I walked to the kitchen and dropped the bags. We each grabbed our food and went into the living room to eat. “What are we doing?” Wendy took a big bite of her burger.
“Yeah, what’s the plan?”
I hesitated. “I need to find out what is killing my wolves.” I bit into my sandwich and Toya nodded. But Wendy started to choke. Toya leaned over and patted her back.
“Come on.” She hit harder as Wendy kept choking, turning red. A hunk of meat flew out of her mouth as she gasped for a clear breath. “There you go.”
Wendy lifted her tear-streaked face up to meet my worried gaze. “Are you okay?” I handed her a few napkins.
She grabbed them to wipe her face. “Wolves?” She wiped her hands and sat back to stare at me. “Explain.”
I looked over at Toya, who lifted her hands. “She is my best friend, just like you, but I wasn’t going to share you secrets. That is your place, not mine.” I smiled, and she nodded.
“Wolves?” Wendy repeated the question, and I wanted to wince.
“I’m going to do this quickly, okay?” She nodded. “My dad’s line is descended from a powerful witch line and the first werewolf. My mother’s line is descended from the first Lycan’s line and the Goddess herself.” Wendy’s eyes widened and Toya choked on her drink.
“The goddess? You didn’t tell me that.” Toya used a napkin to mop up her drink she spat out.
“I just found out earlier.” I ate a fry. “She fell in love with one Lycan that came from her first creation.” I lifted my shoulder.
“Holy shit.” Wendy stood and started to pace. “So you have a Lycan and a wolf.” I just nodded.
“Exactly.”
“You will have two mates.” She whirled to me. “Won’t that be an issue?”
Toya snorted, but I cut a look at her. “No. My wolf’s mate is a tool bag, and we will be rejecting him as soon as we can.”
“You know who your mate is?”
I closed my eyes and nodded. “Megan, my wolf, her mate is Brandon.”
Wendy shrieked, “You have to be fucking kidding me!”
“I wish I was.” I finished my burger. “My witch lineage has an ability. One that gave me a second chance at life.” She dropped to her seat, dumbfounded. “I really won’t get into it. Just know that I know Brandon is a horrible person, no matter how he likes to pretend. Or how he ‘changes’, he will never redeem himself to me.”
She nodded. “Good, I’ve had a lot of interactions over the years with Brandon and Vince.” She rubbed the lines on her forehead. “They are horrible people.”
I nodded. “I know. But we have a lot to do tonight, and we still have the second day of applications tomorrow.” I looked at thetime and wanted to cry. “I don’t know how long this is even going to take. So let’s finish eating, and then get set up.”
“What do you need us to do?” Toya grabbed her trash and walked into the kitchen.
“I need you to keep me grounded in the here and now. I have to go for a spirit walk and I don’t know how to get back…yet.”
“What do you mean you don’t know how to get back yet?” Toya dropped the metal bowl she came back into the room with. She caught it before it smashed into my glass coffee table, but it was close. “Holy goddess.” She put the bowl down softly on the table, then turned to me. “Speak.” She looked pissed.
I raised my hands in surrender. “The book…it tells me how to do certain things. But coming back to my body isn't there. It just said I needed an anchor.” I pointed to the two of them. “I have two.”
Wendy shook her head. “We are next to useless if you don’t know what you’re doing.”
I shrugged. “I have no other choice. I either break through the threat, or I die.” The room fell into a weighted silence.
Toya sat down next to Wendy with a sigh. “Tell us what we have to do.”
I nodded and went to get my book. I came back into the room and the two women were still sitting side by side, looking a little lost. “Okay, so here it is, a spirit walk. Follow the thread of connection and seek what you wish to find.” I read from the book. “We need to push the table back from the couch. I need to be sitting up against something.” Wendy and Toya stood, pushing the table against the wall on the other side of the room, leaving me a big space to work. I grabbed the bowl and put it on the floor in front of where I would be sitting.
“Okay, what’s next?” The two came up next to me.
