Adam hummed.“Some people are just naturals in their shifts.”
“Was that a crack at me?”Cinder asked with a grin.
“Not at all, babe,” Adam said.“It’s perfectly normal for the alpha female to be unable to actually catch a rabbit, no matter how many full moons she tries.”
“Hey!”she said, elbowing him.“It’s the same damn rabbit every full moon.I think it shows up to taunt me!”
Leo and Solan laughed as their alphas bantered about hunting prowess.Or the lack of it.
“Do you know anything about the star, Velastra?”Leo asked, glancing at Cinder in the rearview.
“The one the festival is following?”
“Yeah.”
“Not really.The organizers of the festival follow new stars, so the Festival of the Revel will follow Velastra as it moves across the sky, and then when another new star appears, they’ll change course.”
“What’s the point of that?”Solan asked.
“Magic can be more powerful during new stars, especially when they’re actually tied to magic like this one is.”
When they reached the fairgrounds, Leo’s wolf started to act antsy again, and as he got out of the SUV and shut the door, he rubbed the space over his heart.
“You okay?”Adam asked.
“Yeah, my wolf’s just been acting up.”
“Like something bad is coming?”Adam glanced around, his gaze suspicious.
“Not really.My wolf has been antsy for the last few days.I can’t really place it, just that I thought a good shift and hunt might settle things, but it didn’t.”
“Maybe something good is coming your way,” Cinder said, taking Adam’s hand.“Our wolves can be in tune with things on other planes that we can’t see until they’re right in front of us.”
Leo nodded and scanned the area as his alpha had, wondering if they were right.
The second SUV parked next to them, with Brick, Jade, and several other security team members getting out.
Jade and Cinder immediately gravitated to each other, the two thick as thieves, as Solan ran through the security protocols for their people.Adam and Brick stayed by their females’ sides, with the others loosely around them and watching for anything out of the ordinary.Cinder wanted to restock her magical supply cabinet and apparently eat her body weight in fried and sugary foods, and they kicked off the afternoon by stopping at a cotton candy booth.
The scents in the air were so muddled that Leo couldn’t really get a bead on anything but roasting meat, fried dough, and sugar.
And an air of magic, too.It was hard to explain how magic smelled; it just smelledmagical.Other.
The way that blue raspberry tasted blue, which didn’t really make sense, except that it’s exactly how it tasted.
As they made their way slowly down one aisle, stopping at every booth so Cinder and Jade could look at what was being sold and talk to people, Leo’s wolf started to act up even more.
Whining in his head.
Pushing him toward…something.
“We still on for tonight at Lykos?”Solan asked.
“Yeah,” Leo said.
“You okay?”
“I… don’t know.”
