The woman’s eyes flickered with curiosity.“The Corners don’t come to this festival.They’re at the Cleveland Mother Earth Store.”
“Thanks.”
“Is there a reason you need a Corner specifically?”she asked.
What Mira wanted to say was that she knew Corners were the most powerful in the coven, but she didn’t want to insult the females in the booth.“I just think that I need the help of a Corner.”
“Well, if you change your mind, my coven members or I would be happy to help.”
“Thank you,” Mira said.
“You’re welcome,” she said.“Good luck to you.”
Mira nodded and strode away, entirely forgetting about cotton candy and popcorn as she walked back to her house’s booth.Behind the thick fabric, she used her phone to locate the store on the map and to check their hours.It was too late to go tonight, so she’d go tomorrow before the festival opened for its second day.
She’d ask the Corners to help her divine if her powers would ever reveal themselves.Because for the first time in her life, Mira wondered if she was truly a psychic or if she was something else entirely.
Glancing up at the night sky, she located Velastra, beaming brightly among the inky blackness like a beacon, a lighthouse for an unseen shore.
Her heart beat with a fragile hope.
Maybe she would find what she was looking for.
Perhaps her future was truly here in Northern Ohio.
ChapterTwo
The sky had deepened to a velvety indigo as Leo Hale stepped out onto the narrow trail winding through the dense pines at the edge of Thorn Hollow.A warm breeze slid through the trees, carrying the earthy scent of damp soil.Moonlight sifted through the branches, silver patches dappling the forest floor as Leo’s boots crunched softly while he walked.
He was restless but couldn’t really say why.
The full moon was tomorrow, and his wolf was always happy for the full moon hunts with the pack, but the feelings that gnawed at him for the last few days felt nothing like normal full moon excitement.
The radio clipped to his belt bounced against his hip as he walked, flashlight in hand, around the town the pack called home.He shook off the restless feeling, focusing on the job at hand as part of the security team.
Next to him, his best friend and fellow security guard, Solan, walked, also seemingly lost in thought.
They stopped to check one of the hidden cameras that blinked silently in the trees.Solan climbed up and inspected it, finding that a spiderweb across the lens had caused it to go off as if there was motion nearby when there wasn’t.After cleaning the lens, he jumped down and landed solidly next to Leo.
“That’s the last one we needed to check,” Solan said.
Leo glanced at his watch before they continued their trek around town.During their shift, they’d make multiple passes around the perimeter of town as well as walking through various sections, always looking for anything out of place and answering any calls the security office needed them to check on.
“You’re quiet,” Leo said.
“You are too.”
“Full moon,” Leo said.
“Is that what’s going on with you?”
“What else would it be?”Leo asked, blowing out a breath, wanting to know what was getting his wolf all riled up.
“I don’t know.I was thinking about how it’s the full moon again, and Brick and Jade are together now, and that means you and I are the last single ones of our friend group.It makes me feel old, even though I’m not actually old.”
“Yeah,” Leo agreed.He was younger than Solan, but not by much.They’d been best friends with Brick for years, and close to their alpha, Adam.
“Maybe we just need to get laid.”
