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“I don't know, maybe.” He gave me a smile but I could see his worry underneath.
“She’s the key; we will find a way to break it,” I said, with more confidence than I was feeling.
I nodded at him before I went up to my room to rinse off the mud and change into clothes, so I could meet Katarina and Lucien in the library. My bath was quick until I realized I had time. Usually, I had to rush through everything, but today I realized I could take my time.
I sat in the bath for a moment wondering if this was all because of Katarina. Was she the catalyst that was going to banish this curse and give us the freedom we’ve so desperately wanted? Or is this the countdown to the biggest heartbreak of my life. As much as I wanted, needed and craved her, I couldn’t mate with her.
If we all made it out of this curse, and if she still wanted me, we could mate but I had to wait. Maybe that would be enough for Zev as well.
My mood changed completely, feeling somber when all I wanted to do was feel complete. Once I had changed, I headed down to Katarina’s room but decided against it. I headed straight for the library to look through the last set of books we had flagged.
I looked at the clock as I entered the library seeing it was a few minutes before three. Just to calm my worried mind, I headed over to check the perimeter to make sure there was nothing going on. Once I was satisfied, I headed back to the library, grateful for the extra time I had today. If this kept happening, I hoped it would start earlier and earlier. Or even later would be better. Seeing the sun rise would be what my soul needed to go on. I missed the sun.
Sitting down at the table we were at yesterday, I skimmed through a book seeing a few spells on wards, but nothing that would specifically work for what we needed. The next was not better, but there was one I thought we would be able to modify.
The amount of power we were going to need worried me, and to execute it worried me even more. It had been so long since I had weaved a spell that I was worried I wouldn’t remember what to do.
“Keep frowning like that and you're going to get stuck like that!” Katarina’ s voice sounded playful.
I looked up at her, bracing myself for her beauty, but no matter what, she always took my breath away. Today she was wearing pants that were painted onto her legs, showing off their shape, her big thighs and hips that I could—
Nope, I couldn’t go there.
“I think I might have found the spell, but I’m thinking we are going to need a lot of power.” I handed her the book I was looking at. “I think we will have to do it on the full moon instead of Maybon. I’m worried we won’t have all the ingredients.”
“I think I might have found something better,” she said, reaching into her bag. “We will still need the moon but I think we might be able to get it fueled by the curse.”
I looked over the spell, seeing simple ingredients that we probably had, but there was a crystal we needed and I didn’t think we would have anything like that. She had modified it, giving me hope that we could actually pull this off.
“This looks good, Kitten,” I said, looking up at her to see her cheeks tinged pink.
“Thanks, I think I have everything I need here and I also brought a few things too,” she said, setting her bag down. “You need to talk to Zev, and I can start setting up the spell. The circle is going to need to charge for three nights. It doesn’t say we need a full moon but I think that will help us.”
I nodded, feeling relieved that we were finally going to be able to keep her safe after her husband walked onto our land like he belonged here. Remembering the marks he left on her almost made me want to shift and kill him. My wolf agreed, thirsty for blood for hurting our mate.
Shit, we couldn’t be thinking like that.
“You ok, Aeon?” Katarina placed a hand on my chest bringing me out of my thoughts.
“Yeah, I’m just glad we were able to find something. We don’t need strays coming onto our land, especially those that want to hurt you. He’s lucky he left alive.” I tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, resisting the urge to kiss her.
“He knew if he did anything, he would have been ripped to shreds, especially when his power didn’t work on you. I will say, I have been worried he might come back and do something stupid.” She bit her bottom lip looking down.
“We won’t let anyone hurt you, I promise.” I hooked a finger under her chin to tilt her face up to me so she knew I was being serious.
“We?” She snorted, pulling away from me. “I doubt that.”
“Lucien and I will, Zev is—”
“Don’t make excuses for him,'' she snapped. “Look, let's just get this started and then you can focus on convincing him to help us with it.”
Exhaling sharply, I ran my hand through my hair.
“I’m not making excuses for him, he’s stubborn. He’s always been like that, but I just want you to remember that we are a pack.” I looked at her hoping she took this in the best way possible. “We are the only family we each have left. Zev is our alpha and to him, he needs to protect us at all costs. We are bonded in a way and as alpha it's his job to keep the pack safe.”
“If he just gave me a chance—” She looked annoyed then angry. “Look, it doesn’t matter. Let’s just get this ward up so we can break the spell in peace.”
She sat down at the table making a list of things we would need as Lucien walked into the library. As much as I would have liked to get Zev to work through his issues, that definitely wasn’t happening anytime soon. I just hoped he wasn’t going to stand in my way of protecting her.
