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“Why do we need the blood?” Zev asked.
“We need something to fuel the magic and that’s going to be us. Usually this spell can be done with one person. Since everyone has limited magic, we will need to combine what little magic we have and use the curse to fuel the wards,” she said, with a confidence that I loved.
Zev and Katarina stared at each other for a moment like he was still trying to decipher if she was telling the truth.
“Are you done or should she give you a lesson in magic?” Aeon snapped.
I looked over at him to see him very upset. His nostrils were flaring as he glared at Zev. He looked like he was ready to lose control of his wolf.
“Let’s get started,” I said, keeping an eye on Aeon.
Katarina started saying a few words and the circle glowed white, the feel of magic brushed up against me as she looked at us and she sliced her palm. We all did the same thing, each of us giving the circle our blood. Zev was the last one to do it, when a rush of magic pushed against us all. Each of us took a step back but it knocked Katarina on to her back.
I moved to go to her when she shook her head, holding up her hand to stop me. She lifted the paper and we all said the words together. A rush of power rushed out of me into the circle, making it glow white again and all the stones at each symbol glowed brightly.
“Alright now take a stone and walk away until you hit the edge of the property. It doesn’t have to be exact but make sure you keep going in the same direction. If you feel like you’re deviating too much, come back to the circle and follow your direction again.”
She didn’t wait for us when she picked up her stone, walking west. The guys and I looked at each other before we picked up our own stones walking away from each other. This entire action felt like foreshadowing. All of us going in different directions, alone.
15
KATARINA
Setting up the wards was a success. As soon as I buried my stone the magic had created a dome over the property. Once all the stones met in the middle the dome disappeared. We had no way to test the wards but Mr. Potter said that the magic around us felt much stronger. It was a relief, but I was worried that maybe Caston would have another plan up his sleeve.
I had spent the last few days in the library with Lucien, researching again, wondering why I was able to use fire magic. We both assumed it was coming through the bond and I was disappointed it hadn’t been my own.
I had hoped after the attack we would all maybe become closer, but it seemed that it was too much to ask for. Zev and Aeon had been avoiding me, again. Lucien was still the same with me, but I knew something was bothering him. It had been a week since we put the wards up, and I was getting tired of tiptoeing around that beast.
I had asked him what was wrong a few times, but he kept dodging my questions. He either gives me vague answers or he changed the subject completely. It made me wonder if they had gotten into a fight. This behavior from Zev made sense but not from Aeon. I really thought we were doing so well,
I got to the library before he did, with candy. Mr. Potter said he was going to deliver a tray of food with Lucien's favorite dessert. I was wearing a skirt that barely covered my ass with a pair of thigh-highs. The cheeky underwear should give Lucien enough of a glimpse without it being too much.
I was hoping this would be enough to disarm him, let his guard down, so that he could let me know how he really felt. He had been hiding his feelings from me for the past few days. It was like there was this imaginary wall I couldn’t get past. It was worrying me and making me nervous.
Needing to take my mind off of worrying, I grabbed Vivienne’s grimoire from the pile of books that had been salvaged from my room the night of the attack. Thankfully the fire didn’t touch my room, saving all the research and the books from the disaster.
Opening Vivienne’s grimoire, I turned to the last entry I read. I had a few more entries before I was done with the book. It was getting sadder and more depressing. As much as I wanted to read the end I needed the context, especially after the last entry I read.
This was too good to be true. I’m in way over my head. I thought I was ok knowing what I was doing was wrong, but I didn’t care and now the Goddess was punishing me.
I’m pregnant with Thane’s child. We had been using protection, but it seems like that wasn’t enough.
Thane has been distant the last few days. I’ve tried meeting up with him but he says he’s been busy. I think it’s the last binding spell we made that has made him retreat. He was fascinated about the results, telling me I was a genius for working around the kinks the spell had.
We officially trapped someone to the property, he told me it was life or death but now I don’t know. Has he been using me this entire time? All these emotions have been driving me crazy, I don’t know what to think anymore. I need to talk to Thane before I go crazy.
They bound someone to a property?! This bitch. Anger flooded through me that she was so fucking selfish. I know what she had to do was hard, but she should have said something or talked to Zev. She ruined lives, a whole pack, because she fell in love with someone she wasn’t even supposed to be seeing and she was pregnant.
Did she tell the guys? Did they do something? Or was this the last straw before she trapped the guys here to save herself and her baby? Did they know she was pregnant?
I threw her grimoire off the table, so angry at her. She was the one who put us all here. Zev, Aeon and Lucien’s hate made sense, but they didn’t even know the real reason she put them here. What will they do when they find out what she did and why she did it? Dread formed in my stomach when I figured out that they might punish me again or think it’s all my fault.
My heart was racing, but I needed to know more, so I grabbed the grimoire again.
My family has been sending me over to the Lowell’s more often. The men and I have had lunch a few times. It was awkward, forced and I just wanted to be with Thane. In the past, I had always tried to keep our conversation going, but I had no energy to talk to these men if they couldn’t even hold a simple conversation with me.
Zev pulled me aside asking me if I was ok because I wasn’t as chatty as I used to be, but I dismissed him. They never gave me any explanation so why should I? Lucien asked me if I wanted his wolf to give me a ride home after I left Zev, but I snapped at him that I was just fine by myself. Now that I found someone, they wanted me? Did they know?
