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Xander turned to him. “How long before you’ll find the witch who cursed my pack?”
I looked at the high warlock with surprise. Had he seriously promised these wolves he couldhelpthem? Knowing the high warlock, there would be a price attached to that promise.
“Give me two days.” He spoke with the authority of someone who had supreme confidence in their own ability to deliver.
“Two days?” Xander repeated. “What are we meant to do between now and then?”
“You can stay here, with our coven. It would be best.”
I gaped at the high warlock. They were staying? For two whole days? How was I meant to keep all these strange feelings locked up inside myself for two more days?
The high witch looked up from her spot on the rocking chair and finally broke her silence. “Perhaps they can stay with Monique? She has a spare bedroom and we know she will be a good hostess.”
All three men turned to look at me. I tried not to let my shock show.
Two men staying with me in my small cottage?
“Of course,” I managed, dropping my gaze to the floor so they couldn’t see the turmoil raging in my eyes.
For two days?
Every day I had to fight the strange desire to leave my coven, and break free from the magical wards that protected me from the outside world. How was I meant to dampen down my cravings with two wolf shifters also chomping at the bit to return to the outside world?
Not to mention the steamy attraction I felt for the two shifters. Would that get worse with proximity?
I had no idea, and yet part of me desperately wanted to find out.
“Wonderful,” the high warlock said. “It is all settled then. Monique will care for you while I do my best to fulfil my end of our bargain.”
He strolled across the living room and gestured us out into the hallway. Then he strode to the front door and opened it, as if keen to be rid of us all.
I wasn’t sure exactly what he meant by his end of the bargain. The agreement he had with the wolves to help them break the curse? I always felt overwhelmed and confused when I was in this house.
But I knew better than to ask that sort of question aloud, so I simply nodded and stepped up to the door.
“Thank you.” I wasn’t quite sure why I was thanking him. I washelpinghim with these shifters, but the high warlock inspired that kind of response in most people.
He inclined his head as though to say, ‘you’re welcome’. The wolf shifters followed me outside and the door slammed shut behind us.
I didn’t look back as I walked down the front steps, along the garden pathway and off the high warlock’s property. I just wanted to get away from there as quickly as possible.
I could feel the impatience of the shifters just behind me. It seemed they were as keen to get away from the high warlock’s presence as me.
Eventually, I turned and stared up at the beautiful men the universe had sent my way. “What sort of deal did you make with the high warlock?”
“He’s going to help us undo the curse on our pack,” Xander said, his eyes flaring with that strange yellow color. Shifter eyes. The sight should have filled me with fear, but it didn’t. Instead, my belly fluttered with something unfamiliar. Something that felt like desire.
I nodded, ignoring my body’s response to his nearness and trying to focus on the conversation. “All right, but what did you have to give him in return?”
Kyle frowned. “How did you know?”
I shrugged. “I know the high warlock. He’d never help anyone, least of all shift... err... strangers like yourselves, without demanding something in return.”
I used the word ‘strangers’ to be kind. The high warlock would have considered these two men nothing more than animals. Wolf shifters were the lowest of the low, according to the high warlock. I had heard him state that in the past.
Kyle and Xander looked at one another as though deciding if they wanted to share the truth. I waited.
Finally, Xander, who seemed to be the leader between these two, answered. “He asked for some of our blood, specifically taken when we’re in wolf form.”
