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Her words kicked off a round of coughing.
Axel looked over at the rune wizard.
The wizard scowled but stepped up to the truck’s door, withdrawing the long, thin dagger that all witches and wizards used for drawing runes. There were runes specifically created for protecting things from demon flames, so I knew the rune wouldn’t affect the truck negatively.
He quickly traced the rune onto the side of the truck, the tip of the knife just a fraction of an inch from the vehicle’s door. There was no visible sign of the rune settling in, but I knew there wouldn’t be.
Axel probablydidn’tknow that, though. So when the wizard finished, I stepped past him and jumped smoothly up onto the seat, showing him that it was now safe.
“Thanks, Egan.” Axel handed him the keys to Iris’s car—a ten-year-old Honda Civic with white paint.
The bodyguard looked surprised by the gratitude, and dipped his head before he asked, “We’re headed to Moon Ridge?”
“To the eastern edge of it,” Axel confirmed. “I don’t have my phone to send you the location, but you can follow me.”
“The council doesn’t allow phones in Mist Valley, anyway. I’ll stay close.”
With that, Egan strode over to Iris’s car, struggling to climb in because of his height and muscles. He had light brown skin and thick curls cropped close to his head, and was hot, but… now that I’d seen Axel, I was pretty damn biased in favor of anyone who looked like him.
Or maybe justhim.
He had been created for me though, if one were to believe mate theory. Which not all mysts did.
Now that I’d seen him, maybe I was one of them, though.
Then again, mate theory would also require me to believe that I was made to become a hybrid, which sounded like bullshit.
So…
Well, I didn’t know what to believe.
There would be time to worry about that later though.
Axel pulled out of the parking lot, following the same roads I’d taken to get to my apartment on the way in.
Was that really earlier in the same day?
Shit, it was.
We now had plenty of money, which meant food.
So much food.
I’d buy real pasta, and drown myself in actual spaghetti until I couldn’t move.
My stomach growled loudly at the idea, and Axel’s jaw got all clenchy again. His fists turned white on the steering wheel.
What the hell was his problem?
The truck was uncomfortably silent as he made it to the border of town. The guards at the gate peered inside, and when they saw me—a flaming wolf—their eyes widened and they waved us through quickly. Axel warned them that we had a rune witch following us out too, and they reluctantly agreed.
I would’ve corrected him about Egan being a rune wizard, not witch, but I couldn’t talk.
So I sat.
Rock music played from the radio as soon as we crossed the border, and I relaxed a little.
There was something incredibly freeing about being out of the valley and away from the rules and regulations—and fired from my shitty job.
