or something.”
Clare was right. She was scared that Spencer could come across some information about the curse or Great Alpha, which was possible. I haven’t read all the grimoires, so I didn’t know what to expect.
“Okay. I’ll keep her away from here.”
* * *
SPENCER
I came downstairs and followed the mixed smell of fresh coffee and frying bacon to the kitchen.
“So no cereal?” I beamed.
Finn, who was cutting bread, dropped the knife and moved toward me.
“I decided to release you from all that hard work.” He smirked. “Come here.” He pulled me into his arms, brushed his fingers through my hair, and gave me a gentle kiss. Then he looked down at my short, sleeveless sand-colored dress and raised a brow. “I love it.”
I beamed again and kissed him in return.
“Where’s Mom?”
“She’s in the library.” He led me to the table and drew a chair for me. “Sit.” Then he added a few slices of bacon to the plate with fried eggs in front of me and glanced at the toaster on the island behind him. “Toast is coming up. I’ll go get Clare.”
I picked up the glass of orange juice next to my plate and took a few gulps, and as I took a bite from the bacon, Mom’s hands laid on my shoulders.
“Hi, honey.” She planted a kiss on the top of my head and sank into the chair next to me. “Everything smells so good.”
“I know.” I glanced at Finn, who took a seat across from us. “You are too good at this being a host thing.”
