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“Promised?” Zoe said, holding them against her chest like they were her newborns.
“We have a deal,” Billy said. A deal he wished he’d never made, a deal he wished he’d never come to collect on. But he was old school, you made a deal, and you stuck to it – anything else was just plain wrong.
Zoe flicked open the top of the box to reveal six large hen eggs. “You want these eggs?”
Billy had a horrible feeling in his guts. He thought he knew just what was coming, and as these were witches, it was more than likely he was right.
Then Heather snapped her fingers, and the snow on the roof rushed down at him. Billy wasn’t expecting it, and even if his feet hadn’t been glued to the spot, he doubted that his reaction time would have seen him clear of the mini-avalanche.
Suddenly, he was buried to his waist in snow, and his head and shoulders were covered in it.
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Robert pulled his truck onto the long drive just in time to recognise his brother at the cottage's front door. “Oh, no, my brother, Billy,” he grumbled, and then the snow rushed from the roof and covered the beta to waist height, and he swallowed hard.
“Oh, no,” Kristen said. “That had to be Heather.”
“Hold on,” Robert said, hitting the gas, and the driveway got slippery and bumpy as he raced towards the cottage.
“I’m sure it’ll be fine,” Kristen said, but she wasn’t sure, and Robert’s driving did little to squash her fears. “Just in case – you go wolf, I’ll go witches,” she added.
“Sounds like a plan,” Robert said. “But we don’t take sides.”
Kristen bit her tongue – she wasn’t about to agree to that. She knew where her loyalties lay, and it wasn’t with a brother-in-law that she’d never even met. “If he goes claws and fangs…”
“I’ll take him down,” Robert assured her.
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“It never gets old,” Heather said, slapping her hands against her thighs as tears of laughter prickled her eyes, and she doubled over.
There was a low rumble of a growl that rumbled in the shifter’s chest as he eyed the witches with annoyance. “You did that on purpose,” he said, that growl rumbling along with his words.
Zoe had to snort a chuckle at that one. “Well, der,” she said with a half-shrug. “She is the wicked witch of the West.”
CHAPTER FOUR
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Robert was out of the truck and heading toward his brother before he’d even considered turning off the engine. He could hear Kristen was hard on his heels as the snow crackled and crunched beneath her feet, but he needed to get to his brother before anything kicked off. “Billy,” Robert called, even though he was practically upon him.
“I got this, brother,” Billy bit out, the growl still rumbling on. His wolf wasn’t sure if it wanted to sniff or take a bite, and neither was the man himself. Both seemed tempting options.
Heather snorted a chuckle. “Oh, Frosty the snowman’s got this,” she said, mocking him.
Zoe held out the eggs to the man. “Maybe you should just take these and go,” she said. It was as if she could sense something in the air and that something wasn’t good.
“I don’t want the damn eggs; it was the principle,” Billy said, and he grumbled a growl when Robert slapped him on the shoulder.
“I forgot,” Zoe said. “Hand on heart.”
“Yeah, sure,” Billy bit out. He didn’t trust her as far as he could throw her, and she was a little witch, so maybe less than that.
“Hey,” Heather said, snapping her fingers in front of his face. “If she said she forgot, she forgot.”
“Take the eggs and leave, brother,” Robert said. He didn’t get what the eggs were about, but it seemed to be a selling point, so he went with it.
Billy shook her head and shoulders to get the snow off, and Zoe used her free hand to cover her smile at the fact that he reminded her of a wet dog right then. “Something funny?” Billy growled.
