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Rune walked in behind them and gave me a pointed look.
“What happened?” I demanded right away.
“We’re okay,” Danna said. “Emmie and I are going to bake cookies.”
She and Emmie left from the entrance hall where I stood, staring at Rune.
He gestured toward the formal living room downstairs.
“Emmie lost control of her magic,” he said. “She was in the park, playing with two other kids, and one of them shoved her. The boy didn’t know what hit him. She shoved him back, and her magic was suddenly everywhere, like a giant cloud, wrapping itself around them all.”
“What?” I asked, confused. That didn’t sound anything like what I’d thought I would hear. “You weren’t attacked?”
“Well, we were,” Rune said. “But I think her magic drew them.”
“Her magic can’t have been that strong,” I said, shaking my head. “She’s a half-blood.”
Rune shook his head. “I know what a half-blood feels like, Wesley. She’s nothing near a half-blood. She needs help.”
I shook my head, trying to put the facts together. Emmie wasn’t a half-blood, but Danna was human. How could that be?
“You said you were attacked,” I said.
Rune shook his head. “It’s not exactly like that. It was more like a pending attack, or apotentialattack. I guess that’s a better word. The shifters in the area were all drawn to the park where the magic was like a live being. She doesn’t have a dragon yet, Wesley, but she might as well have had one. There were pack members, but there was trouble, too.”
“And they all came for her?” I asked.
“Her magic called them. I can’t describe it to you without you having seen it, Wes. All I can tell you is that you need help with this one. She’s nothing like anything we’ve seen before.”
Someone cleared their throat behind us, and we both spun around. Circe stood in the archway that led to the formal living room.
“I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but I couldn’t help it,” she said.
“This is a private conversation,” I said tightly. I didn’t need the fae in my business.
“I can help,” she said. “With her control issues, and with your… discretion issues.”
“What?” I asked. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I can give you cover so you can shift during the day without the humans seeing you,” Circe said without mincing her words. “You can’t afford to be seen, and jumping off balconies in broad daylight might cause trouble you can’t afford.”
I glared at her. “Eavesdroppingandspying, huh?”
Circe didn’t answer me.
“Do what you can for the girl, but leave me out of it,” I snapped.
Circe lifted one shoulder and pulled her curly hair back into a ponytail.
“As you wish, Alpha.” She turned and walked to the kitchen.
I turned back to Rune.
“Maybe you should let her help you,” he said carefully. “I mean… a lot of alphas have fae by their sides, and there’s a reason for that.”
“I’m not working with the fae,” I said hotly. “That’s not how we do things.”
“I know,” Rune said. “But maybe it’s time we start doing things differently, don’t you think? They say you shouldn’t change a winning plan, but Wes… you’re not winning.”
