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Red collapsed against him, staggering Sky back a couple of steps to get his balance again. “Thank you. Thank you so much,” Red panted in his ear.
He patted Red’s shoulder a few times. “Don’t worry. I know some of the wolves. They’re good people. They’ll get Damon headed in the right direction.”
“Sky? Is Red hurt?” Nolan called out. The rustling through the brush grew louder in Nolan’s rush.
He lowered his flashlight so he didn’t blind the poor man as he got closer. “He’s okay. Just worried and exhausted.”
As Nolan came to stand with them, he dropped his light to the ground. “It’ll be all right. We’ll get Damon back safely. Why don’t we start for the house? We’ll call for him. Maybe he’s worn himself out and willing to return on his own.”
Sky wasn’t so sure Damon’s human brain was going to be able to overcome scared piggy instincts, but maybe they’d get lucky.
Red nodded and straightened, releasing Sky. “Yeah, I’m sure Damon is more than ready to be human again.” The earth witch turned toward Moon’s house and trudged slowly through the woods while both Sky and Nolan held up their flashlights to guide him. As they walked, they shouted for Damon, hoping their voices would draw him to them and out of the woods. Not that Sky really expected it to work.
His stomach was still in knots. The wolves knew that the pig was a human, but were they in complete control of their wolf during a full moon? Was there a big chance of an accident?
Sky mentally flinched.Please let Damon come back to them on his own.This was not how his rescue was supposed to go. It was bad enough that he’d run afoul of a wicked witch boyfriend but to get eaten by a werewolf while stuck as a pig was even worse.
A soft, small rustling as they reached the edge of the woods and the house came into view slowed Sky’s steps. He stopped and turned, sweeping the beam over the brush, trying to locate the source of the noise while his heart leaped into his throat. All this time he’d been worried about a pig in the woods with a bunch of wolves. He forgot to worry about being a yummy human target to a pack of dangerous predators.
“What did you hear?” Nolan inquired. His light joined Sky’s in the search.
Just when Sky was about to brush off the noise as the wind or maybe a rabbit, he heard a very soft grunt and saw a flat snout poke out from under some bright-green leaves.
“Damon!”
He kneeled and an exhausted pig stumbled out to him only to sort of collapse in Sky’s open arms. Sky tried to lift him up, but his knees immediately repliedNo!He dropped to the ground with a chuckle. That was fine. Red was on Damon in the next heartbeat, wrapping him up and cradling him against his chest. The witch cooed sweet things to him, calling him a good pig and other things. Sky cleared his throat to hold down his laugh. It sounded as if Red had forgotten that Damon was really a human.
Of course, after the scare he’d suffered, there was a good chance Damon didn’t give one fuck whether Red treated him like a pig or a baby, just so long as he was safe.
Red held the pig tight in his arms and started back for the house. Sky planted a hand on the ground and prepared to push himself up. A hand appeared in front of his face. He followed it up a long arm to a strong shoulder to a beautiful smiling man.
“Aren’t you all chivalrous?” Sky teased as he placed his hand in Nolan’s. The wonderful man pulled hard, lifting him up so that his tired legs didn’t have to do quite so much.
But it wasn’t enough to just be standing. No, Nolan kept pulling until Sky landed right against his chest and the other arm closed around him.
“I think the star of tonight is you. Not only did you save Maddox from a purple fungus and rescue a damsel in distress, but you also saved a pig.”
What began as a little giggle soon grew out of control. He leaned nearly all of his weight on Nolan as they both laughed themselves silly. Everything about this night had been an utter disaster. No one could have predicted this insanity even if they’d taken into account the full moon.
Yet the only thing that mattered was the laughing man against him with the most wonderful arms.
Holding Nolan by his waist, Sky tipped his head up. “Can I request a do-over?”
Sky’s eyes had adjusted to the darkness enough that he could just make out Nolan’s brow furrowing at his question. “What do you mean?”
“Can this date not count in the two dates I’ve been allotted for my prior rescuing services?”
“No. Not a chance.”
“But—”
Nolan shook his head. “This has easily been the best date of my life. There’s no way in the world I’m ever pretending this wasn’t our first date. It was unpredictable and exciting. I learned so many new things. Met new people. And I got to be with you the entire time. How could I not love this date?”
If Sky could have melted more into this man, he would have. No one would have been able to pry them apart. They would be one big squishy blob of happiness.
“I don’t understand. You said you wanted a quiet, no-magic date.”
Nolan’s fingertips grazed his cheek, sending little goose bumps down his arms. “I said that right after getting free of a vampire who’d turned me into his pet. And that was after sending my brother across the country to escape more vampires. My introduction to this world was all violence, death, and danger. I wasn’t ready to be overwhelmed again.” Nolan’s gentle fingers continued to stroke across Sky’s cheekbone and along his jaw. “Tonight you showed me that there is a fun side to your world. There are exciting new things that I want to experience because I’m not worried about these people trying to kill me.”
