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“I’m trying to be nice, consider it a peace offering. Mr. Potter suggested that it would be a nice gesture.”
I looked away from her as my anger burned through me.
“It’s not a nice gesture, it’s saying you’re available or interested… And I’m definitely not,” I snapped, walking away from her.
My body shook with my rage and my wolf went ballistic, but I knew what it was. Mr. Potter was playing matchmaker. Now I wanted to know if she really didn’t know how meaningful that one small gesture was.
23
KATARINA
“Will this be enough power?” Aeon asked, as I added another symbol to my circle.
“I hope so,” I said, worrying that all these preparations we had been doing for the last week weren’t going to be enough.
“It’s going to be enough,” Lucien said, handing me another crystal.
Lucien's confidence in me made me even more nervous. In his mind, we were going to be free in a couple of days. Being the pessimist that I was, I couldn’t bring myself to hope too much. Aeon looked at Lucien with a sad smile, he also knew how optimistic Lucien was being. If this didn’t work, he was going to take it hard, and I knew I was going to hate the look of disappointment on his face.
“If it doesn’t work, it’s not like we will be in a worse position,” Zev said, from behind us as he ground some herbs in a pestle.
I turned around to glare at him, wanting to say he was not helping the situation. Since that night he had walked away, he had been getting on my nerves. I didn’t want to admit it, but the sting of his rejection was still hurting. All I wanted to do was stab him or make paper cuts all over his body so he would be uncomfortable, then douse him in hand sanitizer.
“And we still have time to figure out something else,” Lucien said, giving me some salt.
“Exactly, we still have time.” I made another symbol, feeling it charge. My magic from the bond had been changing rapidly the last few weeks. Aeon, and Lucien had taken to teaching me a few things before I went to bed. They were mostly things you learn as a child like making salves or creating enchantments on trinkets.
“Less than six months,” Zev stated.
I clenched my jaw in anger that he was being an ass.
“Well, now that we actually have all of us researching, it might not take us quite as long as it did this time.” I finished setting the salt.
“Or we might fail again.” Zev handed me the herbs he had just made into a paste.
I glared up at him. He stared back at me, like I didn’t matter. Pursing my lips so I didn’t yell something at him, I looked away trying to keep my cool. I dipped two stones in the paste, murmuring an incantation to power the stone. My fingers tingled with magic, and I couldn’t help but smile at the feeling.
“It’s amazing right?” Lucien said, looking over my shoulder, then kissing it. My sweater was so big that it hung off of one shoulder, leaving my mating mark to be seen. Lucien always kissed my exposed skin along my neck and shoulder.
“It feels like I've always missed a part of me, like I wasn’t who I was supposed to be.” I laid the stone on top of the salt I had placed earlier.
“It's like a limb was missing.” Lucien nodded.
“I’m sure it's worse for you since you had it, and it was taken away,” I continued laying the last two stones on various symbols.
“Yeah, but it feels so good to be able to use it, even if I'm not at my full potential.”
“You mean you can do more?” I asked surprised, scooting back to him.
“I could level an entire village if I wanted to, but I might not wake up for days after that,” he said, like he was remembering a distant memory.
“Has that actually happened before?” I looked back at my notebook to see what else I needed to do for tonight. Aeon and I had meticulously set up steps to the spell. It was going to require all the power not just from us, but from the moon and anything we could charge and get our hands on.
“I was thirteen when I burned down our house and seven others,” he said sadly.
I knew I should have schooled my expression, but that amount of power was something you would hear about from an adult, not a child.
“I was angry at my father for humiliating me in front of Zev and Aeon. We were sparring earlier, when I lost my footing and Zev took me down in less than a minute.” He took a deep breath. “One of my fathers said that if I wasn’t going to take my protection of the Alpha seriously, then I should have just stayed home with my mother.”
