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Bishop’s brows knitted together as he thought.
“It doesn’t make sense that I wouldn’t heal,” he muttered. “Something about Turk’s magic didn’t feel right.”
I blinked at him. “Turkdid this?!”
Bishop gave me a recap of the night’s events.
“What was he so upset about?” I asked after he’d detailed the attack.
Bishop hesitated. “He wants to mate you.”
“Excuse me?” Confusion set in. I hardly knew Turk.
“I made a deal with Dario that he would give me a spell done by a fae that works with him. But in order to get access to this spell, I have to arrange for a mate for Turk that will up his power, too.”
I frowned. “And he wantedme?”
Bishop nodded. “He attacked me because I refused.”
I shook my head. It was a lot to wrap my mind around. The deal Bishop had made, the fact that Turk had attacked him. Turk, being in plain sight when I’d been looking for him all this time was another baffling event. What the hell was going on?
My mind turned back to the deal.
“What is the spell for?” I asked.
Bishop glanced at me. “More power.”
“For what?”
“So that I can keep my people safe. I can’t let what happened before, with my dad, happen again. The pack depends on me, and they deserve my protection.”
“You’re looking after them, Bishop,” I said. “You don’t need a spell for that.”
Bishop didn’t answer me, and I studied him. He feared that history would repeat itself, but he was so against dark magic, I didn’t see how it could.
“Something’s wrong with Turk’s power,” Bishop added, stroking his chin. “Not only was he a lot stronger than he’s been pretending to be, the part where I didn’t heal… that’s dangerous. I can’t put my finger on what it is, though. It’s like nothing I’ve felt before.”
I was still stuck on the part where Turk had wanted me.
“Why do you think he asked to have me?” I asked. “It’s not that I’m a part of the pack. The power that he’ll get—”
“Won’t take away from me as alpha. It will affect Colter more, I imagine,” Bishop said, finishing my sentence for me. “I didn’t think he had an agenda at first, but the more I think about it, the more I think that was the plan. He wants to make a move on Colter’s power.”
I shook my head. “That doesn’t make any sense.”
“You’re very powerful, Rory,” Bishop said. “I felt it from the start. You have the kind of power that will make a man more than the sum of his parts, and that’s something every shifter would want. In our world, it’s always about power over all. Even love. In that regard, I understand where Turk is coming from, and why he would wantyou.He’s been like that since the moment he got back—all about power. It was different than before.”
I narrowed my eyes. “What do you mean, since he got back?”
“From New York,” Bishop said.
That pulled me up short. “You’ve been talking to him since then?”
“I told you that I saw him,” Bishop tried to explain.
“Not right away!” I countered. “You only recently told me, when you knew for much longer that finding him was my whole purpose for being here.”
“I didn’t know where he was when we first met. I learned about where he was soon after your arrival.”
