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Focusing on Meredith meant I didn’t have to deal with the whole wolf thing. I waited for Chris to speak up, but he didn’t. “Spill it.”
“I know you can get visions and stuff, but can you dig around in someone’s mind?”
The thought of doing that turned my stomach. Messing around in someone’s head seemed a shade darker than anything I ever wanted to do. It was worse than snooping around someone’s closet or medicine cabinet. Everyone had secrets and memories that they’d rather not talk about. What I saw, even when it was something little, was extremely personal, and I felt exactly what they felt. Saw what they saw. To dig around in multiple memories, hoping to run across the right one…that seemed far from kosher.
How far would I go to save Meredith?
Apparently pretty far, because I was seriously thinking about giving this plan a shot. “I’ve never tried. I spent my whole life trying to avoid getting visions, so forcing one from someone wasn’t even on my radar. But getting a specific vision of an event…I don’t know. I could try. You think it’d help?”
“Yes,” Adrian said. “If you could figure out how she got cursed, then maybe we’d have a better shot at undoing it.”
“I guess it’s worth a try.” I just hoped Meredith wouldn’t mind me messing around in her head.
Chapter Seven
I opened the conference room door and walked straight into Dastien. He grasped my shoulders as I stumbled back a step.
“What’s up?” I asked.
He’d changed from the sweats into his usual jeans and T-shirt, but his eyes still held worry. “I was going to ask you the same thing. I felt you go a little…out of control.” He squeezed my shoulders once before letting go. “What’s going on?”
I didn’t even know how to answer that question. I was feeling on edge. That said, I’d been feeling on edge since my run-in with Luciana. Being anxious wasn’t unusual for me, but today was over the top. I’d nearly shifted twice already, and it wasn’t even dinnertime. To say that I felt uneasy was an extreme understatement, and I didn’t like it at all. I used to be even-keeled. With my visions, I had to be able to roll with whatever was going on, but now I was a mess.
“I’m thinking of doing something that I’m not exactly sure is a super fantastic idea,” I said, taking the easy road out rather than discussing my wolf for the one-millionth time.
“We’re going to the infirmary to see if Tess can see what happened when Meredith was cursed,” Shannon said.
Who knew she was such a little tattletale? Not that I wouldn’t tell Dastien, but it would’ve been nice to ask his opinion myself. I gave her a less-than-friendly look, but Shannon didn’t look the least bit sorry.
“Are you sure that’s something you want to try?” Dastien asked.
“No. But I don’t see a ton of alternatives.” I shrugged. “Unless you’ve managed to get a hold of Donovan?”
“No. Not yet. But I left a message with his hotel in Cusco.” He ran his fingertips down my arm before taking my hand. Our bond strengthened. The first time I’d felt it, it was like a jolt of electricity. Now it was like a warming hum.
Thinking about our bond made me remember something. “The pack has a bond, too. Right?”
“Yeah,” Adrian said. “Of course.”
“Can you feel other people in the pack?”
“Sort of.” Shannon stepped a little too close to Dastien. “Depends on where you are in the pack hierarchy.”
I tried to ignore my annoyance with her. “So why don’t you send a warning via the pack bond or something? You’re high enough up.” I asked Dastien.
“I wish I could, but only the appointed Alpha of each pack can find members of their own pack—which I’m not. I’m only standing in for Michael while he’s away. Even if I were the official Alpha here, Donovan would be out of my league. Only another member of the Seven could find him.”
Well, there went my genius idea. “That does make things more complicated.”
“Can I have a moment with her? Alone?” Dastien asked our friends.
“I’ll meet you in Meredith’s infirmary room,” I said.
Once they were gone, Dastien closed the door. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah.” It was a total lie, but everything would hold until Meredith was better.
“You’re saying one thing, but I can sense that you’re feeling another.”
